Polymathic Being Podcast

Today’s topic explores the male loneliness epidemic from the angle of the loss of masculine physical touch. We’ll uncover two surprising drivers and wrangle with the implications while we search for a way to reconnect the men for an improved society.

Today’s topic provides practical insight for dealing with the things that hold you back from exploring, creating, and learning. We name your worst enemy, identify the drivers, and then provide a compilation of skills, insights, and tools to help fight. Let’s dive in!

Today's topic takes Mixed Mental Arts to the next level by demonstrating how to begin fusing some of our foundational concepts into more advanced applications. It’s a master class for surviving the chaotic octagon of life, full of practical applications.

Today's topic challenges us to be capable, dangerous, and meek. To manage that balance, we’ll uncover the truth about meekness, explore examples from the military, and then provide insights on how to become a finely honed, lethal power.

Today's topic explores three common threats to marriages everywhere: Money, Sex, and In-laws. They are three independently challenging topics, and if they start weaving together, it can be catastrophic. This essay uncovers practical insights, personal examples, and the latest recommendations to manage each one.

Today’s topic is dedicated to Jeff, who won’t read this article. Don’t be like Jeff because we’ll break down that troubling behavior where many people rarely move beyond the headlines. Worse, entire manipulation engines rely on that behavior to guide and direct you. It’s part psychological operations, part bias priming, and part emotional hijacking. Let’s read this article!

Today's topic wrangles with the idea that Systems Thinking is not enough. We’ll review the background, then critique the argument, demonstrating that Systems Thinking was never enough, and yet it’s always too much. In doing so, we’ll expose some common misconceptions and provide a few tactical steps that anyone can apply.

Today's topic shares some insights from my time in the Army on how to focus on the right performance indicators to ensure success. We’ll explore how many people pay attention to the superficial instead of understanding that, what right really looks like, is a mindset of dynamic and disciplined execution.

Today's topic explores human hubris against nature and how our attempts to exert mastery over our environments can often backfire. We’ll also explore the dynamism of change and how, by embracing it, we can improve our adaptability.

Let’s be honest: few things make us squirm faster than talking about the two drives that prove we’re animals: sex and, yes, pooping. Today’s topic penetrates our good graces and forces us to flush away our ignorance on the duality of humans as to whether we are animals or angels. We’ll then weave those insights together to help solve the social, moral, and political challenges we face today.