![]() ![]() If you pay lots of attention to where boundaries are, you pay less attention to complete pictures. When you think categorically, you have trouble seeing how similar or different two things are. Robert Sapolsky, who is a Professor of Biology and Neurology at Stanford University, is very aware of the “buckets” that even great experts like himself can get stuck in. ![]() And this is a theme that runs through this book. Ask a sociologist and they might start talking about the cultural, political and religious structures that shape people.Ask a psychologist, and they might say early childhood experiences or a maladaptive way of thinking. ![]() Ask a biologist what causes aggression, and they might tell you genes or hormones.For the same question, the experts from every discipline will give you a different answer. As Abraham Maslow said, “When a man has a hammer, then everything begins to look like a nail.” And this couldn’t be more true than when we’re looking at the science behind human behaviors. ![]()
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