“Refusing to come to terms with human nature simply means that you are dooming yourself to patterns beyond your control and to feelings of confusion and helplessness.”

The Laws of Human Nature, Introduction

It is tempting to imagine that extensive knowledge regarding peoples’ behaviour and psychology is outdated and old fashioned.

We might make the claim that, being so sophisticated and advanced in the modern world, so progressive and enlightened, we have moved beyond our primitive roots, overcoming our evolutionary nature.

As such, information relating to human, we tell ourselves, is empty, useless even.

The truth, however, is in fact the opposite.