Podcast Benomtad

Rousseau on the formation of our moral selves and responsibility.  I read from Rousseau on Emile after giving a bit of a summary of Rousseau’s project with the book: to present a detailed picture of a modern human.  So much of our moral behavior comes from our habits but we believe it's essential.  One can link this to Aristotelian character.  The second childhood of adulthood, forming your future self but also possibly unforming the past one one has inherited.
 
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My friend LL reflects on the effects of Well-Being Therapy and realizes it did boost her mood.  She notices she felt and thought less negatively.
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I reflect on my efforts to do parts of Well-Being Therapy, and even though I wasn’t able to exactly do everything to a T, it still was effective in boosting my mood.  I don’t necessarily even “believe” in this therapy, but it really seems to work and truth be told, it requires very little effort, besides getting past my stubborn ego.
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Results of Our Positive Outlook Increase Attempts (Clip)
 
Last week, we tried Well-Being Therapy, as related in The Emotional Life of your Brain.  Today, we discuss the results.  We genuinely complimented and thanked people, and wrote down positive traits of ourselves and others.
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We talk about subjective remedies that miss the mark in finding meaning, and markers to a good path.  Are we making ourselves gods? Do you give yourself too much credit?  Becoming like Odysseus, fully human.
 
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We talk about the meaning crisis, John Vervaeke’s focus.  We may substitute the body, money and politics for a dearth of meaning in life.  We have “being” needs we are trying to fill with things we have.  And why we need direction.  
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Do we care about character?  When’s the last time you heard someone talk about this offline? It, “virtue,” “vice,” feel antiquated.  
 
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We all know one can know what the right thing to do is, but… the chocolate cake is right there! We talk about the nature of this phenomenon and how to develop character in its light.  We also talk about being wrapped up in our own negative thoughts which closes us to others.  
 
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From Episode 5 of John Vervaeke’s excellent series (available on Youtube) “Awakening from the Meaning Crisis,” which I introduce, I talk about Aristotle’s idea of character.  He teaches that man, the rational animal, must use that supreme faculty to develop oneself and live up to one’s potential as the best human being one can be.
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Awakening from the Meaning Crisis:
 
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
 
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