ADAPT #32 - 🤘 DON'T Listen To Your Gut

Yew!!!

If you open this today given that it’s a public holiday here in Australia and NZ, I hope you do take the time to explore further!

Maybe even go back to some of the past newsletters (HERE) and read away!

Shit where did that week go?!

Did we go through a wormhole or something?

Did I tell you why time feels like it speeds up or slows down?
I’ll do it in another newsletter!

Staying with last week’s theme, let me share some thinking on another topic that I think contributes to the reluctance we have with being more unrealistic.

Perhaps we have less control than what we think on this matter.

Let’s go back in time and consider this.

Despite the fact that you think you are in control, the truth is that your brain is in control and you are actually a passenger.
(Side note here: my little girl’s brain has a sausage dog and is often going for walks so she’s there but her brain is not! Haha - brilliant!)

Like it or not, we are operating most of the time subconsciously and instinctively.

More often than not we tend to just follow what our brain tells us to do.

Our brains are wired in such a way that repetition and routine are rewarded - (it saves energy and when you are a hunter-gatherer, energy is precious, and believe it or not, we are more hunter-gatherers than anything else we may think of ourselves) so your instinct is to repeat, build routines and stay safe with what you know.

I read a passage recently on my current book Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom.

Dumb evolutionary processes have dramatically amplified the intelligence in the human lineage even compared to our close relatives the great apes and our own humanoid ancestors; and there is no reason to suppose Homo sapiens to have reached the apex of cognitive effectiveness attainable in a biological system.

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilisation.

A niche we filled because we got there first not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.

We are not optimally adapted to this crazy tech civilisation we built with our hunter-gathering brains.

You know how most people tell you to trust your instincts or trust your gut?

I am a little careful.

As per above, our instincts developed primarily to be good at hunter-gathering - we spent 2.5m years doing that and a few thousand years at best doing what we do today.

So it’s obvious that the operating system we run was coded for a different time.

The environment and the conditions in which your insticts developed are so different to today’s world that relying on them too much will get you in trouble.

Think about it, we regularly behave counterintuitively to stay on top of this new world we can barely predict.

Wanna feel your brain playing tricks?

Go and listen for the millionth time to your favourite solo in a song, feel that love your brain gives you…rewarding you for the repetition, the routine.

Now change your ring from one finger to another, feel your brain punish you with discomfort, begging you to put it back to where it was.

Here is my challenge:
Perhaps don’t “listen to your gut” as much as you get asked to and certainly be aware of the tricks your brain is playing on you.*

Love

Gus

* Except if your gut tells you that you have to join me for a good talk on the 30th of April to talk about this and more related to your career, your life or your kids future! 
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