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Hello here, fellow adventurous minds and curiosity seekers. Welcome back to Applied Curiosity Lab Radio. This week's Curiosity Bite makes me think about whether we are ever too old to change our mind. Are we?

How do you form your opinions?

How do you evaluate evidence to make up your mind?

Discuss, debate, and dissect with us!

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's the Last Thing You Changed Your Mind About and Why?

 

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered

How much should we value our own experiences?

How much should we blame willpower?

Why should you beware of "always" and "nevers"?

Would you avoid personalizing if it resulted in better judgment?

What's an honorable end to war?

Do you think that people who are consistent are more competent?

Would you try a virtual near-death experience in order to give you perspective and change your mind?

References

Law of Small Numbers

Consistency

Principles of Persuasion

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

How to Change Your Mind

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Welcome back to Applied Curiosity Lab Radio. This week's Curiosity Bite chomps on our five senses.

Which of your senses do you take for granted?

When Siri listens to this episode why does she interrupt?

What's the worst thing you ever sensed?

Discuss, debate, and dissect with us!

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:

Which of Your Senses Do You Rely On Most?

What's your best sense?

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered

Does our inability to treat pain reflect our lack of understanding of our sense of touch?

Why did our parents make us eat liver?

Why do we make moral judgments when we feel disgust?

References

Seizure detecting animals

Tadoma method

Umeboshi (salty Japanese plums)

How to make fish bacon

The science of disgust

Raynaud's Disease

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Welcome back to Applied Curiosity Lab Radio where this week's Curiosity Bite touches on something we all sort of know, but not really: medical advocacy.

We know we should all be our own medical advocates, but what does this mean?

What should you do as someone's medical advocate?

Would you have a chip implanted and exchange your data for free and excellent healthcare?

Discuss, debate, and dissect with us!

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 evaluate medical decisions?

Here's the elephant in the room question: How do we define health?

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered

How do you think about filling the gap between what you want to know and what you need to know?

How is this different than how you fill the gap between what you know and what you want to know?

Do you know when a story is a distraction?

Do you need metaphors to understand and make medical decisions?

What's Loss Aversion and why does it matter?

What's the difference between probability and possibility?

Can we create a wise healthcare system without a clear definition of what we call health?

What should you do when the best outcome requires you to be more realistic than hopeful?

Am I looking at success and failure or survival and mortality in the right way?

What does it mean to be human?

References

Prospect theory

Loss Aversion

SNL Alexa skit

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Welcome back to Applied Curiosity Lab Radio. What's the last thing you learned? How much of what you should know relates to what you wish you knew? What's the next thing you promise yourself that you'll learn?

How much of what you wish you knew has an element of FOMO (fear of missing out)?

Do you know the difference between naming things and knowing things?

What would it take for you to have a chip implanted? We value your answer! Let us know in the comments below!

Discuss, debate, and dissect with us!

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's happening right now that you wish you knew more about?

 

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered

What do you wish you knew?

What data is collected when you are attempting to learn something?

What's the difference between AI and AI machine learning?

Why could big data be the petroleum of the future?

What if you couldn't share your knowledge? Would that influence what you try to learn?

How do you think about mentally missing out versus physically missing out?

Is it worth knowing scary things? Can you know scary things without worrying?

References

China, AI, and the New World Order

Join Audible

Al Jezeera

Revolutions (podcast)

13th (documentary)

Crime Bill

Original Source

Confirmation bias

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feyman

Emperor of All Maladies

I Contain Multitudes

Singularity

Consano

How to Read the Constitution, and Why by Kim Wehle

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You're here! Does this mean you're more curious than average? Probably. You're most likely more capable of curiosity than average! What's something that you have no interest in learning or becoming more capable of?

If you had to pick one thing to become more capable of doing or understanding, what would you choose?

Comment below and we'll give you a shout out...and maybe we'll check in to see if you stuck to your plan!

Discuss, debate, and dissect with us!

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 Are You More Capable of Than You Were a Year Ago?

 

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered

What did you used to be capable of? Why did this change? Does it matter?

Would you join a debate team for adults?

Would you read, What to Expect When You're Expecting...to Get Older?

How many songs can you think of that include the word "season"?

Have you had a midlife crisis? How would you define it?

How well can you read a physical map?

What's a better way to absorb non-fiction books?

Are people born with the capability of humor?

As we offload capabilities to specialists and smartphones, are we losing those neural connections forever?

References

Neuroplasticity

Seasons of Life Theory

Midlife Crisis

Duolingo

Tai Chi

The Art of Learning (read this book!)

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I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

I'm an America (and So Can You!) by Stephen Colberg

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How do you explain how you choose to spend your time? We're extremely glad that you choose to spend a little time with us!

This week we discuss explanations. What qualifications must an explanation have for you to find it valid? How fast do you jump to conclusions? How often do you realize that the explanation you believed was incorrect?

Do you ever consider that the real explanation might require knowledge we don't yet have access to?

Discuss, debate, and dissect with us!

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 often is there really no other explanation?

 

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered

Why is it so important that we find explanations for everything?

How do we get more comfortable with uncertainty?

Once you've settled on an explanation that makes sense, how often do you generate more explanations?

Whose explanations are you most likely to believe?

Why must we rely so heavily on tidy stories to provide believable explanations?

References

Nathan For You episode (hilarious!)

Occam's Razor Bias

Pizzagate Conspiracy

Theory of Mind

Biminy

P-hacking and Data Dredging

Dancing Plague of 1518

Social Proof in action (dancing on the grassy knoll)

Don Decker (Rain Man)

Jean Hillyard (Frozen Woman)

Elevator (social proof experiment)

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Welcome back to Applied Curiosity Lab Radio you adventurous humans!

What is greatness? Is greatness the size or the size of impact? Do you recognize greatness when you see it? How?

Can greatness exist in anonymity? How are you great?

Who can you think of who has had greatness thrust upon them...but is not that great?

Can you guess why I have Sean Spicer to thank for a precious gift?

Discuss, debate, and dissect with us!

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:

Is anyone really that much greater than you?

How can you interpret this Curiosity Bite differently with the emphasis on different bolded words: Is anyone really that much greater than you?

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered

Is greatest the same as world-class? What does it mean to be world-class?

What's greatness? What's human greatness?

What's the downside of venerating others? Is there an upside?

Should an NBA player be allowed to miss a free-throw?

Are all people created equal?

Was anyone wildly shocked by the most recent Michael Jackson accusations?

How does one become a Swami?

References

Imposter Syndrome

Imposter Syndrome research study

Applied Curiosity Workshops

Greatness

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Welcome back to Applied Curiosity Lab Radio you adventurous humans!

How often do you get what you expect from what you buy? What has the biggest impact on whether you get what you expect from what you buy?

Should we value experiences more than we value stuff? Why? What influences your buying decisions?

 

Discuss, debate, and dissect with us!

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:

Did you get the best result from what you purchased last?

What was your last purchase? What did you expect from it? Why'd you buy it?

 

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and answered

What are the long term effects of your buying decisions?

Do you value things that cost more?

Where does the product end and the experience of owning it begin?

How do you value ownership versus access?

Ideally, should your purchases really "spark joy"?

References

Brain-wine study from National Institutes of Health

Corfu (Here's where it is, Jennifer. Let's go!)

Apple's failed decision to include U2 on the iPhone 6

Loaf of bread pillow

Inflatable motorized pool floater

Portable pizza pouch

Nerd Wax

Children Learn What They Live poem

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Come in you relentlessly curious adventurers! Do you complain more or less than average? Are your complaints valuable? How do you value your own complaints? How do you value other's complaints?

What's your favorite complaint?

How often do you complain to seek commiseration versus to seek a solution?

Discuss, debate, and dissect with us!

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.

What’s more important to you? What you know…or how you think?

Do you say you value how you think more than you value what you know? How much time to you set aside for thinking, developing how you think?

This week's Curiosity Bite:

What's something that you complain about that you never try to do anything about? What's something that you don't complain about but you actually do something about?

Related experiment: Today, only complain about things that you do nothing about. Tomorrow, do the opposite? What is the opposite?

In this episode...Curious Questions asked and (maybe) answered...

Is doing something about something better than doing nothing? Always? Sometimes? Never?

How effective are your complaints?

Are you strategic about to whom you complain?

What's the most common desired outcome to your complaining to others?

How often do you modify what you complain about to manage others' impression of you?

References

Complaining, For Your Health

 

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Welcome back to ACLR where we're tackling an issue that will become increasingly important in the age of AI: Purpose & relevance.

Is it enough to feel that we matter? How do we preserve what makes us feel that we matter? If Prozac can make us happy, why can't a pill (or a implanted chip) make us feel economically relevant...even when we aren't?

What's basic and what's universal about Universal Basic Needs? What's basic and what's universal about Universal Basic Income (UBI)? Should we talk about Basic Universal Access?

Discuss, debate, and dissect with us!

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.

What’s more important to you? What you know…or how you think?

Do you say you value how you think more than you value what you know? How much time to you set aside for thinking, developing how you think?

This week's Curiosity Bite:

 

Do you need to feel economic relevance to feel valuable?

What do you think of Yuval Noah Harari's equation: B + C + D = HH (Biological knowledge + Computer power + Data  = Human Hacking)?

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

What is economic relevance?

How are purpose and passion different? How do they contribute to value differently?

How do you feel valuable?

What are the two sides of the fairness coin?

How do you separate emotion from decision?

Are you more or less susceptible to loss aversion than average?

What's your favorite pre-existing framework? ...your favorite "ism"?

References

Andrew Yang's policies

Loss Aversion

Universal Basic Access (Let's Define This Now!)

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