Author: Toby

Life should not be miserable. When I say ‘should not’, I mean from an evolutionary perspective. When you are feeling bad, it’s evolution’s way of telling you — based upon opinions grounded in tens of thousands of generations of experience — that you’re not on a good path and you’d better correct your course. Evolution doesn’t want you to suffer for nothing, it only wants you to suffer so that you will avoid similar, sub-optimal situations in the future. A creature suffering is no good to anybody. It will be distracted, expending lots of unnecessary energy getting all tensed up and stressed out.

Passive contentment is what we should feel most of the time; middle of the road; plenty of space at the top and the bottom for evolution to apply its carrot and stick incentives. Chill should be the default. This is simple Monkey logic…

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As lock-down lifts, many of us find ourselves non-specifically uneasy at the thought of returning to the world. A search for the root cause of our discomfort will yield a confusion of confabulated yarns, but I suspect monkey inside has just gotten used to lurking in his cave. He wants us to stay isolated in our pajamas because if there is one thing Monkey doesn’t like—and believe me there are many!—it is change…

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