Ideas that Matter: with Shrikant & Spencer @ Comprehensivist Sunday
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Shrikant will be interviewed by Spencer Greenberg on the Theme: Ideas that Matter.
Here are some of the questions planned, and some brief answers to pique your curiosity:
- Your ideas: What's an idea you've come up with that you think would be valuable for the audience to hear about? Joint Exploration of the World, Ourselves & Ideas — the Idea behind my Meetups
- Thorny problems: What's a complex problem, situation, idea or concept, or a set of competing ideas, that you're still trying to understand ? Jacob Brownowski’s idea that man is a “Social Solitary” how to work with those two parts of ourselves.
- Third perspectives: What are two opposing ideas that most people in the public sphere take either one side or the other on, but you think that a third perspective or synthesis of both ideas is actually better than taking either side? My idea of Four Functions: Intuiting, Explicating, Sustaining, Nurturing
- Ideas you've applied: What's an idea that you've found to be very useful or powerful in your own life? Form Follows Function by Louis Sullivan
- Overlooked areas: What's a topic area that very few people have an opinion on or knowledge of, that you think it's important to have an opinion on, or that is well worth learning about? India & China Heritage
- Recently learned: what's a powerful idea, concept or mental model that you've been learning about recently that you think is worth knowing? Carl Jung’s idea of The Self and Individuation
- Influential book: what is the name of one book that substantially influenced the way you think about things? The Syntopicon
- Psychology tools: what's a powerful idea, concept, mental model or tool from psychology that you think is useful to people's lives? Intuitive - Analytical Shuttling
- Unique experiences: what's something you have experienced that very few people have experienced? What did you learn from that experience? Being thrown into a sea of new languages in 7th Grade
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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays/Sundays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.
July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
Every Problem Contains and Suggests its Own Solution
https://youtu.be/_7j35OnperA
Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ Fearnley
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
Aug 5: Optimize Everything: Interview with mathematician Spencer Greenberg on Psychology, society, technology & science: Watch:
https://youtu.be/P7sJrtwazeI
Most Effective Habit Change Method Watch: https://youtu.be/9v80iyU7k4s
Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism
Aug 19: Polymaths in 21st Century with Angela
Aug 26: The Art-Experience and The Nature of Our Identities with Karen
Sep 2: Neuroscience: Why are our Habits so Powerful? with Sanjay
Sep 9: Four Cardinal Greek Virtues in Visual Art & Mythology by John Roth
Sep 16: Literature and our lives: the Fiction of Relationship
Sep 23: Lightening Talks (Talk for 5 minutes about what you are exploring)
Sep 30: The Great Conversation & Syntopicon of Mortimer Adler with Shrikant
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