It’s a good question. Why? Maybe we should always be asking why. When we don’t know why we’re doing something, what’s the point? Whether it’s for money. Or for power. Or to get something. Or maybe it’s a more altruistic reason. The ‘why’ we do things is critical and isn’t…
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KEW Acid Tests Questions. What Do We Want to Know?
Who Am I? Why Are We Here? What is My Purpose? Are We Living ‘Right’? Questions like this – the ‘big questions’ have been around since antiquity. It’s fun to think about when our brains reached a point in evolution where we started having luxury time. Because it’s a luxury…
KEW The Acid Test Assumptions. Using DNA and Nature to Advise the Big Questions (Episode 106)
Before embarking on an investigation any researcher worth their salt will state their assumptions. This lays the groundwork for what is to come and allows the reader to contextualize the investigation. In regular science, this is often ignored. It’s a shame we seem to be losing this important piece of…
The Flow-Based Neo Pseudo-Scientific Method Approach (Flow-Based Inquiry – KEW Episode 105)
The KEW Acid Tests ask how Nature can inform the big questions humans ask. “Why are we here?”, “Who am I?”, and “What is our purpose” have puzzled humans for years – perhaps millennia. In the past 4,000 years or so, we have employed philosophy, religion, and science as mechanisms…
KEW The Acid Test: The Problem and The Questions (Episode 104)
What is the question!!!???? Say you are studying the effectiveness of a vaccine against some pathogen. What is the question? Too many times we get wrapped up in the specifics. The details. The minutia. We forget WHY we are doing this in the first place. In this case, I would…
KEW Episode 103: Human Pros and Cons. We’re not as ‘evolved’ as we think.
As we conduct the great KEW acid tests I have to establish a baseline. In this episode I want to touch on a few elements of the ‘human personality’ and our ‘global value system’ that I think we can improve on. I think humans are great, but there are a…
KEW Episode 102: The Acid Test. Looking to Nature to Address Life’s Big Questions
I apologize that it has been nearly a month since my re-introduction post and Episode 101. I have been overwhelmed with thoughts, ideas, tangents, trailheads, and rabbit holes regarding this new direction for my blog/podcast/and YouTube channel. In this Episode, and over the next 4-5 I will start to unravel…
KEW Interview with David McRaney of “You Are Not So Smart” and “How Minds Change”
In early 2021 I was fortunate to catch David McRaney for one of my first interviews about Curiosity. This week David is on the Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman, the most popular podcast on the subject of psychology. David also has a new book out called, “How Minds Change”…
The Secret to Life?
Stop Glamorizing Achievement From the Kardashians to Elon Musk, we humans love elevating others to hero status. Stati? Statuses? Anyway, while this practice is annoying, it is also harmful because by ranking someone at the top we necessarily place people at the bottom. Money. Power. Good looks. ‘Success’. We are…
One Simple Way to Reduce People Pleasing
Put your phone in ‘do not disturb’ mode forever I struggle with people pleasing. After over a decade of coaching and therapy, I understand how to manage my old belief that other people dictate my value. It is difficult for people pleasers to be accommodating and helpful without becoming a…