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Key takeaways from How Civilization Broke Our Brains

What can hunter-gatherer societies teach us about work, time, and happiness? Open at source

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As specialization spread and superior performance was rewarded, a cult of competition emerged

another fundamental change to help account for that: our relationship to time—specifically, to the future

shift goes back to the agricultural revolution, which subjected humans to farming cycles that separated planting and harvest by many months,

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