How to Be Human

How to be Human is the only manual you need to help you upgrade your mind as much as you've upgraded your iPhone. With this marvelous book, Ruby Wax has confirmed her position as one of the most readable, inspirational, and engaging writers in the field of human mental health, happiness, and fulfillment. Stephen Fry states, "It took us 4 billion years to evolve to where we are now - completely brilliant and yet, some might say, emotionally dwarfed. The question is: can our more empathetic side catch up in time to save us and the world? I've got nothing against smarts, but it's smarts without emotional awareness that got us into this position of being able to nuke each other into oblivion and rape the earth for oil." With a little help from a monk, who tells us how our mind works, and a neuroscientist, who tells us how our brain works, Ruby Wax answers every question.