Truth Island

I am joined by Mike Loayza, an autodidact or self-taught person who shares his story on becoming an actor and filmmaker

Topics Hit Upon:

The trouble with school.

Is incidental knowledge ever helpful?

Knowing yourself in order to know what you want to learn.

Fearing true freedom.

Check Out Mike's Work:

http://www.mikeloayza.com 

http://www.youtube.com/lowwisezahstudios 

In the second part in our series Gabby and I explore the personality traits of extroversion and introversion and discuss whether these are even real.

Topics Mentioned:

Personality tests in the workplace.

Introversion contingent upon group dynamic.

I like people.....but I just want to work alone.....

Extroversion.....fading as the day progresses.

Parental responsibility in fostering healthy social behavior.

Comic Book Boy.....loner or socially misaligned?

Check Out Gabby's Organizational Services Below:

https://gabriellealicia.com/

This is the first part my series with Gabby where we explore what exactly does it mean to be social and how the lockdown exposed some of the blind spots in the way we interact with people.

Topics Addressed:

How the hustle & bustle of socializing distracted us from the people we were hanging out with.

Are rapid fire conversations socializing?

Giving up on conversations instead of giving up on people.

Should we demand a two way street with the people we are conversing with?

The balance between Relaxation Friends and Business Friends.

Should your friendship circles consist of people who are of diverse interests or homogenous?

Check Out Gabby's Organizational Services Below:

https://gabriellealicia.com/

Marketing expert Claire Bevan helps me understand the slippery road of healthy self promotion versus attention seeking behavior.

Topics Covered:

Humility versus lack of self-confidence.

Setting a goal for success.

Asking others for help.

When are you too out there?

Metrics of success.

Joe and I try and wrestle with the times in our lives where conformity is an absolute necessity for survival, from the times when not conforming is absolutely essential to our survival (paradoxical, I know).

Topics We Hit:

The Military listen or die....

Challenging something out of selfishness versus finding a better way.

You want to be the guy in a cult asking a lot of questions.

What to do when challenging the status quo might mean death.

Sam and I try to tackle the issue raised in a previous podcast about what exactly is the middle road to walk between being content in life and having higher hopes and dreams?

Some Topics Covered:

Why childhood patience is a virtue.

Dealing with missed expectations.

Important questions to always be asking yourself about where you are in life.

The voices and eyes that live inside our head.

I am joined once again with Kenny as we discuss why it is exactly that our television shows, movies, and songs have completely corroded in intellectual quality and weight over the past few decades.

Some Topics Covered:

What made artists take more chances in the 60's?

Elite filmmakers versus the masses.

Can money turn artists into sellouts?

The impact of 'high art'

Are intellectually rigorous forms of art for everyone?

I am joined with Jon Lindinger, who helps me understand why it is so essential that we as humans constantly grow.

Some of the topics we touch upon are:

Investing in one's self due to uncertainty.

Relationships where only one partner is growth oriented.

Growing in the shadows.

Being unable to help others as a result of poor choices.

For more information and self-development coaching you can visit Jon's website xenotheory.org

https://www.xenotheory.org/

I am joined once again with Joe, as we try and figure out why our smartest members in society never seem to debate one another? Some of the areas we explore are:

Why don't we value intellectual discourse like prized fights?

The stacked deck of network television debates.

Does our current population have the intellectual stamina for intellectually heavy discourse?

The social consequences of leaving your echo chamber.

I am joined once again with Alexander as we discuss, an idea floated in 2006's bestseller The Secret and work done by an organization called the Global Consciousness Project which claims to be able to measure varying amounts of consciousness in living organisms such as plants and on a global scale during cataclysmic events.

Some topics we hit upon are; healthy skepticism versus hostile rejection, pathways for fringe science to pass through the gates of scientific rigor, structural and bureaucratic limitations of science in academia, and unexplained coincidences.

Links down below:

The Secret (2006)

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Rhonda-Byrne/dp/1582701709

The Global Project

http://global-mind.org/gcpintro.html