IAMSHOKUNIN
This podcast series explores the subject of ethics, morality and attitudes that make our lives better and allow us to become better humans. The podcast support the book called ”How to become a good hu(man)”. It was originally written for young men, but over time I have come to realise that lots of people at different ages get something out of it too.
Episodes
17 episodes
Are we really the sum of our beliefs?
This episode looks at how reality is defined in this world through the limited beliefs we choose to entertain and how we deliberately constrain the world around us in order to understand it.Is the answer to happiness and a better world ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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24:41
Revolting Vegans in Veganuary
This months episode talks about how Vegans are starting to revolt over the cynical commercialisation of their dietary and spiritual beliefs by the meat and food industry world wide. It talks about how a proper Vegan diet can save you from disea...
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Episode 16
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21:32
What a fearful mess we're in
This months podcast looks at the mess we have got ourselves into and why we are in such a pickle and how we might go about reversing some of the things that are happening to us at the moment.
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Episode 15
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24:47
COPing with young bucks and old farts
This month's episode explores why we have an intergenerational struggle to get things changed in the world and what we can perhaps do to help each other achieve more in the future.
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Episode 14
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21:10
The blame game
This episode discusses how we cannot absolve ourselves of responsibility and how responsibility is a choice both for us as individuals as well as society. Blame is in fact an admission of error on our own behalf.
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Episode 13
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24:00
Lies, Damned lies, and Reality
This months episode looks at how our brains cope and process reality and how the psychopathology we create is actually a powerful way of protecting us and maintaining our sanity. It also looks at how this wonderful gift works against us when pe...
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Episode 12
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36:42
The binding nature of life's complexities
This episode looks at the things that bind us and how "binding" manifests itself in so many interrelated ways and how this stops us from doing the things we want to do sometimes and prevents us from taking opportunities when they are presented....
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Episode 11
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24:59
On getting lost and being lost
This episode looks at the skills we once had to navigate our way through life, both on the physical plane as well as the intellectual plane and how we are losing those skills due to technology and how we are increasingly lost, but unaware of it...
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Episode 10
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34:18
Who am I and what is my purpose here?
In this months podcast we explore some of the larger questions in our lives around our existence and what our purpose here on earth might be.
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Episode 9
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23:08
What is fear and why do we have it
This episode looks at fear and how it affects our lives, where it comes from and some of the things we can do to understand and manage it better.How to be a good Hu(man)
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Episode 8
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35:38
Samuel L. Jackson and the path of the righteous man
In this episode we use a passage from the film Pulp fiction to explore the idea that there is a "Right path" for us to become good humans. We explore the Noble Eightfold path put forward by
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Episode 7
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29:07
What happens when we all want to be unique?
This episode discusses the rise in exceptionalism in western democracies and the perverse and detrimental effect it is having when combined with social media.What happens when we ALL want to be special is that we end up creating, uninte...
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Episode 6
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24:17
The Future - where in the world are we going?
The Week after Davos 21 this episode explores one of the biggest issues of our time - what will the future look like? At a time of unprecedented change in the world I explore why we are having to change so fast and what is the scale of the chan...
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Episode 5
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43:59
How we react to change
I realised I needed to talk about change in this podcast before I take about the future in the next podcast. Change is such an important thing in life and our ability to reposed correctly to changing circumstances is so important to our success...
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Episode 4
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24:43
Book launch - I explain why I wrote it
This is a special episode where I explain why I wrote this book and what my hopes for it are. I explain why it is so difficult to transition into adulthood and why we struggle to make sense of this period in our lives. This podc...
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Episode 3
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23:33