Dr. Cliff Redford

But if you do it quickly enough, they're going to do great.

But yeah, you don't want to wait.

That's a good way to put it.

We're basically cooperation machines.

We can't help ourselves.

As young as early toddlerhood, we spot what other people want to do.

We don't care why they want to do it, and we get busy helping them do it.

And that sort of carries on throughout our adulthood.

Yeah.

Well, your brain is constantly asking a question because of the way that we evolved.

And that question is, am I alone or do I have resources that can help me if I need help?

We're an intensely social species.

So being isolated involuntarily, I should note, sometimes being alone when you don't have to be is like sublime.

But when you have to be alone, that's like death.

That was a death sentence as we were evolving as a species.

And so it's really important for our brain to get feedback from our environment that we are embedded in a social fabric, a network.

And it doesn't have to be, you know, people running up to us and grabbing our hands and gazing into our eyes lovingly and saying, I love you and value you and will protect you no matter what.

We don't need that.

And we're not going to get it even if we did.

Okay.