The Examined Life
The Examined Life podcast explores the questions we should be asking ourselves with a range of leading thinkers. Each episode features a different interview, and appeals to those interested in wisdom, personal development, and what it might mean to live a good life. Topics vary from discussing the role of dopamine mining and status anxiety, to exploring the science of awe and attention.
Podcasting since 2023 • 18 episodes
The Examined Life
Latest Episodes
Phoebe Tickell - Is the root of our problems found in the way we see the world?
Phoebe Tickell is a biologist, systems thinker, and 'imagination activist'. Phoebe works across multiple contexts applying a complexity and systems thinking lens and engaging people in how to think differently about the planet and its problems....
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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55:37
Alex Evans - What do we do about the religion shaped hole?
What do we lack when we lack religion? In this episode Alex Evans explores the role that religion has historically played in both collective and individual life, and the shape it leaves behind when it disappears. The stories that we locate ours...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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53:14
Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor - Who are we, and what are we doing here?
Dr Jill Bolte-Taylor was a neuroanatomist at Harvard when she suffered a severe stroke on the left hemisphere of her brain. It was an experience which profoundly changed her life, and opened her up to the agency we all have in choosing our atte...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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53:09
Todd Kashdan - What are the best ways to be influential when lacking power and status?
Show links:Todd's website - https://toddkashdan.com/Todd's Substack - https://toddkashdan.substack.com/Kenny's Substack - https://positivelymaladjusted.substack.com/Examined Life youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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55:01
Iain McGilchrist - What is my culture preventing me from seeing?
Iain McGilchrist is a rare polymath who draws on his background in literature, philosophy, medicine and the sciences to make a profound argument that the kind of attention we pay to the world determines not only the kind of people we become, bu...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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57:29