@sei.come.sei: Robert Sapolsky spent decades split between two worlds: a Stanford lab studying stress and the brain, and the plains of Kenya living among a troop of wild baboons. What he learned in both is the same idea, unsettling and freeing at once. We are far less in control of ourselves than we like to believe. And understanding exactly why turns out to be the beginning of real compassion, for other people and for yourself. We pulled six. His books are the full science. Credit and inspiration: Robert Sapolsky via *Behave* and *Determined*