Have you ever wondered what makes someone great? Or have you ever longed for personal greatness? To use a different word you could substitute greatness for significance. We all at some level, whether we want to admit it or not, long for significance - for greatness. In this episode we take a look at a tender moment in the popular show This is Us to launch us into a conversation about greatness and significance. We hope that it cultivates good conversations with those that you love and helps to remind all of us to pursue greatness and significance in balanced and harmonious ways. Cheers - CP

What do you long for? That is the question for this episode. Why does that question make us uncomfortable? Why does it feel wrong to give an honest answer? We discuss these things and more in this episode.

In this episode we talk about knowing other people and being known. This is an impromptu conversation about knowing and being known.

There are so many self-proclaimed leaders in the world these days that it can be difficult to figure out who is worth following. In this episode we examine what it means to be a good leader.

In this episode we continue talking about a topic that popped up in episode 10, culture. It's culture, more than anything else, that determines how you live. If that's true, and we believe it is, then it's worth taking a close look at the various cultures we are living with. Can you change them? How can we be deliberate about culture so that it works in our favor?

There is a lot of evidence supporting the idea that our thinking has a significant effect on the outcomes we experience in our lives. If we want to live a certain kind of life we are going to need to think about ourselves and the world in a way that enables us to live that way. All of this means that the inputs that we let into our lives need to be scrutinized. They will determine much of the way we live. In this episode we discuss how we can get a handle on our inputs so we can be the people we want to be.

In this episode we discuss having a posture that allows us to learn from everyone and everything in life. The story of Galileo is a perfect illustration of just how susceptible humanity is to blindness and dogmatism. If we want to really learn and to see the world as it is, we have to embrace a posture of honesty and openness. We must have the courage to seek the truth and to accept it even when it doesn't agree with our world view.

"Know Thyself" - One of the most well known of the ancient Greek aphorisms known as the Delphic maxims. As we got talking about the topic of learning, we realized that the idea of learning about one's self deserves some discussion.

In this episode we discuss one of our favorite self-discovery tools, The Enneagram. The limits of personality profiling are obvious, but we've found that gaining a deeper understanding of your style of relating can be profoundly helpful.

"Stupid is the emotion associated with learning - we are stupid and then we are not. The pre-learning state is stupidity" Seth Godin

There is a future version of ourselves that we all long to see come to fruition. If we really want to get there we are going to have to learn new things, probably a lot of new things. There is a good chance that we are held back by the view that we have of ourselves. It is likely that we have erroneous ideas about what we are capable of. The feeling of stupidity that comes with learning often serves to reinforce the self-imposed limitations that we live with. In this episode we talk about embracing the feeling of stupidity so that we can learn the things that will help us become the people we want to be.

In this episode we talk about becoming real, a theme of the children's book "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams. Are we all on a journey to become something more true to ourselves.... something more real? We talk about what that looks like in our lives.