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1. Humans have a strong aversion to killing at close range. The most resistance is against hand-to-hand combat with a knife or bayonet.

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2. The deepest trauma is not the fear of being killed. It’s doing the close-up, individuated killing.

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3. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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4. Testosterone makes people overconfident and overly optimistic, with bad consequences. Testosterone made subjects more likely to think their opinion was correct and to ignore input from their partner. Testosterone makes people cocky, egocentric, and narcissistic.

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5. Testosterone boosts impulsivity and risk taking, making people do the easier thing when it’s the dumb ass thing to do.

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6. Fearless, overconfident, and delusionally optimistic sure feels good. No surprise, then, that testosterone can be pleasurable.

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7. Testosterone makes us more willing to do what it takes to attain and maintain status.

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8. 2/3rds of everyday conversation is gossip. Gossip is a weapon of the weak against the powerful.

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9. It’s all about social memory, emotional perspective taking, impulse control, empathy, ability to work with others, self-regulation.

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10. Once high status achieved, maintaining it is all about social smarts—knowing with coalitions to form, how to intimate a rival, having sufficient impulse control to ignore most provocations and to keep displacement aggression to a reasonable level.

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