We Are Wired to Avoid Failure

Failure to find food, water, shelter and all those things meant starvation or the threat of starvation. Failure to be accepted by our social group really meant death. You needed their support. You need to have a leader you could look up to. That's part of who we are. So that's why we eat as much as we can. And, you know, that’s why we get fat and overweight and unhealthy, because we need that. Our ego makes us feel good when other people like what we do,. When they say no, as i said, i was praised. I had a good year. It's all part of a process of making me, yes, i

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