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The History of Getting What We
Want and the Reptile Brain
Everything you want in life is out there in the world, either controlled or owned by someone else. In the Stone Age a tribe of cavemen would go to war with a neighboring tribe, kill them, and steal what they wanted—resources, land, and women. During the rule of the mighty Roman Empire, Romans would wage war with their neighboring tribes and take what they wanted through violence and plunder. In the modern world, it is no longer socially acceptable to kill, wage war, rob, and steal your way to prosperity. Instead we must negotiate to get what we want. In many ways, negotiating for resources or land is a more humane way for human beings to get what they want, and it is certainly less violent than war or plunder. However, negotiation between human beings has always, and will always be, a study of human nature. Human nature is an endlessly fascinating study, and ironically the things that make us human at our best can make us inhuman at our worst. Human nature can appear to be ugly or inhuman because lurking beneath the thin veil of sophistication, civilization, and benevolence lies the brain of a reptile.
A human brain is really not just one brain; it is three brains stacked on top of one another with the most primitive brain at the base and holding all of the decision-making power.