One might think that a book on human nature by someone as irreverent as Melvin Konner would only stoke the fire.
But although Konner continues to delight in challenging the conventional wisdom—speculating here, for instance, that the first tools might have been sticks and slings invented by women—his authorial voice has grown warmer, more empathic. Instead of snidely dismissing our need to hold on to some workable definition of human singularity, though, Konner goes in search of it.
It's also our major survival trait. Unlike bears, we can't survive the cold without heaters and houses. Unlike lions, we can't kill prey without weapons. Unlike oxen, we can't graze grass that we didn't plant and harvest.
Recklessness is more than entering a burning house to save our child. For our frail species it is that, but it's more. It's the courage of the creative spirit. It's the hedonistic pleasure of abandoning control. It's risking change. We're the only species that must give its future over to the fruit of its inventions. That's dangerous business. And some of the reckless among us do perish. But recklessness survives, just because our species depends upon it. I'm John Lienhard, at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.
I'm most grateful to Mr. Herbert I. Lienhard Click here for audio of Episode I agree with your post about Epictetus's Enchiridion. We are responsible for our outcomes in life and it is up to us to live our own best possible life, regardless of other people's opinions. I also agree and disagree with some of the statements that were made. We do have control over certain aspects of our life's.
But there are certain things we are not able to control. Konner also explains that people do no think clearly about the risks that they are taking, and provides assumptions about why we do what we do. In the essay by Melvin Konner the author provides many sources such as psychologists, physicians, sociologists and many more to explain his assumptions about why people participate in reckless behavior.
Furthermore, I feel like we as individuals do overestimate some risks more than others because we do not look at the realities of the risks being taken. For instance, I know the consequences of my actions, and more importantly I know what I want, but no such knowledge exists because knowledge is imperfect. I feel like just as long as people share common goals and have feelings of excitement it will allow people to look up to and learn form them.
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