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Welcome back! In this episode of Applied Curiosity Lab Radio we chomp on a Curiosity Bite exploring how we define and identify genius.

Are you a genius? How do you know?

What is the biggest barrier to becoming a genius? Hint: It's not lack of intellect.

 

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The lens is – and always will be – curiosity. Each week, fun informal conversations center around one delectable Curiosity Bite designed to give your brain the time and ideas to think about thinking, to flex your curiosity muscle… and maybe even… revolutionize the way you think.

This week's Curiosity Bite:

 

How do you define genius?

 

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered:

How do you become a genius?

What are the "ingredients" necessary to be considered a genius?

Why are there gender differences in who we consider genius?

Why did Wolfgang become a "genius" while his talented sister "Nanner" Mozart did not?

Why are children an external and internal obstacle to genius?

How often do you consider the difference between what you're uninterested in versus what you're disinterested in?

References

Paul Graham's Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

MacArthur Genius Grant

 

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Welcome back! In this episode of Applied Curiosity Lab Radio we chomp on a Curiosity Bite that explores why we care about how we're remembered when we're dead.

Do you care about your legacy?

How do you want people to remember you? For how long?

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The lens is – and always will be – curiosity. Each week, fun informal conversations center around one delectable Curiosity Bite designed to give your brain the time and ideas to think about thinking, to flex your curiosity muscle… and maybe even… revolutionize the way you think.

This week's Curiosity Bite:

 

When will you care about how you're remembered when you're dead?

 

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered:

Is it a privilege to watch someone die?

Are you afraid to die?

If he hadn't died young, would James Dean be famous?

What does it mean to be dead?

Do we care more about our legacy the closer we get to death?

Would a guided psilocybin experience make one care more or less about how they're remembered when we're dead?

References

Gap between life and death

Yale researchers restore dead pig brains

Man With Two Brains

Psilocybin takes us beyond the fear of death

 

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Welcome back! In this episode of Applied Curiosity Lab Radio we chomp on a Curiosity Bite that explores what's real and what's our perception of reality.

Does every organism only experience their own perception of reality?

Is our perception of reality like an interface that hides the real stuff from us? Why might this be good for us? How might this be bad?

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The lens is – and always will be – curiosity. Each week, fun informal conversations center around one delectable Curiosity Bite designed to give your brain the time and ideas to think about thinking, to flex your curiosity muscle… and maybe even… revolutionize the way you think.

This week's Curiosity Bite:

 

Do You Witness Reality as it Really Is?

 

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered:

Do you perceive a truer reality than the average person? What about the average animal?

Is it more important to take dangerous things seriously than literally?

Why do we feel the need to perceive reality?

If everything has a consciousness, what do we owe conscious creatures?

Will AI humans have different rights than plain old homo sapiens?

Would the world be a better place if everyone looked the same?

What does it mean to have a healthy brain?

References

Blindspot bias

The hard problem of consciousness

Panpsychism

What is it like to be a bat?

What is it like to be a bat (video explanation)

String Theory

Wormholes and Spacetime

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Welcome back! In this episode of Applied Curiosity Lab Radio we chomp on a Curiosity Bite attempting to understand why and how we argue.

What's the dumbest thing you've ever argued about? Why do you argue? What dumb arguments do you make?

How much time do you spend training yourself how to think versus what to think?

Can you control your thoughts? Try to avoid any thoughts for 30 seconds. How'd you do?

 

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This week's Curiosity Bite:

What's the dumbest thing someone has argued with you about?

 

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered:

If your sickness is all in your head, what illness has nothing to do with your head?

How can you avoid having external factors influence your internal responses?

What Makes You Decide to Argue?

References

Critical Thinking LinkedIn Learning online course

4-7-8 Breathing

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Welcome back! In this episode of Applied Curiosity Lab Radio we chomp on a Curiosity Bite the explores our laws, commandments, tenets, and whether we need to make any updates.

Do we need amendments to the Abrahamic commandments? What about the Hindu commandments? Buddhist precepts?

Are the 10 Commandments optimized for human flourishing, human survival or something else?

What's the most glaring omission in the 10 Commandments?

 

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The lens is – and always will be – curiosity. Each week, fun informal conversations center around one delectable Curiosity Bite designed to give your brain the time and ideas to think about thinking, to flex your curiosity muscle… and maybe even… revolutionize the way you think.

This week's Curiosity Bite:

If there was a book of commandments for the modern world, what should the rules be?

 

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered:

What should happen to you if you post an article that you didn't fully read?

When you think, "that's literally the worst," what comes to mind?

What the most silly commandment you'd like to suggest adding?

What's the most important commandment to add?

Are there any commandments that should be abandoned?

References

Fantastic Fungi (movie)

Why We Sleep

Hindu Commandments

Buddhist precepts

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Welcome back! In this episode of Applied Curiosity Lab Radio we chomp on a Curiosity Bite the explores how far into the future we feel we can predict.

 

 

What's the point in the future beyond which you begin to sense that you have no idea what will happen? 5 years? 10 years? 20?

By reading Nostradamus' predictions, can you figure out what he supposedly predicted?

What's your favorite Sortafact?

 

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The lens is – and always will be – curiosity. Each week, fun informal conversations center around one delectable Curiosity Bite designed to give your brain the time and ideas to think about thinking, to flex your curiosity muscle… and maybe even… revolutionize the way you think.

This week's Curiosity Bite:

How do you draw the line between the possibly predictable future and the unpredictable distant future?

 

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered:

What were the best years of your life?

Do people of who achieved public successes earlier in life have a less positive outlook?

How much of the future do you think you can reliably predict?

Where do you see yourself in 10 years? How accurate do you think your prediction is?

Are you better than average at predicting the future?

References

Brain study of amnesia in patient HM

Critical Thinking online course

Nostradamus

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Welcome back! In this episode of Applied Curiosity Lab Radio we chomp on a Curiosity Bite the explores how much control we have over the decisions we seem to make...and why we should or shouldn't care.

If you could choose only one, would you choose to know "how" or "why" decisions are made for you?

Is freedom of choice a perception more than it's a reality?

Why is it different to say that I can't be a quantum physicist than it is to say that I can't be 7-feet tall?

Can you have enough grit to become anything? Anything!?

 

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The lens is – and always will be – curiosity. Each week, fun informal conversations center around one delectable Curiosity Bite designed to give your brain the time and ideas to think about thinking, to flex your curiosity muscle… and maybe even… revolutionize the way you think.

This week's Curiosity Bite:

Do we have the right to know how and why decisions are made for us?

Should we want to know?

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered:

If you had to choose to know how things are decided for you and why things are decided for you, what would you choose?

Would you allow an algorithm to make wise decisions for you?

When it comes to making decisions, do you think your brain is likely to glitch less than an algorithm?

Is knowing how decisions are made too much of an uncomfortable reality?

References

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Choice Architecture

Libertarian Paternalism

Famous jam choice study

Benjamin Franklin autobiography

Wicked Bible

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Welcome back! In this episode of Applied Curiosity Lab Radio we chomp on a Curiosity Bite that borrows from the world's craziest sports to explore how we think others perceive us.

In what crazy sport could you be considered a pro? For how long?

How accurate is your self-perception? In what way are your co-workers better than you at this?

If you could make up a sport that you would be considered a pro, what sport would you create?

What's your roller derby name? Would you rather be a professional worm charmer or Buzkashi player?

 

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The lens is – and always will be – curiosity. Each week, fun informal conversations center around one delectable Curiosity Bite designed to give your brain the time and ideas to think about thinking, to flex your curiosity muscle… and maybe even… revolutionize the way you think.

This week's Curiosity Bite:

What sport could you play the longest in a televised game, without anyone realizing you’re not a professional athlete?

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered

How long would a televised sport run until people realized you were an imposter?

What are these crazy sports (see references below)?

For how long could Jennifer masquerade as a professional weight lifter?

References

Extreme Ironing

Worm Charming

Octopush

Chess boxing

Buzkashi

Competitive bird chirping

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Welcome back! This episode of Applied Curiosity Lab Radio welcomes influence guru, Brian Ahearn to the lab. He joins us to chomp on the Curiosity Bite exploring the hidden powers that persuade us, how to use these powers ethically, and how to avoid being manipulated by them.

Can you identify when persuasive techniques are strategically used on you? Listen to this episode and you can answer, "Yes!"

Are you in sales? If so, get out the notepad!

What do you spend more time doing: Actively looking for reasons to like others or trying to get others to like you?

 

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The lens is – and always will be – curiosity. Each week, fun informal conversations center around one delectable Curiosity Bite designed to give your brain the time and ideas to think about thinking, to flex your curiosity muscle… and maybe even… revolutionize the way you think.

This week's Curiosity Bite:

Looking back on your life, who persuaded you to do something you otherwise wouldn't have done and what did they persuade you to do?

 

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered

How can you use the persuasive principle of "liking" in an ethical way?

Does complimenting and flattery work to persuade even when it's BS?

How will Instagram removing the number of views influence the number of views each post receives?

References

Influence People: Powerful Everyday Opportunities to Persuade that are Lasting and Ethical

Influence People

Influence: Science and Practice

100 Years 100 Stories

Presuasion

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Welcome back to the show notes for this week's episode of Applied Curiosity Lab Radio where we chomp on the Curiosity Bite exploring what it means and what it feels like to be an adult.

What was the moment or scenario when you first felt like an adult? Are you still waiting for it? ;)

 

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The lens is – and always will be – curiosity. Each week, fun informal conversations center around one delectable Curiosity Bite designed to give your brain the time and ideas to think about thinking, to flex your curiosity muscle… and maybe even… revolutionize the way you think.

This week's Curiosity Bite:

How can you tell when you've become an adult?

 

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered

As an adult, what's your biggest concern?

What are we missing when we eliminate rites of passage?

 

References

Bullet Ant Initiation

Rumspringa

Quinceanera

Maasai

Hamar Cow Jumping

Khatam Al Koran

Sunrise Ceremony

Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up

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