20181203 SAVERS for MONDAY

SILENCE

Quiet brain for 60 seconds

AFFIRMATIONS

1. I, Ken Taylor, continue losing weight through daily exercise and eating healthy food.
2. I, Ken Taylor, continue losing weight through daily exercise and eating healthy food.
3. I, Ken Taylor, continue losing weight through daily exercise and eating healthy food.
4. I, Ken Taylor, continue losing weight through daily exercise and eating healthy food.

Also, said aloud 60 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

175 by 12/10

Today's weight:  180.6

EXERCISE

Did my full 30 day routine:

1. ankle/wrist circles 60
2. finger/toe stretches 60 + 10
3. bicycle crunches 60
4. shoulder rolls 60
5. inversion table 3 1-min sets
6. push-ups 60

READING, WRITING

Read 60 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that history shows that almost immediately after humans set foot on/in a new island/territory/continent, the large (and some small) animals vanished.  His examples include Madagascar and other similar places that, prior to the arrival of humans, were home to giant sloths, armadillos and lemurs.

He calls it sad and tragic.  I don't know if he's right to say that.  He's the expert.  He says that extinction of species is man's fault, and he's likely right.  But then I ask, "what's the purpose of man?"

I'm guessing Harari would say that if it's either or (re. extinction), the large beasts were here first, and so better man become extinct.  Or he might say that man should have stayed put in Africa where he'd have done far less damage to the planet.  Or he might say that somehow the large beasts should have won the battle of extinction.

Why didn't those beasts evolve into a self-preserving, or even superior species?  With an evolved, developed brain, they'd have easily defeated puny humans.

But our planet and its residents evolved the way we did.  And so I see no reason to heap upon me the pseudo-guilt that Harari seeks to place on my shoulders.

Or does he?  Read on.