Evolutionology: The Power Of Knowing How People Work: Your Life, Instinct, & Emotional Intelligence

by Arnie Benn

Who's really in charge? Your intellect or your survival instinct? Are you smart, sophisticated and evolved, or are you an insecure, emotional group-thinker like the rest of us? Evolutionology represents a new approach to understanding the evolution of the human mind and our psychology. It describes how our survival instinct actually works, how it makes us think and behave, as well as how to regain control and heighten our emotional intelligence. We humans like to believe that we are already evolved, civilized creatures because we are intelligent, but we are clearly not living intelligently. Our lives and world are filled with stress, anxiety and dysfunction. The reason is that our choices are not made by our intelligence, but rather by our survival instinct. Our fears and emotions are behind our decisions, and every action we take is designed to make us feel safer. We do what is comforting, not what is right. We seek corroboration, not truth. We react instead of choosing, thinking emotionally and declaring it intelligent. Seeing this is a necessary first step in order to evolve consciously. Until we do, our inner animal will continue holding the reins and controlling our thoughts and actions, while we will congratulate ourselves on our superiority, correctness, and wisdom. Evolutionology describes self-evident truths that can empower us to better understand people. When we understand how the mind works, we gain deeper insight into the human condition, and with it, the power to effectively and consciously change our lives. FEATURING: The Evolutionology Quiz. In order to bring this to a very practical level, this book features a simple, online multiple choice quiz that will allow you to measure your degree of evolution. But, beware. The results may surprise you. Become an Evolutionary. Join The Evolution Revolution.

Genres: Psychology, Self Help, Nonfiction

200 pages, Paperback

Published January 12, 2016

About the author

I was raised in Kimberley, South Africa. Our family moved to the United States in 1990 to pursue the promise of America and the opportunities she embodies. Although the specific details of my life may appear different from your own at the superficial level, beneath the surface I am just like you. I am an Earthling. I hope for meaning, health, and enough resources for me and mine to endure in relative comfort and safety. I also hope to make a worthy contribution to humanity with my life energy.

I have degrees in chemistry and music, and a deep interest in and a love for both the sciences and the arts. I believe no accurate understanding of the world can be attained without looking into many different areas of study, since the world contains them all, intermingled, interwoven, sometimes indistinguishable. I place my trust in logic and the scientific method because people, myself included, tend to stray from objectivity without too much provocation. I am also proud to be a founding member of The Quantum Bicycle Society (www.Quicycle.com), a science think tank dedicated to furthering pure science, and I am gratified that my writing can also provide an avenue for sharing some of the latest scientific innovations. (See "The Intrepid: Dawn Of The Interstellar Age.")

As an Earthling, I aspire toward a consciousness and an identity that connects all people. There are no border lines on the planet when viewed from space! Of course, our nature works against us on this front. So we have a little work to do. I try to remain above the ugliness of political group-think, but at those times when a lapse in focus allows my consciousness to be muddied by it... I aspire to be a passionate Centrist, though I sometimes fail — on some issues to the Left and on other issues to the Right.

I have worked in the technology, internet, entertainment, and education sectors. My professional experience includes producing and directing film and television content, online branding and marketing, consulting for a 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign, serial internet entrepreneurship, as well as science and mathematics teaching. I also occasionally derive satisfaction from my other organic calling — musical composition.

While I may not claim authority in any one area, I am just as astute a scholar of the human condition as anyone, since the only way we can know anyone else is by comparing what we see around us to how we know ourselves. And the one inescapable truth I see is that we humans are all the same... in the things that motivate our thoughts and actions, and in how they typically manifest in us and in our relationships.

In seeing this, I am moved to share it because I believe the only thing standing in our way of creating the world we desire and wish for is the dysfunction caused by our own survival instinct. And we do not want to see or acknowledge this because its stark truth undermines our own sense of sophistication and superiority. But we must see it, and that means elevating our emotional intelligence and wisdom. I believe that is the only thing that can save us from hurting ourselves, hurting each other, and hurting the planet. It is the evolution of consciousness that should occupy our focus as a human civilization, and that requires greater mastery over our biology than we are currently demonstrating.

It is in order to share these ideas that I am writing, in both the fiction and non-fiction genres.

We can be better, but we need to get out of our own way.

Thank you for joining me on part of this journey.

Reviews

[Judith Wolder · Rating 5 out of 5]

Arnold Benn has started an important conversation about our responsibility as the intelligent species. He asks some hard questions and makes us become aware of our failings as humans and what we can and must aspire towards in order to bring about a better world. Everyone should read this book including state leaders and hopefully it will start a paradigm shift. I dare you to read this book and take a look at the animal in the mirror!

[Tuyisenge Arsene · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is awesome, but I can't give it all five stars; because the author keeps repeating the same evidence throughout the book, also the book is too short to convince the reader, this means to me that the idea of evolutionology is very capturing and convincing in the book's opening parts, however, the moment you expect much from the author is the moment book folds. The inclusion of the evolutionology quiz is very innovative, but it's not far different from all other internet personality quizzes.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book with a lot of interesting facts and knowledge. It goes over a lot of interesting and broad concepts that I don't fully agree with but still appreciate and value. I feel that I learned a few things and some things that I already knew were confirmed which was nice too.

[Austin · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found the topic to be highly intriguing, but unfortunately the book has one-too-many logical fallacies to the point that to adequately support its premise.