Customisation is key to finding out what works for you. The modern algorithms will suggest to you that it knows what rest is. The trends on Instagram will tell you it knows what you'll enjoy. Maybe you won't find what you are looking for there

Salvaging kindness part 2 : why measure it?

Nov 4th, 2021 7m 53s

We measure kindness, but what is the utility of it. Is the way we measure it worth the analytic strain?

Salvaging kindness from its hobbesian critique

Nov 4th, 2021 5m 11s

Man is not nasty evil or brutish. Humankind is a revolution onto itself.

Art gives every no one everything

Jul 12th, 2021 6m 6s

I've had five lifetimes. With every new form of art, get another one. I am reincarnated without having to die. Let me show you how.

Are we part of cohorts or communities?

Jul 4th, 2021 10m 32s

Cohorts are not communities. Let's figure out what they are and how best we can maintain or make one.

Barriers to having a hobby

May 8th, 2021 9m 26s

We see hobbies as a distraction. Well what isn't a distraction. Lets explore the cultural origins of this inability to find oneself a hobby.

Guilt in the time of a pandemic

May 5th, 2021 9m 29s

Understand the origin of guilt. Understand the connection between grief and guilt. Understand the mixed bag that helplessness entails. Understand where you are right now.

Spin your environment around

Apr 19th, 2021 8m 36s

Profiting from the patterns of your environment.

A sailing ship

Mar 7th, 2021 12m

Who is the ship? Who is a good sailor. How can I sail? What are the different ways of sailing?

The structure of the online world

Dec 26th, 2020 8m 19s

The online world imposes a structure of its own. An unnatural one. It's time for us to re-make a structure that works for us.

My take on Rumi

Oct 8th, 2020 8m

This is my understanding of the phrase unself yourself. It's a culmination of my meditations on the idea of "tat tvam asi", "the universe is you".

Choice vs compulsion

Sep 30th, 2020 4m 57s

Our routines and schedules must be a choice and must remain so. They must not become compulsions. To know the difference tune in.

What does "do your best mean"?

Aug 12th, 2020 7m 45s

This episode is about exploring the different narratives that have made this one overarching picture of what doing your best should look like.

Personhood and social responsibility

Jul 31st, 2020 8m 35s

We've got be a person before a person with any responsibility towards anything. The I must not lose itself in the - I do this and this.

When change hits you

Jul 29th, 2020 5m 9s

Nostalgia is not a perennial river. Change is. Change nourishes us. We draw from it a new lesson everyday and grow.

The achievement loop

Jul 25th, 2020 10m 47s

The loop I am going to talk about makes life about milestones and takes the fun out of living.

The structures of our days

Jun 26th, 2020 11m 2s

Discipline is not rigidity, not anti life. It is freedom.

It's okay not to have answers

Jun 14th, 2020 11m 23s

We all grow to hate an I don't know when it comes to moral or existential questions. We look at a question as something that creates disequilibrium. That's not true. It's assuming wrong answers that must create so. Questions must be experienced

Awareness is not a want but a need.

Jun 2nd, 2020 12m 41s

Awareness has become a social facade but not a personal need. Awareness about social issues has been about a matter of convinience not a matter of priority. It needs to be a priority if we want to really retain the right to complain about the w

wonder

May 19th, 2020 7m 46s

This episode is about why wonder is my favourite human trait.

The construction of self

May 12th, 2020 11m 41s

This podcast is about what self construction is why it is so very important.

Soul searching

May 5th, 2020 10m 56s

Hello world! I am Shreya Banerjee. This is a podcast on soul searching. This lockdown has got me figuring all the questions I've hoarded for a long time. Hope this podcast makes for a thoughtful sunset friendly evening.

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