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Sentient Future

Allen Funston, P.Eng MBA LSBBBsentientfuture.earth
🧬 You are SENTIENT ⚖️ Fulfilment is Your Endgame ❤️ Define, Weight, & Apply Your Values ♾ 184.2 Years / $4.7 Billion Saved for Individual & Organizational Clients 👤 Allen Funston, P.Eng, MBA, LSSBB 🌎 Sentient Process Network Theory
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Episodes

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!

Sep 22, 20175 min

EP 34 - Dimension - Time/Space

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.

Sep 21, 20175 min

EP 33 - Action

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

Sep 20, 20175 min

EP 32 - Decision - Risk

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.

Sep 20, 20175 min

EP 31 - Decision - Criteria

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.

Sep 18, 20175 min

EP 30 - Decision - Methods

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.

Sep 17, 20175 min

Kindest words ever

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.

Sep 16, 20172 min

EP 29 - Reason - Verbal

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.

Sep 15, 20175 min

EP 28 - Reason - Spatial/Vis.

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.

Sep 13, 20175 min

Interview - Alida McDaniel

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.

Sep 10, 201732 min

EP 27 - Reason - Signals

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.

Sep 07, 20175 min

EP 26 - Reason - Diagrams

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?

Sep 05, 20175 min

EP 25 - Reason - Approximation

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?

Sep 03, 20175 min

EP 24 - Reason - Probability

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.

Sep 01, 20175 min

EP 23 - Reason - Morality

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.

Aug 30, 20175 min

C/I - Emotion Tracker Thoughts

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.

Aug 30, 20175 min

EP 22 - Reason - Analysis/Calc

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.

Aug 29, 20175 min

EP 21 - Reason - Creativity

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

Aug 27, 20175 min

EP 20 - Reason - Logic

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?

Aug 25, 20175 min

EP 19 - Reason - Overview

Setup for forthcoming episodes on 10 most common types of reasoning, the 4th skill in the Sentient Worldview.

Aug 24, 20172 min

EP 18 - Intuition & Flow

Final topic in skill 3/6 of the Sentient Worldview (interpreting with emotion & intuition), “Intuition & Flow”. Definition, pitfalls, flow, and “so what?”.

Aug 22, 201710 min

Interview - Personally Border.

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!

Aug 19, 20171 hr 23 min

EP 17 - Emotion - Dyads

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

Aug 16, 20174 min

Interview - Domo Sama

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

Aug 14, 201741 min

EP 16 - Emotion - Surprise/Ant

Continued look at 3rd skill in Sentient Worldview, interpreting w/ emotion & intuition. Today, surprise and anticipation.

Aug 13, 20175 min

EP 15 - Emotion - Fear/Anger

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?

Aug 11, 20175 min

EP 14 - Emotion -Trust/Disgust

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.

Aug 11, 20175 min

EP 13 - Emotion - Joy/Sadness

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.

Aug 09, 20174 min

Justification of the Soul

My response to a great question asked by a listener: “How does the subjective concept of a soul help me teach intentional living?”

Aug 09, 20174 min

EP 12 - Emotion - Model

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.

Aug 08, 20176 min
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