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IM·PACT·iv·ism /ˈimˌpaktəˌvizəm/ verb | the intersection of rational compassion and effective action, where we are each incredibly capable of impacting positive change for the people, non-human animals and environmental causes needing it most. The IMPACTivism Podcast explores ideas we can consider, choices we can make, and actions we can take, as individuals, to get better at doing good.
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18 Is 'humanitarian carnivore' an oxymoron?
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Humanitarians believe vulnerable human beings deserve not to suffer and that the powerful should be prevented from harming or exploiting them. But what if we replace 'human' being with 'sentient' being?A special thank you to HÄANA for permission to use the music in this episode. You can find all her links in the show notes right here: logansullivan…
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17 To Drain the Pond or Dive In - Omission Bias
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Peter Singer's famous pond thought experiment threw me in to philosophical dilemma over a decade ago. My mind urged me fish for any reason why it's conclusions were invalid, for any escape from accepting its inconvenient implications. I never found one.By Logan Sullivan - Advocate, seeker, writer, humanitarian
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16 Joy, Impact and Fulfillment - Social circles and global circles
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Longterm fulfillment lays at the intersection of joy and high impact. This episode will help you find the ideal intersection, and understand it. We also discuss push-decisions vs. pull-decisions and our global circles vs. social circles. A special thank you to HÄANA for permission to use the music in this episode. You can find all her links in the …
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15 Kidnapping Presidents - Self-regarding and other-regarding actions
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Self-regarding actions improve our own wellbeing, which incidentally rubs off on those around us. Other-regarding actions directly target others' wellbeing, and we find fulfillment in turn. In this episode, we explore how kidnapping all the world leaders for a magic tea ceremony would only be the second best way to solve all the world's problems at…
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14 Tragedy or Statistic - Scope insensitivity bias
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"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." When unaware of our natural Scope Insensitivity Bias, individual, relatable humans become masses, and masses become abstract, unrelatable statistics.A special thank you to HÄANA and Cello Joe for permission to use the music in this episode. You can find all their links in th…
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13 Selective Perception - Why don't people believe in science?
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Selective perception allows our expectations or existing frames of mind to affect how we perceive inputs. If we aspire to impact positive change, we ought to seek the most accurate model of the world we're capable of perceiving?Unfortunately, we're wired to seek potentially inaccurate, yet convenient models of the world instead, the type that does …
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Remember those Thursday nights in college when you passed up on the party to stay in and study like the good student you aspired to be, but just ended up watching TV instead...Well, we do the same thing when trying to be the good people we aspire to be. But we don't have to. Actualists and possibilists often make different choices. One makes the be…
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When we want to improve the world, we sometimes find ourselves stuck in analysis paralysis, searching for the perfect, catch-all solution to solve all the world's problems, all at once. But, unfortunately, this one-pill-weight-loss-solution to all human, non-human animal, and environmental problems does not exist. But specific solutions to isolated…
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What’s the difference between participating in change and CREATING a difference? Well, one is like reading a script, and the other is writing it. In one case, a mold predates actions, and in the other, our actions mold creations.Unfortunately, we don’t have the luxury of seeing what our family and friends, our community, our world as whole, what it…
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09 Jordan Lejuwaan - Basic Income, AI, VR
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Jordan Lejuwaan is the founder of HighExistence.com, the founder of the Valhalla Movement, the founder of Rave Nectar, and last but definitely not least, the co-founder and current CTO of Futurism.com. Back in January, Jordan found himself listed as one of Forbe’s 30 under 30 for up and coming in the media category, and he just never seems to stop.…
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08 Do Less Harm or More Good - What's the difference?
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What's the difference between doing less harm and actively choosing to do more good? They seem likely to achieve the same net impact, but in this episode, host Logan Sullivan explains why that's not always the case. When we think about it, doing less harm is still doing some harm, leaving behind a world worse off for our having been a part of it. A…
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07 The Do-Good Dartboard - Who actually benefits?
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Are we actually benefiting the people, animals or causes we're hoping to benefit through our actions, or maybe just our co-workers, co-volunteers, or friends? In this episode, I discuss why it's so important to ask this question and how to answer it. If we want to do as much good as we can, hopefully we're aiming our actions at the highest yielding…
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06 Moral License to Kill - the multivitamin effect
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Moral Licensing is a phenomenon studied closely in social psychology that describes one way we can accidentally allow ourselves to act against what we believe to be moral when we’re not consciously aware of what’s happening.In this episode, I highlight some of its dangers, not when it comes to our justifications for avoiding the gym, but when it co…
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When you hear how many lives an individual doctor in America is actually responsible for saving, you might be surprised. In this episode, I’ll show why this should actually be really good news, and why we should all feel incredibly empowered by this fact.Doctors, social workers, aid workers, teachers, councilors: they’re not a special breed of huma…
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Interview with Brian Luscombe discussing a pledge we both made to donate 10% of our income for the rest of our lives to highly impactful nonprofits addressing priority issues efficiently. I’ve planned to make this pledge for a long time, but needed something to trigger me to officially make it. And that something was the election. So I’ve also pled…
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The ability to make choices in life is rare. For the majority of humanity, both historically and currently, when choices exist for their making, survival considerations are necessarily the priority. Yet, if you have the ability to stream this podcast, or read this post, you’re not likely one of those people. So when you have the ability in your lif…
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02 Positive Intentions vs Positive Impact
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Positive intentions correlate to positive impact to the extent that authentically wanting to do good might urge us to do a couple things: it might urge us to remain energized and committed to the cause, it might urge us to follow through to the very end, and most importantly, it might urge us to lean towards strategic and rational tactics that make…
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The IMPACTivism Podcast is about how each of us, as individuals, can most effectively impact positive shifts in circumstances in the world we love and share. It’s about how we’re completely disempowered to change certain things, and about how ridiculously empowered we are to change others, and about how to direct our attention, energy and resources…
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IMPACTivism sits at the intersection of rational compassion and effective action, where we are each incredibly capable of impacting positive change for the people, non-human animals and environmental causes needing it most. The IMPACTivism podcast explores ideas we can consider, choices we can make, and actions we can take, as individuals, to get b…
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