
The Chimp Paradox
The Effective Statistician - in association with PSI
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The Chimp and the Human Brain
I think thinking about the way that the chimp works and how that works in your brain is very useful and very powerful I think there was another example about how you know if you you're sitting across from a person in a restaurant and they move the tomato sauce closer to their side of the table. That can only lead into an argument aggression a fight whereas in your human kicks in and it's actually moving the tomato sauce or the mustard back to the centre ground. If you know in these crucial conversations the chimp takes over and that can lead to quite big disaster what I really found awesome is the question that you can ask yourself in terms of finding out whether the chimp is behaving or the
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