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Polymathic Being Podcast
Counter intuitive insights from technology, innovation, philosophy, psychology, and more. www.polymathicbeing.com
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Polymathic Being PodcastThe Power of Inversion
Today's topic is a fun twist on achieving personal and professional success. We introduce the idea of inversion, which is looking at a problem from a different…
Polymathic Being PodcastNullius In Verba
Today's topic introduces one of the most notable scientific societies on the planet and then considers their motto, "Take Nobody's Word for it,” as a rallying…
Polymathic Being PodcastIf I Were an Alien
Today's topic steps back and looks at a crazy juxtaposition within the humans living right here on our own Earth. From Skyscrapers to the Jungle and from…
Polymathic Being PodcastA Heroine's Journey
Today's topic addresses a critically underappreciated challenge regarding how we view a Hero’s Journey. While the journey is classically masculine-focused, it…
Polymathic Being PodcastB******t Anxiety
Today's topic flips the script on anxiety and shows how much of what we fear is more in our imagination than in reality. At at time when mental health is…
Polymathic Being PodcastWork Hard; Get Smart
Today's topic challenges that adage “Work smarter, not harder.” Let’s explore why that idea isn’t wrong, per se, but incomplete, especially when advising the…
Polymathic Being PodcastDo What You Say
Today's topic peers into a challenge that limits our success both professionally and personally. It’s the prenicious tendency to say the right things, but the…
Polymathic Being PodcastFear P*rn
Welcome to Polymathic Being, a place to explore counterintuitive insights across multiple domains. These essays explore common topics from different…
Polymathic Being PodcastAre You Asking a Fish to Climb a Tree?
Today's topic dives deep into the challenges of diversity. We’ll examine the idea of judging a fish by its ability to climb a tree and consider how many…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Subversiveness of "Why?"
Today's topic explores the power of answering the “why” in tasks and analyses, while also identifying how subversive that question can be to many leaders who…
Polymathic Being PodcastPolio, Pesticides, and Polymaths
Today's topic applies the Polymathic mantra of Learn, Unlearn, and Relearn to the wicked problem of Polio. We start by defining the multiple types of polio…
Polymathic Being PodcastHow To Be Miserable
Today's topic is a fun twist to introduce better ways of thinking. It’s another collaboration with Andrew Perlot from Socratic State of Mind and borrows from…
Polymathic Being PodcastIgniting Innovation
Today's topic is Part Eight in the Keys to Innovation series and introduces a method to achieve innovation without losing ourselves to the chaotic space of…
Polymathic Being PodcastLearn, Unlearn, Relearn
Today's topic digs into a powerful Mixed Mental Arts concept that underpins Polymathic Being: the ability to Learn, Unlearn, and Relearn. We’ll look at what…
Polymathic Being PodcastBalance Life Before Work
Today's topic rethinks our focus on work-life balance and shows how that sequence is completely backward. We’ll also examine how ikigai, a Japanese philosophy…
Polymathic Being PodcastPsyop, Until Proven Otherwise
Today's topic investigates the very real world of Psychological Operations that you are exposed to every day. Thankfully, we’ll also explore a series of tools…
Polymathic Being PodcastRat Race Feminism
Today's topic takes a look at a pernicious element of modern feminism: our expectation that women work the same as men. Yet, is this an advantage for women, or…
Polymathic Being PodcastI Miss Waiting
Today’s Topic covers an aspect of Polymathic Thinking that is often overlooked. Let’s dive in and see how our skills are formed by the sum of our experience…
Polymathic Being PodcastFinding Stoicism
Today's topic wrangles with the very misunderstood philosophy of Stoicism and how it provides an antidote to the craziness of the world today. We’ll explore…
Polymathic Being PodcastAlgowhoring; A Primer
Today's topic questions what trends online and why we reward that behavior. Buckle in as we dive into the world of algowhoring and find out how it perverts a…
Polymathic Being PodcastCriticize by Creating
Today’s topic is Part Seven in our Keys to Innovation series, where we explore new ways of thinking to unlock true innovation. This key proposes a new model…
Polymathic Being PodcastVeganism: A First-World Luxury
Today's topic looks straight into the diet of Veganism and finds some uncomfortable truths. We’ll look at how natural it is, whether it can be achieved without…
Polymathic Being PodcastAsk For and Accept Help
Today's topic resulted from a serendipitous encounter on an Airplane, which created the seed of an idea: We don’t need to do everything ourselves. Join us as…
Polymathic Being PodcastLiberal Arts Will Save The World!
Today's topic investigates the Liberal Arts and why they are such a crucial educational foundation for addressing the complexity of the world around us. We’ll…
Polymathic Being PodcastFrom Latchkey Kids to Helicopter Parents
Today's topic highlights a glaring blindspot that I feel most Gen X people, at least on social media, seem to have in feeling they remain the badasses who grew…
Polymathic Being PodcastMastering Irreverence
Welcome to Polymathic Being, a place to explore counterintuitive insights across multiple domains. These essays explore common topics from different…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Truth of Myths
Today's topic wrangles with the idea of myths. Are they stories that are untrue or is there there something deeper that is just begging to be understood? Let’s…
Polymathic Being PodcastKintsugi: The Art of Mending
Today's topic is one of my favorite mixed mental arts. Join in as we look at an old Japanese tradition and what that can teach us about relationships, culture…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Enshittification of Everything
Today's topic looks at how AI-generated content is polluting our digital ecosystems and the challenges that it creates in trying to understand the world around…
Polymathic Being PodcastUnicorn Projects
Today's topic continues our Keys to Innovation series and discusses the very common problem that everyone thinks their problems are unique like a unicorn. It’s…
Polymathic Being PodcastBrain Glitch
Today's topic focused exclusively on a persistent behavior humans have where, when faced with two truths that are incompatible with our worldview, our brains…
Polymathic Being PodcastPolymathic Aspirations
Today's topic revisits and simplifies the foundation of Polymathic Thinking. Over the past two years, I’ve received questions about how to start the journey as…
Polymathic Being PodcastElephant Riding
Today's topic addresses whether we are logical beings rationally progressing through life or emotionally chaotic and reacting to environmental stimuli in ways…
Polymathic Being PodcastHeaven is High and the Emperor is Far Away
Today's topic attempts to recenter our day-to-day lives in the things that matter as the political climate has been particularly contentious recently…
Polymathic Being PodcastSweet Death
Today's topic shifts gears to focus on our physical health. The topic is sugar and how that delicious and dopamine-rewarding delicacy is like a master key…
Polymathic Being PodcastYes, And... So!
Today's topic swings back to Systems Thinking, one of our foundational tools here on Polymathic Being. We keep being asked if we can further distill the…
Polymathic Being PodcastSacred Cows Make the Best Burgers
Today's topic looks at how to turn sacred cows into delicious burgers. At least that’s the way some have described how Polymathic Being uncovers unique…
Polymathic Being PodcastArtists vs. AI
Today’s Topic digs deep into the current rift between artists and AI. We’ll investigate the value of art and then dive into the history of technological…
Polymathic Being PodcastGreenwashing Catastrophe
Today’s Topic addresses the advertising of the Green Energy movement and the reality that underlies our drive for environmental stewardship. A simple…
Polymathic Being PodcastAvoiding Infobesity
Today's topic is another of our Mixed Mental Arts and introduces a fun term, Infobesity, referring to the information overload and mental saturation that we…
Polymathic Being PodcastBreaking the Cycle
Today's topic continues our investigation into the feminine and looks at what we value and what we try to delete about her in today’s Western society. It’s…
Polymathic Being PodcastTriggered
Today’s Topic is another Mixed Mental Art that delves into our comfort zones and how feeling safe and secure is important but can limit our growth if not…
Polymathic Being PodcastRates of Change
Today's topic continues the exploration into our climate that we started with The Climate is Changing and now looks at how extreme our rates of climate change…
Polymathic Being PodcastBe Bored
Today's topic is boring, but because of that, it’s fascinating, illuminating, and creative. It pushes back on the idea that every second of every day must be…
Polymathic Being PodcastZero Forgiveness for Technology
Today's topic continues a thread we started exploring in Don’t Trust AI, Entrust It which provides a solid framing for how to consider the ethics of advanced…
Polymathic Being PodcastClickbait Priming
Today's topic addresses the highly effective nature of clickbait headlines and how headlines in general prime us for a certain viewpoint. Join us as we explore…
Polymathic Being PodcastSunglasses, Skin Cancer, and Science
Today's topic is going to explore two topics. The first is my own experience with avoiding sunburn and the second explores why we’ll never be able to…
Polymathic Being PodcastApocalypse Always
Today's topic is a psychological exploration into a few of our cognitive biases and how they cause us to see the world as significantly worse than it really…
Polymathic Being PodcastJump Into the Unknown
Today's topic rethinks and recontextualizes a theme within Polymathic Being of slowing down, stepping back, and analyzing more before executing. The challenge…
Polymathic Being PodcastAn Ode to Whiskey
Today's topic continues a collaboration between I as we write on the history, culture, and science of our favorite indulgences. Today we’ll explore whisky and…
Polymathic Being PodcastAugmenting Intelligence
Today's topic dives once more into the middle of techno-optimists and pessimists ripping social media and the news into what feels like two camps of utopia or…
Polymathic Being PodcastAntifragility and the Bible
Today's topic continues to explore what happens when we force a narrative on a story that doesn’t need to be there. We’ll find how that typically makes the…
Polymathic Being PodcastRisk Compensation
Today's topic is one I’ve been wanting to write for a while about how the human perception of risk often puts us at even greater danger because we don’t apply…
Polymathic Being PodcastHomo Socialis
Today's topic addresses a growing trend of labeling antisocial behavior as introversion and why that characterization misses the superpower that humans have…
Polymathic Being PodcastConfidently Answering the Wrong Question
Today's topic pulls the thread on a specific behavior within the workforce that I’ve seen quite a lot from people who should know better. It’s particularly…
Polymathic Being PodcastAntifragility - A Baseline
Today's topic is one we’ve talked a lot about here on Polymathic Being: Antifragility. It’s popped up enough times that I think we should probably pause and…
Polymathic Being PodcastHow to Train Your Algorithm
Today's topic is a practical guide to exerting your control over social media and training your algorithm to avoid the downward spiral of content that…
Polymathic Being PodcastThe Things You Do For Love
Today's topic is a fun segue that explores a bit of the craziness of my life, specifically regarding my early relationship with my wife. From Airborne School…
Polymathic Being PodcastDefault to Truth?
Today's topic is part book review and part insight into how our brains work on interpreting the world around us. It’ll challenge our bias to look for anything…
Polymathic Being PodcastThat's Not My Job
Welcome to Polymathic Being, a place to explore counterintuitive insights across multiple domains. These essays take common topics and investigate them from…