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“Loss of trust matters because distrust leads people to disengage from their communities, reduce commitment to their workplace and lose the degree to which they share important information with each other. In short, without trust, people focus on self-protection and become unwilling to make themselves vulnerable. (...) People who lack trust are limited in what they can accomplish together.”

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“When children earn stickers or candies by working as a team, they withhold their goodies from children who didn't help but share with children who did. This might not seem very friendly—it might even seem like behavior you should correct: sharing is caring after all—but from an evolutionary standpoint, it's mission critical.”

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“Although we suffer from many of our ancestors' bad habits, they also evolved a motivational system that continues to reward us when we get it right. This is happiness.”

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“The contents of our mind are a product of our genes, our environment, and our personal choice. Our genes nudge us in certain directions—sometimes this nudge might more aptly be described as a shove—but we make the decisions that determine the trajectory of our lives.”

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“Çayırlardan Google'a geçişimiz kuşkusuz epey şiddetli ve son derece verimsiz oldu, ama evrimin doğası da tam olarak böyledir. Bu dünyada devamlı olarak değişimler gerçekleşir ve hayat buna ya uyum sağlar ya da yok olur. Doğrusu, 66 milyon yıl önce devasa bir göktaşı Dünya gezegenini ıskalamış olsaydı insanlar muhtemelen evrimleşmezdi. Meksika Körfezi'ne çarpan ve küresel ateş fırtınalarına ve iklim değişikliğine yol açan bu uzay çöpü 100 milyon yıldan uzun bir süre boyunca gezegenimize hükmetmiş devasa avcıları ortadan kaldırmıştı. Taş fırlatarak bir aslanı veya kılç dişli kaplanı savuşturabilirdik ama birçoğumuz bir araya gelsek ve en iyi şekilde işbirliği yapsak bile bir Tyrannosaurus rex'in çerezi olmaktan kurtulamazdık. Toplumsal sıçramamız parlak ve görünüşte öngörülü bir olaydı ama aynı zamanda gelişigüzel biçimde başımıza gelen uzun bir olaylar silsilesine de son derece bağımlıydı.”

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