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Behave
Behaviour needs explanation across time and context, not a single convenient cause.
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Pragmatic review
Sapolsky draws together biological and social perspectives on human action. For leaders, its practical value is to widen a causal question: what happened just before a behaviour, and which longer histories shaped its conditions?
WTM Signal Review
Why These Matter: better futures require better accounts of why people act. WTM assessment: a demanding and valuable systems lens. A general synthesis cannot diagnose an individual or settle a specific dispute. Explanation should improve accountability and design rather than become an excuse for harm.
One practical next step
Map one recurring behaviour across immediate conditions, incentives and longer history before choosing an intervention.
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