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Thinking Hard or Hardly Thinking
by Aaron Marx
Thinking Hard or Hardly Thinking is your home for reflections and conversations that explore the tightly-interwoven connections between topics like philosophy, psychology, history, economics, politics, religion, spirituality, systems, entrepreneurship, and more. It’s a high level view of the dilemmas, tensions, and paradoxes that motivate us to find our place in the world. Each episode will stimulate you, challenge you, and ultimately leave you inspired and optimistic so you can maximize your success, satisfaction, and enjoyment of life.
Episodes
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The most popular episodes of season 1/How to get in touch
A bonus episode after Season 1! Thanks for listening. Recapping the most popular episodes of Season 1 and previewing a few of the topics coming up in Season 2. What are your favorite episodes of Season 1? Reach out and let me know! @aaronjmarx https://m.facebook.com/Aaron-Marx-104819877884771/...
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Your Time or God's Time
How do you decide how hard to work, how aggressively to push toward your goals, what projects to start at what times? Are the results of these decisions in our hands at all, or do they spring from an intricate and ever-shifting collaborative dance with the universe? Where do you look to know what...
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The American Artform
Art is a human instinct. We seek to beautify our existence, our lives, our worlds. We strive to perform actions, produce goods, in such a manner by which they simply become inspiring by the very level of craft and refinement that they reach. For as long as the human spirit has animated our…
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The Source of Value
There is a nickname for the human species that is often invoked in models of exchange and rational decision making. The nickname is “homo economicus”. This implies a simple yet profound truth about the nature of being human and participating in the human experience: we are creatures driven by...
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Zero-Sum Game
If you challenge yourself to truly examine your deeply held and subconscious beliefs about the nature of economics I suspect you will find a tension, perhaps a number of them. And I think these tensions boil down to the competing sense that money, value, currency, compensation, whatever you want…
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"We All Want the Same Thing"
Certain divisive areas of human life, most especially politics and religion I tend to notice, often create sharply polarized and even tribal divisions between groups of people who seem to desire and pursue highly dissimilar visions of society, culture, morality, economics, character, attitude…
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Theories of Success
Have you ever had anyone tell you their magic formula for success? I’ll bet you have. We go through life with so many mentors, sages, counselors, coaches, teachers, and others offering us their time-tested advice to create the best life possible. Many of us have made something of a second career...
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Pareto Distributions
A surprising but reliable mathematical relationship that seems to govern nature and human dynamics is the Pareto Principle. Variously known as the 80/20 principle, or the law of the vital few, it is essentially a dictum that states we will always find some kind of gross inequality when examining...
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What Does Your Utopia Look Like?
Do you long for a utopia of some kind? Are you even aware that you do? Is it possible not to? So many of our hidden motivations are driven by the often subconscious desire to create some kind of utopia in the real world. But when we really ask what it looks like so often we are confronted with...
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Do We Have Free Will?
Do you make free choices? When you make decisions, do you have a soul evaluating which course to take? Or, are our thoughts and actions governed strictly and exclusively by the laws of the universe playing out in the physical matter of our bodily systems, with the mere illusion of choice? What...
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Does God Exist?
Do you believe in God? It’s a question as old as human thought itself. By what process do we arrive at an answer? Can we ever be sure of an answer in either direction? How do your thoughts about this timeless question affect your outlook? How does your answer relate to you finding your place in…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Thinking Hard or Hardly Thinking is your home for reflections and conversations that explore the tightly-interwoven connections between topics like philosophy, psychology, history, economics, politics, religion, spirituality, systems, entrepreneurship, and more. It’s a high level view of the dilemmas, tensions, and paradoxes that motivate us to find our place in the world. Each episode will stimulate you, challenge you, and ultimately leave you inspired and optimistic so you can maximize your success, satisfaction, and enjoyment of life.
HOSTED BY
Aaron Marx
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