Ruby Wax was born in Evanston, Illinois, and for more than 25 years has been a comedian, TV writer and performer. She holds a master’s degree in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy from Oxford University and was awarded an OBE for her services to mental health. She is the author of the bestsellers Sane New World and A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled and has toured with the accompanying one-woman shows. Her latest book, How to Be Human, is out now in paperback.
How to Be Human: The Manual sets out to answer life’s big questions… So in a nutshell – how can we be human?
Part of it is to understand the mechanics of what we are, because if we don’t look in to how the brain works, how we got to be like this, we just assume, oh well, I am the way I am and we never change. Understanding neuroplasticity and epigenetics we realise that we can change. And if you can understand that it’s not our fault, our condition is the human condition, then we can be nicer to ourselves because part of the problem is that everybody has these critical voices. I don’t want to start being corny but when we start working as a bonding tribe, which we have the capacity to do, that’s us at our best, but we don’t know how to switch that part of our brain on, to get out of our self-obsession.
from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2SFnKd4
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