It's Mental Health week.

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This week, we speak about mental health.

It's Mental Health Week here in the UK - and the theme is nature. We look at our inner drives, and how the scientific development has been birthed from the Enlightenment, covering the birth of empiricism and rationalism.

From Rene Descartes, David Hume, John Locke,  Immanuel Kant and Arthur Schopenhauer, we look at some of the concepts that have given birth to modern day science and philosophy (from Wikpedia, mixed with my uneducated mind).

Finally we look at Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote many works that inspired individualism through the US in the 1800s - reading one of his first essays -one that fits the theme of this year's Mental Health Week, "Nature."

This week we start with a chat about mental health...

What is your mental health? We start with a discussion on the definition of mental health - and what is may mean to be mentally well. 

We take a look at a discussion on the (6:15) origins of talking therapy, with a discussion on Sigmund Freud and (09:50) Carl Yung's following work on the collective unconscious, (10:44) the Hierarchy of Needs and self-actualization.

Carl Roger's (16:15) would pick up on the concept of self-actualization is his person-centred approach, with an explanation of Roger's (17:45) "fully-functioning person."

Person-centred therapy relies on (22:30) three core conditions - congruence, unconditional positive regard and empathy.

Mental health (25:15) may be about becoming a "fully functioning person" - with explanations by Jordan Peterson and how his work is based upon the works of Rogers and Freud, exploring the rules within his books, (27:00) "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos" and (29:15) "Beyond Order: 12 More Rules of Life."

We end on comparing the rules to (30:45) Carl Roger's fully functioning person - and some personal stories on how Jordan Peterson's work has helped me find some meaning in some of the suffering we experience in life - and (35:00) asking how we can work towards being a "self-actualised person."


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Today we speak to Tom Balmont from On The Other Hand, video marketing agency.

From street performing to his current venture, a puppet-marketing agency that works with small businesses, Tom talks us through his experience in business so far.

On The Other Hand design and build puppets for businesses across the UK, creating brand ambassadors that champion your business and engage your audience.

Contact Tom on LinkedIn or via his website:
www.otoh.co.uk
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Recorded on 14/04/2021.

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Today we discussed the fundamentals...

Starting with your physical health and building a life outside of your business/career that keeps you grounded -- (04:00) and building a business with the right foundations, working with the right customers, with a standard process.

There is a lot (8:00) to consider when you are building your business-to-business organisation/service and building a business - outside of yourself - that is scalable, through leveraging technology and building a team.

The (13:00) fundamentals are hard to get right - from the basics in life, to your basics in your business, and how that will serve you long-term, (16:00) asking yourself "what do you want from this?"

We (17:30) end discussing how strategy is more important that execution - and some plans for the Podcast moving forward.

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Today we speak about the intangibles in the context of the attention economy.

We start with the attention economy and (03:00) introduction to the 'intangibles', first by defining what intangibles are and looking at them in (4:20) people and in (6:40) business terms.

We then started to look at how you can form a business around the "intangibles" and what they mean for you as you create content for your small business, including (11:50) immediacy, (13:10) personalisation, (14:23) interpretation, (15:02) authenticity, (15:40) accessibility, (16:13) embodiment and (17:15) patronage.

We then look at (17:40) how small businesses can use these fundamentals to increase the last one, their (20:38) findability, which is only done by creating original content that incorporates your "intangibles" (experience/perspective) as a character.

We end by looking at (22:00) how this will apply to business and question your current strategy with the 'intangibles' in mind, and (26:00) some thoughts on intangible your character being called into question - with some (28:00) final words on the growth of the Pit Village Podcast.

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This week... an health scare led to an attention crisis.

We pick up speaking about the digital detox and how great it was... but then how a health scare led to anxiety and an attention crisis -- and how this forces us to (3:30) evolve and set new goals.

We also speak about (6:00) how the attention crisis makes us look at things different and may be required to recreate ourselves (7:40) in the attention economy and the (8:55) opportunity costs of your current choices.

We then pick up with some ideas from (10:15) Dan and Chip Heath's book Decisive and speak about the problems we face when encounter choices (narrow framing), analysing our options (confirmation bias), making a choice (short-term emotion) and living with that choice (and often being over-confident in our decisions) - and the steps we can take to reduce those burdens on our decision making process.

This requires us to pick up new strategies for business (15:55) and discuss how we must continue (20:00) to grow as a person, but question why we must "achieve goals" to feel good and ask if this is the right frame of mind.

Why do we pay attention to what we pay attention to?

Is the fight for your attention harming your existential and epistemic levels of desire and attention? 

How are people using the attention economy -- and what skills do we need to learn, to survive in this new environment?

More episodes to follow on the concept of 'attention', as we continue to explore the new economy of attention and businesses and individuals need to adapt.

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We're back! 

Pit Village Podcast took a little break after Marathon March. The podcast starts with a recap of the lessons from March, the plan for upcoming Podcasts and the importance of last week's (04:10) digital detox, including how the smartphone has changed our relationship with time, authentic experience and thoughts and (10:00) are purposefully created to keep us hooked with variable rewards.

We move to to discuss the (13:00) attention economy and the importance of your ability to retain and generate attention, and move on to start to cover the 151997 article "Attention Shoppers" (25:00).

The article is fascinating, showing that attention can ground an economy as it is a  (30:25) truly limited resource, discussing how transactions in the attention economy may form.

The (35:35) Star System that was proposed in this article is taking shape today and the prediction that 'everyone would have a crack at a global audience' has come true.

The most interesting point of the article was the discussion of the (42:00) end of money and corporations, with our economy relying on communities of people coming together to service each other based on their merit in the form of attention - including some discussion of how in 1997, CEOs were starting to become stars.

He proposes that this has happened before (48:00) in the transition from feudalism to the industrial economy -- and that it will happen again though the article finishes, leaving us with some wise words of warning and discussing the challenges this economy may face.

 The article concludes (54:00) that "for better or worse, the attention economy will prevail", and we look at some of the ways that has already become the reality.

We talk about evolving as a Podcast & within your business (58:00) and end on some questions about your life, within the Attention Economy.

We'll be back this week with another episode!

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Today... Marathon March ends.

And it's time...

For some time off.

See you in sometime in April.

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