Social Awareness Week: Resetting Homo Sapiens – why we need to reset our species for the 21st century

Have you ever woken up excessively tired despite a long night’s sleep? Or found yourself losing your temper for something trivial? Worse, have you ever picked a fight with someone close on an irrelevant issue, leaving you either angrier or feeling miserable? While light and unpreoccupied one day, either because you had unexpected result on a mid-term exam, or for no reason at all, have you ever suddenly felt inadequate, and started questioning your friendships, your relationships, the decisions you’ve made, and generally your life (and why not the whole universe if you stretch it)? Last but not least, have you ever felt that euphoric moment where you think you are the absolute best at what you do, and at the very top of your own game, with only a happy few worthy of your time?



The underlying reasons for all these thoughts, feelings, emotions and impulses to act may be in the way you have treated yourself in the past few weeks. While our human machine is an incredibly resilient resource that science still has not fully understood – especially the brain – it does have its limits, and its own needs that, for some reason, 20th century education has generally taken for granted, or just expected “others” to take care of.

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Co-hosted with: IE Center for Health & Well-being

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