Are you and I getting dumber?

According to Stanford University researcher Gerald Crabtree this is true.

Mr. Crabtree proposes our intellectual and emotional abilities peaked before our early predecessors began leaving Africa about two million years ago. He states that this is because intelligence was critical for survival, and it is not so in today’s world. He believes that the average resident from Athens of 1000 BC were to be placed in today’s world, “he or she would be among the most emotionally stable of our friends and colleagues.”

I believe that researcher Crabtree is not that far off the mark. I say that because if you consider how so many of us crumble at the thought of not getting what we want, it is rather pathetic. Many of us have lost our ‘resilience factor’. We have lost the ability to work through the tough times. We have lost the ability to use our inner resources to not just overcome, but to thrive in a world of continuous change.

What is one thing that you can do today to muster or rally your inner resources to write the finest chapter of your life?