Ep 58. The consequences of impulsive speech and the importance of mindful communication. Learn how practicing self-regulation and common courtesy can prevent conflict and promote positive social interactions. We're witnessing a concerning rise in impulsive speech and attention-seeking behaviors, both online and in-person interactions. This trend can normalize disrespectful communication and contribute to real-world conflicts. It's crucial to recognize that words have significant power—especially...
Mar 03, 2024•23 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Ep 57. Neurocognitive aspects of skill acquisition and learning and benefits. Learn how stress management and low-stakes environments can enhance skill development and foster effective learning strategies for everyday life. Learning any skill involves both cognitive thought processes and tangible neurological development. Whether acquiring cognitive abilities or mastering physical skills, our brain's activity plays a crucial role in skill acquisition. Creating low-stress, supportive environments...
Feb 24, 2024•24 min•Season 1Ep. 57
Ep 56.Explore the impact of stress on belief formation and decision-making. Learn strategies to stay centered, avoid assumptions, and foster critical thinking for informed perspectives. During periods of stress, our tendency to form beliefs based on strong emotions rather than evidence can influence our opinions. This efficiency in thinking stems from our evolutionary need to conserve energy for survival instincts. However, this can lead to accepting beliefs and assumptions without thorough vali...
Feb 18, 2024•26 min•Season 1Ep. 56
Ep 55. When people gather in groups, they naturally assess each other, establish hierarchies, and evaluate individual contributions to the group or its leader. Self-value is crucial for self-regulation, shielding individuals from undue influence by those seeking to manipulate others for various agendas, whether positive or negative. Miyamoto Musashi, renowned author of "The Book of Five Rings," emphasized the importance of seeing through social facades, particularly in challenging social dynamic...
Feb 15, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Ep 54. Discover how employing the factual method—asking 'what, where, when, who, and how' before 'why'—boosts factual communication and rapport building. This approach reduces the pitfalls of opinion and emotional bias, preventing defensiveness and tangential disputes that can disrupt effective communication and lead to unintended consequences. Walk well. Hey folks, let me know what you think about the Running Man Podcast. Let me know where you're from and how you are doing in your little part o...
Feb 09, 2024•23 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Ep 53. Explore how extreme emotions, much like regular emotions, are transient states rather than enduring traits. Learn how beliefs and expectations shape emotional experiences over time, potentially leading to patterned behaviors that can seem predictable. While the adage "patterns never lie" holds true in some cases, it's important to recognize that behavioral camouflage, such as acting "as if," can sometimes deceive. Stay insightful and navigate wisely. Walk well. Hey folks, let me know what...
Jan 28, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Ep 52. In our fast-paced lives, we often overlook what shapes our beliefs and the intensity with which we hold them. Our perceptions are heavily influenced by what we hear from peers, family, and authorities. Whether in personal conversations or broader societal contexts via media, the prevailing social and cultural tones are initially driven by emotions. Recognizing this can empower us to pause before reacting emotionally, allowing us to redirect our inner dialogue and change our emotional stat...
Jan 21, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Ep 51. Time plays a crucial role in managing emotions effectively in life's critical moments. By resisting the impulse to act on immediate emotions, we unlock opportunities to make thoughtful choices and avoid potential calamity or dissatisfaction. Learn how strategic timing can empower you to navigate challenges with clarity and resilience. Walk well with informed decisions. Take care and Walk well. Hey folks, let me know what you think about the Running Man Podcast. Let me know where you're fr...
Jan 15, 2024•26 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Ep 50. Explore how effective time management influences emotional responses and decision-making. Learn strategies to resist impulsive actions, opening opportunities for thoughtful choices and avoiding potential pitfalls. Enhance your ability to navigate life's challenges with clarity and resilience. Discover more about emotional regulation and decision-making strategies. When under stress our ability to rationalize and reason is compromised due to the environmental priorities that require we be ...
Jan 09, 2024•23 min•Season 1Ep. 50
Ep49. The concept of self-realization in Abraham Maslow's developmental psychology emphasizes the journey of personal growth through addressing our biological needs within his hierarchy of needs. This journey often necessitates letting go of transient aspects of life—be it activities, jobs, or relationships—that no longer contribute to our long-term fulfillment. Sentimentality can hinder our progress towards becoming our true selves; clinging to what's familiar can prevent us from embracing our ...
Dec 30, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Ep 48. When we reach the limits of physical endurance and cognitive capacity, it affects our ability to think rationally and may lead us to contemplate our existence beyond the physical realm, often referred to as the EGO. Our willpower depends on adequate blood flow delivering glucose for cognitive function and oxygen for cellular vitality, crucial during stressful thinking processes. These insights become profound as we confront our physiological boundaries, distinct from our subjective goals ...
Dec 30, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 48
Ep 47. Successfully achieving personal and professional goals hinges on how we approach and align ourselves with them. Our mindset towards these goals significantly impacts our journey—whether we progress effectively or struggle to initiate action. Understanding our self-perception in relation to goal attainment shapes the path and determines the depth of personal growth along the way. What are the developmental benefits we experience as we strive towards and achieve our desired skills and objec...
Dec 21, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Ep 46. The power of our self-image, though subjective, drives enduring change. How we perceive ourselves profoundly influences our pursuit of personal goals, whether in mastering physical skills or achieving professional milestones. Internal dialogue plays a critical role; negative self-talk can hinder progress. Rather than fixating on obstacles, fostering happiness from within becomes pivotal. Happiness is a conscious choice and a lifestyle, empowering us to navigate challenges without losing s...
Dec 19, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Ep 45. Aphantasia Explained: Enhancing Perception Beyond Visualization. Aphantasia, affecting a small percentage, prevents individuals from visualizing in their mind's eye. This condition may have evolved due to limited light conditions, enhancing other senses. Brain scans reveal active executive engagement during visualization attempts in aphantasic individuals. However, slower executive function in urgent situations contrasts with heightened sensory awareness in low-light environments. Visual ...
Dec 15, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Ep 44. Intrusive thoughts, while intense and uncomfortable, need not disrupt your life or lead to guilt or shame. It's natural for humans to experience them without self-punishment. These thoughts prompt us to quickly address and categorize them, often leading to internal conflict and harsh self-judgment. Understanding that they serve to highlight potential problems rather than dictate actions is crucial. Explore this topic to navigate them effectively. Hey folks, let me know what you think abou...
Dec 07, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Ep 43. Becoming a parent unveils the vast and overwhelming reality of caring for a newborn, a challenge shared by both new moms and dads. While external support focuses on practical parenting skills, many struggle silently with feelings of inadequacy and the pressure to appear competent. It's important to acknowledge that parenting isn't always smooth; it involves a rollercoaster of emotions. Checking in on new parents and discussing their internal struggles can provide crucial support during th...
Dec 01, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Ep 42. Change is a ubiquitous theme in our lives, prominently discussed on social media and in daily conversations. Often, we reminisce about the past and lament the inevitable transformations of the present. Yet, amidst these fleeting perspectives, there exist constants—unchangeable elements in our human experience. By broadening our outlook, we can harness these constants as foundational pillars of understanding. They offer a counterbalance to our fixation on change, redirecting our focus towa...
Nov 25, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Ep 41. Understanding change as a constant, as recognized in mathematics, offers a strategic approach to mitigating the impact of dynamic social changes on individuals. Applying principles like "Endless Variation Never Surprises" and "Constants Never Surprise" provides a guiding perspective on how we perceive changes in our environment. This perspective encompasses individual and group behaviors, enhancing our awareness to navigate our world with a deeper, more primal understanding. By anticipati...
Nov 19, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Ep 40. From Survival to Significance: Embracing Power in Everyday Life can be realized by aligning with power which means embracing principles such as love, compassion, and altruistic acceptance of others, exemplified by historical figures like Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Martin Luther King Jr. These individuals left a lasting impact by serving and benefiting others on a profound scale. Beyond mere survival, how can we elevate ourselves from the basic fight for existence and avoid being trapped i...
Nov 11, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Ep 39. Self knowledge is invariably one of the most useful skills when dealing with and managing physical stress and perilous environment. The skills that support self knowledge is knowledge of "enemy", opponent, challenge or physical environment. Foreknowledge of the intra-personal and the interpersonal on the individual level is key to greater more reliable and more positive outcomes and that translates to at the most base physical, organismic survival and it also translates to greater quality...
Nov 07, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Ep 38. Ever wondered about the direction of your life? It's a journey towards goals we perceive or conceive, with or without the skills or a map. Our ego builds on experiences and identity, forging ahead in solitude through dark waters. Adventure awaits on this collective journey; may your encounters be fulfilling Walk well. Hey folks, let me know what you think about the Running Man Podcast. Let me know where you're from and how you are doing in your little part of the world! Support the show i...
Nov 01, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Ep 37. When we see patterns where there aren't any. Where belief is swayed by social pressure, we have the potential to develop, conjunction fallacy. Believing things to be based on false information and at times social group pressure. Hindsight is always 20/20. But, what happens when we have feelings that things were correct? This is an example of an advanced hindsight bias where we had the intuition before the event and had foreknowledge. Or so we would state it in a social situation where one...
Oct 27, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Ep 36. When we were hunting in our primitive times there was no guarantee of success and payoff from finding and or successfully hunting food. The times that we succeeded, there was a reward pathway, Dopamine response signaling pleasure and ensuring motivation to repeat that behavior again. That is a powerful experience. In today's modern day, we have found ways to bypass the survival experience and have tripped our pleasure/reward pathways indicating survival and most assuredly encouraging addi...
Oct 23, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Ep 35. When we remember we are recalling a segment of our past in our life's timeline. Have you ever thought a certain way when you are stressed that you interpreted things negatively? Well, then you are human. What is changeable is our reactivity by training physical resilience and recognizing our proclivity to seek negatives to protect our future outcomes by making our predicted hopefully; hurt less. Let us break the habit of reliving the days of future past in our futures moving forward or we...
Oct 20, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Ep 34. When we recall we run the risk of reactivity to the nature of the memory. Is it euphoric and pleasant? Is is dysphoric and painful? These are the elements that often determine how close we hold our idea of self or ego in regards to the recollection. When we hold beliefs that have been assumed or accepted often there is a social component where we gain acceptance and social capital or value that we are often wont to let go of even in the face of evidence to support other that what we belie...
Oct 16, 2023•28 min•Ep. 34
Ep 33. The Late Psychologist and author Dr. Glen J. Morris wrote that "We follow our own Placebos". This is a daily walk in that much of what we do and how we do it is based on the beliefs we hold that often are founded in inaccuracy, misinterpretation and failure (on our part) to correct an in complete concept. Shakespeare's idea that all the world is a stage is a powerful understanding of the roles that we play and the "actors" that enter and exit our lives, though the faces may be different, ...
Oct 13, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Ep 32. There are several theories on fear and also the behaviors that arise from the stimulus that causes us and animals to shirk from danger and protect ourselves. At times we add narrative to make sense of understanding and may created ethics, guidelines and morals and more's that limit the negative effects of what fear would otherwise bring to bear in our lives. Hey folks, let me know what you think about the Running Man Podcast. Let me know where you're from and how you are doing in your lit...
Oct 08, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Ep 31. The art of peace is a an encouragement to seek harmony in day to day things and to seek to apply the principle of "Ai" union and Wa, harmony in conflict. The highest expression of the art of war is to use influence and to never have to draw your sword. The way of understanding creates an opportunity to understand and to neutralize conflict by empathy and understanding when it counts most in our everyday interactions. Hey folks, let me know what you think about the Running Man Podcast. Let...
Oct 08, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Ep 30.Walking with the shadow self is a daily event that occurs when we meet obstacles and challenge in what we call our lives. The shadow self may be in the dark but not because it is bad or evil. Often it is mistakenly shunned and relegated to our more primitive more base ideas of what our shadow is. It is from where our feelings, emotions and passions rise. It is where we experience pleasure of creature comforts of food, bonding and the flow or artistic creativity and the embodiment of music ...
Oct 06, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Ep 29. The cephalic phase of hunger extends to acquisition, seeking and hunting. By the visual recall alone will the body drive, seek and hunt to satiate a primal need to survive and to get survival level payoff/reward. By the same token it is the preceding spark that creates an anticipatory "high before the high" that if left unsatisfied can result in feelings of deprivation, irritation, anxiety, anger aggression, violence and even homicide and suicide at the extreme. This is a deeply powerful ...
Oct 03, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 29
