Our guest in this episode is Jamie Wheal, a researcher and writer in the field of human potential, peak performance, and flow states. He is the co-author of the book “Stealing Fire” and director of Flow Genome Project.
In this interview we talk about how to make sense in a world that is unraveling faster than we can keep up with, discuss the potential solutions to this crisis, and the challenges of building coherent and resilient communities.
[bctt tweet=”The ability for us to accurately diagnose and act on what is happening in the world is constrained by three things: our capacity to understand complexity, our cognitive biases, and our ability to digest grief. – Jamie Wheal ” username=”futurethinkers_”]
In This Episode Of Future Thinkers:
- The increase of complexity and consequence, and the state of overwhelm as a public health issue
- How the collapse of authority in the last 50 years contributed to the sense of abandonment and disenchantment
- What is the actual urgency for a systemic change in the world?
- How our ability to understand complexity, cognitive biases, and the capacity to process grief are affecting our understanding of what is going on in the world
- The pitfalls of transformational culture and why we are making the same mistakes as the hippie generation
- Weaponization, commercialization and hedonization – our most dangerous tendencies in using powerful transformational tools
- The importance of open-sourcing the tools for self-realization ahead of the efforts to co-opt them
- The challenge of creating post-conventional group flow
- What we need to build resilient communities
- The need for a Council of Women Elders in healthy communities
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Links and Resources Mentioned In This Episode:
- Hacking Collective Intelligence, an interview with Jamie Wheal on Rebel Wisdom
- Rule Omega: Greenhall, Schmachtenberger, Wheal (excerpt from the conversation on Rebel Wisdom)
- Flow Genome Project
- Existential Climate-Related Security Risk: A Scenario Approach, a report by Breakthrough – National Centre for Climate Restoration
- Interview with Dr. Gabor Maté on Tim Ferris Show
- Reality Bites, a movie directed by Ben Stiller (1994)
[bctt tweet=”We’re not done until we are utterly ordinary. – Jamie Wheal” username=”futurethinkers_”]
Recommended Books:
- Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work by Jamie Wheal and Steven Kotler
- The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
- Upheaval, Guns, Germs And Steel and Collapse, a trilogy by Jared Diamond
- Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben
- The Hero’s Journey, the collected works of Joseph Campbell
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- FTP098, 099: John Vervaeke – Overcoming The Meaning Crisis
- FTP097: Sovereignty vs. Identity
- Daniel Schmachtenberger Interviews on Future Thinkers Podcast
- FTP062, 063: Jordan Greenhall – Deep Code: Learning How To Learn
