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English
United States
11 episodes
since Feb. 23, 2024
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Is letting AI do your writing like paying someone to go to the gym for you?That's the thought Nathan brought to this episode, the first of season two. It started with a Cal Newport op-ed in the New York Times about technology making us intellectually lazy, and it took us from AI-written email chain…

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In this episode of Thought Mining, we explore a powerful quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”What does Emerson mean by this? How can we apply it in a world full of uncertainty, distraction, and pressure? Join us for a con…
Derek and Nathan thought mine the quote, "Impatience is an argument with reality," from Rick Rubin's book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being. What do you think? Is impatience an argument with reality?
In this episode of the Thought Mining Podcast, hosts Derek and Nathan welcome Tanner Wells, a sophisticated explorer of geographic regions, cultures, and perspectives. They discuss predictive processing, explaining how our brains use life experiences to fill in details, sometimes leading to biases.…
Derek and Nathan discuss experiences with being spontaneously vulnerable. They explore positive and negative consequences of times when they acted or hesitated to act on opportunities to do things beyond the scope of their comfort zone. The episode concludes with a peek into both of them being spon…
This is the second part of a two-part series on fears of speaking up in group settings. Derek and Nathan discuss fears related to passion, presence, and relevance.
Derek and Nathan continue mining thoughts related to fear. Their conversation includes a discussion on three out of six fears that Nathan feels have sometimes hindered his ability to speak up in meetings at work.
Derek and Nathan mine thoughts associated with fears of doing new things. They discuss some of Derek's experiences with speaking a foreign language and doing improv comedy and explore a reflection that Nathan wrote after waking up from a dream related to the theme of feeling anxious about vulnerabl…
Derek and Nathan continue their thought mining journey. Derek introduces his visions for an anti-Jobs character and a reality show for psychics. Nathan reads another excerpt from his original middle-of-the-night reflection on the concept of thought mining as well as a phrase from a recent walk that…
Derek and Nathan discuss thought mining characteristics and strategies as they lead you on a journey of unconventional thinking and uncommon awareness.
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