I’m not sure where I heard this phrase but I always thought it had a nice balance of being both funny and thought provoking. Like, many a truth comes out in jest. It sounds like I’m kidding, but this is a serious question. How do we ever ‘know’ anything? Go…
Tag: personal growth
FLASHBACK! KEW Curiosity Interview Series 9: Marcas Hemmila
In the 9th installment of my Curiosity interview series I talked with Mindset Architect, Marcas Hemmila. You can find out about his multiple YouTube channels, podcast, blogs, and consulting at his Linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/discoverignite/ He’s been through a lot, learned a lot, and has a lot to say about the…
KEW Episode 64: The Forest for the Trees
I’m using the Forest for the Trees metaphor to suggest that humans have become exceptionally myopic. The only reason I know what myopic means is because after defending my Master’s Thesis a professor proclaimed that I was very myopic – meaning I had a terribly narrow view of the question…
Preview KEW Episode 64: The Forest for the Trees
I love the ‘forest for the trees’ metaphor because it describes a fundamental facet of human nature. Most of the time we tend to be myopic, only seeing what is right in front of us. For whatever reasons, our species is great at believing what our eyes see. Our ‘field…
FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 47: Changing Behavior Changes Beliefs
For years I was stuck trying to THINK my way into changing my behaviors, beliefs, habits, actions. Not that I was all that bad or needed massive changes, but there were things I wanted to be different. I would get anxious a lot. I would get defensive sometimes. I would…
KEW Episode 63: The Two Types of Shoulds
I recorded this episode after replying to a YouTube comment about good and bad types of change (Episode 61: Change is Hard, but Resisting Change is Wrong). The commenter made a good point that sometimes we change in a bad direction instead of making a positive change. I agreed but…
KEW Preview Episode 63: The Two Types of Shoulds
This Episode started out examining the different kinds of shoulds. Some shoulds come from extrinsic sources like my dad telling me I needed to get a job and not study philosophy in college, or your church telling you not to be gay. Extrinsic shoulds can be pretty easy to identify…
FLASHBACK! KEW Curiosity Interview Series 8: Bernhard Kutzler
I was so happy to meet Bernhard Kutzler. I told him we were kindred spirits because we were asking such similar questions. He agreed. He also agreed to interview with me to discuss Curiosity. My first thoughts about Bernhard were why no one else has heard of him. I still…
KEW Episode 62: Change (cont)
Apparently I didn’t say quite enough about change in last weeks’ Episode 62: Change is Hard, but Resisting Change is WRONG! because when I say down to record this weeks’ Episode I just kept talking about CHANGE. Change. It’s the one thing we can count on. Since the Big Bang,…
FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 46: Values
Values, man. If ever there were an oversimplification in the whole personal growth or self-help category, this is it. What do you value? What are your values? It sounds sooo simple. But that’s deceptive. For me, defining my values took WEEKS. And, worse than that, I THOUGHT I knew what…