The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marxist and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

Ten habits of highly successful hunter-gatherers.

While the primal blueprint centers on the critical basics of living

a healthy life, food, exercise, sun, sleep, and play, there's more to primal life than just what I'd

call the essentials. And yes, play is an essential. The essentials offer us the optimum chance at health and general contentment.

In looking and living, beyond these basics, however, I think we find something critical.

It's the key to the questions about how to further apply primal principles in a world that is

anything but. We think we have it all down. It's easy.

Got it. Then the rest of our surrounding civilization has its say, disturbs our primal peace,

intrudes upon our confidence, throws its chaos in our well-intentioned plans.

The answer isn't to scrap the whole project, but to deepen the lesson.

Let me expand a bit by talking about the topic that might be familiar to many of you,

the habits of successful hunter-gatherers.

They're the cornerstones of a larger vision for ancestral-inspired living,

the primal connection. If we can learn from our forebearers diets and activities, what wisdom

can we garner or extrapolate from other elements of their living conditions? For example,

their social structures and cultural patterns.

Here are all ten habits presented for the first time on this podcast.

Forget about whatever else you're doing or surrounded by for a moment. Think. Imagine.

What would it have taken to be a highly successful hunter-gatherer?

Braun, speed, good aim, stamina, carving skills, a sharp eye or memory? Of course.

But what about all those less obvious attributes like creativity, empathy, intuition, even temper,

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