Mar 30, 2021

Progressives and conservatives mis-understand each other's morality, that much is clear. But what exactly do they misunderstand?

In this episode, we explore Jonathan Haidt and Craig Joseph's research into the 5 universal moral foundations (harm/care, fairness/reciprocity, authority/respect, in-group loyalty,...

Mar 22, 2021

How do we understand the rise in anxiety, polarization, and division in the US? More to the point, how do we name it so that we can transcend it and live free of its dominance? In this episode, which launches a new series, I explore two of the dominant archetypal impulses in human nature: conservatism (the desire...

Mar 15, 2021

There’s an ancient paradigm for how we build our character: our desire for change can be funneled into practices. Practices, consistently engaged, become our habits, our instinctual, reflexive ways of behaving in the world. Our habits, quite simply, become our character, who we become, for ourselves and for others.

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Mar 8, 2021

Every issue we face in life is, to some degree, a factor of how we think. Even how we frame issues, whether we see it as a problem or an opportunity, for example, is a function of how we think. Sometimes our problems really exist solely-or at least, primarily-in our own minds. We our are own jailers, and...we can be our...