Background Tim Minchin is a comedian, actor, writer, musician, poet, composer, and songwriter. This speech was originally given as a commencement address at the University of Western Australia in 2013. Speech Transcript In darker days I did a corporate gig at a conference for this big company who made and sold accounting software in a […]| James Clear
Human behaviour, even at its worst, doesn’t seem all that difficult to explain. Our behaviour seems to be entirely the result of our biological and cultural conditioning, given the circumstances of the moment. Our biological conditioning seems to drive us to maximize our physical pleasure and minimize physical pain. Our cultural conditioning would seem to drive us, similarly, to maximize our emotional and intellectual pleasure and minimize our emotional and intellectual pain. And all of tha...| how to save the world
