When neces­si­ty is the mother of invention.

I lis­te­ned to this while wri­ting this post, try it while you read :o)

This is the sixth in a series of posts reflec­ting on our willin­gness to remem­ber and the qua­li­ty of that know­ledge. These posts should be read in order of publi­ca­tion. Star­ting with num­ber six, for example, would make no sense to the rea­der. Hap­py reading!

It is as a result of this long pro­cess of repe­ti­tion and asso­cia­tion, some­times real, some­times fic­ti­tious, that humans began to unders­tand cer­tain parts of their envi­ron­ment. On the other hand, one can think that regions of abun­dance have had to be pre­ser­ved from this obli­ga­tion to a cer­tain extent. After all, isn’t neces­si­ty the mother of inven­tion? This expres­sion attri­bu­ted to Pla­to can have no more mea­ning than it has in our exer­cise. Pla­to, until pro­ven other­wise, was not aware of these archaeo­lo­gi­cal facts rela­ting to ear­ly humans. His phrase applied in its context, past, present and future. Could he have belie­ved that his adage would be appli­cable to eve­ry living being as demons­tra­ted by Dar­win two mil­len­nia later?

The cycle of sea­sons, tides, lunar cycles, migra­to­ry pat­terns, all revo­lu­tions of time which have attrac­ted the atten­tion of humans to reflect on them moti­va­ted by neces­si­ty. In the absence of neces­si­ty, humans do not think about these things. We could also say that the human ten­den­cy to always try to find solu­tions to dif­ferent life situa­tions is the result of natu­ral selec­tion. Have the smar­test been the most suc­cess­ful in surviving?

To be continued…

-Dan­ny

I’m Dan­ny (aka Coa­ch­Dan­ny). I have a pas­sion: humans. Come with me and take this minute eve­ry day to explore what’s going on today and why is it tren­ding. Click here to get your dai­ly thought right on time for break­fast.

Sources: https://solomotivation.com

Trans­la­tion by Abbie Sims: https://www.linkedin.com/in/acsims/

Last Upda­ted on Decem­ber 1, 2020 by Coach Dan­ny