IAMSHOKUNIN: Recent Episodes
Andrew Wilson
This podcast series explores the subject of ethics, morality and attitudes that make our lives better and allow us to become better humans. The podcast support the book called ”How to become a good hu(man)”. It was originally written for young men, but over time I have come to realise that lots of people at different ages get something out of it too.
This episode looks at how reality is defined in this world through the limited beliefs we choose to entertain and how we deliberately constrain the world around us in order to understand it.
Is the answer to happiness and a better world simply a matter of choosing to believe in another set of ideas?
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This months episode talks about how Vegans are starting to revolt over the cynical commercialisation of their dietary and spiritual beliefs by the meat and food industry world wide. It talks about how a proper Vegan diet can save you from disease and help to heal the planet and how we should be encouraged to make the transition, but how hard it is to make the changes.
https://www.veganricha.com
https://minimalistbaker.com/recipes/vegan/
https://www.medicalmedium.com
https://www.foodotomic.com
https://www.forksoverknives.com
https://nutritionstudies.org/the-china-study/
http://www.worldpeacediet.com/
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This months podcast looks at the mess we have got ourselves into and why we are in such a pickle and how we might go about reversing some of the things that are happening to us at the moment.
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This month's episode explores why we have an intergenerational struggle to get things changed in the world and what we can perhaps do to help each other achieve more in the future.
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This episode discusses how we cannot absolve ourselves of responsibility and how responsibility is a choice both for us as individuals as well as society. Blame is in fact an admission of error on our own behalf.
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This months episode looks at how our brains cope and process reality and how the psychopathology we create is actually a powerful way of protecting us and maintaining our sanity. It also looks at how this wonderful gift works against us when people wish to control and manipulate us. Finally it looks at some of the ways we can protect ourselves from manipulation.
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This episode looks at the things that bind us and how "binding" manifests itself in so many interrelated ways and how this stops us from doing the things we want to do sometimes and prevents us from taking opportunities when they are presented.
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This episode looks at the skills we once had to navigate our way through life, both on the physical plane as well as the intellectual plane and how we are losing those skills due to technology and how we are increasingly lost, but unaware of it.
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In this months podcast we explore some of the larger questions in our lives around our existence and what our purpose here on earth might be.
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This episode looks at fear and how it affects our lives, where it comes from and some of the things we can do to understand and manage it better.
How to be a good Hu(man)
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In this episode we use a passage from the film Pulp fiction to explore the idea that there is a "Right path" for us to become good humans. We explore the Noble Eightfold path put forward by Buddhism as perhaps a guide to the sorts of things we should be concentrating on.
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy me a coffee 😍How to be a good hu(man)
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This episode discusses the rise in exceptionalism in western democracies and the perverse and detrimental effect it is having when combined with social media.
What happens when we ALL want to be special is that we end up creating, unintentionally, a spiral of self abuse which is harmful to our mental health. This episode discusses ways in which we can get beck on track and help ourselves and the wider society.
How to be a good Hu(man)
Kindly inquisitors (great book explaining the rise of woke)
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The Week after Davos 21 this episode explores one of the biggest issues of our time - what will the future look like? At a time of unprecedented change in the world I explore why we are having to change so fast and what is the scale of the change we can expect going forward. What do we need to prepare for and how can we be successful in the world going forward.
How to be a good Hu(man)
One hundred pages for the future
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I realised I needed to talk about change in this podcast before I take about the future in the next podcast. Change is such an important thing in life and our ability to reposed correctly to changing circumstances is so important to our success as individuals. This podcast talks through what we tend to do in times of high stress and change and what we can do to reposed better in the future.
This is supporting a chapter in the book How to be a good hu(man) which you can buy at http://getbook.at/IAMSHOKUNIN
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This is a special episode where I explain why I wrote this book and what my hopes for it are. I explain why it is so difficult to transition into adulthood and why we struggle to make sense of this period in our lives. This podcast will be interesting to parents as well as young adults going out into the world on their own for the first time.
It talks about how we transition knowledge from the past and update it into the future and how we need to work out what the basic foundations of right and wrong are about.
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This episode describes what the ancient attitude towards the preservation of knowledge and skills encapsulated in Japanese society as Shokunin has to do with you developing life skills.
This episode looks at examples of submarine building, Samurai sword making, Emails and other examples of where we can learn from the past and how important knowledge is and how we should practice the skills of the Shokunin in our lives.
This is supporting a chapter in the book How to be a good hu(man) which you can buy at http://getbook.at/IAMSHOKUNIN
Jiro dreams of sushi
Shokunin
Ikagai
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Today I talk about a subject which is a chapter in the book (not yet released in Dec 2020, but soon to be back from the editors and available on Amazon)
Training wheels are all about our need for life long learning and some of the lessons I have learned recently trying to pivot into the digital space with my new book and podcasting.
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