Bumbai You Learn

Today we discuss lifelong learning and what it means to us. With the advent of technology there are many ways to explore our interests from using youtube, chatGPT, audiobooks and podcasts. The barrier to entry to exploring our curiousites have never been lower. Some of the benefits we believe that come with being a lifelong learner are: Confidence Curiosity Open minded Success Adaptability Ultimat...

When we set a goal we want it to be SMART: Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely What is our target in what phase of life? What do we want? How to define our target? Career Personal Financial What is the timeline? Your own timeline not anyone else Multiple goals Sacrifice What do you want in life? Joyce - putting a 6-12 month time frame on her goals Goal Categories Finance Health and wel...

What is hedonism? hedonism bot - Futurama - the pursuit/indulgence in pleasure. These desires and emotions drive our behavior - maximize pleasure, minimize pain where does it come from? cultural/environmental (extrinsic) vs intrinsic Why are we talking about it: The hedonic treadmill is a psychological theory that suggests that humans have a tendency to return to a relatively stable level of happi...

Bodhizfa IPA - Bodhisattva is one who has not reach enlightenment. Spiritual enlightenment sponsored by Georgetown brewing. Calculated risks - action or strategy that is pursued after considerations of risks involved Mitigating risks to achieve the outcomes you want. Going through the cycles of failure to learn and understand the risks involved to learn and progress. Taking more time to make a dec...

Reflecting on actions and decisions made grants us the ability to make a choice. As we get better at recognizing the triggers and reactions we have, we can make better choice and focus our energy into growing. I cringe at the first story I share. But it isn't all bad. It helped me to find fuel me to be better. We discuss often times we find that an emotional trigger is what starts us down the...

On this episode of the pod, I discuss with Ellison and Larry the idea of the locus of control. We discuss our perspectives on the locus of control, how our belief on the direction of our lives were affected internally or externally. And how it is more of a balance as both internal and external factors can be true. Locus of control refers to the degree to which an individual feels a sense of agency...

Inspiration - The excitement of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity. Today’s podcast, we recorded in late March with Josh before he left for Australia. We discuss Josh’s vision for a series, what inspired him to get started with creating the movies, having ideas and continuing to evolve them. We briefly touch on the idea of purposely failing, and the fear of putting ourselv...

On this episode of the podcast, we actually wanted to show an example of failure. How we used the time to speak constructively and challenge each other to be more prepared for the next episode. Remember by the definition of failure is the condition or fact of not achieving the desired end result or goal. We share some thoughts behind the scenes and run with it since we had the time to record anywa...

In today's episode we discuss failure and how we've learned from it. Perspective is really the difference in viewing failure as truly failure, emotions tied to it or whether some good came from that experience of failure and learned a lesson from the experience. We played with ChatGPT for our intro, shared some stories of failure. When we focus on our systems, and focusing on being better failure...

On this pod one of my closest friends joins me on the pod to talk about self-care. Join us as we explore our thoughts on self-care as we've grown over time. We'll cover the following: What is self-care? When did we learn about self-care? What are the different types of self-care? Physical Emotional Social Intellectual Spiritual Is self-care selfish? (It's not!) Alone time is necessary...

Today we have a guest, Tracy, we shared and talk about comfort and pushing the comfort zone. We talked about how the range of experience that we have gives us the confidence, and helps create comfort in other areas of our life. Routines, while boring, provides structure and comfort. Scrum project management - Empiricism means working in a fact-based, experience-based, and evidence-based manner. Sc...

Definition: Catalyst  1 : a  substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually  faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature)  than otherwise possible 2 : an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action Mike's Types and tipping points  Curiosity  Social interaction/validation Personal desire/achievement  Surv...

Mike's Growth Process: 1. Motivating factor to spark the pursuit 2. Study, make a plan, grind it 3. Failure, recover from failure  4. Reflect on it, research  5. Re-calibrate the plan, adjust to fix the failures experienced  6. Go back to the grind  7. Rinse and repeat to achieve the level of competency  Craig's Growth Process 1. Catalyst for growth 2. Taking action to do...

Practitioner Definition: a person actively engaged in an art, discipline, or profession, especially medicine. -  "patients are treated by skilled practitioners"  Show Notes: Action > Reaction   Action - Motivation - Purpose  Past - Reflecting  Future - Planning  Current Moment - Being present  Abundance vs. Scarcity   Fun/Motivation - Pain/loss...

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