Human beings have succeeded as the most dominant species on earth in large part due to our need to connect and cooperate.
He ends with a positive perspective by examining how we can use our drive for connection to expand our in-group and extend multicultural societies for the good of our planet..
He then explores the negative consequences of our drive for connection and explains how it contributes to racism, sexism, nationalism, and many other social issues of our day, as well as its impact on our individual health and wellbeing.
He focuses on how connection works in practice and why it is important for learning, innovating, health and wellbeing.
He starts by discussing the Human brain\'s specialization for connection and how it evolved, and the fascinating way we automatically process the thoughts and feelings of others.
Here, Mark Williams shows us how to recapture the drive for connection in a way that will help us look past our differences and reconnect, even with those whom we perceive to be outside our groups.
We become more and more divided into groups as a result.
And it is getting worse, as overcrowding, technology, and the media often focus us on our differences.
This unconscious drive to connect can draw us together, but it also emphasizes the differences between groups.
We see, hear, empathize with, and understand others differently depending on whether they are a member of our in-group or not.
Our primitive drive to connect changes how we perceive the World and the people around us.
This drive has fine-tuned our unconscious perception of faces, facial expressions, body language, and touch.
It was our ability to socialize and connect that catapulted our species to phenomenal heights of innovation, through collaboration and specialization.
Human beings have succeeded as the most dominant species on earth in large part due to our need to connect and cooperate
