Today you'll discover that we have much more in common with our fellow Gorilla/Chimpanzee cousins than you might think
Hey You,
It’s #2.
Today I bring you 12 solid pages of stellar notes from Eben Pagan’s world class program… “Connected”.
Enjoy and as always feel free to baste me with questions, criticism or praise in the comments section below…
Session 2: The Social Politics of Business Success
Aristotle is known for saying “Man is by nature a political animal.”
Definition of politics: A process by which groups of people make decisions.
Most people’s desire to master politics is to avoid being “Out Politicked” ever again. Someone stabbed them in the back, undermined their authority or in some other way made them look like a fool in front of a group.
Kinda the same reason people take martial arts. They wish to avoid ever getting beat up again.
Politics is a technology, a set of processes, systems and theories you can use to achieve whatever aims you wish.
Primate Politics And How They Benefit Us In The Modern World
95-99% of what humans do, day in, day out, thinking, communicating or socializing – our closest cousins, the chimps, are doing too.
The difference between us is that we can rationalize, discriminate and tell ourselves a story about how what we’re doing is a result of choice, our individuality, not pure animal instinct. In reality we behave just like primates. This is what allows both of us to utilize that whole group dynamic that tells us who’s dominant, who’s gonna run the show, who’s threatening, who’s resourceful, all unconsciously, in the blink of an eye.
We as humans are at the top of the food chain because we are the most adaptable, according to Darwin.
Primatologist turned commercial real estate broker in the big city finds that all the behavior she observed in the jungle is playing out before her very eyes in the office… More
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