Baboons are these like hysterical backstabbing sons of

bitches all they do is like have major conflict and betray their coalitional partners and bite somebody who did nothing because they're in a bad mood.

It wound up being perfect because sort of this was my bridge between the lab work and the field work studying stress.

I wound up being extremely interested in what stress does to the brain and what does it do with how their bodies are working where I was able to dart and

ascetize them and do all sorts of clinical tests. Why were they perfect? Because like baboons living out in the

Serengeti this is like the greatest place on earth to be a baboon there's like

tons of food you only have to forage about three hours a day to get your days

calories, the predators don't mess with you much because you're in these big troops,

infants usually survive all of that and the key implication was if you only have to spend three hours a day

getting your food you've got nine hours of free time every day to vote to being

total jerks to each other.

Hello friend, welcome back to the Light Watkins show.

I'm Light Watkins and I have conversations with ordinary folks just like you and me who've taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path their purpose or what they've identified as their mission in life.

And in doing so, they've been able to positively impact and inspire the lives of many other people

who have either heard about their story or who witness them in action or

people who have directly benefited from their work.

And the goal is to expose you to as many people as possible who found their path and to humanize them.

And after hearing story after story, after story, hopefully, eventually you give yourself permission to move further in the direction of whatever feels like your path and purpose because what you'll see is that anyone who does that has to overcome many of the same obstacles and

challenges and blocks that you might be dealing with right now. This week I'm in

conversation with someone whose work I've admired from afar for many

many years Dr. Robert Suppolsky. Dr. Suppolsky is a renowned neuroscientist, he's a primatologist, and he's an author.

He's best known for writing the book Why Zebra's Don't Get Ulcers, which is a guide to stress and stress-related

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