*FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FRAZZLED*A three way encounter between a Monk, a neuroscientist and Ruby Wax sounds like the set up for a joke.
How to be Human is extremely funny, true and the only manual you\'ll need to help you upgrade your mind as much as you\'ve upgraded your iPhone..
We answer every question you\'ve ever had about: evolution, thoughts, emotions, the body, addictions, relationships, kids, the future and compassion.
But even if nearly every part of us becomes robotic, we\'ll still, fingers crossed, have our minds, which, hopefully, we\'ll be able use for things like compassion, rather than chasing what\'s \'better\', and if we can do that we\'re on the yellow brick road to happiness.
I wrote this book with a little help from a monk, who explains how the mind works, and also gives some mindfulness exercises, and a neuroscientist who explains what makes us \'us\' in the brain. (Many people I know are now on iWife4 or iHusband8, the motto being, if it\'s new, it\'s better.)We can\'t stop the future from arriving, no matter what drugs we\'re on.
We\'re so used to upgrading things like our iPhones: as soon as the new one comes out, we don\'t think twice, we dump it.
This should make us all the happiest species alive - most of us aren\'t, what\'s gone wrong? We\'ve started treating ourselves more like machines and less like humans.
No question, anyone reading this has won the evolutionary Hunger Games by the fact you\'re on all twos and not some fossil.
Stephen FryIt took us 4 billion years to evolve to where we are now.
Joanna LumleyWith this marvellous book, Ruby Wax has confirmed her position as one of the most readable, inspirational and engaging writers in the field of Human mental health, happiness and fulfilment.
Ruby, the Monk and the Neuroscientist are today\'s Magi.
It is actually for everyone alive, for the curious, or disillusioned or muddled or just plain happy.
Neil GaimanHow to Be Human is, without exaggeration, a lifeline; wise, practical and funny, it is a handbook for those in despair.
Utterly readable and surprisingly wise.
A triangulation on what it means to be human.
Instead it\'s produced one of the most fascinating, intriguing and informative books about minds and bodies and brains and mindfulness I\'ve ever encountered. *FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FRAZZLED*A three way encounter between a Monk, a neuroscientist and Ruby Wax sounds like the set up for a joke
