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It turns out that greed, in the sense of doing only for yourself, others be damned, is not only not good, it is not natural.
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Trust, it turns out, is a drug called oxytocin. …When released, oxytocin… floods the brain with a feeling of well-being.
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…when you trust someone, their brain responds by making more oxytocin, which allows them to trust you in return.
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We are on some level, it seems, hardwired to seek connections with others, to build biological networks to achieve greater personal gain.
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What if humankind’s greatest strength is not the size of our muscles but our seemingly irrational embrace of connection and cooperation – our ability to form societies of like-minded individuals.
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A belief occupies a very special place in the human intellect: It can exist in the absence of any objective proof, and often in the face of direct contradiction.
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Despite the best of intentions, people create rules variously and often in reaction to behaviors deemed unacceptable to the larger goals of the group.
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Rules don’t govern human progress, they govern the human past.
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To succeed… we must learn to dance with the rules.
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We overrespect rules, which leads us into a quagmire where all our actions get mucked up in the spectrum of legal permissibility.
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