Maybe more family secrets exist than we've ever considered! Fun, interesting, or tantalizing secrets! A few calls come in wondering about the origin of the word, "FUARO," with a never before shared secret of her own. 🤫

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A few calls from a new listener encouraged me to understand kindness & politeness slightly differently. Another caller brings up questions around empathy & the role of social media/news in our culture.

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It’s a family secret that's spanned decades & lifetimes, never to be uncovered. But curiosity still keeps us guessing. • Email: [email protected] • Instagram: @seekingplumb • Music: "Touch of Ice" by Borrtex From the Free Music Archive CC BY NC https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Borrtex/Touch_of_Ice/

Follow up discussion from "Why are you kind? What motivates you?"

Seth Godin highlighted three motivators for learning in a recent Akimbo podcast. Although it may be debatable, whether being kind to each other is something we need to learn or something we already know how to do, I wonder if these motivators play a role in whether we actually behave kindly or not. Can this list of motivators be expanded upon? Or rather, must we be motivated to be kind?

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Music: "Memoir of Solitude" by Borrtex

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From a young age we are trained to be cookie cutter workers, to give correct answers, to be compliant, and to follow the rules. The longer we're in the system or the more we seek to fit in, to be accepted or approved of, the more this system narrows our perspectives and squashes our innate curiosity, creativity, and imagination. The ability to consider ideas, people, the world more broadly. I think the future will require a different system.

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Music: "Last Day of High School" by Borrtex

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Life is picking up speed like never before, because science and technology are advancing at an incredible pace. It’s shaping how we think, interact, and how we behave. Stopping a speeding bullet might be easier than slowing a culture. Instead, maybe we can adapt.

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Music: "We Are Saved" by Borrtex

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I recollect my first impressions of Raj, a stranger in a random Starbucks, and the surprising and fascinating conversation that followed about the cultural and economic history of India. These communities didn't simply trade. They essentially served/altruistically gave to each other and their personal roles. Their way of thinking and behaving was built into their culture, their beliefs. It simply was the way it was.

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Music: "Sense of Music" by Borrtex

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With the constant influx of information & the set rules of government and rules of social engagement, we've fallen into default patterns of operation. We assume that things are done a certain way because someone else has told us so or because they've "always" been done that way. We're left feeling frustrated and impotent, because some have gamed the political system which has affected us socially, as well.

It's long past time we adapt to now, today, and rewrite the "rule books."

(Recorded the day after "Can we deviate as a nation?" Or 22 June 2018.)

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Music: "Snowflake" by Borrtex

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After a few weeks back in my birth country, it's taking some adjusting to. In Canada we do see a lot of US news, but there's still a lot we don't see. Almost as an outside observer but still invested, I see the overdramatization of the already disturbing news. I see patterns in what's being consumed, & wonder how it affects the brain - the individual and the societal. I also reflect on the difficulties faced in attempting to move towards change, let alone how it might be approached.

Music: "We Are Saved" by Borrtex

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