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 it crazy to think we might not know it? It seems to me the tools we have traditionally used to answer these questions, like Religion,…
I hope you are as lucky as I am and have someone like Paul Gadola in your life. I this second part of our chat, the conversation starts firing on all cylinders. Lots of topics covered including Paul’s new book, “Integrity and Peace. Loving your neighbor and the Path of Truth” (available direct here), his background in hiking, the outdoors, and teaching, The Are vs Should Problem, and religion. Those of you patient enough to…
I sat down with my buddy Paul Gadola again, this time in real life! In my first live interview Paul and I talk about his new book (more about the book here), the Are vs Should Problem, and literally everything else. That’s not entirely true, but we did talk for two hours. So I am releasing our (largely unedited) discussion in two parts. Paul embodies the entirety of the mind/body/spirit. He has it all. Which…
Thinking about the person you ARE and the person you feel like you SHOULD BE can be confusing. I think we mostly know when we are doing something that fits with our ‘core values’, but sometimes we don’t. Have you ever wondered what your motivation is in a certain situation? For example, you find a $50 bill on the ground. Do you immediately stuff it in your pocket? Do you look around to see who…
In this first of ten Curiosity interviews I introduce you to Paul Gadola. As I told Paul a few days ago, he is someone who has climbed the mountain, attainted Wisdom, and come back down the mountain to share the Wisdom with us. He has not only put a lot of energy into figuring some things out, he is putting a lot of energy into explaining what he has learned. Chief among his tenets is…
In this episode I moved closer to figuring out the basic set of issues one needs to address when seeking enlightenment, personal growth, self help, or similar human growth efforts. Along with identifying values, identifying beliefs (limiting and otherwise), and getting to know ‘who you are’ I think understand HOW we believe is important. In recording this episode, I realized that faith and trust are critical terms to understand. Like DOUBT, we define faith and…
I mean, really, who are you? No, I mean, really, who are you? Who Am I? Do we know? Do we care? I, for one, think it is important, even CRITICAL to know who I am, and presumably, for you to know who you are. I’m sure there are people out there who disagree with me, but I really can’t get my head into that space nor do I think those folks are coming here…
I didn’t grow up with any religion. That may seem weird to you, or it may be completely normal. In the grand suite of people in the U.S.A., I think it’s less common NOT to grow up religious. I don’t know about other non-religious kids, but I always had a keen interest in the spiritual world. My natural curiosity led me to learn about everything from ghosts to Buddha. I tend toward ancient cultural belief…
Because I grew up without religion, I always thought faith was something you only had for religion things. Later I came to understand faith is something we have when we don’t have enough information. Or we don’t know the outcome, but we desire a certain outcome. Faith is believing. When I was becoming a scientist, I realized that faith even had a place in that world. Because science rarely proves anything, the people must decide…
I have been wondering a lot lately about trust and faith. I realized years ago that faith played a much bigger role in science than my academic colleagues were willing to admit. And I also struggle a bit with ‘trust issues’, both with respect to people and businesses. So, like most things that interest me I decided to podcast about these elements to better understand them. I consider faith to be belief in things, or…