Three Body Thinking

Our brains are protective pattern-recognition machines. When we encounter new information that doesn't fit the patterns our brain recognizes, it is mentally and physically uncomfortable for us. We can switch into a flight or fight mode and grow defense. Recognizing why we have these feelings and also how to work through them quicker without defense or attack will help us all get along far better a...

Humans are social animals that have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. It is deeply ingrained in us to fit in. Our tribe is what protects us. Because of that, we often lie about ourselves in order to remain liked and not be kicked out to survive on our own. Learn how to be more fully yourself and respect your tribe!

Origin Story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil Milton Friedman Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67tHtpac5ws&t=4s

The Texas Sharp Shooter Fallacy is a type of cherry picking of data. The observer has a desired outcome and then finds patterns in the data to support it. How it got the name is an interesting story!

Science isn't perfect. That is what makes for a good scientist too though, knowing they have so much more to learn and might be wrong. Someone who knows they have way more questions than answers and wants their research under scrutiny is a good practitioner of science. It is the confident person that says they know without a doubt that should scare you. And yet, time and time again, we as a specie...

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Our brains have developed to create shortcuts. The shorter the pathway is from stimulus to action, the more efficient our brain is and the fewer calories we need. Unfortunately, this means a lot of our life has turned into autopilot where we fall into routines and patterns that we just accept without question. All the way up to who you are married to, your job and how you parent. On this episode,...

As a coach, this is absolutely a hill I am willing to die on. We see a lot of "leaders" in our world today. With youth sports absolutely blowing up, coaches are on demand more than ever. Leadership advice hitting us from every platform in every direction. Influencers telling us how they did it and how you can do it too. If you want advice, there are millions of people around the clock ready to giv...

Life is more like blindly bushwhacking through a dense forest than it is wondering down paved roads. And yet, society treats it the opposite. In a resource-abundant world, how could anyone ever not succeed? All the roads have already been laid. People have already shown you the path and they continue to do so through podcasts, books and interviews. If you listen to a millionaire, and do exactly wh...

Parents have a hard job. Whether they are stay at home or working, the definition of what it means to be a parent, let a lone a "good parent" is an ever-moving goal post of higher expectations. The average parent today, who is working, spend about twice as much time with their children as a stay at home parent in the mid-1900's... And the investment doesn't stop there. This episode is all about th...

Show Notes Isaac Quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/456687-there-is-a-cult-of-ignorance-in-the-united-states Carl Saga Quote (Crystals): https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/632474-i-have-a-foreboding-of-an-america-in-my-children-s Carl Sagan Quote (Pale Blue Dot): https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot Child Mortality Rate: https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality Golden Rice Saves Liv...

Since our brains believe the world revolves around us, it has developed the ability to insert ourselves into any and every situation. This means that there are often many aspects of our life that have nothing to do with us but our brains convince us they do. Your Horoscope being one of them. It is made-up, has nothing to do with you, is pseudo-profound BS that applies to almost every human on this...

Asymmetrical Insight Bias is one of the simplest bias that we all have. It is easy to forget that there are complexities to all of us when judging others. To fully understand our own life is an impossible task, so to try and understand the depths of everyone in our life is absurd, so our brain creates shortcuts for caricatures because that is all we need to survive. It is up to us to put in the wo...

If you want to train a monkey to play flute on a pedestal, where should you start? How you answer this question says a lot about whether or not you will ever achieve your goals or make a change in your life. Find out why!

The human brain is terrible at numbers because we evolved during times where large numbers were not necessary for survival. We traveled in packs of dozens or hundreds for most of our ancestry and hunted and gathered for our food. It isn't until the last few thousand years that we started to see and understand the world in a Global scale and that amount of time is nothing in the eyes of humanity. O...

What's in a banana? https://jameskennedymonash.wordpress.com/2013/12/12/ingredients-of-an-all-natural-banana/

George Carlin Quote: Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

If you are like me, the Zipper Merge can feel like a fairly theatrical moment in your day. People honking, yelling, swerving, cutting fellow drivers off and of course winners and losers. In this episode we talk about who is right and wrong in zipper merges according to data, police and civil engineers as well as what the whole experience can teach about how humans think. ITRE Studying How Zipper M...

Welcome to Three Body Thinking, a podcast where we explore the inner workings of the Universe. In this episode, I explain a little about what Three Body Thinking is and how I arrived at it as a philosophical worldview. My thoughts and views have been constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed countless times over the past decade and I am happy to share what I have learned along the way!