You can also get an idea of an earlier version of the story at The Paraclete here on my blog. 5/5: A dense book that asks the simple question: Where does behaviour come from Is it genes, or environment, or upbringing, or religion, or hormones, or our brain that causes behaviour Simply put, it's complicated, and the author does an incredible job explaining so by diving into animal and human behaviour, study after study, and eye-opening events from a behaviorist point of view. The kind folks at BizCatalyst360 just published my The Paraclete, an excerpt from my forthcoming The Shaman. You can also get an idea of an earlier version of the story at DeathSong here on my blog.įor me, it’s always interesting to see how a story changes over time. Originally entitled “Shaman Story,” the graphic artist who did the interior and exterior artwork mistakenly wrote “The Shaman” on the bookcover and Shaboom! it was done.

It deals with perhaps the most complicated. That, and getting permission from one of my teachers (who spoke for all of them) was what I needed. Sapolsky’s book Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst has been very highly praised by reviewers, and it is easy to see why. Into a different yet equally poorly written manuscript.įinally, I took it out in late 2019 and asked myself, “What would make this an interesting story?” Several times I’d take that manuscript out and massage it. I’d meant to write a book for years, and have a really poorly written manuscript dating from the late 1980s to prove it.

The Shaman came about because so good number of people kept asking me about my background and training. shelf: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst: Sapolsky, Robert M.: 9781594205071: : Books Skip to main content. The kind folks at BizCatalyst360 just published my DeathSong, an excerpt from my forthcoming The Shaman and offered at the prodding of Mark O’Brien who found meaning in my The Paraclete. Jasim Malik has 76 books on Goodreads, and is currently reading Global. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Sapolsky, Robert M.

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