Podcast: Self-Defined Human
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#33 – Loneliness and Social Anxiety
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
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
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
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
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
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.