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How To Be Human, The Manual, Ruby Wax
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- Ready to laugh and cry as you dive deeply into what it means to be human?
- Ruby Wax and her neurologist and meditating monk colleagues provide us with a science-informed, practical, and humorous guide that is as hysterical as it is profound.
- A magnificent blending of entertainment and education into the nature of thoughts, feelings, and identity.
- It took us 4 billion years to evolve to where we are now.
- No question, anyone reading this has won the ‘Evolutionary Hunger Games’ by the fact you’re on all 2’s and not some fossil.
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- This should make us all the happiest species alive - most of us aren’t, what’s gone wrong?
- We’ve started treating ourselves like machines and less like humans.
- We’re so used to upgrading things like our iPhones; as soon as the new one comes out, we don’t think twice, we dump it.
- (Many people I know are now on iWife4 or iHusband8, the motto being, if it’s new, it’s better.)
- We can’t stop the future from arriving, no matter what drugs we’re on.
- But even if nearly every part of us becomes robotic, we’ll still, fingers crossed, have our minds, which, hopefully, we’ll be able use for things like compassion,
- rather than chasing what’s ‘better’ and if we can do that we’re on the yellow brick road to happiness.
- I wrote this book with a little help from a monk, who explains how the mind works,
- also gives some mindfulness exercises, and a neuroscientist who explains where everything that makes us ‘us’ can be found in the brain.
- How to be Human is the only manual you’ll need to help you upgrade your mind as much as you’ve upgraded your iPhone.
Product Code: 9780241294734
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| ISBN-13 | 9780241294734 |
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| Author | Ruby Wax |
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