The Troubadour Podcast

The Troubadour Podcast

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The Troubadour Podcast episodes

  • A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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    Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich, believed that poetry and literature were tied to success. Why do you think he included several poems in his mega-success book ON getting rich?
    Today we will explore a poem called "A Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
    27 min
  • Napoleon Hill's Favorite Poem on SUCCESS

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    Napoleon Hill wrote one of the first self-help books "Think and Grow Rich." Within it were some selected poems. But Hill liked many poems, from complex Shakespearen sonnets to simple everyday poems.
    Today I'm going to very briefly read one short poem called "Success," which is about aiming high and defining your belief about success.
    Even if you're not someone who likes poetry, if you like success, or Napoleon Hill, I can promise you'll enjoy this poem.
    16 min
  • Mending Wall by Robert Frost (short)

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    Mending Wall by Robert Frost and my newest "grappling" with Jordan Peterson's 4th rule for life.
    Also I refer to my latest podcast episode of Jordan Peterson's fourth rule of life: "Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today." Can be found here
    21 min
  • Jordan Peterson's 4th Rule, with Robert Frost, Dostoevsky and Rand's esthetics

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    Why Jordan Peterson is dangerous.
    On this fourth installment of my grapplings with Peterson I explore Peterson's rule "Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not who someone else is today."
    For the first time I express some serious disagreements with Peterson, though I definitely agree with much of his underlying reasoning for the rule.
    After giving an overview of his method for expressing the underlying reasoning for this rule, I dive into where we diverge. I'll give you a hint: It has to do with the character Raskolnikov in the book Crime and Punishment.
    The poem I chose was "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost, as I believe there is much mending to do with Peterson's view here.
    3 hr 12 min
  • Business is Business by Berton Braley - With Guest Sean Doherty

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    My business Mastermind friend Sean Doherty came all the way from China JUST to be on my show! ;)
    And we talked about the poem Business is Business by Berton Braley. Is business actually beneficial to people if all it cares about is making money? Can those big boys ever really care about the little man? Or will they always just step all over them?
    1 hr 31 min
  • 2 Poems for Alfie Evans

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    Rather than bringing us together, the case of Alfie Evans, the 23 month old boy who was taken off life support in the UK and died on Saturday April 28th, has further polarized our views in the west.
    This has been a devastating journey for both Tom and Kate, Alfie's parents. It has "shattered their family." It has devastated all of the #alfiesarmy.
    Death is an instructor. We must face it courageously and with heartfelt desire to exit the chaos of such a tragedy, better, stronger, more capable. No one wants a child to die. In life, children, adults, innocents do die. What we do about it, how we experience it, and how we express our grief defines us as humans.
    1 hr 27 min
  • Reacting to the news of your death with poet John Donne

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    A reading and discussion of the poem "Death, be not proud" By John Donne
    Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
    Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
    For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
    Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
    From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
    Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
    And soonest our best men with thee do go,
    Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
    Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
    And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
    And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
    And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
    One short sleep past, we wake eternally
    And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
    21 min
  • Ayn Rand's Favorite Poem: The Westerner by Badger Clark

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    "The Westerner" by Badger Clark doesn't seem at first very spiritual, but upon consideration like many poems about building your own world the poem rests on many spiritual ideas.Ayn Rand once said in a TV Interview she did that she is not afraid of death because "it is not I who will die, but the world that will end."This I think has a lot to do with her unique form of philosophy. In her younger years she was enamored with Nietzsche and his idea that God is Dead. @jordanbpeterson has been reviving this idea, but with a unique view on what Nietzsche might have meant.Today we will explore this poem The Westerner as well as some of the ideas inherent in an individualistic atheist who "builds as they only dreamed."
    1 hr 39 min

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