Best David Richman Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 107 - Hail and Farewell 17:24

1M ago17:24

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The last episode ended on the evening of April 5, 1968. I was unexpectedly leaving Washington DC as my college had been abruptly shut down following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was in a friend’s car and as I looked back, I could see that the clouds in the darkening sky were flickering red, reflecting the light of the fires th…

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Episode 106 - Too Quick 14:54

1M ago14:54

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In the last episode, we took a quick look back at Robert F. Kennedy’s rise to the senate in November of 1964. Then we mentioned that in 1967, the soon to be anti-war candidate, Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy had approached him with the idea of opposing President Lyndon Johnson for the nomination of the Democratic Party for President of the Unite…

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Episode 105 - A New, But Familiar Light 15:17

2M ago15:17

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As the last episode ended, we had begun to examine the speech that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had made as he publicly came out against the war in Vietnam. He talked about his lifelong commitment to non-violence, saying he had been compelled to speak against the war effort because the United States had become “the greatest purveyor of violence in t…

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Episode 104 - A Voice Is Raised 14:36

2M ago14:36

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We ended the last episode with a quick look at the groundbreaking Beatles album, Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and the powerful effect it had on popular music and on Western Culture in general. For many reasons, the album, which was released on May 26, 1967, seemed to elevate the mass consciousness of a significant segment of society t…

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Episode 103 - Turn Off Your Mind 16:21

2M ago16:21

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In the last episode, I briefly described my grandfather, who was a lifelong mystic, and his reactions to the dream I’d had about my father and his ring, which was followed by its mysterious disappearance. I also mentioned another unusual incident concerning the ring that took place about twenty years later, when a friend told me about a vivid dream…

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Episode 102 - Yet Another Surprise 16:43

2M ago16:43

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As the last episode ended, I had given a quick overview of my grandfather, who was a lifelong Orthodox Jew, but was also a mystic with his own set of metaphysical understandings, especially about what was happening in modern times. Among his teachings, he used to tell us was that there are always highly evolved people living on Earth, who are here …

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Episode 101 - An Impossible Reality 14:22

2M ago14:22

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In the last episode, I described a most unusual dream that I had. My father had been dead for almost six months and I dreamt that he appeared to me, looking alive and happy. He told me that his death wasn’t real, that it was just a trick. And he went on to explain that there really isn’t such a thing as death, it’s just a public relations stunt tha…

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Episode 100 - Just a PR Stunt 15:12

3M ago15:12

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As the last episode ended, I was beginning my return to normal life after the unexpected death of my father. The unanticipated event had turned my entire world upside down. After remaining home for a one-week mourning period, when I returned to normal life, everything was exactly the same as it had been when I left it. Same classes. Same teachers. …

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Episode 99 - Rubber Soul in the Aftermath 14:02

3M ago14:02

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The last episode ended on the evening of December 3, 1965 when my father suffered a massive heart attack and died instantly during a nationally televised NBA game between the 76ers and the Boston Celtics. As I have mentioned previously, this podcast series examines the enormous evolution of consciousness that began to take place in the western worl…

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Episode 098 - In Real Life 16:53

3M ago16:53

16:53

In the last episode, we looked at two disturbing events that happened to me during the last week of November of 1965. In the first, I was sitting in synagogue with my father and toward the end of the Saturday morning service as the rabbi was announcing the prayer called the Mourner’s Kaddish, with a sudden sense of urgency, my father had me swear a…

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Episode 097 - You Have Come Upon It 15:53

4M ago15:53

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At the conclusion of the last episode, in late November of 1965, I was having a happy life as a normal sixteen-year-old eleventh grader. Things were going well and everything seemed right on track. However, even though I had hardly noticed, a few things happened, which in retrospect could be seen to have been subtle warnings of a coming change. Fir…

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Episode 096 - Cracks in the Eggshell 15:56

5M ago15:56

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We ended the last episode in April of 1965 when George Harrison and John Lennon of the Beatles were unexpectedly given a dose of LSD by their dentist at a dinner party that he was hosting for them. This was done without their knowledge or permission, and although it could have had some significantly negative consequences, fortunately for everyone c…

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Episode 095 - A Change of Note 14:04

5M ago14:04

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In the last episode, we looked at two critically important events that happened in August of 1964 that would eventually have truly profound effects on Western culture, as well as on world history in general. On August 7, the US Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and 21 days later, on August 28, Bob Dylan got together with the Beatles in …

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Episode 94 - Tale of Two Seeds 14:46

5M ago14:46

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As we ended the last episode, a party was beginning in a swank hotel suite in New York City. It was August 28, 1964, and Bob Dylan had driven down from his home in Woodstock to spend an evening with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, who had become known to the world as the Beatles. Before we get into what happened on th…

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Episode 93 - One Thing Leads to Another 15:19

5M ago15:19

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We ended the last episode with the Commencement Address that President Kennedy gave at American University, which marked a major thaw in the cold war, leading to a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. That was on June 10, 1963. Now let’s move on to June 11th. Governor George Wallace, in defiance of federal desegre…

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Episode 92 - With His Hands on The Wheel 14:48

6M ago14:48

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We closed the last episode by looking at the emergence of Bob Dylan onto the Beat Scene in Greenwich Village in 1962, and we mentioned his song, Blowin’ in the Wind, where he asked some deeply troubling questions about what was going wrong in the world and said that the answer to them all is blowing in the wind. Now Dylan has never confirmed nor de…

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Episode 91 - Beat It 16:09

6M ago16:09

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The last episode ended with the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962. As you may recall, one day at the height of the crisis, October 27th is considered by some experts to be the closest the world has ever come to a full-out nuclear war. And it is thought that the wise decision of one 34-year-old Russian naval officer was all t…

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Episode 90 - But One Man Said No 16:58

6M ago16:58

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In the previous episode that took place in March of 1965, I mentioned that although we didn’t know it, the western world was entering into the early stages of a turbulent upheaval that would eventually revolutionize human consciousness on a global level. As one of the seventy million American baby boomers who were busy growing up at the time, I was…

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Episode 89 - Smells Like Good Stuff 15:06

6M ago15:06

15:06

As you may recall, I am currently preparing to release a comprehensive personal growth program called, “The Higher Mind Training.” Its purpose is to help people harmonize their intelligence, which will allow them to transform the prison of self-sabotage into the freedom of self-empowerment. We will have programs designed to address specific needs, …

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Episode 88 - Having a Ball 19:18

8M ago19:18

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I’m going to ask you to try to stretch your mind and imagination a bit for this episode. A true story is going to be presented to you. It took place in India, sometime around 1910 and you may find the cultural differences to be a little unusual for you. But on a subtextual level, a lot of important information is going to be presented as well, and …

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Episode 087 - Forever Jung 15:59

8M ago15:59

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As with many people, in my line of work, one thing often leads to another, and often in some very unexpected ways. As you may recall, I have mentioned in a few earlier episodes that over the years, I have been involved in the writing of several stories for the purpose of possibly developing them into novels or films, and at one point in my life, I …

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Episode 086 - You Know It When You See It 13:11

8M ago13:11

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I am continuing with the process of releasing some of the large amount of notes that I’ve filed away over the years that pertain to personal growth. As I mentioned, I am not building any podcasts specifically around any of these ideas. I am just putting them out to you without any particular format so you can take them in one at a time and see if t…

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Episode 085 - Just Thirteen 14:47

8M ago14:47

14:47

As you may recall, I had mentioned in the last two episodes that we are making a slight change in format for the “Stop Making Yourself Miserable” podcasts. Instead of building each episode around one particular theme, I am going to start presenting notes that I’ve made over the last fifty years that were particularly inspiring to me as I continued …

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Episode 084 - On Every Baby's Face 15:54

9M ago15:54

15:54

As I mentioned in the previous episode, I am about to begin a series of episodes that will have more of a free-flow format than the ones that have gone before. This is because I have a large amount of information that I have collected over the years which I consider to be extremely valuable when it comes to personal growth, and rather than try to b…

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Episode 083 - Round Up The Usual Suspects 14:01

9M ago14:01

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Over the course of these podcasts, I have mentioned several times that I first became interested in personal growth around the time that the Beatles went to India to study meditation in February of 1968. My interest wasn’t particularly deep. The only thing deep about me at the time was how deeply I was being influenced by the world around me, and I…

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Episode 082 - A Tale of Two Cities 19:31

9M ago19:31

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In the last few episodes, we’ve talked about the fact that many of us suffer from a case of mistaken identity in which have come to believe that we are actually the contents of our neural template, which is largely responsible for forming our ordinary mind. We looked at some of the limitations of it, especially that it is, by nature, always dissati…

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Episode 081 - Who Knew? 16:20

9M ago16:20

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As mentioned in the previous episode, we are continuing to provide some of the basic information that is imparted by the Higher Mind Training, which is a new personal growth program being prepared for release by the Better Angels Publishing Company. Its purpose is to help the normal, everyday person emerge from the prison of self-sabotage into the …

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Episode 080 - It Cuts Both Ways 17:37

9M ago17:37

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In the last episode we spent some time looking into our innate human genius as well as some of the remarkable attributes we have within our vast intelligence. We also touched on the fact that many of us are troubled by self-sabotage and other forms of negativity that limit our ability to truly enjoy our lives. And we ended the episode with two ques…

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Episode 079 - The Sea of Mirth Itself 15:20

10M ago15:20

15:20

In the last two episodes, I discussed the Higher Mind Training, which is a unique personal growth program that is being prepared for release by the Better Angels Publishing Company. I also mentioned that for the past six months I have been teaching some of its basic understandings and techniques to the counselors and residents of the James A. Casey…

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Episode 078 - A Case of Mistaken Identity 14:55

10M ago14:55

14:55

In the last episode, I offered a brief introduction to The Higher Mind Training, which is the next project that will be released by the Better Angels Publishing Company. I mentioned the remarkable fact that modern neuroscience is in the process of verifying the basis of the higher understandings that have been expressed by Ancient Wisdom for tens o…

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Episode 077 - The Sleeping Genius 13:32

10M ago13:32

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Welcome back to the Stop Making Yourself Miserable Podcast and I certainly hope that you had a wonderful summer. As you may recall, in the last episodes before the hiatus certain key chapters from my memoir, Wilt, Ike & Me, were presented along with the subtext behind them as I delved into some of the deeper meanings of the story for me. The respon…

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Episode - 076 - Season Two Summer Hiatus & Updates 7:53

1y ago7:53

7:53

The Better Angels Publishing Company announces that the “Stop Making Yourself Miserable” podcast will now begin its annual summer hiatus. We’ll resume our normal schedule again in the fall. At this point, I’d like to take the opportunity to thank everyone for your continued, enthusiastic support. As you know, the purpose of these podcasts is to pre…

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Episode - 075 - End Times 15:40

1y ago15:40

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This is the last episode of a four-part series featuring the text and subtext of some excerpts from my memoir, “Wilt, Ike and Me.” The last two episodes dealt with two of my earliest conceptual encounters with aging and death. This next episode looks at them as well, but from a significantly different perspective. * * * In December of 1974, my fath…

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Episode - 074 - If You Live That Long 16:16

1y ago16:16

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In this episode, we continue to look into the text and the subtext of a few portions from my memoir called, “Wilt, Ike and Me.” Again, the text relates to the written words and the subtext relates to the meanings behind them. In the last episode, we dealt with the subtextual theme of death, when a classic comic book dramatized to me how my hero, Da…

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Episode - 073 - Be Strong Davy 16:49

1y ago16:49

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In this episode, we continue our look into the text and the subtext of a few portions from my memoir called, “Wilt, Ike and Me.” Again, the text relates to the written words and the subtext relates to the meanings behind them. The last episode dealt with the subtextual theme of impermanence and it took place during my tenth-grade year in high schoo…

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Episode - 072 - Titanic Walks 15:32

1y ago15:32

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As I mentioned in the previous episode, we’re going to look at four different excerpts from my memoir, “Wilt, Ike & Me,” and were going to examine some of the subtext in each. The following is the text from the portion of the first excerpt. By way of background, my father had recently moved basketball superstar Wilt Chamberlain into our home for th…

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Episode - 071 - Read Between The Lines 15:35

1y ago15:35

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The last podcast episode called, “One Lucky Soldier” was the final installment in a five-part series from the novel I am writing called “The Better Angels – Lincoln, the Psychic and the Spy.” During the previous episodes, we followed the arduous journey of Annie Franklin, a 19-year-old psychic who came to Virginia to bring her brother Daniel, a ser…

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Episode - 070 - One Lucky Soldier 13:34

1y ago13:34

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In the four episodes that preceded this one, during the Civil War, Annie Franklin, a nineteen-year-old woman who happens to have psychic gifts, had come to Virginia to take her brother, Daniel, a badly wounded Union soldier, back home to Connecticut for care. It had been a difficult and trying time. After attempting to take advantage of her, an uns…

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Episode - 069 - Please Help Me 13:08

1y ago13:08

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In the last episode, when Annie Franklin went back to the field hospital to try to get another letter from a doctor to allow her to take her brother, Daniel, home to Connecticut for care, she was unexpectedly confronted with an appalling situation – the formerly crowded hospital was now basically deserted and there were no doctors present. Along wi…

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Episode - 068 - Left to Die 12:25

1y ago12:25

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In the last episode, Annie had returned to Captain Lee’s office in the War Department, expecting to pick up the furlough that would allow her to take her badly wounded brother, Daniel, back to Connecticut for home care. But when she went into Lee’s office, instead of giving her the furlough, he withheld it, attempting to get her to allow him to hav…

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Episode - 067 - In the Bowels of the War Department 12:02

1y ago12:02

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The last episode began a key segment of a story called, “The Better Angels – Lincoln, the Psychic and the Spy.” As a quick summary, it takes place in December of 1862; the Civil War is raging and a brutal battle has been fought that has been a devastating loss to the Union Army. Annie Franklin, a nineteen-year-old, inexperienced girl, has traveled …

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Episode - 066 - The Journey Begins 15:36

1+ y ago15:36

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As human beings, storytelling is not only one of our favorite forms of entertainment, it’s also a critical part of how we learn. This universal trait goes back to the very dawn of civilization, and transcends all divisions of time, place and culture. We’ve been telling each other stories forever, and the probability is that it will be with us far i…

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Episode - 065 - Spring Break 5:24

1+ y ago5:24

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I hope all is well with you and that you are enjoying the coming onset of spring. This is just a quick announcement to let you know that the Stop Making Yourself Miserable podcast will be going on a short, two-week spring break. For me, early spring is always a poignant time, when once again I get to witness the magnificent transformation of nature…

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Episode - 064 - Genius, Prodigies & Polymaths 17:54

1+ y ago17:54

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I’ve always been amazed by the fact that there are genius levels of human intelligence that are far beyond the ordinary. Some people seem to be born with remarkable talents and capabilities that the rest of us clearly don’t have. That’s not to say that these people don’t need to work and practice to perfect their skills. They clearly do. Still, the…

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Episode 063 - Doubting the Doubter 16:14

1+ y ago16:14

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In the last episode, we took a look at our mind’s built-in propensity for doubt, which is critical to the healthy functioning of our intelligence. Without it, we simply could not progress. Used in the right amount, for the right reasons, at the right time and in the right way, doubt can produce incredibly positive results. For example, doubt is at …

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128. You Will Always Be That Child’s Mother: Shauna Domalain 49:43

1+ y ago49:43

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Shauna is the creative founder of the Growing Up in Heaven Program for mothers who want to connect and communicate with their children on the Other Side. Shauna’s personal journey through the loss of her son Jack has paved a path for mothers to move from grief to relief as they learn to make the connection with their child in Heaven. A powerhouse i…

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Episode 062 - The College and the Donut Shop 16:21

1+ y ago16:21

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It’s really hard to grasp what America was like in late 1973 if you didn’t live through those times. For one thing, the country was in the process of falling apart. The unprecedented scandal of Watergate was starting to reach a boiling point, the executive branch of the US government was coming unhinged from the top down and nobody knew what was go…

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Episode 061 - Come Back in Two Weeks 15:08

1+ y ago15:08

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We’ve all heard the famous phrase, “Do as I say, not as I do.,” and many people take it to be a sure sign of duplicity. Why should I listen to what a person is telling me to do if he or she isn’t doing it themselves? It seems purely hypocritical, and a lot of times it is. But there can also be some other circumstance for it as well. For example, th…

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Episode 060 - The Cufflinks, the Pen and the Paper 15:08

1+ y ago15:08

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It’s no secret that advertising is a big business. It’s projected that the combined ad-spend in the United States for the year 2023 will be over 165 billion dollars. And one thing to consider is what exactly are advertisers trying to achieve with this money? What are they trying to do? The answer is very simple. They are trying to create a state of…

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Episode 059 - The Queen of Doubt 15:14

1+ y ago15:14

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Human intelligence has a remarkable capacity to create tools. No other species even comes close to us in this unique talent. But it’s also critical to keep in mind that once a tool has been created, it can easily become a double-edged sword, which simply means it can be used for good or for bad, for positive, constructive purposes, or for negative,…

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