Episode 031 looks at a video essay titled, “5 tips to improve your critical thinking” from TedED, created by Nick Hilditch, written by Samantha Agoos.
Category: Thinking & Doing
Network Privacy, Future Self & Procrastination, Saving Money, and Your Children (28m) – Episode 030
Episode 030 looks at being careful with what you send and do on your workplace computer; doing favors now for your future self; avoiding procrastination by committing to giving the task just 10 minutes, and seeing where that goes; the importance of saving money; spending minimalistically versus lavishly; and why it’s a good idea to love our kids for who they are instead of what we want them to do.
Show Your Qualities & The Dimension of “Should” (17m) – Episode 029
Episode 029 looks at two Stoic topics: the first from Marcus Aurelius who wrote, “People aren’t in awe of your sharp mind? So be it. But you have many other qualities you can’t claim to have been deprived of at birth. Display then those qualities in your own power: honesty, dignity, endurance, chastity, contentment, frugality, kindness, freedom, persistence, avoiding gossip, and magnanimity.”; and the second from r/Stoicism, a post by mussel_bouy who started off with, “There is a dimension. A dimension not of sight or sound but of mind. It is both in the future and past but never the present. It has no physical location but for many of us, we live there. It is ‘the dimension of should’.”
Argumentum ad Populum (Appeal to Popularity) & Neglect of Probability (25m) – Episode 028
Episode 028 looks at the logical fallacy Argumentum ad Populum (Appeal to Popularity, and it’s many children) and the cognitive bias Neglect of Probability.
Windfall Money, 24-Hour News, & Nonviolent Communication (38m) – Episode 027
Episode 027 looks at carefully handling a new large sum of money or career promotion; the deleterious effects of consuming the news all day long, every day; and the benefits of both the Socratic Method and Nonviolent Communication in handling disagreements with other people.
Conversation on “Timeless Tenets of Stoicism” (56m) – Episode 026
Episode 026 is a conversation with Chris Jenkins on reddit user FreakyEcon’s “Timeless Tenets of Stoicism”.
Everything is Change & Avoiding the Crowd (21m) – Episode 025
Episode 025 looks at two Stoic topics: the first from Marcus Aurelius who wrote, “Meditate often on the swiftness with which all that exists and is coming into being is swept by us and carried away. For substance is like a river’s unending flow, its activities continually changing and causes infinitely shifting so that almost nothing at all stands still.”; and the second from r/Stoicism, a post by kolbi01 who started off with, “The young character, which cannot hold fast to righteousness, must be rescued from the mob; it is too easy to side with the majority – Thoughts on Seneca’s letter VII”.
Spurious Causation & Not-Invented-Here Syndrome (21m) – Episode 024
Episode 024 looks at the logical fallacy Spurious Causation and the cognitive bias Not-Invented-Here Syndrome.
Ten Tips On Becoming a Better Person (33m) – Episode 023
Episode 023 looks at a list of Stoic-based tips on becoming a better person by TheGuillamon.
Insurance Photos, Morning Stretches, & Emotion Venting (16m) – Episode 022
Episode 022 looks at taking photos and video of your home for insurance purposes; rotating out to donation old stuff that you’ve replaced with new stuff; stretching in the mornings to help yourself wake up, and putting your sleep alarm at the other end of the room; why you should always answer “yes” to someone at your door asking if you have a security system; and why it’s important to never ignore your feelings or thoughts.