Justus Frank: Life Of Learning

The highly prolific Youtuber; Tim Pool recently mentioned the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. This sounded interesting and I decided to explore it a bit more. Links below:

Tim Pool video: How Wikipedia Is Used To Smear People And Me, Media Lies Becomes Historical Fact

Article by Howard Wetsman: A New Corollary to the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect

I had a chat with a guy from Singapore recently comparing the Singaporean school curriculum to the New Zealand school curriculum. This led to a general discussion regarding the nature of curriculums and the problems that exist regardless of whether you make them very strict and specific or very vague and open to interpretation. The flow-on effects of curriculums are: Curriculum, leads to --> Testing, leads to --> Comparison, leads to --> lack of creativity.

Book referenced: Drive by Daniel H. Pink

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This episode is a continuation of the last episode on hypocrisy and looking at case study that I became interested in after a Youtuber and podcaster Stefan Molyneux, whom I very much admire, posted a video regarding his "Brutal Year".

As he asked for feedback I sent him an email to basically remember his own advice on the subject. Then in turn, I later realised that I also needed to actually apply the advice I was giving to my life too. It's interesting how this works.

If you're interested a good introductory video to Stefan's work is:

The Story Of Your Enslavement. by Stefan Molyneux

This episode is basically a commentary on a recent article of mine which I published on Medium titled "We Will Always Be Hypocrites, And That's OK."

I've been mulling over this issue of hypocrisy over the past year. And while we seem to fear being called a hypocrite a lot as it brings so much discomfort, finding out where you are being hypocritical is actually vital for our learning. Maybe we should have the courage to embrace this fear if we really want to learn? 

I really love Ayn Rand's response to the saying “Judge not, lest ye be judged.” She turns this on its head and changes the principle to:

“Judge, and be prepared to be judged.”

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Anyone familiar with my work so far will know hopefully know that I talk quite a bit about inspiration. However, a recent business failure made me realise that I wasn't taking my own advice. I was too busy trying to make people inspired and lost sight of the fact that any inspiration that occurs is incidental. To understand that I need to inspire myself first and foremost before anyone else decides to "look over my shoulder" as it were and be inspired by what I am doing. This first podcast is a way for me to consolidate some of those thoughts in my mind while also giving you as the listener an opportunity to look into my thoughts and hopefully being able to extract something useful for your own life as well.