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Jonathan Fields is a father, husband, award-winning author, executive producer, and host of one of the top-ranked podcasts in the world, The Good Life Project. He also speaks globally to groups and organizations and his work has been featured widely in the media including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Oprah Magazine, and many others. 

Eric and Jonathan chat about a few different topics relating to how we can bring more meaning and fulfillment into our daily activities that lead to living a good life.

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Jonathan Fields and I Discuss How to Find Meaning and Live a Good Life …

• How people can bring more meaning and enjoyment to their day job
• The challenges and importance of setting boundaries for work time
• Learning to shift focus on how to be more effective rather than putting in more time
• The idea of investing in yourself when considering career or other life changes
• Jonathan’s “sparketype” framework
• Asking the question “How can I be a light in other people’s lives” in both professional and personal lives
• The process of change and how we can equip ourselves to handle forced change
• Finding the sweet spot of what motivates us and our approach to behavior change based on our personality
• How identifying our values can make behavior change more effective and sustainable
• Building flexibility and creating tolerance in your goals knowing perfection isn’t possible
• Knowing why we want to change is a critical component to making change and understanding
• Dealing with low moods while on the path to personal change
• Learning to be happy and love yourself in your current in your current circumstances

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Scott Hershovitz is the Thomas G. and Mabel Long Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He directs the University’s Law and Ethics Program and he co-edits Legal Theory.  Scott writes about law and philosophy. His academic work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, The Yale Law Journal, and Ethics, among other places. In addition, he writes occasional essays about philosophy for the New York Times.  Before joining the Michigan faculty, he  served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the United States Supreme Court and an attorney-advisor on the appellate staff of the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice.

Eric and Scott discuss his new book, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy withMy Kids

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Scott Hershovitz and I Discuss What We Can Learn By Thinking Like a Kid and …

• His book, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids
• Defining philosophy as the art of thinking
• How kids are natural philosophers and ask interesting questions
• Learning to think critically about our own ideas
• Distinguishing between what we think we should do and what we want to do
• The story of the Ship of Theseus and how we can compare it to our own identity
• How identity can be used as a tool in how we see ourselves in the world in both a negative and positive way
• Relativism and how we each get our own truth
• Epistemic bubbles and echo chambers 
• What we can learn when we talk to people who think differently than us 
• How we can look at other people with both objective or participant attitudes, depending on the circumstances
• Tempering our perspectives when we learn about others’ circumstances

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Matthew Quick is the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook—which was made into an Oscar-winning film—and eight other novels. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, received a PEN/Hemingway Award Honorable Mention, was an LA Times Book Prize finalist, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a #1 bestseller in Brazil, a Deutscher Jugendliteratur Preis 2016 (German Youth Literature Prize) nominee, and selected by Nancy Pearl as one of Summer’s Best Books for NPR. The Hollywood Reporter has named him one of Hollywood’s 25 Most Powerful Authors.

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Matthew Quick and I Discuss What We Can Learn From Our Bad Wolf and …

• His book, We Are the Light
• What drew him to Jungian analysis and his ideas on synchronicity
• His healing journey and what he learned about himself
• Learning to face his pain from a sober light
• Losing access to a creative part of him when he stopped drinking
• How his work with his analyst replaced the alcohol in his life
• The importance of community
• What the term “father hunger” means
• His unique relationship with his analyst
• How he learned to redeem his father
• The important themes he covers in his latest novels
• Doing the hard work in the second half of life
• The respect he has developed for the craft of novel writing

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Parker J. Palmer, is the founder and Senior Partner of the Center for Courage & Renewal. He is a world-renowned writer, speaker and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He has reached millions worldwide through his nine books, including Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, A Hidden Wholeness, and Healing the Heart of Democracy.

Eric and Parker Palmer discuss some of his latest work on how to begin your journey to wholeness.

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Parker Palmer and I Discuss and …

• His book, Hidden Wholeness: A Journey Towards an Undivided Life
• What the idea of “the Soul” means to him
• His experiences with depression and the lesson he’s learned from it
• What “the divided life” is
• The importance of having both community and solitude
• The idea of “The Circle of Trust”
• The importance of letting another person work their way to the answer themselves
• His book, Healing the Heart of Democracy
• The important role that conflict brings to our form of government
• The Five Habits of the Heart
• Eustress is the positive effect of tension
• The two ways that the heart can break
• How those with different viewpoints can find common ground
• The Courage and Renewal Center

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