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Everything Is F*cked (Audiobook) Mark Manson

Notus & Friends

CHAPTER

The Evolution of the Thinking Brain

Evolution rewards the most powerful creatures, and powers determined by the ability to access, harness, and manipulate information effectively. A lion can hear its prey over a mile away, a buzzard can see a rat from an altitude of 15,000 feet. Whales develop their own personal songs and can communicate up to 100 miles away from each other, while underwater. Despite all our accomplishments, the human mind is still incredibly flawed. Our thinking brain is regularly hijacked and kidnapped by our feeling brain's incessant desires stuffed in the trunk of the consciousness car.

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