How many people did it take to make you?

Do you ever think that we are all improved copies from the previous generation? Your kids are better, stronger, smarter, etc than you are, as you are to your parents and your parents to their parents etc.

We’re all slowly upgrading to the best possible version of “ourselves” one generation at a time for thousands and thousands of years. Do you think it will ever stop? One day we will “peak”? Like how the Universe supposedly is, and then suddenly we will start contracting back to the Dark Ages? Or maybe have our own human Big Bang or Big Bounce? Or just perpetually continue in the trajectory of improvement?

It Didn’t Start with You  

How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

 

Stay with me here – this concept is kinda big to wrap the head around. It did for me at first. Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. This is therapy in a book and a great perspective (with more and more scientific studies coming out) on why we do what we do and the family dynamic that can get passed down. A must read.

 

Life in the 1900’s

How the average family lived in the 1900’s

In 1900, the average family had an annual income of $3,000 (in today’s dollars). The family had no indoor plumbing, no phone, and no car. About half of all American children lived in poverty. Most teens did not attend school; instead, they labored in factories or fields.

Life in the 1850’s

How the average family lived in the 1850’s

People mostly lived on farms and they ate what they could grow. (No Door Dash here.) They hand sewed their clothes at home, and oriented their daily life around seasonal rhythm. Those who could afford a bath tub bathed a few times a month, but the poor were likely to bathe only once a year.

Life in the 1800’s

How the average family lived in the 1850’s

People mostly lived on farms and they ate what they could grow. (No Door Dash here.) They hand sewed their clothes at home, and oriented their daily life around seasonal rhythm. Those who could afford a bath tub bathed a few times a month, but the poor were likely to bathe only once a year.

Life in the 1700’s

How the average family lived in the 1850’s

People mostly lived on farms and they ate what they could grow. (No Door Dash here.) They hand sewed their clothes at home, and oriented their daily life around seasonal rhythm. Those who could afford a bath tub bathed a few times a month, but the poor were likely to bathe only once a year.

2007 – iPhone

A revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough Internet communicator.

1970 – Email

Ray Tomlinson sent the first email in 1971. The first handheld cell phone was invented by Motorola in 1973.

1940 – Penicillin & (Sort of) Indoor Plumbing

Fleming first used the purified penicillin to treat streptococcal meningitis in 1942. The art and practice of indoor plumbing took nearly a century to develop, starting in about the 1840s. In 1940 nearly half of houses lacked hot piped water, a bathtub or shower, or a flush toilet.

1925 – Invention of the Television

Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco in 1927.

1900 – Air conditioning & the Vacuum

The vacuum was made in 1901 and air conditioning was invented in 1902.

1879 – Electricity

In 1879, the American inventor Thomas Edison was finally able to produce a reliable, long-lasting electric light bulb in his laboratory.

1840 – Indoor Plumbing

The art and practice of indoor plumbing took nearly a century to develop, starting in about the 1840s. In 1940 nearly half of houses lacked hot piped water, a bathtub or shower, or a flush toilet.

1830 – Sewing Machine

The first practical and widely used sewing machine was invented by Barthélemy Thimonnier, a French tailor, in 1829.

1800 – Battery

Other designs followed after the battery, but he is mostly recognized for inventing the battery. Other designs followed after the battery, but he is mostly recognized for inventing the battery.