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Gabor Maté: The Definition Of Trauma And How We Can Fix Our Psychological Wounds | EP 425

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The Myth of Human Nature

Hobbes said that life is short, nasty, and brutish. He was talking about he was projecting his own misery onto human nature. We evolved over millions of thousands of years as people living out there in nature. And values were not of individualistic greed, but of giving and connecting. When you've done something selfish or greedy, what will people say? Oh, it's when I've been kind and open-hearted,. So this idea of human nature’s utter scientific garbage: It doesn't exist.

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