Vanessa Woods | Why Friendliness is the Secret to Our Success as a Species
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Join Vanessa Woods as she explores the profound impacts of social interactions and group dynamics through her personal and academic journey. In this episode, Vanessa discusses her book "Survival of the Friendliest," delving into how friendliness and cooperation can be evolutionary advantages. She shares anecdotes from her fieldwork and the critical role of her experiences during adolescence in shaping her research perspective on human and animal behavior.
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| 0:00.0 | As you probably noticed this month we're bringing you our Life of Purpose series and revisiting some of our most transformative episodes, |
| 0:06.5 | tune in to explore expert insights and practical strategies on help, performance, and community well-being, |
| 0:12.8 | all aimed at helping you achieve personal and professional fulfillment. |
| 0:16.7 | If you sign up for the newsletter, |
| 0:17.8 | you'll not only get recaps of the key ideas |
| 0:20.0 | in each interview, but at the end of the series, |
| 0:22.0 | you'll receive our free life of purpose |
| 0:24.1 | ebook. What you have to do is go to unmistakable creative.com slash life |
| 0:27.5 | purpose again that's unmistakable creative dot com slash life purpose. |
| 0:31.6 | One of the standout things about bonobos is that they're the only great ape that doesn't kill each other and they're our closest living relatives. |
| 0:38.0 | The other being chimpanzees kind of like you have two cousins. |
| 0:41.0 | And then we have this one cousin who can be wonderful. |
| 0:43.7 | I love chimpanzees. But they do, you know, just like us have lethal aggression. They |
| 0:48.9 | occasionally hunt and kill each other and the adolescent females who are trying to move groups in middle school have been found with like teeth marks in their skull. |
| 0:57.5 | Whereas bonobos it's just completely different and so you know we were really interested in what is it about the Nervos that allows them to not have this lethal aggression in their community group. |
| 1:12.0 | And from now, we just really started thinking about |
| 1:14.3 | friendliness and how it's actually a really underrated advantageous strategy like |
| 1:19.9 | being friendly will you know most of the time get you further and that's not really the |
| 1:24.4 | traditional wisdom in our society it's like no survival of the frittist and nice guys get left behind and then people |
| 1:30.3 | use the natural world and they use biology to back that up. |
| 1:34.0 | It's like, actually, no, that's not how it works. |
| 1:36.2 | It's a major survival strategy and it's a really quick survival strategy. I'm Srenny Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds, started movements, built thriving |
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