Episode 12: God, BLM, And The Economics of Being Misinformed With Mike B  

Enjoy this conversation with a great friend of mine and fellow inquisitive thinker Mike.   

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Peace and love 

- Jonathan

Man this week has been a doozy. I have been doing a lot of reading and speaking with many friends and colleagues about this particular topic and wanted to share my thoughts.

The quote today comes from Aristotle:

"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain thought without accepting it"

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Links:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html

Is Covid-19 Man Made? - https://www.crstonline.com/article.asp?issn=2590-3233;year=2020;volume=3;issue=2;spage=284;epage=286;aulast=Chaturvedi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza

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- Jonathan

Prem Glidden is a Transformative Coach and author of an upcoming book 'Opening to Possibility'

For more information on Prem and her work see links below:  

Website: https://www.premglidden.com/ 

Instagram: @transformationcoachprem  

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PremGliddenCoaching 

Email: [email protected]  

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Peace and love  

- Jonathan

James Fitzgerald is the founder of OPEX.

For more information on James and OPEX see links below:

Website: www.opexfit.com

Instagram: @jfitzopex

Email: [email protected]

For Books we discussed see below:

Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding by Daniel Lieberman

Brave New World by Alodus Huxley

The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver

The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy by Michael Porter

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- Jonathan

Today is all about how as a society we are moving towards the reign of the word "YES" rather than the word "NO". I think it spells danger and I outline in full detail my viewpoints. Don't agree? Great, that means I've struck a chord within you to actually say "NO". Reply to my contact below and I would love to invite you on to discuss. The quote today is from Teddy Roosevelt's Citizenship in a Republic Speech:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

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Books cited: 

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Network Propaganda by Hal Roberts (has the graph of the polarization of political voting)

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- Jonathan

Seamus O’Mahony is the author of two books: The Way We Die Now (2016) and Can Medicine be Cured? (2019). He retired from his post as a gastroenterologist at Cork University Hospital in February 2020, but may return as a volunteer. He is a visiting professor at the Centre for the Humanities and Health at King’s College London. His latest book will be out in March titled The Ministry of Bodies: Life and Death in a Modern Hospital.

For more information on Seamus:

Website: www.seamusomahony.com (this will be finished very shortly)

Book links: https://amzn.to/2MdNzmg

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Peace and love

- Jonathan

Too often we think of success as this idyllic place we can ascend to after years of work doing a particular thing. What we should instead be thinking about is what outcomes we desire regardless of success this way we can actively analyze if what we did resulted in the goals we had set out from the beginning. Don't believe me? No worries, I address all issues to the contrary and encourage your participation. 

Todays quote is from Samuel Johnson:

"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time."

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Peace and love

- Jonathan

Today I invite my wife on the podcast. 

Enjoy our conversation as I did.

Peace and love

- Jonathan

Choices, choices, choices. Everyone has one and in this podcast I give you my take on seeing ordinary life as something that should be cherished and honored. The quote used in todays podcast comes from a speech David Foster Wallace gave to the graduating class at Kenyon College in 2005. The title of his speech was called 'This is Water'. 

"Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship–be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles–is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive."

Choose wisely friends

Peace and love

-Jonathan