The Hopeful Humanist Cafe

Episode 22 - Be Well, Do Well


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Welcome to this Hegelian synthesis of Blithering Thoughts at the Hopeful Humanist Cafe, a post-post modern, surrealist, phenomenological, first person, empirical exploration of ideas in flow, the good life, T-shirt notions, etcetera moments and resources for your spiritual toolbox.  #okaythen. In this episode, I invite listeners to think about what competencies or meta skills we need to equip our children with to prepare for the 21 century.  

Showcase Resources:

1) Listen to Yuval Noah Harari summarize his book called, "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" in a Ted Talk at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzj7Wg4DAbs 

2) Listen to Yuval Noah Harari give a Google talk about lessons we need to keep in mind for the 21 century at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw9P_ZXWDJU

Games to play to foster creativity ... Don't take my word for it - experiment:

Codename Words, Codename Pictures, Taboo, and the game I struggled to recall called, "Ticket to Ride."  Let the creative spring erupt!

"Learn to fail or fail to learn" - Tal Ben Shahar (Lecture 6 from his Positive Psychology course available on Youtube).

Peace & Take Care ... until our next meeting of the minds

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