What Is Humans?

What does it mean to be humble? What does it mean to be ambitious? Is one more important? These are some of the questions that are explored and this episode of what is humans.

In today's society we must pursue the acceptance of failure with the confidence that we will succeed at some point. 

Listen today and reflect where you lack in drive and compensate with modesty. The absence of one will lead to the death of the other.

 Is life fair? With so much hardship, pain, and loss the common answer to this question is no it is not. Can that perspective be limiting?

We will not make the case that there aren't negatives in this world because we know certainly there are.  Today we are asking ourselves how we can make use of the positives and accept our realities.

Listen today if you want to create more agency in your life. Given we are coming from different places we must accept and seek gratitude in order to make change for ourselves.

A streak is an act or habit that we continuously do without missing a slot or opportunity. These can be positive or negative and ultimately consume our lives if we let them. 

Create a positive environment for the streaks you want to continue, so that you can control the flow state of your own life. 

A streak is not your identity, they will come and go, but the lifestyle that you create lasts much longer. Make sure that lifestyle is one you want to live with. 

Think about what that higher purpose or calling is for you as an individual or if you currently have one at all. How does that thing keep you pushing and moving forward? 

If you feel lost or at odds in what your higher purpose or calling maybe look to the things you are already a part of in life, groups, teams, leagues, churches etc. 

As you narrow down your different groups take inventory of the things you take responsibility for within those groups and how you can move the needle forward in your life. 

Today Dennis and Shane discuss the differences between specialists and generalists and reflect on where those behaviors show up in their life.

Is it better to be a generalist or specialist?  How do you know which one you are and or identify areas? Why is it important to reflect on areas or comfort/discomfort?

By looking at areas of comfort we need to seek for obstacles to further specialize and grow. If we don’t have passion in a subject,  that might be a sign for us to try new things and generalize.

We give out our word constantly, but how important is it to keep it. Today work on reflecting on all the places that you give it out. 

How much it means to you and to others. The way that others count or rely on ourselves is a huge indicator of the stress that we put on ourselves. 

As you take inventory begin to focus on how to regain some control of our word and limit the amount of things we say yes to throughout the week 

What are rules? How are rules related to values? How do we know when we should break the rules? 

Shane and Dennis go into examples and ideas around rules to get a better understanding of what they are. If rules are the how in behavior values must be the why.

By listening today we hope you are able to better identify values and create and or remove rules around those values. This may lead towards a better understanding of oneself.

We are human beings who itemize and compare our whole lives in order to more quickly make decisions and recognize things. 

Naturally we compare and contrast apples from oranges and circles and squares to see where we stack up. 

Listen to the ways today that we discuss the psychology of comparison, and the limiting factors that keep us from discovering our own destiny. 

As kids we constantly are asked what we want to be when we grow up however as we grow up fear, pressure, and anxiety make those dreams seem impossible. 

Re-explore the child-like wonder of your youth and the ways to live it out. Time and responsibilities often make it seem impossible of who we are truly supposed to become.

Time is finite, and it is often taken for granted. Rather than thinking of time as the minutes, hours, days and weeks of our lives, begin to periodize time and emphasize the experiences during that time. 

Take the time to reflect on time spent during a typical week in your own life and find where you may be inefficient in rest or in motion. Then take action on the goals and dreams in your life in order to create deadlines for the experiences that make up our time. 

Be strategic in thinking about the time we spend and the fulfillment that it brings to our lives. If we feel unfulfilled we will naturally begin to feel regret as we look back on time spent and the lives we might have had.