Changing our Minds – Turning our Psychological Drive Toward Self Destruction into a Driver of Survival

Remember Jared Diamond’s book, ‘Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed’, where he describes the collapse of thriving civilizations on Easter Island, the Norse in Greenland, Anasazi, the Maya and others?

When I put down the book , I still had no idea why humans are wired for self-destruction, but that question gnawed at me for nearly a decade.

I imagine that you’ll find the answer as shocking and as empowering as I did!

My presentation answers the question “Now that we know why our psyches evolved to keep us on the proverbial ‘hamster wheel’ how the hell do we safely dismount, and how do we apply this wisdom to saving our asses?”