You need to be coining new words
- Carl Jung: "Introversion", "extroversion," "archetypes"
- Nietzsche: "Slave morality"
- Darwin: "Survival of the fittest"
Interesting new labels will make your ideas stickier and 10x likelier to be passed on
You need to be coining new words - Carl Jung: "Introversion", "extroversion," "archetypes" - Nietzsche: "Slave morality" - Darwin: "Survival of the fittest" Interesting new labels will make your ideas stickier and 10x likelier to be passed on
The association of “orange” with “decaffeinated” is an example of what Richard Dawkins called a “meme”—a self-replicating idea. Today people often think of memes as images and slogans shared on social media, but any great idea that takes hold is a meme. In 1880, “Darwin’s Bulldog” Thomas Henry Huxley wrote, “The struggle for existence holds as much
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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
Richard Dawkins • The Selfish Gene
Nature’s way of testing any self-replicating device is competition. For over three and a half billion years,354 she has set the products of the genetic system in a race to see who can corner the good things of this life.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
