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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“İnsan bedeni konfor için değil, hareket ve hayatta kalma mücadelesi için tasarlanmıştır.”
“Bugünün en büyük tehlikesi aslanlar değil, bitmek bilmeyen o küçük modern streslerdir.”
“Konfor alanı, evrimsel olarak ruhu ve bedeni çürüten bir tuzaktır.”
“Biyolojik kodlarımızla inatlaşan her modern alışkanlık, bize hastalık olarak döner.”
“Kendi doğasına yabancılaşan türler, yok olmaya mahkumdur.”
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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.