Cavemen With Cell Phones

Cavemen With Cell Phones [NOOK Book]

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Overview

Cavemen with cell phones?

Isn’t that exactly what we are?
Shlepping around the planet, hunting and gathering and fighting
like it’s still 50,000 B.C. Have we really changed all that much
from our stoop-shouldered grunting ancestors?

This is the truth about human behavior!

We act out of instincts.

Primitive animal instincts.

And there appears to be 8 of them:

Hunting
Gathering
Worker
Warrior
Inventor
Attraction,
Mating
Nurturing

What effect are these instincts having on our lives?
Why are we not even aware of them?

Birds fly south for the winter. Fish swim upstream to spawn.
These are instinctual behaviors. Some people will shop at
bargain stores and buy 100 rolls of toilet paper and a gallon jug
of ketchup. Is this instinctual behavior? Is it Gathering Instinct,
motivated out of the fear of running out?

We are animals.

And, our behavior is more similar to the behavior
of other animals than it is different.

We eat, sleep, drink, converse, have sex, entertain ourselves,
raise our young, poop, and pee. Everything we create, invent,
design, and build is done to enhance our experiences of eating,
sleeping, drinking, conversing, having sex, entertaining ourselves,
raising our young, pooping, and peeing.

WHAT we do hasn’t changed, HOW we do it has changed dramatically.

We don’t live in caves anymore, but we still act like cavemen.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940012305114
Publisher: safehouse books
Publication date: 6/1/2003
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 939,038
File size: 2 MB

Meet the Author

I’m a house painter.

So what does a house painter
know about human behavior?
For 16 years, I have observed
the modern caveman
in his natural habitat.
I’ve seen the best of men
and the worst of men.
I’ve seen marriages and kids,
fights and divorces, success
and failures, true love and
cheating, struggles with weight,
money, work, and just trying to
live day to day.

I believe that we are more alike
than we are different.

I know that this is the truth about
modern man.

It’ll make you laugh, cry, feel sad,
and get angry.

It’s everything a book should be.

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not007

Posted May 10, 2011

Highly Recommended

I became intrigued about this book after stumbling onto the website and reading some of the characteristics of these instincts. I believe this IS the truth about human behavior. What is interesting is the first review on this page actually confirms the ideas put forth in the book. This reviewer is obviously acting out of Warrior Instinct which blocks him from being introspective. Well done Simon Gray.
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