A Story of Stories

(Motivation = Primal Motivations + Values + Morals)

Good for the Johnsons.

Imagination allows you to consider an outlandish conspiracy theory—reason allows you to reject it as truth.

Then there’s Lulu. (Their daughter)

When a loose tribe held together by weak glue grows bigger and bigger, it also gets looser and looser until it can’t hold itself together anymore, and it splinters.This imposes a natural ceiling on human giant size—and therefore on human power itself.Except I’m currently sitting in an eight-million-person city that’s inside of a 325-million-person ... See more

If an animal’s life is a game of chasing good feelings and avoiding bad ones, the animal’s environment is the obstacle course standing between it and all those delicious chemical rewards.

And Moochie shapes right up.

Primal Motivations + Environment = Behavior

In the last chapter, we met the human giant.