Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect

The social self, on the other hand, is the part of you that developed in response to pressures from the people around you, including everyone from your family to your first love to the pope. As the most socially dependent of mammals, human babies are born knowing that their very survival depends on the goodwill of the grown-ups around them.

You make the switch from attachment to self (self-interest) to concern for others (social interest).

As a matter of fact, we are wired for connection. It’s in our biology. From the time we are born, we need connection to thrive emotionally, physically, spiritually, and intellectually.

Perhaps most of all, you need to be motivated to interact and communicate with other people: to be a social being.

Curiosity has been isolated. But the tide is turning. The deeper we head into the brain, the more impossible that isolation is to sustain. The mass of humanity exerts an unquestionable gravitational force pulling us outward.