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It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.

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If it's working, keep doing it. If it's not working, stop doing it. If you don't know what to do, don't do anything.

Melvin Konner

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Melvin Konner

Melvin Konner
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Born: 1946 (age 79)
Bio: Melvin Joel Konner is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and of Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University. He studied at Brooklyn College, CUNY, where he met Marjorie Shostak, whom he later married and with whom he had three children.
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  1. Becoming a doctor (1987)

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