Psychology
Human Factory Settings
CevvelaPsychology
Human Factory Settings
Sinan Canan · Tuti Kitap · 2019
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A book on scientific and evolutionary psychology that explains how human biology—which evolved over hundreds of thousands of years as hunter-gatherers (body, movement, nutrition, stress)—is unable to adapt to the comforts and artificiality of today’s modern world, and how this mismatch causes our illnesses.
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“The human body was designed not for comfort but for movement and the struggle to survive.”
“Today’s greatest danger is not lions but the endless small stresses of modern life.”
“From an evolutionary point of view, the comfort zone is a trap that rots body and soul.”
“Every modern habit that fights against our biological code comes back to us as illness.”
“Species that become estranged from their own nature are doomed to extinction.”
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Canan calls on us to rise from those office chairs and return to the forest—to the codes where we truly belong. She demonstrates how, when the body falls ill, the mind (the essence) also becomes dulled. Constant sitting, constant eating, and the endless artificial stress of modern life are a betrayal of that wild and resilient human nature. Cevvela says, “The essence does not care about the address”; this book says, “The essence does not forgive inactivity.” You come to realize that the comfortable life you thought you had is actually a slow war waged against your biology. If you betray your nature, you become a refugee within your own mind.