The Deadliest Species

“We” are the deadliest species of all. But you might know that already! Sweeping all those animals to extinction was crucial for our survival and we wouldn’t have survived at all if our ancestors would have done anything different from what they did (30,000 years ago).

The author paints quite a picture in the book, “Sapiens” on how we killed millions of species which inhabited the world before the cognitive revolution took place. It doesn’t look nice nowadays as it was brutal and inhuman. But the world back then wasn’t a nice place too, it was hostile and sparing those species meant risking our survival. They basically it what they had to do in order to survive.

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Most of the books which I have read used to have direct application meaning I could apply whatever I read from the book my daily life and also write about it. In Sapiens things are much different, I am reading stuff that has happened 20,000 years ago. The author has described people with many different cultures who roamed the world thousands of years ago. It’s a kind of fun to read about and there is a lot to learn about the humankind in general but none of that stuff is shareable in a way that other people can learn from and apply it (like other books).

In that sense, “Sapiens” is a very different from the books which I have read earlier and I have very less to share on day to day basis. Right now the author is explaining why giants like mammoths and other animals in Australian megafauna vanished from the earth’s surface and how “we” became the new masters of the land. It’s a great story which we already know (thanks to our geography classes in high schools) but what the author is doing here is sharing the minute details of those incidents.

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Started Reading the Book: Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind

Fixed Mindset People

The time when we are convinced that we do not need any more learning is the time when we stop growing altogether. If you are reading there is a high chance you do not belong to that category because you are taking a slice of your time from your life and have dedicated it to learn something new by reading, so you are not one of them but those people do exist. They are our friends, our colleagues, our relatives.

They are fixed mindset people, if you argue with them and if they lose they turn against you. If you don’t take their advice they’ll make you pay for that. They get hurt real fast, and from time to time they hurt other people around them too.

I was one of them for a very long time. I am glad that I found a cure.

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Fixing Others

People talk about problems all the time what they don’t do is talk about the solution to their problems. Knowing and practicing to talk about solutions to our problems has the power to change our lives, but it comes with a price too. Once you have acquired this knowledge there will be an urge to fix other people’s problems.

We all are socially active in our own ways, we like to spend our time with other people and often we find out that most of the time other people don’t talk about solution rather they will share every aspect of their problems in great details, and whenever they will talk about their problems you’ll try to fix them. This costs energy and after several such discussions you’ll find out that it’s easy to change ourselves than others.
Knowing when to quit is important. Incessantly burning energy and trying to make them solve their problem is not the way it works. Lots of people have problem, but not all of them want to get out of it and over time they start to enjoy their misery.

Try to solve other people problems but only if they say so.

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Let’s Change Something..

I am changing my writing habits. Not because there is some problem in the previous one but because I want to experiment with it. The whole point of writing every day was that if I write daily I will get to experiment on the daily basis whereas while writing on weekly basis there’s too much pressure of performing well, which I didn’t want to myself since the beginning.

Turned out that I wrote well, my speed and thought the process has increased significantly, I am much more effective and efficient in sharing my side of the story, not only on my blog but everywhere else. Isn’t that the whole purpose of communicating effectively.

Now that the things are in good shape, it’s time to experiment some more. Experimentation doesn’t mean that it would be a sure success, it means I would get a chance to do something different, I will find out if I am more effective when writing in the morning or during the day time, I will even try writing about some technical stuff which I am currently doing right now.

As always, thank you for reading.!

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