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Transforming Monkeys

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We’re social creatures. It’s instinctive; we’re primates, pack animals, tribal. We needed each other to live, so natural selection rewarded our ancestors who forged meaningful bonds, not merely based on blood or genes but commonalities of all stripes. An article from the early days of cracked.com sums it up with a lovely moniker: the monkeysphere.…

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Transforming Core Values, Part 2

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In my last post, I wrote about three of the core values I recently chose for myself, to use as guidelines for my actions and reactions while I travel from Canada to France. Here, with the remaining four, I’m moving away from Buddhist territory and into the realm of Western self-help books. Still, for all…

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