Podcast: Self-Defined Human
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#33 – Loneliness and Social Anxiety
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Is loneliness good or bad? Social anxiety. Could you survive on a desert island? Should white people be singing spirituals? Finding flow in your speaking (like Rush Limbaugh). Amplifying your singing and speaking voices.
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#32 – Blame isn’t the Problem
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When you get sufficiently advanced, spiritually speaking, you’re likely to view blame as a problem. As in, you shouldn’t do it. But, this is a misunderstanding. In this episode, I revisit the Drama Triangle and the Empowerment Dynamic, as well as Nonviolent Communication. The key phrase here is “it’s about function, not form.”
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#31 – What’s the Deal with Michael Korman?, with David Servias
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Cancel culture in the world of collaborative piano! David Servias sat down to interview me about trouble brewing in some of the Facebook piano groups. Read the full story. 0:02:16 – What’s the deal with Michael Korman? He seems to have a gift for offending people. 0:04:26 – Michael’s post in the Collaborative Piano group.…
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#30 – 3 Stages to Learning Any Skill
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Why I deleted all my Instagram followers. Why responsibility is a good thing. The 3 stages in learning any kind of skill.
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#29 – When Insight Strikes, with Blake Shields Abramovitz
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Blake Shields Abramovitz is a meditation teacher and an actor, and this is a followup to our conversation from October of 2020, which you can hear in Episode 7: When Meditators Get Cancelled. In this episode, we talk about piano playing, awakening, multiple selves, what happens as you go down the path of insight, psychedelics,…
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#28 – Anti-Perfectionism and Real Life
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Why it’s easier to perform well in real life than when you’re practicing. Anti-perfectionism. Different types of personalities. Sometimes adrenaline is what makes you do a good job. It’s just conservation of energy.