Quotes About Adaptation

That change can take different forms. It can mean using technology to help our minds, by getting an app that limits our social media use, or getting a dimmer switch, or walking more, or being more considerate to people online, or choosing a car less likely to contaminate the air. Being kind to ourselves and being kind to the planet is, ultimately, the same thing. 'Progress

Fish get depressed when they have a lack of stimulation. A lack of everything. When they are just there, floating in a tank that resembles nothing at all.

After all, we aren't just who we are born. We are who we become. We are what life does to us. And she, born four hundred years ago, has had a lot of it, has done a lot of living.

Be less robot, more human. Be more imperfect. Evolution happens through mistakes.

we might have to stop thinking about what we will never be able to read and watch and say and do, and start to think of how to enjoy the world within our boundaries.

We need to build a kind of immune system of the mind, where we can absorb but not get infected by the world around us.

Evolution happens through mistakes.

I am just a caveman in a world that has arrived faster than our minde and bodies expected.

You see, doing one thing differently is very often

Maybe we should be looking at how we live, and how our minds weren't made for the lives we lead.

Standing asymmetrically from arthritis and osteoporosis.

That was the remarkable thing about humans—their ability to shape the path of other species, to change their fundamental nature.

There is no rejection, only redirection.

After all, we aren't just who we are born. We are who we become.

Maybe we should be looking at how we live, and how our minds weren't made for the lives we lead. Human brains- in terms of cognition and emotion and consciousness- are essentially the same as they were at the time of Shakespeare or Jesus or Cleopatra or the stone age.. Maybe instead of worrying about upgrading technology and slowly allowing ourselves to be cyborgs we should have a little peek at how we could upgrade our ability to cope with all this change.

He llegado a un planeta donde la forma más inteligente de vida todavía tiene que conducir su propio coche…

That was the familiar lesson of time. Everything changes and nothing changes. (There is a tree in California, a Great Basin bristlecone pine that was found, after an intensive ring count, to be five thousand and sixty-five years old.)

A collision between an ancient mind and a modern world (evolutionary psychology).

But we must never feel – personally or as a culture – that only one version of the future is inevitable. The future is ours to shape.

You lose your job, then more shit happens.

Doing one thing differently is often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed in a lifetime, however much we try...

In becoming everyone, you are becoming no one.

A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward.

You see, doing one thing differently is very often the same as doing everything differently. Actions can't be reversed within a lifetime, however much we try