The Living Wisely Podcast

Exploring Worldviews

This podcast episode, "Exploring Worldviews," guides listners to examine their own deeply held beliefs and assumptions about the world. It encourages critical analysis of these beliefs by presenting contrasting viewpoints and prompting reflection on various aspects of human nature, knowledge, morality, and relationships. The course uses a structured assignment to facilitate self-awareness and potential revision of one's worldview for improved well-being. It emphasizes the importance of aligning personal beliefs with reality and suggests further reading to enhance understanding. Ultimately, the aim is to cultivate intellectual flexibility and a more accurate understanding of the world.
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Seeking True Beliefs

This podcast episode on Seeking True Beliefs, explores virtue epistemology, examining how intellectual virtues like curiosity and humility, coupled with skills in critical thinking and evidence evaluation, guide us towards true beliefs. It argues that acquiring true beliefs is a matter of both will and skill, urging personal responsibility for the beliefs we hold. The course this podcast was derived from uses various assignments and examples to illustrate the importance of intellectual virtues in navigating information, overcoming biases, and fostering a genuine pursuit of knowledge. Ultimately, it advocates for a moral responsibility to seek true beliefs, promoting intellectual integrity and the pursuit of truth.
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Evaluating Evidence

This Podcast episode, "Evaluating Evidence," teaches critical thinking skills for assessing the reliability of information. It outlines various forms of evidence, establishes criteria for evaluating their quality (relevance, authenticity, objectivity, scope, etc.), and explores common pitfalls like confirmation bias and logical fallacies. The course uses examples from various fields, including law, science, and everyday life, to illustrate these concepts. Assignments encourage students to apply the learned principles to real-world scenarios and identify unreliable information sources. Ultimately, the aim is to cultivate a more accurate understanding of reality by improving the ability to evaluate evidence effectively.
 
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Facing Facts

This podcast episode, "Facing Facts," aims to improve critical thinking skills by teaching students to distinguish between facts, opinions, beliefs, and feelings. It explores various ways of knowing (epistemologies), emphasizing the importance of reliable methods like the scientific method and the dangers of unreliable ones like faith. The course stresses the existence of objective reality and the importance of evidence-based reasoning to navigate this shared reality, while acknowledging the role of personal perception and the challenges of navigating misinformation and bias. Assignments encourage self-reflection on decision-making and identifying and rejecting misinformation.
 
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Stoic Joy

This podcast episode outlines Stoic philosophy, tracing its history from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius. It details core Stoic principles, including virtue ethics, the dichotomy of control, and the importance of reason and cosmopolitanism. The page offers practical applications of Stoicism for modern life, drawing connections to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and providing exercises and suggested readings. It also addresses common misconceptions about Stoicism and acknowledges the limitations of ancient Stoic understanding in light of modern science. Finally, it explores the concept of duty within a Stoic framework.
 
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Sleep Soundly

This podcast explores the importance of sleep and the detrimental effects of sleep deprivation. It argues that adequate sleep is crucial for learning, memory formation, cognitive function, and overall well-being, and it highlights the link between insufficient sleep and chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and depression. The podcast also provides practical guidelines for improving sleep quality, including sticking to a regular sleep schedule, exercising regularly, avoiding caffeine and alcohol before bed, and creating a relaxing bedtime routine.
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What Matters

The podcast audio is created from the “What Matters” page on Wikiversity, which is an online learning platform hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The podcast outlines a course designed to help individuals identify and prioritize what truly matters in their lives, exploring topics ranging from basic survival needs to achieving a sense of purpose and contributing to the world. The course encourages reflection on personal values, suggests strategies for achieving greater well-being, and provides resources for further exploration. The podcast aims to inspire readers to live more fulfilling lives by focusing on the things that matter most to them.
 
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Clarifying Values

This podcast episode is a guide to clarifying personal values. It outlines how values influence decision-making and explores different frameworks for understanding and identifying values, including those of Rush Kidder, Christopher Peterson and Katherine Dahlsgaard, Shalom H. Schwartz, and the Dalai Lama. The guide also highlights common values held across cultures and encourages readers to examine their own values through self-reflection and by considering their impact on their actions and beliefs.
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Practicing Dialogue

This podcast on Practicing Dialogue outlines the key features and benefits of engaging in dialogue as a method of communication. It defines dialogue as a distinct form of conversation, contrasting it with other modes such as debate or discussion, and emphasizes the importance of genuine listening, respect, and the balance of inquiry and advocacy in achieving true dialogue. The material also explores common obstacles to engaging in dialogue, including fear, external constraints, distractions, and bad faith actors, and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and fostering successful dialogue.
 
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Discover your true self

This podcast summarizes a self-guided course designed to help individuals identify and understand their "true self". The course encourages participants to examine the stories they tell themselves about who they are, recognizing that these narratives might be based on limiting beliefs. Through a series of exercises and meditations, participants are encouraged to challenge these beliefs and rewrite their self-narrative, ultimately aiming to embrace a more authentic and fulfilling identity. The course also provides additional resources and links to related content on topics such as subjective awareness, emotional competency, and self-enquiry.
 
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