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- Regaining our footing when "it all just seems too much," "hopeless," or "no one cares" (aka: pondering remedies for despair) ...
Hidden Brain audio/podcast Book related to the last speaker
- Is instructing "weirdness" good, bad or both for our children within our society, ...past and present?
Excerpt: As an ethicist, I believe that the Enlightenment represented genuine progress in moral ideas. Human beings really do have an innate dignity, derived from our power of reason, that constrains the ways that we are permitted to treat one another. I also agree, at least in some ways, with the influential critiques put forward by thinkers such as Hegel and Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, to the effect that the Enlightenment overemphasized individualism. Being a person is too hard a job to leave to a single person. We can’t do it on our own, not even as adults. Figuring out how to be a person is a group project, and we have to help each other. But the catch is that we don’t really know what we are doing, so sometimes we end up hurting each other instead. When you are weird, you experience this hurt. Social categories have been poorly constructed and fail to conduce to human happiness. The weird person is a record of the mistakes we have made. The children’s books say, “It’s OK, kids. We’re going to fix them,” which is not a lie, except the part about the timing. The truth is that we are going to fix them, and you’re all going to help, but the happy ending may be a very long time coming. Continue here to Vox thoughts
- Youth mentorships produce differences in the lives of mentees, mentors and their societies
Marketplace reporting of research (audio and text)
- The "Awareness-Understanding Matrix" ... a preponderance of reasons for ever-deeper humility (aka: Pantakinesis & its Vanishing Points)
"... there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns —the ones we don't know we don't know..." Donald Rumsfeld Wikipedia introduction: "Awareness-Understanding Matrix" and history Brief introduction of "vanishing points" within pantakinesis Related 4 Chairs.Life community Origin of the "4 Chairs" construct Related relational "Johari Window" ... and CRUCIAL related guidance... “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so!" Samuel Clemons (Mark Twain)
- Rethinking growing old
Thoughts regarding the need for greater aging inquiry and innovation
- "Superbloom:" our lives' ambience, for both better and worse
Book review The Book
- Beware of "boomerasking" in your relationships
Explanation and warnings
- Bill Gates shares his life's neurodivergence...
Bill's essay
- More about "inquiry" (aka: ignorance) as a potent personal asset
Excerpt: As he resolutely insists, “Getting to maybe is the greatest cognitive achievement human beings are capable of.” Book review The book Related prior post
- Your health, alcohol & research ...
Research into related issues Related research draft
- An opinion: a flaw at the epicenter of the new U.S. leader's societal, global and planetary agenda?
Excerpt: "If I were running the Democratic Party (God help them), I would tell the American people that Donald Trump is right about a lot of things. He’s accurately identified problems on issues like inflation, the border and the fallout from cultural condescension that members of the educated class have been too insular to anticipate." David Brooks' opinion Related book Another related opinion
- Perhaps time for worry when A.I. passes this test?
Go to potential alarm bells Related