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  • A Biohacker's Guide to Evolutionary Fitness, Natural Ecstasy, and Stress-Free Living
  • By: Jevan Pradas
  • Narrated by: Paul Brion
  • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (731 ratings)
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Summary

What secrets do Amazonian tribes, Himalayan hermits, and enlightened monks know about health and happiness that have been lost to the world today?

In The Awakened Ape, Jevan Pradas uses evolutionary psychology to hack the human mind and body to answer the question: "How can we enjoy life to the fullest?" The results, while unexpected, are completely backed by science.

Perpetually bored, anxious, fatigued, and overweight, modern society has failed to deliver the happiness it promised. The remedy, Jevan argues, is in a unique synthesis of a Paleolithic lifestyle and Buddhist meditation. A sprawling journey, featuring Jevan's adventures with naked Amazonian tribes and retreats with enlightened monks to learn the secrets of optimal well-being, The Awakened Ape will teach you how to achieve deep states of bliss. All while shaping your body into the fit and healthy animal millions of years of evolution programmed you to be.

You will learn how to meditate-from instructions for the absolute beginner to techniques for deep states of ecstasy and awakening; how to eat the optimally healthy diet for both physical and mental health; how to train the attention span so you can be focused and efficient all day long; how to exercise so that is fun, enjoyable, and something you look forward to; how to get rid of the habit of negative thinking in just one week; how to live like a caveman in the modern world in order to get the most out of your genetics; how to properly go to the bathroom (yes, you have been doing it wrong); and much, much, more....

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Unfulfilled potential

The first half of the book focused very much on hunter/gatherer society and the disconnect experienced between those and our contemporary western experience and lifestyle. A range of cross-cultural examples drawn from a variety of tribes to illustrate this were provided which provided much food for thought and indicators as to our life and health could be improved. Having said this there was little focus on the life expectancy in hunter/gatherer society and so there was a degree of imbalance and the majority of aspects of our western lifestyles were seen as negative with no reference to any positives. There was interest in the tribal examples cited but after these the book seemed to focus on mindfulness and Buddhism and how meditation can help us daily. Not such a bad thing but I have read other authors who have done this in a more coherent and integrated manner. As I came to the closing chapters, I felt that what we had here was yet another self-help book rebranded with the trendy new descriptor of a 'bio-hackers' guide. To summarise: a promising start which did not fulfill its initial potential for the reasons stated. By the closing sections this bio-hacking approach left me feeling 'hacked off' and was dragging out concepts over many chapters which could have been examined in far fewer.

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Waste of money

Poorly read, and poorly edited (lots of changes in volume where pieces have been added).
The book itself taught me nothing apart from there are tribes that don’t live like modern people. Wow! How insightful. A total waste of money.

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Better called "The awakened patriarchal MALE ape"

Although the book discusses very interesting facts and some fascinating issues, is obviously written by a man for a male audience, without any gender perspective, and even with splashes of few sexist comments here and there. The book ignores (deliberately?) all the recent studies about evolution which suggest that ancient hunter and gatherer societies didn't have strict patriarchal gender roles as we always tend to imagine, and our bodies and brains evolved accordingly. As an example, there is thousands of athletic women around the planet who are long distance runners, triathloners, climbers, divers, swimmers, etc. Obviously they feel the same impulses and thrill as men do while practising these intense endurance activities, and their body and brain is as well adapted as the males. This make no sense if , as the book seems to suggest, women have being for hundreds of thousands of years only collecting veggies, having babies and gossiping with the girlfriends ( yes, the book mention this several times ! )

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Embarrassingly bad

My brother and I started listening to this book on a long car journey. I’ve read lots of books on related subjects and this is just gimicky trash. We actually laughed repeatedly at how bad it is. If you’re actually interested in these subjects, look elsewhere.

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posibly the best book i have ever heard!

this book opens your eyes to connections between spirituality, fitness, and lifestyle with a touch of science but what is all this if it is the same but nothing at all? Listen to this to become what you were intended to be!

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Author speaks of women like a misogynist

It's disappointing to hear women objectified in this way by a man who considers himself a teacher. There are no female characters in his stories with the exception of stories of sex. Even then women aren't given character or depth. Some food for thought in this book but others have done it better in a way that is more easily applied to all people.

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Great, except for author’s anecdotes

Great book, great factual content for anyone who works in an office and are wondering why they despise it.

However, I found the author’s personal stories on ‘hook ups’ and success with women rather cringey

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BRILLIANT, pure and simple

Informative, thought-provoking , beautiful , humorous, thought- surpassingly necessary! Listen to this book. Then listen to it again...

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My Awakened ape !

Top draw listen a revelation! I think I finally get what it’s all about !
A very useful tool for helping you to get past all the bullshit in life and finally start living!

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Informative and practical

A combination of science and practical steps to be at peace with oneself. Everything this in our head, everything is also not real and nothing matters... yet we still need to work and take the kids to school... this book helps us to appreciate what we have. Life is a brief journey. I tried the meditation, it is difficult. If I can improve on the that then all the other problems will be reduced. Definitely a thought provoking and enjoyable listen.

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