In this episode we continue looking at ways in which your ability to do sensemaking is being hijacked. We’ll focus on how the stories we have been told about our brain naturally lead us to not trust it to do sensemaking, and how the recent revolution in the cognitive sciences has revealed how the foundational experiments these stories were based on were wrongly interpreted - giving our brain a ‘bad rap’. It's as if our brain was convicted of a crime it didn’t commit, and now the new evidence is in. In this episode we explore what that evidence is and make the argument for how your brain can be fully trusted to do sensemaking. See the Full Show Notes: https://www.inqwire.io/podcast#ep6

In this episode I sit down with Jill to talk about how we are living in a Data is King world. Meaning that when we are looking for truth, knowledge, or understanding, we dismiss the need to look for, learn, and apply known mechanisms for how the world works, and instead we have an erroneous belief that we can arrive at truth, knowledge, and understanding of just about anything simply by ‘looking at the data’ - that truth, knowledge, and understanding can emerge from data alone, which is not true. We talk about how this widespread belief and practice creates a fundamental problem for sensemaking. We then go on to look at how this ‘data is king’ stance has found its way into the domains people turn to when they want to do sensemaking, such as psychiatry, psychology, and meditation, and how it has shaped the nature of these practices as well as creating real barriers to engaging in sensemaking. See the Full Show Notes Here: https://www.inqwire.io/podcast#ep5

In this episode, I talk with Jill about: All the ways we find the act of thinking problematic and our minds problematic. What we know from modern cognitive science about cognitive styles that block us from making sense of things, and cognitive styles that enable us to make sense of things. How many popular perspectives fail to consider that different cognitive styles can block or enable sensemaking. How without consciously making an effort to switch and exercise cognitive styles that help us make sense, the unresolved issues just pile up, resulting in a ‘backlog’. How signs of this backlog are linked to a wide variety of mental illness and lack of well-being and more recently are being tied to precursors of Alzheimer's disease. See the Full Show Notes Here: https://www.inqwire.io/podcast#ep4

This episode is an ‘audio essay’ that addresses the question: What would it take to ensure a system is free from limiting or biased ideologies that can distort or block people’s ability to do sensemaking? This episode explores the qualities, possibilities, and historical evidence for creating such a system. See the Full Show Notes Here: https://www.inqwire.io/podcast#ep3

In this episode, I talk with Jill about the sea of systems that exist out there in the personal growth and wellbeing space, and why sensemaking is fundamentally not just another system. We’ll be covering the lesser known realities of the placebo effect, what makes something snake-oil, how we use and trade maps about life, and what we would get if we learned to build our own maps for navigating life. See the Full Show Notes Here: https://www.inqwire.io/podcast#ep2

In this episode, I sit down with Jill Nephew to talk about the giant misunderstanding society has about the mind and the brain and how this is behind why our world doesn't make sense and why it's hard to impossible make sense of our lives. We talk about how the cognitive sciences have only just recently completely changed our understanding of how the mind and the brain works, and how we now have new principles, mechanisms, skills, and practices that we can apply to the challenges of making sense of our lives and creating a world that makes sense. See the Full Show Notes Here: https://www.inqwire.io/podcast#ep1

This is the kick off to the Sensemaking Podcast.