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What Really Matters?

By kpluseiswise | October 12, 2023December 20, 2023 by kpluseiswise

What matters to you? What is important? What do you value (Episode 46 Values)? We say things matter to us when we put energy into developing, protecting, and thinking about them. Our families matter. Our relationships matter. Things that matter have meaning to us. What is meaningful to me might not be meaningful to you. But as I have said before, I think there are some things that have universal meaning. They matter to us all. Life. Peace. Calm. Justice. Love. Integrity. Many would…

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KEW Acid Test: Why Ask These Questions? (Episode 108)

By kpluseiswise | January 19, 2023January 12, 2023 by kpluseiswise

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,…

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KEW Acid Tests Questions. What Do We Want to Know?

By kpluseiswise | January 12, 2023January 9, 2023 by kpluseiswise

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 to think. To ask these kinds of questions means we’ve already met our basic needs. At some point, we could sit down and take a…

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KEW The Acid Test Assumptions. Using DNA and Nature to Advise the Big Questions (Episode 106)

By kpluseiswise | January 5, 2023January 3, 2023 by kpluseiswise

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 discourse puzzle. Anyway, when it comes to the Acid Tests, most of my assumptions are ‘what we already know’ kinds of things. -DNA is…

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‘You are You, and You are Me’ KEW Episode 97: A New World View

By kpluseiswise | May 13, 2022May 10, 2022 by kpluseiswise

Do you put on your oxygen mask first? Then what? We help our kids, our partners, the people sitting next to us. But we don’t think too much about what to do next. We are sort of obsessed with taking care of ourselves. And some of us suck at it. If you, like me, struggle with codependency, people pleasing, and conflict avoidance you may actually struggle with putting your needs first. Getting your needs met…

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‘We Are . . . . Earth. Solving the Problem Together’ Preview KEW Episode 97: New World View

By kpluseiswise | May 11, 2022May 17, 2022 by kpluseiswise

A lot of people may have an issue with this Episode. I really don’t have a feel for how many people believe we are all connected. KEW Episode 10 focused on the idea of Connectedness, but I don’t know if it is a popular concept. To me it is obvious that we are both individuals and also connected. Call it the dual nature of humans. Or dualism. Or individualism AND communism. Any kind of ism.…

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KEW Episode 76: Why Am I?

By kpluseiswise | December 17, 2021 by kpluseiswise

You’ve likely pondered the great, ‘Who Am I?’ question. But what about the ‘Why Am I?’ The ‘why’ is a great question no matter the situation. Of the who, what, when, where, why, and how questions the ‘why’ is probably the most challenging. Is there a meaning to life? Do you have a purpose? Does anything matter? Hundreds, if not thousands, of philosophers have weighed in on the great question, but I’m not sure there’s…

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FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 57:

By kpluseiswise | December 13, 2021 by kpluseiswise

Being confused is no fun. Think about a time in your life when you have conflicting things going on. Maybe it’s whether or not to leave your job. Or break up with a partner. Or to have kids or not. As humans there is a lot of this cognitive dissonance. When you feel split into two or more pathways. Or two or more personalities. In the 80’s we would joke about being ‘crazy’, having ‘multiple…

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KEW Episode 65: How Do We Know if We Really Know What We Think We Know?

By kpluseiswise | October 1, 2021 by kpluseiswise

To some, this is a ridiculous question steeped in pointless naval gazing. To others, it’s a comedic take on people who ask the ‘big questions’. To others this is a reasonable assessment of what we want to understand. To me, it’s all three at the same time. And maybe that’s the point. And like most rhetorical questions, I don’t really want to KNOW if I really know what I think I know. Rather, I’m curious…

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FLASHBACK! KEW Curiosity Interview Series 8: Bernhard Kutzler

By kpluseiswise | September 13, 2021 by kpluseiswise

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 think about why some people become household names and others’ work is lost out in the world of cyberspace. The simple answer is marketing. But…