Tending Your Inner Garden (podcast)
We’re all stupid. You have to improve yourself. Consider yourself as a garden that needs to be tended.
Cowardice and Courage (podcast $)
I’m starting to think the most important aspect of change is courage.
Mind Shaman Meets Brain Shaman (video)
It’s ultimately all made up, so let’s make it up ourselves, for our needs, and for those we might serve.
Using It or Losing It (podcast $)
“Use it or lose it” applies to health and skill, and could be applied to other things, such as emotion, initiative, empathy, self-respect, and responsibility. Does it also apply to democracy?
Personality Profiles are Bogus (podcast $)
Personality profiles are bogus manufactured evidence that can both truly reveal and falsely create.
Survivorship Bias in Searching the Extremes
If you have to take big risks to maintain your state of mind, are you playing a winning or a losing game? Maybe success is..
Being Shortsighted is Stupid (podcast $)
Progress means investment in novelty, discomfort, collaboration, mistakes, honesty, and mutual support. There is no choice; progress requires mistakes.
Intellectual and Emotional Honesty (podcast $)
Wisdom is sanity with insight. It comes with the appreciation of deeper truths and greater honesty.
Dying Satisfied (podcast $)
It seems that dying satisfied means living satisfied. Any dissatisfaction you harbor now will be with you at the end.
The Chris Voss Show (podcast)
A far-reaching conversation about my book, Operating Manual for Enlightenment, that explores the creation of our personality through intellect, emotion, and neurology.
Nine Laws for Fulfilling Relationships (podcast $)
Comparing Stefan Deutsch’s 9 “laws” with what I consider essential: awareness, thought, sex, neurology, commitment, discernment, effort, support, and spirit.
Is Gratitude Really Such a Great Thing? (podcast $)
Selfish gratitude is contingent and dependent. Gratitude offered with appreciation asks for no reward but can feel empty.