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The Monkey and the Monk: Why being human can be so hard.

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  ‘One of the biggest tragedies of human existence is that we have the potential to decipher the greatest  mysteries of the universe, but would much rather kill one another for shiny yellow rocks’        - Chirag Roy     For a long time, I was extremely curious about the decision making process of the human mind. I never really got the whole ‘follow your heart ’ line of thinking. The hearts just a muscle pumping blood, why blame it for all the stupid crap we pull. The human mind is an extremely shrewd operator; successfully transferring the blame for all of its biggest failures on a muscle to busy keeping us alive to raise a voice in protest. One must resist the temptation to agree with everything the brain tells you, instead take a moment and think a bit more deeply. Or even better, overthink about it for months to the point of insanity. You might get answers, you’ll definitely get content for a pretentious blog post. The trick to understanding o...