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Welcome to a new miniseries on Identity and Politics! In this episode, Nic and Adam discuss the objects they carry with them, as well as the ways in which we interact with material culture inform our identity and our politics.In the episode
It's time! Our annual holiday special! Only a bit late! This is our annual episode, featuring Zac, in which we have a bit of fun, reflect on the year just passed, and make vague promises for the year ahead.Enjoy!
This week Nic and Adam are continuing their self-help kick by taking a look at Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People and Samuel Smiles' Self Help. As with the previous book, Nic is much more receptive than Adam who is bitter a
Baby we back. Welcome to Season Six of An Unqualified Guide to the Good Life! This season is all about ambition. To start the season off, we're starting in the same place that a lot of people start in their pursuit of ambition: self-help book
In this episode, the boys discuss ritual in its myriad forms and ponder questions such as:What is ritual?What forms of ritual are there?Why should we bother with ritual?What actions deserve ritual?How can we incorporate rituals in
Ok, this is an episode for us.The wonderful Zac Wolf returns for his second holiday special and it is special to have him! Join us for banter around Zac's passtimes, quiz-o-the-year style games, and all manner of eclectic facts. There's some
In this episode Nic and Adam host musician and martial artist Dr Koul aka Mike Azkoul. They rediscover some of the broader topics of the season, from what the difference between religion and spirituality is, to the definition of spirituality, t
In this episode Nic and Adam discuss Brian Draper's "Soulfulness: Deepening the Mindful Life" as a jump-off point for discussing the idea of soul and what its role in helping us to live well is. Additional thought is paid to music as a particul
In this episode Nic and Adam discuss the notions of resilience and spiritedness. A lot of the talking points are drawn from Viktor E. Frankl's book 'Man's Search for Meaning' and his psychology school of logotherapy.
In this episode Nic and Adam discuss consumption as it relates to spirituality. The conversation ranges from the use of different drugs in various religious ceremonies across various cultures and the current role of alcohol in society to religi
In this episode Nic and Adam discuss some of the different ways in which we interact with and perceive animals. Be it through domestication, co-operation, or food animals are an inescapable part of our existence. Additionally, they serve as pot
In this episode Nic and Adam discuss nature and the degree to which nature is important for our spiritual experiences. We discuss how we relate to nature, especially in the urban environments in which most of us live. How can we overcome the al
In this episode, Nic and Adam consider how travelling can become a spiritual practice. What can be learned from removing oneself from one's context and immersing ourselves in somewhere new? Do we need special training for this? Do we have to go
In this episode, Nic and Adam continue pontificating about the distinction between religion and spirituality and discuss why certain experiences may qualify as one or the other. In the process of this debate, they discuss martial arts, the sema
Nic and Adam are back for Season 5, this time discussing all about spirituality! This is a big topic and one we are particularly ill-positioned to address. In this episode, we discuss what spirituality means to us, the distinction between relig
In this episode, quite possibly the last of the season on the body, we discuss the role of technology in staying healthy, focusing mostly on smart watches. Apologies for the second somewhat lengthy hiatus, this was recorded a couple months ago
In this episode we discuss the notion of being one's own doctor ('physician heal thyself') and where alternative medicine and healing remedies belong in the modern world.
We're back, after a brief unjustifiable hiatus - hooray. In this episode we continue with the theme of the body by discussing the idea of 'excess': what it means to overindulge, over-exert, and just generally live in the extreme.
It finally happened! In this episode Nic and Adam discuss the joys of martial arts. Included in this episode are reflections on our own experiences of martial arts, the benefits of martial arts for fitness and culture, the distinction between m
In this episode, Nic and Adam are joined by Devin Ibañez to talk all about team sports. Devin is the first openly gay Major League Rugby player and is dedicated to LGBTQ+ advocacy in sport. We talked about what it means to play on a team, how
This week we have the good fortune of being joined by London-based Personal Trainer Ellen Louise to talk all things working out. In keeping with tradition, we cover lots of key ideas in broad strokes, including but not limited to: setting goals
In this episode we discuss beauty standards of the contemporary era and times past, as well as how they differ among the sexes (we realised too late we should have had at least one woman join us for this conversation..). We also discuss whether
Welcome to the opening episode of our fourth Season: 'Body'. In this first session we talk about the dangers of living too statically and what we can do to redesign the spaces around us in order to encourage all peoples to live their lives dyna
Recorded live in Geneva, in this inter-seasonal episode we are joined by our friends Damon and Peter of The Reeds podcast/magazine in an attempt to try and answer whether or not learning philosophy does help one to live a good life. Given that
In the closing episode of this season on Mind Adam and Nic discuss Artificial Intelligence. Nic looks at how it has been represented in culture and what some of the more sensationalist depictions of the topic are, whilst Adam dives into where w
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