Soul, Heart, Nerve, & Sinew (SHNS)

Welcome back everyone to the 3rd episode of the Soul, Heart, Nerve and Sinew podcast! In this episode I’m reviewing, reflecting, and discussing three parts in Paul Evans’s 2019 book “When I Woke Up.” In it I focus on his death and resuscitation, his 77-day coma, and his tenacity to rebuild his once-lost multimillion-dollar business. I tie his events back to events in my own life, and the overarching themes of taking care of your health, using your voice, and the “magic” behind never giving up.

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In this episode, I talk about the upsides and downsides of empathy, based on the book “Against Empathy: A Case For Rational Compassion” by Paul Bloom. You can get your own copy here:

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The main topics discussed are:

1. The downsides of empathy

2. Empathy is a result

3. How to be less biased

4. Empathy in relationships

5. How empathy incites violence

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Hey everyone! Welcome to the first episode of the Soul, Heart, Nerve, & Sinew (SHNS) Podcast! In this episode I’ll be talking about the 7 lessons I learned from reading one of Robert Greene’s phenomenal books on self-development. Inside, we’ll talk about the prime emotion needed to achieve mastery, importance behind mentorship, tips on social intelligence, cultivating a dimensional mind, pitfalls to mastery, reasons for mastery, and how it feels to achieve mastery. I rate this book around a 7.5/10, being a book that would strongly fall under a Soul and Nerve category, and secondly under a Sinew category. Thanks for listening!

In this chapter we’ve got 4 things: 1. What we have always asked of the Psyche and what it does for us, and how that rarely ever helps 2. How to pull ourselves from the troublesome, yet innocent Psyche 3. Singer’s perspective on suffering and what to do, and 4. Viktor Frankl’s perspective on suffering. It’s left up to you, the listener, the up-and-comers, the Lifists, to decide which side works ideally for you, and understanding that both perspectives are totally applicable for you. From my end and for the future, I’ll be keeping a document to integrate these two perspectives so that in the future, we can reflect on how we can not only work through our lives, but also recognize the different ways to live. ***I feel really good about this episode and felt a lot more coherent in my thought process this time around, so I’ll hope that it showed on this run! Thanks for listening.

In Episode 7 we talk about how expectations or desires not to feel a certain way (lonely, offended, or wrong) will not only wind up controlling your life, but also damaging it. You see, if we go out of our way not to feel lonely (constantly going out/hanging out with people), not to feel offended (surrounding yourself with people who think the same), or not to feel wrong (avoid conflict), you’re not solving the problem; you are being controlled by it. And in doing so, you have completely blocked yourself out of an experience simply because you think it’s ‘bad’ (again with the labels). Through the book we’re reading and my own personal agreement and recommendation, we figure out if it’s best to avoid these feelings—but you probably know the answer already.

(I’m back! Thanks for tuning in; I had taken a month+ hiatus to get my work squared away and handled, and now I’m happy to be back on track.) in this episode, we talk about Leonardo Di Vinci and little snippets of what his life was like before he became a booming artist that we all know and love today. We also talk about obsession, constants (things that we have known to be true, and how it beckons us), pleasure and how that creates perseverance, what to do when your calling is found, where to look for your calling if you haven’t found it, and a word to the wise for those who only do what they love for the money/fame/attention.

For today’s episode 13, I am happy to introduce “Mastery” by Robert Greene. This is a book that I had wanted to read for very long time, and I had only reached the first 35 or so pages. in an introductory chapter, I talk about the feeling of immersion, neural plasticity, what to do if you ever have a goal or dream that bothers you every day, understanding that everything is a form of instruction, knowing how important habits are, and the two things that are absolutely necessary to understand before embarking on a journey to mastery. As someone like myself who is building a lifestyle brand from scratch, I can feel the energy and excitement brimming within to read this book and apply its instruction and techniques to real life. We’re in for a knowledge-packed ride that will certainly be an influence on the Lifism Project. Stay tuned for more!

In this bit of an episode, I wanted to share with y’all my thanks for listening in, as well as some mandatory work expected of me in the coming future. I have RA Winter Training coming up, as well as graduate school, I managed to hold the Wheel position in yoga for the first time in about a decade, and teared up while holding it lol. But I will still be pumping out documentation, so we’ll still keep going!