Three Body Thinking

Our brains have developed to create shortcuts. The shorter the pathway is from stimulus to action, the more efficient our brain is and the fewer calories we need. Unfortunately, this means a lot of our life has turned into autopilot where we fall into routines and patterns that we just accept without question. All the way up to who you are married to, your job and how you parent.

On this episode, we talk about metacognition and how more people need to question not just how they are living their life, but the way they think about their life altogether.

As a coach, this is absolutely a hill I am willing to die on. We see a lot of "leaders" in our world today. With youth sports absolutely blowing up, coaches are on demand more than ever. Leadership advice hitting us from every platform in every direction. Influencers telling us how they did it and how you can do it too. If you want advice, there are millions of people around the clock ready to give it.

But... being a good teacher and mentor takes a wildly different skillset from someone who is successful at their trade. Simply being a good teacher/mentor is a craft unto itself that takes just as much time getting good at as the trade/skill you are teaching. And yet, that is now how we value teachers or mentors in our society. In fact, it is quite the opposite.

Life is more like blindly bushwhacking through a dense forest than it is wondering down paved roads. And yet, society treats it the opposite. In a resource-abundant world, how could anyone ever not succeed? All the roads have already been laid. People have already shown you the path and they continue to do so through podcasts, books and interviews. If you listen to a millionaire, and do exactly what they did, surely you'll make it too. How could you not?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/analysis-if-youre-rich-youre-more-lucky-than-smart-and-theres-math-to-prove-it

https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2023/06/02/are-rich-people-more-intelligent-heres-what-the-science-says/

Parents have a hard job. Whether they are stay at home or working, the definition of what it means to be a parent, let a lone a "good parent" is an ever-moving goal post of higher expectations. The average parent today, who is working, spend about twice as much time with their children as a stay at home parent in the mid-1900's... And the investment doesn't stop there. This episode is all about the changing dynamics of parenting and how we view kids and raise kids differently because of it.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-emotionally-healthy-parent/202512/why-todays-parents-are-more-overwhelmed-than-ever

https://www.psy-ed.com/wpblog/learning-from-negative-emotions/

Show Notes Isaac Quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/456687-there-is-a-cult-of-ignorance-in-the-united-states

Carl Saga Quote (Crystals): https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/632474-i-have-a-foreboding-of-an-america-in-my-children-s

Carl Sagan Quote (Pale Blue Dot): https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot

Child Mortality Rate: https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality

Golden Rice Saves Lives: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2120901118

Nitrogen Fixation: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-with-and-without-fertilizer

Evolution of Corn: https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/evolution/corn/

Medication vs Supplement: https://www.usada.org/dietary-supplements/medications-vs-supplements/

Supplement Industry Value: https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/dietary-supplements-market-report

Since our brains believe the world revolves around us, it has developed the ability to insert ourselves into any and every situation. This means that there are often many aspects of our life that have nothing to do with us but our brains convince us they do.

Your Horoscope being one of them. It is made-up, has nothing to do with you, is pseudo-profound BS that applies to almost every human on this planet and yet we believe it was perfectly tailored to us.

Asymmetrical Insight Bias is one of the simplest bias that we all have. It is easy to forget that there are complexities to all of us when judging others. To fully understand our own life is an impossible task, so to try and understand the depths of everyone in our life is absurd, so our brain creates shortcuts for caricatures because that is all we need to survive.

It is up to us to put in the work to fight our brains reductionist tendencies.

If you want to train a monkey to play flute on a pedestal, where should you start? How you answer this question says a lot about whether or not you will ever achieve your goals or make a change in your life. Find out why!

The human brain is terrible at numbers because we evolved during times where large numbers were not necessary for survival. We traveled in packs of dozens or hundreds for most of our ancestry and hunted and gathered for our food. It isn't until the last few thousand years that we started to see and understand the world in a Global scale and that amount of time is nothing in the eyes of humanity. Our globalization is still freshly born, barely taking its first breath yet.

Meanwhile, the world has its first trillionaire already... This episode talks about the disparity between Elon and literally everyone else on this planet, including the second richest person as well as how we as humans have done this to ourselves.

Poverty in the US: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-287.html

US Billionaires: https://fortune.com/2025/12/08/how-many-billionaires-does-america-world-have-ubs/

More Debt than Money: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2025/09/17/global-debt-remains-above-235-of-world-gdp

What's in a banana? https://jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/ingredients-of-an-all-natural-banana/