“Like the appetite for a piece of dark chocolate, risk is alluring, and its taste is savory, dopamine-triggering, life-affirming, delicious.”
Robert “Bud” Abbott should know. As a young man, he marched with MLK and joined the Peace Corps. to avoid having to kill in Vietnam. Instead posted to Nigeria to teach, he found himself facing down river pirates and fighting deadly snakes. And that’s just from a few early years in a long life chock-full of adventure and more near-death experiences than he can count.
Eventually, Abbott found a career as a globe-trotting marine biologist, even as he embraced mysticism and started a family. Over time, he has reached some provocative conclusions on genetics and free will that pertain to everything from our future as species to how we raise our children.
"Like the appetite for a piece of dark chocolate, risk is alluring, and its taste is savory, dopamine-triggering, life-affirming, delicious."
-Bud Abbott
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” A gifted storyteller. Stranger and more absorbing than fiction.”
—Natalie Nussbaum
“It must be hard to write a narrative such as this one without it coming across as boasting, but Abbott pulls it off.”
—Robert Coats
