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It is not a mistake or a typo that the title of this show has a "blank" for the value selected. And that is also not a knock on my guest, Alex, suggesting he was indecisive or unable to commit to one value. As we discussed during the show, leaving the value blank was the most honest thing I could put after the conversation we had. Anything else would have felt forced or contrived.
To back up for a moment, Alex is perhaps one of the most curious humans I've ever met. He is a young philosopher who also hosts his own podcast, "Escaping Mediocrity" (link here- https://open.spotify.com/show/5uSwZMzzAid5tNivJIOKMt) and has a deep interest in trying to understand humanity and existence. He goes about this in a pure Socratic/logical way. As you know, I am someone who likes to question and challenge everything, but Alex takes this to whole other level. Right from the jump you got an idea of the kind of "attacking" style (I mean that in a good way) he takes to philosophical conversations. He inspects every word and wants to be clear on what you are saying, how you define that word, and the logical implications of it.
Some people might experience this and find it difficult to work through. As I learned, you have to be really careful with your word choice because he is not going to give you any free passes. I found this to be super helpful though, as it forced me to be really tight and clear on the point I was trying to make. It forced us to challenge everything we were thinking and saying and that rigor leads to better insights.
This is another one of those discussions that is hard to summarize in a brief write up, but just to give you a flavor, we talked about what values really mean, if certainty is ever possible, if the "self" actually exists, why we can love a donut and hate a donut at the same time, and plenty more. Maybe the biggest conclusion as we worked through all of this was, if you dig deep enough on any topic, you are just left with unexplainable assumptions that you likely will never fully understand. That is why we ultimately decided to leave his "value" blank, because we can acknowledge we don't know enough about anything to have true conviction on an answer.
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It is not a mistake or a typo that the title of this show has a "blank" for the value selected. And that is also not a knock on my guest, Alex, suggesting he was indecisive or unable to commit to one value. As we discussed during the show, leaving the value blank was the most honest thing I could put after the conversation we had. Anything else would have felt forced or contrived.
To back up for a moment, Alex is perhaps one of the most curious humans I've ever met. He is a young philosopher who also hosts his own podcast, "Escaping Mediocrity" (link here- https://open.spotify.com/show/5uSwZMzzAid5tNivJIOKMt) and has a deep interest in trying to understand humanity and existence. He goes about this in a pure Socratic/logical way. As you know, I am someone who likes to question and challenge everything, but Alex takes this to whole other level. Right from the jump you got an idea of the kind of "attacking" style (I mean that in a good way) he takes to philosophical conversations. He inspects every word and wants to be clear on what you are saying, how you define that word, and the logical implications of it.
Some people might experience this and find it difficult to work through. As I learned, you have to be really careful with your word choice because he is not going to give you any free passes. I found this to be super helpful though, as it forced me to be really tight and clear on the point I was trying to make. It forced us to challenge everything we were thinking and saying and that rigor leads to better insights.
This is another one of those discussions that is hard to summarize in a brief write up, but just to give you a flavor, we talked about what values really mean, if certainty is ever possible, if the "self" actually exists, why we can love a donut and hate a donut at the same time, and plenty more. Maybe the biggest conclusion as we worked through all of this was, if you dig deep enough on any topic, you are just left with unexplainable assumptions that you likely will never fully understand. That is why we ultimately decided to leave his "value" blank, because we can acknowledge we don't know enough about anything to have true conviction on an answer.