Pat Stedman is a Dating & Relationship Coach for guys. And he’s also wicked-smart. In this epsidoe, he hacks my brain about the Past and it’s “presence” in the Present. This wide and deep discussion convinced me I’d found a kindred spirit.
Books I have read recently, am reading or have queued up.
How many people actually listen to a podcast? The numbers are a little squishy. And there’s a very good reason for that.
To understand why the numbers are so “squishy,” you need to understand a little of the technology behind podcasts.
Without trying to figure out how this particular problem magically becomes a fantastic solution, answer this question:
How would you feel if you knew that this exact situation solved a huge problem?
We labor under the belief that we can influence the future. This belief is both true in one sense and completely deluded in another.
It is true because cause and effect are related. It is delusional because Cause is only knowable after the Effect has occurred.
In other words, the link between a specific Cause and a specific Effect is only absolute backwards in time.
The number of times that slavers granted freedom to their slaves is vanishingly small. Almost without exception, freedom was won. Freedom was fought for. Freedom was wrested from the hands of the slavers. Freedom was assumed and then taken.
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