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In the latest episode of the Changemakers’ Field Guide, I travel back in time 200,000 years to the dawn of Homo sapiens. Our ancestors were very good at their jobs of survival. Favorable adaptations in our brains arose due to specific evolutionary pressures, constantly repeated over millions of years. However, the complex world we’re in today definitely doesn’t resemble those conditions. Our ability to survive and flourish will undoubtedly depend on how well our brain can adapt to this complexity.

Cooperation, communication, and prioritization of threats helped our ancestors. While the scale of our problems is exponentially larger, these same cognitive programs can still serve us well.