Ike Lasater

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  • Home
  • About
    • Biography
    • My Work
    • My Story
  • Books
    • Collaborating in the Workplace
      • White Paper: What Makes An Effective Team? Learning the Necessary Skills for Successful Collaboration
    • Words That Work in Business, 2nd Ed.
    • When Your Mind Sabotages Your Dreams
    • From Conflict to Connection
    • Choosing Peace
    • Mediate Your Life Training Manual
    • What We Say Matters
  • Training
    • Downloads
  • In the Media
  • Further Reading & Viewing
    • Articles
    • Books
    • Online Talks
    • Reading & Watching to Expand Your Empathy
    • Poetry
  • Blog,  Evolutionary Biology

    An Operating Manual for Our Time

    December 21, 2016 /

    We are not given an operating manual for our lives when we are born. This was strongly brought home to me recently as I held my two newest grandchildren, born within two weeks of each other. Aside from the basics of filling their diapers, nursing, crying and sleeping, they have to learn everything else. There are many unconscious processes that must mature as the child grows into adulthood. As biological beings, all of these processes have evolved since the first spark of life. We have not only been evolving as biological beings, but also as thinking idea machines. Richard Dawkins used the term “memes” to refer to these bits of…

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