Exploring Kodawari
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2025 Reflections: Musical Flow, Carl Jung, & Being Skeptical of Skepticism (#41)
This episode is another attempt to keep the podcast on life support. Like last year, our busy musician schedules (and lack of proper planning) made it difficult to publish several episodes throughout…
Lessons And Observations in 2024 (#40)
Well, it's been over a year since our last episode! As a COVID-19 pandemic project, sticking to a consistent publishing schedule for this podcast has been tough. But we've always said that even if…
Revisiting Kodawari (#39)
In this episode—especially since it has been so long since our last one—we decided to revisit the concept of kodawari and how it has changed for us over the three years of doing this podcast/blog.…
The Hedonic Treadmill: Exploring Happiness , Meaning, and Hedonic Adaptation (#38)
“‘I shall take the heart,’ returned the Tin Woodsman; ‘for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.’” —L. Frank BaumThe topic of this episode is happiness and…
Chad Goodman: The Art of Orchestral Conducting (#37)
In this episode, we explore the art of orchestral conducting with guest Chad Goodman. Chad is currently the conducting fellow of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, and he has also had fellowships…
Contending With Nihilism Part 2: Meaning in the Face of Absurdity (#36)
"Written fifteen years ago, in 1940, amid the French and European disaster, this book declares that even within the limits of nihilism it is possible to find the means to proceed beyond nihilism. In…
Contending With Nihilism Part 1: The Meaning Crisis (#35)
“What does nihilism mean? That the highest values devaluate themselves. The aim is lacking; 'why?' finds no answer.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power This episode, Part 1…
What Is Metacognition? Mindfulness, Meta-Awareness, and Other Metacognitive Strategies (#34)
What is metacognition? Metacognition is a modern term coined in 1979 by the American developmental psychologist John H. Flavell. He defined it as “cognition about cognitive phenomena,” or “thinking…
Understanding Stoicism: Stoic Psychological Techniques for Living a Better Life (#33)
"Many of us have been persuaded that happiness is something that someone else, a therapist or a politician, must confer on us. Stoicism rejects this notion. It teaches us that we are very much…
Understanding Stoicism as a Philosophy of Life (#32)
"Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it." —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Stoicism as a philosophy is not…
#31: Violinist Katherine Bormann of The Cleveland Orchestra
This episode is our conversation with Katherine Bormann, a violinist with The Cleveland Orchestra since 2011. Katherine has degrees from Rice University and The Juilliard School and studied with…
#30: Chaos and Order, Yin and Yang—The Ultimate Mental Model of Reality
We recently published a new page on our website organizing all of our mental models (aka mental frameworks) into one place. We explain what a mental model is and how you can use them to better…
#29: Author Terry Tucker—How to Embrace Suffering and Find Purpose in Life
In this episode, we speak with author and motivational speaker Terry Tucker. Terry has lived all over the country and worked in many different fields. After playing NCAA Division I basketball in…
#28: Music and Life Wisdom with Trumpeter Scott Moore
For this episode, we were joined by trumpet player Scott Moore, who has been principal trumpet of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra since 1988. He has performed with the Chicago Symphony, the St. Louis…
#27: Robin Hanson, Hidden Motives, and The Elephant in the Brain
“At every single stage [of processing information]—from its biased arrival, to its biased encoding, to organizing it around false logic, to misremembering and then misrepresenting it to others—the…
#26: Communication And The Origins Of Language
"Any model of communication is at the same time a model of trans-lation, of a vertical or horizontal transfer of significance. No two historical epochs, no two social classes, no two localities use…
#25: Behavioral Scientist Dr. Kurt Nelson—Why We Do What We Do
Why do people do what they do? This fascinating question is the foundation of behavioral science, and in this episode, we speak about exactly that with behavioral scientist Dr. Kurt Nelson.Kurt has a…
#24: The Psychology of New Year's Resolutions
We are finally back! Sorry for the delay in getting episodes out—we just moved from New York to Florida and couldn't find the time to podcast. But we are settled in now, and for our first episode of…
Holiday Bonus: The Psychedelic History of Santa
This bonus/end of the year holiday episode is a looser and more fun episode all about the psychedelic mushroom history of Santa Claus. According to this theory, our modern Santa is based on ancient…
#23: Brandon Dicks—Social Media, Composition, and Making Music Online
In this episode, we speak with composer, arranger, and trumpet player Brandon Dicks. Brandon is currently pursuing a doctorate in Trumpet Performance at Arizona State University, but he caught my…
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Exploring Kodawari has published 43 episodes since June 2020, covering topics in Education, Music.
Exploring Kodawari is currently sporadic with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 1h 8m.
