"School is this Persona for the adults. I think kids get very, very good at learning to please other people. And, it's baked into the school experience. It's baked into the rules. The relationship with a rule-giver, a rule-enforcer, is a reason to appease and to please and to doubt…
"I think we have childhood inverted, right? You, you don't get the freedom to explore your own interests and ideas until after childhood, when you have dependence and you have responsibilities. You have, you know, you're expected to be on a career track, right? You're in your 20s. You're supposed…
What if everything we think we know about raising children is not just wrong, but actively harmful? Aaron Stupple and Logan Chipkin, authors of "The Sovereign Child," join Infinite Loops to make a case so compelling and radical that it challenges the very foundation of modern parenting and education. From…
"About a year ago, I stumbled into this Twitter subculture of people that were obsessed with [a] style of advanced meditation that engenders strange, intensely altered states in your mind that are comparable to psychedelics..." ~ Nadia Asparouhova on the power of Jhana meditation Full video: https://youtu.be/NNT2oDu9wAw
"If everyone's just keeping their ideas to themselves in group chats... how do we continue to contribute to the civil public discourse and ensure that good ideas are making their way back out?" ~ Nadia Asparouhova explains the perils of Antimemes...
"No one can come up with the perfect content moderation policy that solves all problems..." So how do we inoculate ourselves against mind-viruses and bad ideas? Nadia Asparouhova explores this issue... #vaccine #meme #Virus #internet #culture
"Today we have ... lots of different super memes that people can sort of pledge their allegiance to... And so you have lots of these different competing talent ecosystems and competitions for mindshare." ~ Nadia Asparouhova on the emergence of Supermemes... #supermemes #memes #ecosystems #media #culture #war
Nadia Asparouhova, author of "Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading," joins me for a fascinating exploration of why some ideas go viral while others—often the most important ones—resist transmission entirely. We dive into antimemes, Curtis Yarvin's journey from being canceled to becoming mainstream, St. Paul as history's ultimate memetic engineer,…
Being on the street doesn’t make you dangerous. But how society treats you might. Israel Balogun shares why the real crime isn’t homelessness, it’s stigma. And what happens when kids are finally given the space to define themselves. Full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovN_HXjraYU #infiniteloops #infinitel88ps #infiniteloopsepisode #fullvideo #onthestreet #balogun #criminaljustice #kids…
People with disabilities are often expected to perform for acceptance. In this episode, we talk about why people with disabilities shouldn’t need to convince the world they’re capable. They just need tools, space, and the right to build. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovN_HXjraYU #peoplewithdisability #peoplewithdisabilities #episode #makers #right #disabilities #infiniteloops #infinitel88ps #infiniteloopsepisode
Imagine skipping breakfast because your school didn’t build an accessible bathroom. That was daily life for one student in a wheelchair. Just for the right to learn. Exploring the quiet cruelty of exclusion and the power of showing up anyway. Full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovN_HXjraYU #infiniteloops #infinitel88ps #infiniteloopsepisode #showingup #showupanyway
Akhin means a feraless warrior. In this episode, we hear how a local dialect became the backbone of a program that sees the value in what the streets taught- grit, courage, and inner fire. Full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovN_HXjraYU #infiniteloops #infinitel88ps #infiniteloopsepisode #streets #grit #value #warrior
I’m joined today by two remarkable men I met through the O’Shaughnessy Fellowships and Grants program. Israel Balogun was homeless and illiterate until the age of 22. Now, he leads a Nigerian youth rehabilitation nonprofit for street kids and is building a self-sustaining village for 200 out-of-school children with the…
"...the act of meditating on some of these [japanese koans] actually can help to liberate us from this very rigid linear way that we tend to approach information." Dr. Diane on mind-expanding concepts... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx5q0P548IU
"The first thing is for people to believe it's possible. And then the second thing is to learn how to shift your awareness to gain mastery over where you put your awareness." Dr. Diane on the power of focus...
Do we even have a definition of consciousness? Dr. Diane explores a new way to understand this problem... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx5q0P548IU
"They couldn't even do basic arithmetic. And yet at the same time, they could generate prime numbers in six digits." Dr. Diane recounts a case of Oliver Sacks that got her interested in studying savants... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx5q0P548IU
Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell, neuropsychiatrist and author of "The ESP Enigma," joins me for a mind-bending exploration of consciousness, savant abilities, and the limitations of materialist science. Trained at Johns Hopkins under a neurologist-turned-psychiatrist, Diane has spent decades investigating phenomena that challenge our fundamental assumptions about how the brain works.…
"Our brains have been hardwired over a long period of time to assume scarcity. We operate as though the world is zero-sum because that is the way the world was for a very long time..." ~ Todd Rose 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #Shorts #Podcast #Scarcity #Abundance
Shared values are the strongest predictor of social trust... but self-silencing keeps them hidden. Todd Rose explains... 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #Shorts #Podcast
"All it takes is one other person in the room. One other person." "You become that extra confederate, the person that actually allows space for someone to be able to speak up, and you'll start a chain reaction." ~ Todd Rose 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #Shorts…
"People that self-silence have lower levels of perceived self-worth, have diminished life satisfaction [...] And what I think is even worse is as it ladders up to the interpersonal and then the social, it leads to declining levels of social trust.” ~Todd Rose 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our…
Todd Rose, co-founder and CEO of Populace, and author of books including "Collective Illusions" and "The End of Average," joins the show to discuss the science behind collective illusions and how they impact our society. We explore why so many Americans self-silence, the dangers of conformity, and how one person…
"But those kinds of trades - doesn't matter if you go on to become president of the United States - those trades are useful learning." Chuck Beames on the power of building from your hands... Full vid: https://youtu.be/JgoONOkXHT4