"Now we realize that that attitude is counterproductive to human success".
The idea that play contributes to human success goes back at least a century.
He continues: "If you worry about climate change, China's growth is a wonderful human success story that could kill us all".
The findings offer up the humbling conclusion that the secret of human success may owe more to what we lost along the path of evolution, rather than anything we gained.
The rise in the number of the old (and, according to this report, the "oldest old," classified as the over-80s) is a massive human success story: life expectancy increases because of better education, greater wealth, lower infant mortality, better healthcare, less disease, the reduction of armed conflict, and the development of technology and its application in pursuit of good.
"It's all about individualism, egotism, everyone for themselves, and the only way to judge human success is the check you get at the end of the month," J me Cahuzac, a Socialist Party member of France's National Assembly, said in a radio interview, according to Reuters.
For even by the most traditional standards, human success is never complete or absolute.
It assumes the world won't fall into a dystopia and therefore is optimistic about our chances for human success.
One important theme in human success has been the crucial importance of social developments (group size and structure, personal relationships, cooperation, language, the development of technology) influencing biological evolution.
And it can be argued that it is more important for students to acquire a sound grasp of the adaptive fundamentals underpinning human success, rather than the details of how, when, and where these evolved, and in what sequence.
