Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking

Walking my local streets and considering the overview effect: how seeing the Earth from space makes us feel.

Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime and considering the vanishing self. Plus, a voicenote from Cindy in Nebraska.

Walking around the park behind the hospital rounding off the walking week with our fifth Awe episode!

Walking around the park behind the hospital thinking about awe and what it’s trying to tell us.

Walking around an autumnal Northampton Square this lunchtime, wondering whether awe can be conceptualised as a trinary of power, wonder, and fear.

Walking my local streets and bringing you a landmark paper on awe by Dacher Keltner and Jonathan Haidt.

Thinking about awe as I’m walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime.

Your final episode of Series 51 is here as we wrap up our friendship discussion on Walk the Pod. Take care of your beautiful mind, and I’ll be back with Series 52 in November.

Walking my local streets thinking about the skill of active listening this lunchtime.

Walking around Northampton Square in North London this lunchtime, through piles of crispy leaves.

Walking my local streets, thinking about Anna Machin’s work on friendship, and the benefits of a large (150 according to Dunbar) social network.

Walking around the park behind the hospital this lunchtime with a radical prompt to keep in touch with your friends.

Walking around the park behind the hospital thinking about everything we’ve learned in this first week of friendship themed podcasts. Thank you for walking with me! Excited to announce that we will be walking for the Wildlife Trusts from Monday, raising money for their mission to save 30% of land and sea by 2030.

Walking around the park behind the hospital, thinking about the different types of friendship that make a full and happy life.

Walking my local streets this lunchtime, considering whether friendship could be a ‘behavioural vaccine’.

Reflecting on the words of Andrew Sullivan, this lunchtime, that friendship is a critical social institution but one which gets overlooked in favour of the nuclear family. Plus a voicenote from Cindy in Nebraska

Walking around the park behind the hospital in the rain this lunchtime thinking about friends vs nuclear family.

Walking my local streets this lunchtime in relentless rain, thinking about eeverything we’ve learned this series. I’lll be back in late October with Series 51. I wonder what we’ll be discussing then.

My radical promot today, dear friends, is that most creative genius is not an act, but a habit. Walking my local streets, paying attention to what’s directly in front of me as we approach the end of the series.

Walking my local streets, thinking about how society doesn’t value creative gifts enough. What hope of structures for creative folk to develop their gifts? Plus a walking report from Cindy in Nebraska.

Walking my local streets this lunchtime considering thoughts mistakenly attributed to Albert Einstein: “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

Walking around the park behind the hospital, thinking about how gifts exist within both the market exonomy and the gift economy.

Walking in Clapham this morning, wrapping up Week 1, Series 50 of Walk the Pod on the topic of ‘Gifts’. What have we learned so far? Check out https://www.walkthepod.com to join the Walk the Pod lunchtime walk club or leave a voicenote.

Walking in the woods near home and thinking about how all stories can be framed in terms of a person developing a gift. With a walking report from Cindy in Nebraska.

Walking my local streets this lunchtime thinking about gifts, art, and the artist. Do we have an obligation to develop and use our gifts? Does society have a responsibility to give artists the time to develop their talents?