EP 35 - Sentient Worldview
Summary of the Sentient Worldview intentional living framework. Concludes content Phase 1. Phase 2 will be more social, interactive, and focused on others’ examples of intentional living. Stay tuned!

Summary of the Sentient Worldview intentional living framework. Concludes content Phase 1. Phase 2 will be more social, interactive, and focused on others’ examples of intentional living. Stay tuned!
Discussion of Time and Space as our frames of reference in the Sentient Worldview, how we refer to them (absolute, relative, target, scale), and how that helps us live more intentionally.
6th and final skill of the Sentient Worldview: Action. Types: sense, interpret, speak, move. Recursive until we reach closure. Pay attention to act as planned. Also, brief discussion on accountability
3rd topic of 5th skill in Sentient Worldview (Making Decisions): Risk & Uncertainty. Known vs. unknown “unknowns”. Using “expected values” of risks to make option scoring more accurate.
2nd topic of 5th skill of Sentient Worldview (Making Decisions): Criteria and Weighting. Contrasted with Intuition & Flow (EP 18). What do you care about and how much? Weighted average option score.
1st topic of of 5th skill of Sentient Worldview (Decision): Decision Methods. Describes 6 methods, their pros/cons, typica uses, and how “deciding how to decide” helps us live more intentionally.
A heartfelt and encouraging call-in from Kurt Smock, an early and avid supporter who’s mission is also to help people win in their lives and was kind enough to deliver the 1000th clap on this podcast.
10th and final topic within 4th skill of Sentient Worldview (Interpreting with Reason): Verbal Reasoning. What and how others communicate: vocab., cliches, tone, emphasis, pace, volume, pauses, etc.
9th topic within 4th skill of Sentient Worldview (Interpreting w/ Reason): Visual & Spatial Reasoning. Applications, Concepts, Skill development, and as always, the “So What?” segment.
Alida McDaniel, a life coach for >10y, is passionate about helping people step into their true power. She imparts a unique perspective and shares how she lives intentionally to achieve her goals.
8th topic within 4th skill of Sentient Worldview (Interpreting with Reason): Signals. What are signals? Subtle vs obvious. Static vs dynamic. Connections, assigned meaning, and empathy are important.
7th topic in 4th skill of Sentient Worldview (Interpreting with Reason): Diagrams. What are they? Best practices? Types and uses? So what? How do they help you live intentionally?
6th topic within 4th skill of Sentient Worldview (Interpreting with Reason): Approximation. What is it? How does it work? What are confidence intervals? How does it help me live more intentionally?
5th topic within 4th skill of Sentient Worldview (Interpreting with Reason): Probability. Know the basics. Guard against risks. Understand the “game” you’re playing. Don’t bet what you can’t lose.
4th topic within 4th skill of Sentient Worldview (Interpreting with Reason): Morality. Why it can’t be completely universalized or distributed. One example of a limited list of universal morals.
Response to a call-in regarding the prototype emotions tracking process I showed on Instagram on 2017-08-29. Simplifying my process for when I put it into practice.
3rd topic of 4th skill of Sentient Worldview, Interpreting with Reason: Analysis / Calculation. Basic Maths, compound interest & debt, problem definition, checking your work, answers’ reasonableness.
Continued look at the 4th skill in the Sentient Worldview, Interpreting with Reason. Today: Creativity, the rationale side of the process of developing novel and useful ideas. #liveintentionally
First topic in 4th skill of Sentient Worldview (Interpreting with Reason): Logic. Basics for everyday use: And, Or, Not, All, Some, Always, Eventually, Next, Until. Arguments Consistent? Valid? Sound?
Setup for forthcoming episodes on 10 most common types of reasoning, the 4th skill in the Sentient Worldview.
Final topic in skill 3/6 of the Sentient Worldview (interpreting with emotion & intuition), “Intuition & Flow”. Definition, pitfalls, flow, and “so what?”.
Interview of Personally Borderline. She is a mature, driven, soon-to-be university student with a passion for destygmatizing mental illnesses. Listen to what Intentional Living means to her!
Continued look at 3rd skill of Sentient Worldview, interpreting with emotion & intuition. Today, emotion dyads (combinations of core emotions) = more subtle and less common emotions. 24 in total
Interview featuring Domo Sama, US college basketball player-turned-coach, on living intentionally. In Domo’s words, acting “On Purpose, for a Purpose”, and how he inspires players on and off the court
Continued look at 3rd skill in Sentient Worldview, interpreting w/ emotion & intuition. Today, surprise and anticipation.
Misspoke; it is EP 15. Continued look at 3rd skill in Sentient Worldview, interpreting with emotion & intuition. Today: Fear & Anger. Perceived threat? Can I overcome it? How can I focus this energy?
Continued look into 3rd skill of the Sentient Worldview: interpreting with emotion & intuition. In this episode, we cover the emotions Trust and Disgust, how to identify them, and the value of trust.
Today we cover Joy and Sadness, the first of four pairs of opposite emotions in Robert Plutchik’s “wheel of emotions” model. The goal is to better identify these emotions to improve our empathy.
My response to a great question asked by a listener: “How does the subjective concept of a soul help me teach intentional living?”
Beginning of third skill in Sentient Worldview: Interpretation using Emotion and Intuition. Some setup, discussion of the model of choice, and value of this topic to you.