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- The Neuroscience of Being A Good Person - Liam McClintock
We’d swap protein powder for malaria nets in a heartbeat if science said generosity was the healthiest thing we could do for ourselves, so what if it is? Liam McClintock ex-private equity, ordained Buddhist monk and neuroscience scholar, walks me through the neuroscience of kindness and the practical frameworks behind what he calls a “life of bliss”.
Find more from Liam:
https://fitmind.org/
https://fitmind.org/book
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1 hr 3 min - How A.I. Disembowels Your Creativity Like a Psychotic Ostrich
We are on the precipice of turning every creative into one big sad grey cube, and I’d like us to not do that. This is my case for why you should be the starting point and AI the
cleanup crew, and never the other way around.
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12 min - The Problem With Trying to Be Happy
What if trying to be happy is exactly what's stopping you from being happy?
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29 min - You Don't Have to Know Where You're Going - Tom Lutz
What if getting lost, wandering aimlessly and being completely bloody confused by life should actually be our goal? Thoughts from one of the most seminal travel authors of all time, Tom Lutz.
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1 hr 16 min - The Lost Art of Doing Nothing
Doing nothing used to be normal. Now it's an extremely weird radical act. A solo episode on the lost art of staring into space.
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17 min - Do You Love A ‘Person’, or Your Mind’s Projection? - Jayasāra
Can you fall in love with another person, or only with the picture of them you carry around in your head? This week, a Buddhist nun who walked away from a PhD, a career, and most of the things you and I would call fun tells me you can't. Jayasara lives celibate in a forest hermitage, wakes at 3am, and chops a lot of wood. We talk about booze, lust, gossip, whether a monk's life costs you the best nights of your life, and why the fireworks you set off on a mountain in Japan are now, according to her, just a blip on the screen of consciousness.
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36 min - What Nature Knows That We’ve Forgotten - Mark Coleman
My guest today thinks nature might be one of our greatest teachers. Forty years ago, Mark Coleman was a punk rocker and self-described anarchist in London, until he found Buddhism and began looking inward.
Today, he’s a renowned meditation teacher who takes mindfulness out of the temple and into the woods, believing nature can transform how we experience ourselves and the world.
We get into nature, self-care, ADHD, and the ethical dilemmas of taking the natural world seriously.
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35 min - Beating Substance Abuse: Attention Not Willpower - Joan Tollifson.
Joan Tolifson spent the sixties drinking herself into blackouts before becoming one of the most unflinching voices on addiction, shame, and what actually gets you free of them — a path built not on willpower, but on attention.
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39 min - Do We Have a "Self?"
We’re gonna get to the bottom of whether or not “you” exist. Here’s why it matters practically. If you don’t exist, you might navigate life with so much more joy. Because what exactly are you protecting, every time you get defensive, jealous, insecure, anxious? Nothing.
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21 min - Who Are You When No One's Watching? - Todd Fink
Todd Fink has the ability to casually articulate some of the most complex spiritual paradoxes all while exuding an aura of warmth and love. We explore the ego, the healing effect of nature, and the way society and commerce can commodify art and turn spirituality into an industry - in an effort to figure out what’s real and what’s performance, what’s authentic - who are we really when nobody’s watching?
More from Todd: michaeltoddfink.com
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1 hr 13 min
About The Overexamined Life
From the publisher's feed
The world's best philosophers and scientists on how to be happy. PhDs, bestselling books, or 17 years of silence in a cave... we don't discriminate. All we know, is that we want to experience life…
for all its beautiful richness, so we've tracked down the A-listers in the art of doing exactly that.
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The world is beautiful, full of fascinating people, and people I love, and I'm so lost in neurotic thought that I'm missing... most of it. I'm an overexaminer.
Why, when scubadiving in the Great Barrier Reef, instead of drinking in the marine wonders, am I just replaying that time I was picked last in P.E. basketball?
Why, at a close friend's wedding, did I miss half the groom's speech because I was thinking about my crap haircut.
If that sounds like you too, then join me on a quest to discover ways in which we can become more present, more fulfilled and more curious. Through stories, reflections and interviews with the wisest gurus, comedians, musicans, athletes and artists, maybe we can uncover a few secrets about what a life well-lived looks like.
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