Reasonable Adventurer's Show

To celebrate the end of a very challenging year, join me to discuss reflection with Andy Penaluna, Norris Krueger, Elinor Vettraino and Kath Penaluna.

Join us for Episode 112 where the Fantastic Five (Elinor Vettraino, Andy Penaluna, Norris Krueger, Kath Penaluna and yours truly come together to discuss the good and bad of entrepreneurship education.

In Episode 111 we explore the challenge we all face in balancing what we know intimately from experience against what we presume to know from a distance.

Episode 110 explores the need to become differentiated in order to successfully interact with others in society.

In Episode 109 we consider the process of evaluating one's scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Join us to explore a way to further develop your scholarship in ways that do not require a comptition to take place.

Listen in to Episode 108 to find out how Dave Jarmen is supporting the development of reasonable adventurers at the University of Bristol. 

Listen in to Episode 107 to explore the notion that small is beautiful. We will explore a range of examples of how we can see that less is often more.

Join us for an episode getting to understand the wonderful world of Zen Parry, entrepreneurship educator extraordinaire. The role of EE in tribal education makes for a very interesting show, enjoy!

Welcome to Episode 105, on this episode we are going to consider the nature of wisdom, its connection to the reasonable adventurer and some useful resources to help you get started exploring the role and value of wisdom in your life.

Episode 104 presents a conversation with Katie Wray (https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sage/staff/profile/katiewray.html#background) of Newcastle University in the UK. Topics related to 'findings a good place' to be in and general topics related to academic development are canvased.

Welcome to Episode 103, which revisits the challenges discussed in Episode 102, and considers the impact of my decision to preference academic development as a career change, leaving behind entrepreneurship education, but creating new enthusiasm for the shows further development.

Welcome to episode 102. Today's show considers the importance of EE in terms of developing competencies for graduates to enable them to successfully engage in entrepreneurial action. If the ideas discussed provoke some thinking for you, please share on Twitter, or perhaps better, at Linkenin. Just search 'tasdevilcol' on either platform and you will see the episode posting and hopefully, related comments.

Have you ever wondered what comes next after we have built the infrastructure of the 21st century and encouraged disruption in all domains of our life? I think about this often, join me to contemplate past events that may help us to understand whats just around the corner.

Welcome to Episode 100, a joint affair with entrepreneur Peter Harrington, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Entrepreneurship. Join us as we reflect of the biggest challenges facing young entrepreneurs in today's dynamic world.

Welcome back, today's episode marks a new direction in the show, with a philosophy of adventuring on the horizon. Join me to contemplate what new ground we will travel.

Welcome back! Episode 98 reconnects the show to recent events and considers the challenge of never forgetting the potential of our every word.

Episode 97 - Whirlpools, invites you contemplate those forces in your life that seek to latch on to you and take you somewhere that stops you being in control. Listen in to reflect on what makes you happy and what you can do to balance your inner and outer worlds.

Have you found yourself jumping at scary shadows? Episode 96 considers the value of listening to the quiet voices that always surround us. Listen in to see what has prompted my thinking on this matter.

So, you have found the time to reflect, but are you going deep enough? Today's show considers the vital step of including the thoughts and views of others in your reflections. Listen in to see how well placed you are to reflect in a meaningful way.

Have you found yourself moving forward, a little unsure of your immediate past? Today's episode considers the value of looking back, to get one's bearings and to ensure the pathway forward is tethered to your immediate past.

Do you find yourself doing what others might like you to do? Do you sometimes forget what got you to where you are in the first place? Episode 93 tackles the challenge of defining your own terms. Listen in to test yourself out; are you doing what you best do?

Do you feel fully in control of life? Do you have your schedule under control? Episode 92 - Resetting Life, delves into the issue of resetting life, if thats possible, and the challenges of getting productive.

Do you find yourself rejecting people or things due to something they believe are associated with? Episode 91 - Found in Translation delves into to this tricky space. Listen in to see what remains to be found in the broader context that all too often is reduced to sound bites.

Do you find yourself questioning your motives and ideals? Well ... perhaps you should. Episode 90 continues my recent search for a pathways to helping my students towards becoming reasonable adventurers, listen in, perhaps your already to confident in your own thinking.

Help me! I am in the world of the uneducated (yet again), and going around in circles. Episode 89 - Stuck in a Funk, sees me trying to free the world and being quiet unsure just how to do that :-) Listen in, and perhaps help me out.

Episode 88 - Being Relevant, explores the challenges of doing the right thing for the next generation. Listen in to see to what extent you are stepping up to the challenge of help out tomorrow's reasonable adventurers.

Episode 87 - Ready  ..  Set  ..  GO! challenges you to contemplate the starting line, more so than the finishing line. If you have the courage to start out on a journey, don't waste your effort by not understanding the context of your own individual starting line.

Well, 2017 is upon us. Do you know where your heading? Tune into Episode 86 to contemplate the Interrupted Walks that might be required to get you to where your hearts intends you on heading. 

Episode 85 brings 2016 to an end. The focus is fitting, making sense of the past in order to make room for the future. In this episode the process of reflective writing is contemplated as a means to transform you from today's you into tomorrow's you. Listen in to start the journey.  The 3 books I have for free download between Dec 30 2016 and Jan 3 2017 are: https://www.amazon.com.au/d/Naked-Educator-Lessons-Learned-ebook/B01NCQM6O3/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1482986941&sr=8-16&keywords=colin+jones https://www.amazon.com.au/d/ebook/31-Emerging-Laws-Entrepreneurship-Education-Vol-1/B018EB8AIU/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1482986941&sr=8-10&keywords=colin+jones https://www.amazon.com.au/d/ebook/Stone-Gathered-Moss-Tale-Courage-Colin-Jones/B019QCIBM6/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1482986941&sr=8-11&keywords=colin+jones Don't forget to write a review, if you liked them :-)

What does Christmas and the festive season mean for you? Listen in and find out what it means for me.

Its too easy to put things on hold until were ready. But what is ready? Episode 83 - Seeking Perfection, tackles this troublesome issue of letting perfection get in the way, listen in to see what opportunities you have to be less than perfect.

Episode 82 - R U A Success? challenges you to consider how you evaluate your journey through life. Are you your own worst critic? or do you go too easy on yourself? Listen in to find out how you can do this in two simple questions.

Do you find yourself wondering where your time went? Do you find yourself not having enough time to reflect on things that matter? If so, Episode 81 - 'Like Minds' might be just for you.

The opportunity to learn about ourselves through interacting with those with opposing views or different modes of thinking is ever present; do you take advantage of such opportunities? Listen in to Episode 80 to reflect on your tendency to embrace the opposites in your life.

How often are you in the right place at the right time? Episode 79 tackles this tricky issue, helping you to develop a plan to get lucky. If you're feeling lucky, listen in :-)

Do you find yourself surprised by unexpected events, that in hindsight are almost logical? Episode 78 tackles this issue, that being our blind faith in information we receive without fully questioning it.

Ever wondered where the great opportunities come from? Ever thought you can't make sense of your world? Listen in to Episode 77 of the Reasonable Adventurer to get some ideas on how to understand the Crazy Mind.

Episode 76 takes you on a journey to find your greatest love, YOU. Without you, you would struggle to get through the average day, let alone a crazy day. Tune in and find a space to appreciate yourself. But listen in to find ways to improve yourself through challenging the nature of the interactions you have with everyone.

Episode 75 takes us into to the world of humour. Do you have a sense of humour? Are folks comfortable around you? listen in to find out how important humour is.

Episode 74 tackles the challenge of being able to SEE the context of the information around us. The challenge of being aware of our personal biases and those related to how information is provided to us. Ultimately, how we can know what others' are thinking and feeling and being able to understand their personal development. Listen in and see how much you care for the issues under consideration.

Episode 73 - Intelligence & Character focuses on the challenges of educating ourselves and others to meet the requirements of an ever changing world. Listen in to  get a sense of the challenges we all face to meet this challenge.

Episode 72 - Just Change It! challenges you to zero in on what it is in your life that may need changing. What is it that stops us from understanding our surrounds? Listen in and see how you can take the first steps to making your world smaller and more manageable.

Episode 71 tackles the challenge of coordinating starting, doing and finishing. Is this a strength of yours? Are you naturally curious and able to find a start on things you are naturally passionate about? Are you able to complete those wonderful projects you have been fascinated by in the first place? Listen in to reflect upon your strengths and weaknesses in this regard.

Episode 70 - Becoming Resilient tackles the subject of what to do when you are required to deal with a less than certain world. I argue that the attributes of the reasonable adventurer are well placed to help in the development of resilience. Listen in to see how you're currently placed.

Episode 69 comes to you live from the Penaluna Palace in Swansea, Wales. Listen in to hear Kath and Andy Penaluna share their thoughts on the challenges we face as educators in bringing a spotlight to transformational learning in our students' lives.

Episode 68 - The Teacher Guy - considers the need to define yourself on your terms. What do you want to be see to be able to do? What do you not want to be associated with? What are you an expert at, what do you not want to be considered an expert at? Listen in to find out how to take the firm step.

Episode 67 - The Entrepreneurship Guy delves into the issue of being all things to all people. Are you defining the scope of your activities? Or, are others in control of this vital aspect of your life. Listen in to consider how to find the balance in the depth and breath of your activities.

Ever been surprise at how easy it was to achieve something very important? Sometimes we are surprised at the lack of push back against our thinking. Sometimes we are just so happy with the outcomes we just assume we must have done something right. Listen in to consider the role of our mental models in framing our experiences in this regard.

Life is unknown as a journey looking forward, the best we can do take confidence from our past efforts and apply that to the future. In Episode 65 we discuss the challenges of doing just this. Listen in to see how well you are mentally managing to connect your past to your future.

On you on your course, travelling your journey? Or, are you on someone else's? Today is my birthday, so time for some reflections as to where I've been, and where I might be going. Listen in to see if we are sharing something similar on our life journeys.

Its amazing to contemplate how the internet has changed our lives and what has changed in the last 10 years. Listen in as we consider this topic, and what it may mean for you over the next 10 years.