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On this episode, Vince and Casey catch up on previous family vacations and discuss about the hmong language and words they don't know about ... its confusing if not used on a daily. Questions: Is there a language barrier in your culture? What's something annoying you do unintentionally? Raminisce is about reminiscing! We share stories about our youth and growth, troubles and lesssons. Come chill with us by listening to our podcast, where ever you get your podcast. We can't wait for you to reminisce with us! Let us know at Facebook.com/Raminisce. We appreciate you for listening to this episode of Raminisce! Like and Follow us: https://www.facebook.com/Raminisce Email us: Raminisce2019@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/raminisce/support

Marcus, Brice & Faz discuss this week's key topics: is it too early to start upgrading, choosing which rookies to cull, top upgrade candidates and rookie downgrade options including Lachlan Jones & Beau McCreery. Click here to support the team, BE a Patreon! ROUND 6 QUESTIONS

Connect with your kids during a short meditation on how God helps us sleep in peace.At night when we lie down to go to sleep, it can feel kind of scary or lonely. Sometimes we start thinking of all the things we have to do tomorrow, or we worry about being alone in our beds.You can lie down in peace - with calmness and feeling safe - because even though you can’t see him, God is right there with you. Verses:In peace I will lie down and sleep,For you alone, LORD,Make me dwell in safety.Psalm 4:8 NIVActivity idea:Sleep role play: Practice lying down with your kids and taking turns asking God to help you sleep with peace.Questions:Is it hard for you to fall asleep at night?What things might make you scared to fall asleep?Ask God to give you peace tonight when you lie down to sleep.Resources:Visit my website for lots more prayer resources for your family. Visit Blue Letter Bible for more about Peace.

There's been much media speculation and sensationalization around vitamin D and Covid-19 but it's important to remember advice should be evidence based. Vitamin D is essential for good health and low status may be exacerbated during Covid-19 due to increased time spent indoors. A 2018 study identified almost 20% of UK adults have low levels of vit D. In particular, 39% of 11-18 year old girls were deficient. Updated PHE advice in April 2020 advises 10mcg daily even through summer months. People at high risk of vit D deficiency are people whom are frail or housebound and where clothing covers most of skin when outdoors. BUT vit D is just a small part of good health. My guest today is Pf Susan Lanham-New and she's one very busy lady – hugely in demand with her extensive knowledge of vitamin D. Sue has written over 235 publications, is a lecturer on the MSc Nutritional Medicine course which I am close to completing, and is also Head of the Nutrition Science Dept at University of Surrey.  Questions Is vit D necessary? Can we obtain all the vitamin D we need from the sun?  Can vegans rely on D2?   Is 400IU/10mcg enough? Side-effects of high doses? Aside from immunity, why else is vitamin D important e.g. cancer, rickets, osteomalacia? About Susan Professor Susan Lanham-New is head of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Surrey and is a registered Public Health Nutritionist (RPHNutr). She completed her BSc in Exercise Physiology at the University of Chicester and her MSc in Human Nutrition and Metabolism and PhD in Nutrition and Bone at University of Aberdeen. As a PhD student, Sue was awarded a PhD Scholarship by the Nutritional Consultative Panel, and has three times won the Young Investigator Award at the World Osteoporosis Conference, at the National Osteoporosis Society Conference, and at the Joint Meeting of ECTS and IBMS. Currently, Professor Lanham-New's research focusses on the nutritional aspects of bone health, including specific projects such Interaction between diet and sunlight exposure on vitamin D status in Caucasian and Asian women (D-FINES) study, Extent of vitamin D deficiency in Saudi Arabian women and boys and girls, Impact of veiling on Vitamin D status in Kuwait adolescent girls: impact on bone mass and Protein and bone health: systematic review and meta-analysis. Professor Lanham-New is a member of the Academic Assembly Policy Committee, an Editor-in-Chief of the Nutrition Society Textbook Series and a member of NS Publications Committee.

Where do the dopest kings and queens go for their weekly wellness check up? 2 Dope Docs of course! 2 Dope Docs is a podcast about navigating life , love and the world while aspiring to be our best black ass selves. With co-hosts and couple Dr. Mo and Dr. Bow; it’s a little bit of everything from current events and whats hot on netflix to navigating relationships and mental health wellness tips. Join the Docs weekly as we talk our shit and send you on your way with peace and blessings. Just finished an episode? ...... Then it's time for your after visit summary. If you are a new listener to [2 Dope Docs], we would love to hear from you. Please visit our Website 2dopedocs.net or check out our instagram and facebook pages @2dope_docs . You can also email us at official2dopedocs@gmail.com and let us know how we can improve or leave us a comment if you enjoyed your unorthodox doctors visit!WRITE US!!!In this episode, of 2 Dope Docs we discussed:Sam Jay’s 3 in the morning comedy special available on on NetflixLove Craft Country on HBO MaxGayborhood-Lesbian Web Serieshttps://youtu.be/KTTPThwR2QIOur favorite part of recording a podcast each week is participating in the great conversations that happen on our chat, on social media, and in our comments section. Leave us a voicemail by pushing the microphone on ig or fb and potentially hear yourself on our show! This weeks follow up Questions: Is it ok to post a wish list on the internet ? If you could pick any super power what would it be? Does Trump really have COVID? Which generation is the best? How did we do?

Questions - Is there a way to answer ALL the questions we are ever asked - with confidence?

Today’s episode is all about something that will support you tremendously in making progress. We often see two options in black or white and feel stuck trying to choose between the lesser of two evils. But if you cultivate a Growth Mindset, we can often see solutions that are outside the box and move our lives forward. This episode is about how you can cultivate a growth mindset to experience more mastery in your life. In this episode you will hear: How to have better outcomes and results. How you can become stuck in a mindset that no longer serves you. About out of the box thinking An example from a real coaching session where a client was stuck in black and white thinking and how we moved them forward Questions: Is there an area of your life right now: where are you stopping yourself from moving forward, because it's kind of bumping up against a certain limiting belief you have? And how could you shift that paradigm to grow? Quotes:“You either stop, go or grow.” Shereen Thor  “When you grow, what you're needing to do is to adopt a new belief, or a new mindset.” Shereen Thor  Resources:   www.awakentherebel.com (take the quiz – What Kind of Rebel are You?)

This month our genre is Supernatural Thrillers! We discuss grand dogs, fairies stealing children, Abbott and Costello Meet the Eldritch Abominations, spooky houses, the best celery, whether hackers are supernatural, snuggling lake monsters, reading Wikipedia articles instead of consuming media, and more! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Books We Read This Month (or tried to read…) The Devil's Labyrinth by John Saul Meghan’s review Ring by Kōji Suzuki The Ring (franchise) Ring (novel series) The Ring, Volume 1 by Misao Inagaki and Hiroshi Takahashi The Undesired by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir NOS4A2 by Joe Hill Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero Abbott by Saladin Ahmed,  Sami Kivelä, and Jason Wordie Can RJ Recommend a Book by a Trans Author in this Genre? Blood Oranges by Kathleen Tierny The Dreaming Drawing Blood by Billy Martin (published as Poppy Z. Brite) Other Media We Mention Loose Time by RJ Edwards Winner of a National Magazine Award for Fiction! Stephen King The Bishop Files Series by Kay Hooper Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone (fantasy novel about a lawyer. It’s good!) Dean Koontz The Curse Workers Series by Holly Black White Cat The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Scooby-Doo The Changeling by Victor LaValle The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert Code Name Verity by Elizabeth E. Wein Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu by Junji Ito The Enigma of Amigara Fault is collected in Gyo The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo Black Creek Crossing by John Saul The Cabin in the Woods The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Fireman by Joe Hill Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes The Shape of Water Abbott and Costello Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) Links, Articles, and Things Pontianak: “Pontianaks are usually depicted as pale-skinned women with long black hair, red eyes, and white dress smeared in blood, but they are said to be able to take on a beautiful humanly appearance since they prey on men and helpless people.” Penanggalan: “a detached female head capable of flying about on its own. As it flies, the stomach and entrails dangle below it, and these organs twinkle like fireflies as the Penanggalan moves through the night.” 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith Changeling: “A changeling was believed to be a fairy child that had been left in place of a human child stolen by the fairies.” Ideas for Books The Corpse/Ghost With Good Taste (A good book about) a trans woman fighting monsters with a pickaxe in one hand and a pirate’s cutlass in the other Questions Is “supernatural thriller” more of a movie genre? Suggest new genres or titles! Fill out the form to suggest genres or titles! Check out our Tumblr, follow us on Twitter or Instagram, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on on Tuesday, June 18th we’ll each be pitching a book we think all of us should read and discuss on the podcast! You get to vote! Then on Tuesday, July 2nd we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of True Crime!

BOOM! Rudy Solis 3rd is back with a super Bay Area sports rant. This is the most emotional GoldCast you have ever heard! The kind that you live and subscribe for! I am back and on the super sports rant of the epic kind. I go over Game 1 of the Trail Blazers versus the Warriors, while not forgetting the epic win against Houston in Game six! This is historic. Drink it in while it lasts. Questions: Is this Warriors run historic? Where does this Warriors run rank among all the SF championships: 49ers and Giants? Best? Second best? Third? Let us know: http://www.youtube.com/thegoldcast http://www.facebook.com/thegoldcast http://www.twitter.com/the_goldcast Follow Rudy: http://www.twitter.com/rudysolis3rd http://www.instagram.com/rudysolis3

TODAY'S SERMON NOTES MATTHEW 16:18-19 NLT (Jesus said) Now I say to you that you are Peter (which means 'rock'), and upon this rock I WILL BUILD my CHURCH, and all the POWERS OF HELL WILL NOT CONQUER IT. 19 And I will give you the KEYS OF THE KINGDOM of Heaven. Whatever you FORBID on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you PERMITon earth will be permitted in heaven." CHURCH = EKKLESIA = ASSEMBLY = YOU! Church was never to be a merely… A building to GO TO, Or corporation to be CONTROLLED BY, Or the spiritual finish line to MARK OFF. The church was to be the central powerhouse for a movement. Church is about leading people through the systems, relationships and tools that transform them at the deepest levels, and thereby transforming marriages, recovering addictions, healing relationships, empowering vocational aspirations, and breathing life into inspired-dreams; giving us a purpose to live… and die for. When church attenders UNDERSTAND, INTEGRATE and APPLY THE FUNCTIONS of this movement, it changes their lives, then they too become the embodiment of the movement to outsiders. This is how we arrive at our commission, to go into all the world and preach the gospel.     HOW DOES THE CHURCH CHANGE LIVES? If our HEALTH, HAPPINESS and HOLISTIC FULFILLMENT hinges on our integration and ownership of CHURCH, shouldn’t we KNOW what a CHURCH should be about: Why does our CHURCH EXIST? What is its purpose? (My purpose?) How it is organized? How it is supposed to be LED? Who has the POWER TO CHOOSE what the identity, personality, style and genre a church is? (Who picks the carpet, music, what strategies will be implemented, etc.?) Who gets to decide what programs, ministries and activities a church has? Who decides the spiritual diet, core doctrines/statement of faith, and processes? How BUDGETS are determined? WHO decides it? Who determines the PASTOR’S AND STAFF SALARIES? Where is the ACCOUNTABILITY of its leaders? HOW IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE GOVERNED?   WHAT EXACTLY IS CHURCH GOVERNMENT? CHURCH GOVERNMENT is THE SYSTEM by which DECISIONS ARE MADE in a church; a description of WHERE AUTHORITY RESIDES.   TO WHOM DOES OUR CHURCH BELONG? MATTHEW 16:18-19 NLT (Jesus said) I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH… 1 CORINTHIANS 3:11 NLT (Paul said about the church) For no one can lay any FOUNDATION other than the one we already have--JESUS CHRIST.   FORMS OF CHURCH RULE / GOVERNANCE Episcopal (Denomination Ruled)   Presbyterian (Lay-Leader Ruled)   Congregational (Congregation-Democracy Ruled)  Pastoral (Pastor Ruled) But which form PROMOTES THE BEST HEALTH and FRUITFULNESS???   THE FIRST THING – UNDERSTAND AUTHORITY QUESTION: HOW has the Lord ESTABLISHED the CONCEPT and UNDERSTANDING of AUTHORITY among HIS PEOPLE?   CHURCH GOVERNMENT is THE SYSTEM by which DECISIONS ARE MADE in a church; a description of WHERE AUTHORITY RESIDES.   In Jewish and Christian HISTORY, has GOD led His people by… COMMITTEE (BY MULTIPLICITY of HEADSHIP) OR SINGULAR AUTHORITY HEAD   ONE AUTHORITY – NOT PLURALITY OF EQUAL AUTHORITY God (Does God lead as singular authority, or in plurality?) ROMANS 13:1-2 NKJV … For there is NO AUTHORITY EXCEPT FROM GOD… 1 CORINTHIANS 11:3 NKJV …and the HEAD of CHRIST [is] GOD. EPHESIANS 1:22 NKJV And HE (THE FATHER)… gave Him (JESUS) [to be] HEAD over ALL [THINGS] to the CHURCH… Abraham Moses Joshua Jesus Peter Paul James    METAPHORS OF THE CHURCH & HEADSHIP AUTHORITY MODELS Body of Christ (One HEAD – CHIEF SHEPHERD) Human Body (One HEAD – Two Heads is FREAK) Marriage (One HEAD – “husband is HEAD of the wife…”) Army (RANK and file – every soldier knows who they are accountable to) Shepherd (One HEAD – Sheep don’t vote) Family (One HEAD – kids don’t vote)   QUESTION: Doesn’t the Bible show a plurality of leadership? (Elders, Bishops, Deacons, Etc.)   UNDERSTANDING PRINCIPLES OF AUTHORITY Authority requires a SINGULAR HEAD The AUTHORITY that is given is ANSWERABLE to the one WHO PLACES him/her in that position of AUTHORITY    CHURCH GOVERNANCE LINES OF AUTHORITY The Father Jesus Pastor Leading-Elders Bishops Deacons Saints   ROMANS 13:1-2 NKJV … For there is NO AUTHORITY EXCEPT FROM GOD… 1 CORINTHIANS 11:3 NKJV …and the HEAD of CHRIST [is] GOD. EPHESIANS 1:22 NKJV And HE (THE FATHER)… gave Him (JESUS) [to be] HEAD over ALL [THINGS] to the CHURCH… 1 PETER 5:2-4 NKJV (Peter wrote to multiple churches) SHEPHERD the FLOCK of God which is among you, serving as OVERSEERS, NOT by compulsion but willingly, NOT for dishonest gain but eagerly; 3 NOR as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock; 4 and when the CHIEF SHEPHERD appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.   QUESTIONS: Is a Pastor-Ruled church the same as a dictatorship? Does a Pastor-Ruled church mean there is no accountability? Is a Pastor-Ruled church led by pride, arrogance and self-interests of the pastor?   LIFEPOINTE GOVERNANCE: LED/RULED by a PASTOR, DIRECTOR & CAPTAIN system PROTECTED by a BOARD of ELDER-MINISTERS (civil authority) REVIEWED by ACCOUNTANTS    WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH THIS TODAY??? PRAY for your Leaders PRACTICE trust in God’s ultimate Authority PROTECT the Culture of the Church MOVING FORWARD THIS WEEK WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THIS?  HOW WILL YOU USE IT TO HELP/SERVE OTHERS?

In this live episode of Office Hours recorded at FEEcon, Isaac and TK kick off season two of the podcast by talking about envy, competitiveness and take questions from the audience. Notes: - Is envy the most destructive vice? - Falling into comparison traps. - If other people achieving things makes you less happy, you are in a dangerous place. - How celebrating the success of others opens up new possibilities for you. - How you can use competitiveness to make your life better. - Learning to connect overcoming short-term pain with achieving long-term goals. - Use free work to move towards your career and not worrying what others think about it. - Learning selfishly Questions: - Is it possible that comparing yourself to others can lead to positives? - How do the philosopher mindset and the athlete mindset correlate to entrepreneurship? - How do you draw the line between doing free work that is advancing your career and being used? - Advice for hiring and managing people that have more experience than you? - How do you break through the argument that people can't teach those who don't share your life experience? Full show notes for each episode are available at discoverpraxis.com

We all experience learned helplessness in our lives much to our own detriment. Yet most people don't even know what it is. Sam breaks down what the effect is, from how it was discovered to what you can do about it. This episode helps us learn more traits to boost our growth mindset with the goal of making you a more positive and strategic thinker able to look at the bigger picture and less caught up in the problems life throws at us. BACKGROUND It was discovered by Marting Seligman. He restrained dogs in a box and then gave them an electric shock at the same time as ringing a bell. After repeating this the dogs learned they would get a shock every time they heard the bell. He then put them in a box with a small fence they could jump over. on the other side of the fence would not get a shock when the bell rang. However, when the bell rang they just cowered and accepted the shock. If he put a different dog in the box that had not received the electric shocks before it would try to escape and quickly learn that when the bell rang it would be safe on one side of the box and not on the other. This has been demonstrated with other animal studies such as rats and even elephants and just in teh last few years in zebrafish and tree-shrews. They found that elelphant trainers would tie a young elephant to a post and it would struggle to try and escape the rope. For hours and days they might pull against it before giving up. However, once they gave up they wouldn’t test it again. So once teh elephant becomes an adult that can rip up tree’s and knock down walls, if you tie it to the post it was tied to as a child it gives up and sits down until it’s released. amazing! LEARNED HELPLESSNESS IN HUMANS Learned helplessness in extreme scenarios has not been experimented on with humans but it has been proven to be similar to those observed in animals although there are more complicated factors at hand and they found two types of helplessness can arise. Original Experiment In one experiment they had three cases for the human test subjects. One group heard a loud noise and had a button in front of them. they needed to press the button 4 times to make it stop and they usually worked this out pretty fast. a second group had the same noise and hte same button. but when pressed the button did nothing and the subjects soon stopped bothering with the pointless button a third group had no noise at all. In the second test all participants heard a similar loud noise and had a box with a lever in front of them. When manipulated the lever turned off the noise. Groups 1 and 3 learned to turn off the noise quickly. group 2 who had become used to not being ablt to turn off the noise mostly didn’t try the lever and sat with an annoying noise playing. Deficits of Helplessness They deduced that learned helplessness creates three deficits in subjects, cognitive, motivational and emotional: Cognitive - the subject has the idea in their mind that their circumstances are uncontrollable Motivational - meaning that the subject doesn’t bother to respond to potential methods of escaping a negative situation Emotional - the subject takes on a depressed state when they are placed in a negative situation they cannot control TWO TYPES OF HELPLESSNESS Learned helplessness in humans can have two types. Universal helplessness and personal helplessness Universal helplessness is a sense of helplessness where the subject believes nothing can be done about the situation, no one can help alleviate the pain or discomfort. Personal helplessness is where the person believes that others may be able to find a solution or to avoid the pain or discomfort but that they are not personally capable of finding a solution. Both can lead to a state of depression but with different qualities. Universal helplessness leads to explanation of the problem being due to external factors that they can’t solve, whereas personal helplessness will tend to be explained due to internal reasons. As such personal helplessness is associated with a lower sense of self-esteem and can have a greater emotional impact. Neither are great and experiencing either is a bad place to be. They are more likely to arise when we are anxious or under stress and then just naturally over-time we are more likely to accumulate learned helplessness traits as we get older due to two fundamental laws of nature as time passes we are exposed to more situations where learned helplessness can arise as time passes our bodies age and we experience more loss of abilities and health complications, some of which are reversible yet they get accepted. As well as the immediate issues of not helping ourselves in the given situation it also has negative effects such as burnout, Depression, anxiety, phobias, shyness, and loneliness COMMON LEARNED HELPLESSNESS EXAMPLES CHILDREN IN SCHOOL Often a child performs badly in one topic, math or in my case languages. They perform poorly compared to the rest of the class and the teacher doesn’t provide useful examples the student can learn from or faith in the student that they can do better. The student gets used to being bad at the subject and only get’s worse and pays less attention in lessons and completes homework in a more resigned manner expecting to do badly. They lose confidence to use the skills in the rest of their live. i.e. a bad math student never has confidence to work with figures or a bad language student never tries to learn a new language and assumes they will not be able to. Example My friend who first told me about learned helplessness used to be bad at english, when he was a t school in Germany he had one teacher who gave him his test results back once and told him he’d never be any good at english and that he was a stupid child. like seriously WTF was this guy being a teacher but the effect was really damaging on my friends motivation to even try and get better at english so he always approached it with an attitude that he wouldn’t learn much and struggled even more than he needed to. Luckily Germans basically have to study english forever so he went on to become pretty much fluent, however, he still had really low confidence for a long time even when he was pretty much fluent until he found out about learned helplessness and how silly his mindset was. SHYNESS Another common example is shyness. People who feel shy in social situations can eventually feel there is nothing they can do to overcome their symptoms. When the believe their symptoms our outside of their control this can lead to them not engaging in social situations and making the shyness even more pronounced and compounding effects of anxiety and stress around the situation so they avoid it even more. I personally have suffered from shyness and language learning difficulties. but where i first encountered learned helplessness was with coding MY FIRST HELPLESSNESS QUALITY - CODING I realised my first ‘learned helplessness’ quality whilst my co-founder was teaching me some programming techniques for a new front end framework we we re writing. I am more the business guy that has just got into coding and not exactly the core developer here but I can code. However, as he was teaching me and giving me tasks to do I was constantly asking more questions whenever I became stuck or didn’t understand something. I didn’t have a lot of confidence in the code I was writing and generally made the assumption that what I was doing was probably wrong. I’d literally internalised that I was a bit of an idiot. He sat down and told me I wasn’t stupid that I was showcasing learned helplessness qualities to my problems. The solutions are in front of me I just need to look for them instead of assuming I will fail. I had developed a mindset that I am not clever enough to work things out by myself and that I need someone to show me the way every time. As a coder that is so dangerous. It causes you to be insecure about your actions and generally worse at everything from the start. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of your own demise. If every time you want to learn something new you expect it will take you forever and you do a million tutorials or need to hire a mentor you will never get anywhere on your own. He challenged me that I wasn’t as stupid as I was telling myself and that I could answer most of my questions myself. If I took more time to read the things I didn’t understand and follow all unknown paths to their end I would be able to answer any question I had. Everything was written in front of me I just needed to open my eyes and actually use my own initiative instead of depending on others. For a coder, this is really hard to admit but it changed me completely. I’m now reading parts of applications I would just never go into before because I just assumed I wouldn’t know what was going on. And the best thing is I'm totally getting it, I’m fixing my own problems and doing things without asking questions or without even using the internet. I literally feel like a new person. TIPS FOR BEING AN INDEPENDENT CODER (OR THINKER) Stuff you learn straight away and do and then forget and stop doing..: If trying to do something difficult. Don’t just start coding. Write out what you are going to do. The more complicated it is the more notes you should make. If you are going through someone else's code. Write down what each file does and each function within that file. methodically make a map of how things work. Write down the difficult questions and don’t stop until you have found all the answers. Google is your best friend. Everyone knows this, but how many times have you asked someone how to do something and they had to google it for you. It’s embarrassing. Before you ask someone anything, first ask google. (and depending on what you are doing, also try turning it off and on again) _Rubber duck philosophy _— before asking your friend (or if you don’t have a friend) but google hasn’t worked. Try the rubber duck philosophy. Have a hypothetical conversation with your rubber duck where you explain what you are doing, explain what the problem is. Maybe draw him a diagram. If you haven’t already solved the issue by just doing this you can then ask your duck the question of how to fix the problem. Then with a better map of where the problem lies break down what you do know and don’t know, this will help get to the root of the issues. You usually find that the answer is within you. So many times when explaining a problem you will say something along the lines of, ‘Well really I should just be doing x, y, z, method because this p, w, v, y, t method is a really stupid and ….’ STOP there. you’ve solved your problem. So having seen the radical change this caused, I thought I would investigate ‘Learned Helplessness’ some more and it lead to this whole post. Note — I am a successful entrepreneur who up to now thought he was constantly challenging himself to be healthier, wealthier, happier and wiser. And for the most part, I am. buuuut there are whole sides of me I’ve stopped developing and opportunities I’ve simply shut out because of things I’ve learned about myself over time that I’ve accepted as fact. Up to now i’ve broken down the problems and attributes of learned helplessness which has been a little depressing and given one example of how I dealt with it but now we are going to learn about the more scientific solutions we can use how to overcome any learned helplessness attribute so we can live happier and more successful lives. Winning! METHODS FOR OVERCOMING LEARNED HELPLESSNESS *Martin Selgman gives the example of top athletes. * To become number one in a given sport you usually have to rank most consistently over a year including many events. (just think about tennis or formula 1). So to reach number one it is likely that the top athlete will also fail on several occasions. So their real strength is the ability to bounce back from a defeat and ‘hang in there’. If they just quit after a winning streak they would never be so successful. Seligman showed that optimists are more successful in almost all areas including relationships, sport and general health, business and academic success. So how do we become more optimistic? EXPLANATORY STYLES Explanatory styles are essentially little stories we tell ourselves to make sense of life. We are interpretation machines adn we continuosly go about our do making up explanations and stories for life around us. Your explanatory style is your default pattern for digesting and explaining bad events that occur. There are three main elements to each explanation, the “3P’s”, which determine if we approach problems positively or negatively. Personalisation - the perception of causality Pessimists view events as internally caused. e.g. A player loses a chess match. therefore I am bad a chess. An optimist view things as externally caused and will allow for non-personal factors e.g. this opponent is amazing or today I am not feeling so good or the opponent was lucky Permanence - the perception of time Pessimists believe setbacks are permanent and truly fixed forever. e.g. I will never be good at chess or be able to beat this opponent. Optimists believe setbacks are only temporary e.g. I didn’t prepare well or I had a cold or I need to practice more, next time I will perform better Pervasiveness - the perception of space and further impacts Pessimists see a setback as pervasive and related to many area’s as well as the specific setback e.g. I failed at chess, I am not clever or good at anything Optimist see a setback as narrowly contained in the one area of life e.g. I still have a life outside of chess where I am smart and capable. PERCEPTION OF GOOD AND BAD SITUATIONS I just explained that a pessimist views negative situations in the opposite way to an optimist, they takes them personally and as a permanent and wide reaching thing. It is also important to see how someone explains a good situation. When encountered with a good situation the self explanations swap and the pessimist views this event as external and not personal and as specific and impermanent, whereas the optimist takes a good situation as internal, longer lasting and wider reaching. An individuals characteristic style of explaining events plays a major role in whether a learned helplessness trait will develop. A pessimistic explanatory style is associated with a greater likelihood of experiencing learned helplessness. A NICE EXAMPLE - BILL AND BEN THE FLOWERPOT MEN Bill and Ben apply for a promotion in the flowerpot factory. They both get rejected. Bill is a pessimist. He assumes, rightly or wrongly, that the reason he missed out is personal (I wasn’t good enough), and/or permanent (I’ll never get ahead), and/or pervasive (this ruins everything -what’s the point of living). Bill is likely to give up on himself and probably won’t try again and at risk of becoming depressed due to this explanation. In contrast, Ben is an optimist. Faced with the identical setback he assumes the cause is non-personal (the boss’s nephew got it), and temporary (I had a hangover that day), and non-pervasive (this impacts my career, but not my relationship, my hobbies, my gym membership etc -life goes on). As such life does go on and Ben is fine and more likely to try for other promotions and not carry the setback around with him into other area’s of his life. IDENTIFYING YOUR STYLE Martin Seligman’s site Authentic Happiness provides a free optimism assessment test to measure your level of optimistic permanence, pervasiveness and personalization. This allows you to recognize, and therefore change, your descriptions to become more optimistic. HOW TO ACTUALLY PREVENT LEARNED HELPLESSNESS METHOD 1 - ALTERING OUR EXPLANATION STYLE When faced with loss and disappointment we should try asking ourselves these key questions to dig into current and past self explanations of problems that arise: Personal Did you blame yourself? If so, in hindsight did that prove accurate? Are you really to blame, or was it just bad luck or a factor dependant on the situation or people around you? Permanent Did you assume it would last forever? If so, were those predictions accurate? How long can it really last? Will it always be like this or will it pass? Pervasive Did you assume it would ruin everything in your life? If so, in hindsight was that truly accurate? What does it really affect in your life? What in your life will continue unaffected? Try and review your explanatory style wherever possible and challenge any pessimistic explanations that have become your default setting. Review and reduce the negative impact of past setbacks and try to keep this technique to encourage more resilience in the future. Next time life gives you lemons don’t make lemonade. Review the Personal, Permanent and Pervasive model instead! METHOD 2 - ABC METHOD When we face dissapointment or negativity of any sort we can use the ABC method to begin to change feelings of helplessness and pessimistic perspectives. The method was developed by Dr. Albert Ellis and Dr. Martin Seligman to allow a more flexible response to negativity and is a next step antidote to a defeatist mindset of learned helplessness. A - Adversity Descibe the event that happened. Leave out any evaluations or judgements. Simply describe the event that happened in a way that is as unemotional as possible. Example - ‘A colleague missed an important deadline and put the team behind schedule for the rest of the project' B - Belief Explain how the adveristy was interpreted. Do not state how you think it should be interpreted, but what your actual default belief or interpretation of the event was. Example - “I can’t believe how selfish the team member is and how unwilling they are to take things seriously. This shows their overall lack of dedication" C - Consequence Think about the feelings and actions that result from these beliefs. Go back with a level of introspection and ask yourself how you handled it. Be sure to go deep. How and when do those emotions and feelings lead to certain behaviours and actions. Example - “I am overcome with anger and frustration. I feel betrayed and discouraged. I noticed I began raising my voice and becoming hostile and sharp towards the team member" D - Disputation Do you have grounds to dispute these automatic reactions? What are the possible repercussions of following these emotions? Consider whether there are any greater benefits to moving on from the situaion and stopping this default (impulsive) reaction before it starts. Example - “Maybe I was overreacting. I don’t know the full situation yet. Maybe they had a bad week or tried to get the work done and ran into issues. By getting stressed I just annoy myself and others and further hinder the project by reducing our ability to work together." E - Energisation Did you manage to turn things around? Put all your focus on the positive feelings that ensue as a result of reframing your thoughts, emotions and behaviours. Ask yourself, what’s different between how I just handled this situation versus how I would normally handle it? Relish in those personal rewards! Example - “I am proud of myself for intervening in my automatic reactions and to be able to stop them part way through. I’m happy that I’m accomplishing more by looking at things in a more reasonable manner" Regularly applying the ABC method will get you into the habitual groove of optimistic response and avoid damaging pessimism. When you have practiced it a few times you get to notice a natural reframing of situations in response to negative events. *Let’s practice it now. * This ABC method has a stupid name. It is actually ABCDE and to be honest these letters were only chosen because they are catchy and they words they represent aren’t the best words to describe the action at each point! The result is I am annoyed and don’t use the method A - Adversity There is a method that is helpful for being positive but has a silly name B - belief I think it has a really stupid name and is therefore also a stupid method C- Consequence I didn’t take it seriously because i was pre-occupied by it’s stupid name rather than the actual method D - Disputation I am being silly and wasting an opportunity to learn a better way of living my life as a calm and happier person that gets on with people better and can be more productive and kinder to those around me. I should try out the method anyway and maybe give it a better name if I am so concerned. Like ‘The deep dive method’ or… screw it actually perhaps it is a good name after all. I like the ABC method name. E - Energisation Wow what a great example. I just made myself laugh at how stupid I am and feel more positive about the problem and more willing to use it to fix other things I react to negatively. Life is fabulous. and I have an example for my blog. Double win. METHOD 3 - SMART GOALS After diagnosing our attribution style and learning to overcome pessimistic thinking, the final method is to understand that we are in control and take ownership of our response to situations and the next steps we take. Believing that a failure is out of our control or a situation is unlikely to change leads to worse performance. To achieve greater sense of self control we should practice active goal setting. This is proven to increase behaviour change as it increases your desire to act in a particular way (motivation). setting sensible goals that are likely to be achieved provides a sense of control over our outcomes, even more so when we begin to meet those goals on a consistent basis. Specific You need to know exactly what you want to achieve and not some vague goal. Questions: What is it exactly that I want to achieve? Where is this going to happen? When am I going to make this happen? Who is going to be involved? How am I going to make this happen? Why do I want to reach this goal? e.g. I want to build a sustainable business with revenue List concrete, tangible outcomes. Give names, locations, offices, cities, etc. Give specific dates and timelines. Work backwards. Give names and team members as well as potential partners and others to lean on. With all the information above, lay out a detailed strategy, tactic, and plan. Tie it into your bigger vision for yourself and your business. These relate to your principles, values, missions – the things that you stay true to. Measurable To track your progress it must be measurable. This helps provide feedback for your brain that it is gaining a sense of self control. Questions: Make it easy to determine where you stand with your progress Help refine exactly what it is you want e.g. My business must hit $10k monthly recurring revenue by the end of the year At this point don’t take the easy option and set small micro goals that are easy too easy to achieve. Achievable You don’t want it to be too easy but also if it is too hard it is a pointless goal. You won’t be able to reach it and be more likely ot give up and fall back into learned helplessness traits. Questions: Is my target really achievable? What will happen if I fall short? Are there any constraints or obstacles to overcome? What do I need to sacrifice to achieve it? Relevant How relevant is the goal? Will it be fulfilling to me as an individual? Do I really want or need it or is a different goal more worthy of my effort? Does it actually fit in with your other goals Question: Why is this goal important to me? What is worth sacrificing to achieve this goal? Will this goal really make me happier or am I just trying to prove something to others? Timed You need a timeline ideally with sub deadlines for any goal to ensure you are on track and that it actually happens. It will help you identify neccessary steps at different points and stick to the actions required to achieve your goals. Without a timeline there is no pressure to start accomplishing the goal which allows things to slip away. Establish a time frame Set a deadline or time for completion Set benchmarks this will help track progress on route to goal helps maintain motivation over time Check in regularly are there steps you can be taking right now to help achieve a long term goal what should be done over the next week to contribute to the goal? what should be done over the next month to contribute to the goal? Practicing it SMART goals are great paired with something to keep you on track. There are many goal setting apps out there that do a good job. If you are really serious about a certain goal then I highly reccomend using stickK which allows you to set stakes and even take donations to antiu-charities if you don’t keep up with a certain goal. FINDING ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS The Great Pokemon Rescue The same friend who was told he was shit at english has another example where we can take ownership of our problems When he was a young child and the Pokemon craze was all the rage he finally got his first Pokemon game and had collected a few Pokemon, but after a few hours the Pokemon were getting very low on health and one had already fainted. He had missed the tutorial showing how to revive a Pokemon and he genuinely believed his Pokemon were all going to die. He sat on a wall and cried by himself. Anyone who ever played Pokemon i’m sure will feel for him and how terrible this must have felt! His mother asked him what was wrong and he explained. She got out the Pokemon book she had purchased for him along with the Pokemon game, within a few minutes she found the instructions of how to revive Pokemon and joy of joys they were all saved. My friend learned that when you have a specific problem you can research it and find solutions. This has helped him to become a great coder as he is great at reading the documentation to understand what he is taking on before he starts, and as soon as a problem arises he knows it can be fixed by research. Use Google Yourself Just like my example of coding many people are afraid of computers or coding or anything technical and become dependant on others to fix their problems. But so much of the time everything we need to know is on google. Myself and every developer that ever existed get so many questions from people who aren’t coders asking fairly simple things to do with computers that I don’t know how to do either. e.g. connect a printer, set up some software, connect to a network… All I do when asked how to fix something on this device i’ve never used before is google the problem in front of the other person and show them how to fix it. Yet when the same problem arises again or something similar they still come straight back despite being told that i don’t know how their device works and I need to use google which is a free resource they also have available. This is a simple example for technical vs non technical people. but there are many other examples where we get super bogged down in fairly simple questions How do I ask a girl on a date? How do I study to get a higher grade in my test? How do I exercise more? How do I find time to meditate? How do I start a business? These questions basically answer themselves by just doing it and there is no real magic sauce, sure you can learn better techniques for these things SUMMARY So we’ve found that we can all develop learned helplessness traits but with a positive attitude we can reduce our likelihood to be so prone. And by assessing ourselves we can overcome our self imposed limitations lead happier and more successful lives! BOOKS Get any of the books free on audible (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Free-Trial-Digital-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?tag=samharris48%E2%80%9321) Learned Helplessness: A Theory for the Age of Personal Control (amazon.co.uk/Learned-Helplessness-Theory-Personal-Control/dp/0195044673/ref=sr_1_9?crid=2FN9MD07YFN10&keywords=learned+helplessness&qid=1580448650&s=books&sprefix=learned+he%2Cstripbooks%2C348&sr=1-9) Written by psychologist Christopher Peterson and the original learned helplessness researchers, Steven F. Maier and Martin E. P. Seligman Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/1473684315/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2FN9MD07YFN10&keywords=learned+helplessness&qid=1580448540&s=books&sprefix=learned+he%2Cstripbooks%2C348&sr=1-2) Martin Seligman breaks down how to lead a positive and successful life Mindset - The Psychology Behind Success - Carol dweck (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindset-Updated-Changing-Fulfil-Potential/dp/147213995X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=7D6QOZ4LEMJX&keywords=carol+dweck&qid=1580448738&s=books&sprefix=carol+dw%2Cstripbooks%2C344&sr=1-1) The original book on growth mindset and developing a positive attitude. Great read! VIDEOS Martin Seligman’s TED Talk on the “New Era of Positive Psychology” (https://youtu.be/9FBxfd7DL3E) A classic talk Psychologist Lance Luria on the differences between learned helplessness and learned optimism. You’ll learn about the amazing ability of the human brain to train itself, as well as the benefits of meditation, mindfulness, and other ways to link the health of the mind and body. A quick summary of Seligman’s book Learned Optimism (https://youtu.be/2hHNq45rEnU) A nice animated review that covers all the main points in under 5 minutes Contact me You can find out more about me and chat about anything you like Sam: Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/samjamsnaps/) Quora (https://www.quora.com/profile/Sam-Harris-58) Twitter (https://twitter.com/samharristweets) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharris48/) Sam's blog - SamWebsterHarris.com (https://samwebsterharris.com/) Support the Show - Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/growthmindset) SCIENTIFIC LINKS Abramson, L. Y., Seligman, M. E. P., & Teasdale, J. D. (1978). Learned helplessness in humans: Critique and reformulation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 87, 49-74. doi:10.1037/0021-843X.87.1.49 Dweck, C. (1975). The role of expectations and attributions in the alleviation of learned helplessness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 31, 674-685. doi:10.1037/h0077149 Tayfur, O., Karapinar, P. B., & Camgoz, S. M. (2013). The mediating effects of emotional exhaustion cynicism and learned helplessness on organizational justice-turnover intentions linkage. International Journal of Stress Management, 20, 193-221. doi:10.1037/a0033938 Thompson, J. (2010). Learned helplessness: You’re not trapped. GoodTherapy. Retrieved from https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/therapy-learned-helplessness/ Wu, W. (2009, February 8). Learned helplessness: How to tame a baby elephant. [Personal Blog]. Retrieved from https://waynewu.wordpress.com/2009/02/08/learned-helplessness/ Subscribe! If you enjoyed the podcast please subscribe and rate it. And of course, share with your friends! Special Guest: Sam Harris.

Questions: - Is the social value of college unique to that environment? Can you replicate it outside of college? - What if you aren’t an entrepreneurial self-starter, should you go to college? Topics Discussed: - A great iTunes review - All problems are knowledge problems - Moral knowledge vs. pragmatic knowledge - Answers to questions you don’t have aren’t valuable - Is college actually valuable socially? - Age segregation in school - Do people go to college for the social value? - Horizontal vs. vertical networks - Going to college to feel normal - What a degree signals to employers - Success won’t come from you doing what you’re told - Being an adult

In this weirdly chill episode, we talk about memoirs and track cycling and magical fantasy and female relationships and six-legged octopuses. Plus: The mystique of a book club in which you might actually read a book you enjoy. You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray Books and Other Media Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self by Manoush Zomorodi The Weekend Effect: The Life Changing Benefits of Taking Time Off and Challenging the Cult of Overwork by Katrina Onstad Unplugged: Evolve from Technology to Upgrade Your Fitness, Performance, Consciousness by Brian Mackenzie, Andy Galpin, and Phil White Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green The Rider by Tim Krabbé The Queen of Blood by Sarah Beth Durst (Anna mistakenly calls this The Blood Queen) Malazan Book of the Fallen (series) by Steven Erikson Octodad: Dadliest Catch (video game) Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain Spill Zone by Scott Westerfeld and Alex Puvilland Read the webcomic Present by Leslie Stein Pandemic Legacy Season 1 (board game) Bring Your Own Book (party game) Simon and Martina (YouTube video series) From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty Links, Articles, and Things Quality Time app Cycling Track Men's Team Pursuit Gold Medal Finals - 2012 Olympics Lucy Knisley apparently also has a book about her high school experiences in the works, as well as the one Matthew is totally unexcited about on her recent pregnancy and new baby Snakes and Ladders (board game) Blog post about building a Raspberry Pi powered Readers’ Advisory Machine in which there is a photo of Anna and Matthew playing The Game of Life: Pirates of the Caribbean – At World's End (Matthew clearly forgets what the actual rules were, but they were terrible) PHX Zine Fest Books on my shelf I have not read & Two-Fisted Library Studies (zines made by Anna and Matthew) Changing Hands Bookstore in Phoenix Our bonus episode on the American Library Association Annual conference and BookExpo America 2017 Questions Is the second book being a dud the “curse of the trilogy”? What is the best worst board game you have ever played? Do you ever recommend YouTube channels to your friends? What channels? Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, November 21st, when we’ll be talking about Dystopian Fiction! Then come back on, December 5th when we’ll be discussing Favourite Childhood Books!

It’s October which means it’s time for our Halloween episode! We talk about our favourite spooooooky movies, books, comics, video games, and more! Plus: Early Canadian history! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi Books (& relevant links) Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix The Little People (Nazi Leprechauns) Armageddon Film FAQ by Dale Sherman; which was mentioned way back in Episode #11 on Religion (fiction), of all things Through the Woods by Emily Carroll The Girl Under the Bed by Dave Chua and Xiao Yan Uzumaki by Junji Ito Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu by Junji Ito Urban/Paranormal Fantasy for non-spooky Halloween reading: Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews The Mediator series by Meg Cabot The Voodoo Killings by  Kristi Charish Women of the Otherworld series by Kelly Armstrong Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton Stephen King and horror, maybe-horror, and not-at-all-horror books: The Stand On Writing: A Memoir of Craft Desperation Under the Dome Gunslinger (Dark Tower Series) The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins Stephen King’s progeny, Joe Hill, writes great horror books too: The Fireman Heart-Shaped Box NOS4R2 Locke and Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez Wytches, Vol. 1 by Scott Snyder and Jock The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman Art by Camille Chew (and more witches) How To Make Calling Yourself a Witch Your Whole Personality The scare your child(hood self) silly section: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz and Stephen Gammell The Little Giant Book of "True" Ghost Stories: 84 Scary Tales by Arthur Myers, John Macklin, Margaret Rau, and Jim Sharpe The Ghost Wore Gray by Bruce Coville Other ghost books from Anna’s childhood include Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn, Ghost Cadet by Elaine Marie Alphin, and A Ghost in the Window by Betty Ren Wright (and a lot of other books by Betty Ren Wright) Goosebumps by R. L. Stine Fear Street by R. L. Stine Christopher Pike Haunting at Hill House by Shirley Jackson We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson The House on the Borderland by Richard Corben, Simon Revelstroke, and William Hope Hodgson Coraline by Neil Gaiman Comic version adapted/art by P. Craig Russell Unheimlich and the uncanny ZombieWorld: Champion Of The Worms by Mike Mignola and Pat McEown Tintin Yves Chaland Ligne Claire Liō by Mark Tatulli Slug Theater Salt girl Kitaro and the Great Tanuki War by Shigeru Mizuki Mokumokuren Movies It Follows (no clowns) It (clowns) The Cabin in the Woods Tucker & Dale vs. Evil Evil Dead Evil Dead the Musical Ginger Snaps Ginger Snaps Back The Lure (“evil mermaids that run a nightclub, and also vampires are involved”) What We Do in the Shadows Coraline (the movie) Video Games Dead Space Gone Home PT Silent Hill Anatomy Matthew managed to combine two different streaming shows Let’s Nope (horror games, sometimes terrible) Watch+Play (many genres including horror, always terrible) Links, Articles, and Things Halloween tombstones made by friend of the podcast Colleen Frakes The Wikipedia page for Jack-o’-lanterns includes photos of some made from turnips Upper Canada and Lower Canada Upper Canada Village Photo from the cocktail party in an abandoned hospital Matthew mentioned Selkie Jump scare Questions Is it worse to see horrible images or have to picture them in your mind? Do you read things for Halloween? Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all our Halloween favourites, follow us on Twitter, join our Facebook Group, or send us an email! Join us again on Tuesday, October 17th, when we’ll talk about Non-Fiction Travel. Then come back on Tuesday, November 7th, when we’ll be discussing recent books we’ve read!  

Curiosity in the Leadership Lab! Join Dr. Wayne Applewhite, Co-Founder of Just Leadership, LLC, former Associate Professor and Adjunct Professor for Boston University, and the host of Affect!, as he and his guest, Jen Milius, discuss: Curiosity in the Leadership Lab! When you think of leadership, whether you are considering what happens at work, at home, in the classroom, on the sports field, or where ever your thoughts might take you, “Curiosity” has a place. When one experiments, it is most often because that person or group is curious about what they might find, or not! Just like now, I am very curious to see where this discussion takes us Monday Night! If you are too, continue reading! Questions: Is curiosity good? Is curiosity bad? How is curiosity perceived from peers, subordinates, supervisors, leaders, significant others, teachers, students, or followers? Does curiosity really have a place? This upcoming episode with Jen Milius can help us answer those and most likely other questions that are dancing around in our minds! Join us on Monday as we talk about, trust, perception, extending the knowledge, and bridging the gaps, through Curiosity in the Leadership Lab!  

Join Dr. Wayne Applewhite, Co-Founder of Just Leadership, LLC, former Associate Professor and Adjunct Professor for Boston University, and the host of Affect!, as he and his guest, Jen Milius, discuss: Curiosity in the Leadership Lab! When you think of leadership, whether you are considering what happens at work, at home, in the classroom, on the sports field, or where ever your thoughts might take you, “Curiosity” has a place. When one experiments, it is most often because that person or group is curious about what they might find, or not! Just like now, I am very curious to see where this discussion takes us Monday Night! If you are too, continue reading! Questions: Is curiosity good? Is curiosity bad? How is curiosity perceived from peers, subordinates, supervisors, leaders, significant others, teachers, students, or followers? Does curiosity really have a place? This upcoming episode with Jen Milius can help us answer those and most likely other questions that are dancing around in our minds! Join us on Monday as we talk about, trust, perception, extending the knowledge, and bridging the gaps, through Curiosity in the Leadership Lab! Curious? Call in and give us your thoughts or listen in and think with us. No matter if you call in or listen in, this 50+ minute episode will leave us with room for thought! Don’t miss it!!!

Main Topic: Systematic Theology: Anthropology Pt. 2 Questions: Is there any veracity to the Bible code?   Do we have to be separate from the world to be in Jesus?   NoOtherDoctrine.org LeadershipFromTheCross.org CCFCollege.com CrossFellowship.org

Main Topic: Doctrine of the Trinity Pt. 3 Questions: Is praying for the dead Biblical? NoOtherDoctrine.org LeadershipFromTheCross.org CCFCollege.com CrossFellowship.org

Main Topic: Pneumatology: Gifts of the Holy Spirit Pt. 3 Questions: Is ‘abiding in God’ considered a “work” to earn salvation?   NoOtherDoctrine.org LeadershipFromTheCross.org CCFCollege.com CrossFellowship.org

Ed and Sally Baker to kick off a new series, and a new year with the first in our series called "Big Questions" answering the Questions Is the Bible valid? We learn the history of the bible and how we know that there were eye witness accounts to the Story of the Bible. A story of Redemption.

Meditation – continue as described yesterday with one meditation on ultimate Bodhicitta and one on relative Bodhicitta. Continuation of the discussion on transmuting the death process. If have habitual practice of converting adversity into the path then when the final adversity of death arises you will be able to convert that. During the dying process go back and forth between the meditations on ultimate and relative Bodhicitta. Discussion of dream yoga as best preparation for the bardo of becoming. Importance of not identifying with body or mind but staying with awareness. How do you know when your dharma practice is working? When self-grasping gets softer – less frequent and less intense. Questions: Is rigpa an individual mind or part of a larger universal mind? Why are there four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism and what are the differences? Many of the great yogis had families – how were they able to do both? When you were explaining the 9 stages of shamatha, does it only apply to the practice settling the mind in its natural state? Meditation starts at: 3:10 (silent, front loaded at start of session)

Ashley Lobo joins us on Audiogyan to share his philosophical thoughts and connect the dots of the western world to India's spirituality through dance. Mark Twain once said, “Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt.” Seems like Mark Twain knew one of the secrets of Bhagwad Gita. Do things without any expectations. To explore these philosophical thoughts and connect the dots of the western world to India's spirituality through dance, I have Ashley Lobo with us Audiogyan. He needs no introduction for people in the field of performing arts. But for those who don't know, Ashley is considered to be a spearhead of international dance in India. His career in performing arts comprises of over 35 years of performing, choreographing, and teaching - in India and overseas. Questions * Is dance creation, invention, or discovery? Why dance is considered so divine art form? Did Dance start as a solo activity or a group? * You engage with Jazz, Classical Ballet, Contemporary, Urban, and Funk. What is your overall process of reconciling age-old traditions of yoga with contemporary dance movements? Can you also talk about the Prana Paint technique? * "Prana Paint" for me is an indicator of a person going deep enough to understand spirituality and philosophy. Can you talk about Dance as a means of self-help? All throughout since this art form existed to the current times of social fragmentation, stress, and most important, anxiety. * In one of your articles published in 2017 during your Agni production through Navdhara India Dance Theatre (NIDT), you mentioned "Passion can create or destroy. In creating we destroy. And in destroying we create." - Can you elaborate on that, please? I am interested in knowing what got destroyed as we kept evolving dance as an art form / as a practice. * What is the long term future of dance form? From the world view of Online, Social distancing norms to group dances, couples dancing to know each other or a solo performer the only person in Auditorium. What are your thoughts and views?