Episodes
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Maybe it isn’t always a bad thing that we can be a little crazy at times. Straddling reality and fantasy is where people can make amazing things happen.
Influences: Taylor Swift, Time Travel, and Malcolm Gladwell
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The people we think we know usually have much more to them than we may ever realize. We like to hide behind walls that conceal who we are from others, but those same walls can become a prison.
Influences: Shrek, Fortresses, and Friendship
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It is better to do a good job than to strive to do a perfect job. Reaching for perfection is like flying too close to the sun.
Influences: Icarus, Mother Teresa, and Pottery
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Are our efforts to leave a mark on this planet in vain? Is it even possible to leave a lasting legacy? If we want to make a lasting impact on the world, where will our efforts make the biggest impact?
Influences: Presidents of the United States, Industrial Tycoons, and Big Fancy Buildings
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At what point does it become the right decision to let something go? Is there a person, belief, idea, dream or fear that we need to let go of? Sometimes, in order to hang on to these we stop ourselves from growing in a healthier way.
Influences: Frozen, Weightlifting, and Pretzels
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Journaling is possibly the best pathway we have to truly understand ourselves, as well as our own thoughts. It is so much more than simply recording the details of your day.
Influences: Podcasting, Anxiety, and Depression
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How do we want to be admired, and what things do we do in pursuit of that admiration? It is easy to rely on symbols and associations to promote our individuality and worth, but the best strategy has always been, and always will be, to actually be admirable, independent of those things.
Influences: Elephants, Rap Music, Ambition
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Standards, apathy, joy, happiness, freedom, religion, and nautical metaphors. What would we be willing to die for and why should we even bother caring about anything?
Influences: Star Wars, Ukraine, Trees, Boat Anchors, and Unanchored People
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How can a person stay connected to reality when they have no one around them but worshippers and opportunists? Are these the right people for us to be placing on pedestals?
Influences: The “Me Too” Movement, Tabloids
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What things do you spend your time and attention on that are not moving you closer to where you want to be? The cost is high when we fail to properly estimate the value of things in our lives.
Influences: Benjamin Franklin
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Are we trying to convince ourselves of our own importance by pursuing status? Is it even possible to give up status? Maybe, in the end, the only status that matters is that which is associated with having lived a good life.
Influences: Hair Salons, Money, Jesus
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Simple kindness begins with a hello. We take the simplest greeting for granted, but it exists because it has value. Consider giving a stranger the gift of acknowledging their existence.
Influences: Small Towns, High School, and The South
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Arguing is a performance, not a way to bring your someone to your side.
Arguing, persuading, competition, 2-Year-Olds and more. What is the key to bringing a person to your side and to finally get someone to listen to what you have been saying??
Influences: A lifetime of fighting with people and a 2-year-old
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How much "stuff" do we actuall need in our lives?
How much of what we want comes from what we see other people wanting, and what possessions are actually making us happy? It is worth evaluating what in our life is worth keeping.
Influences: Robinson Crusoe, Keeping up with the Joneses, RVs, and Funerals
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All girls are princesses, even if they live in dirty old attics!
Little girls deserve to be cherished deeply by their fathers, so when it is time for another man to enter their life as an adult, they know what it feels like to be cherished by a man.
Influences: The Little Princess, My Daughter, Jesus, and Fathers
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Coming to recognize the truth about ourselves is a never-ending process.
Whatever we may want to believe about a situation will never overrule what is actually true about it. It is easy for us to participate in self-deceiving behavior that will ultimately cost us more than if we can just accept the truth.
Influences: Buckaroo Bonzai, Windows, and American Idol
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Sometimes, we need to step outside of ourselves.
Inspiration seems to prefer to find us instead of us finding inspiration. Our ability to think is an incredible gift, yet it also has the ability to keep us in endless negative loops. Learning to not think is key to learning to think better.
Influences: Eckhart Tolle, Long Walks, and Nature
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There is no escaping time yet we allow ourselves to worry over it anyways.
Mortality, youth, old age, wasted time, milestones, funerals, and ghosts! Why do we let ourselves worry so much over getting old?
Influences: Flowers, My Birthday, and Athletes
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We need to let ourselves rely on others sometimes.
Our successes in life depend on so many more people than ourselves. No one is as independent as they think. We stand on the shoulders of giants.
Influences: Alone (TV Series), Vulnerability, Jordan Peterson, and Friendship
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The more we know about the past the easier it is to understand the present.
The way we see the world is as if we were looking through a dirty window that represents the culture and time we live in. Getting to read primary source literature from a different time period is an opportunity to see the world through someone else’s window.
Influences: Polybius, Windows, Textbooks, China, and Christianity
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