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Thought Mining
by Derek Olson, Nathan Anderson
Thought mining seeks to extract insights from an assortment of thought patterns through contemplative discussions about resonating thoughts. Each episode begins with a thought that has been capturing the attention of the hosts and proceeds with a free-flowing, reflective conversation to explore deeper meanings of the initial thought as well as other thoughts that surface through the discussion. Listeners may feel inclined to practice thought mining or other reflective methods conducive to extracting meaning from the array of thoughts they encounter in their lives.
Episodes
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Should You Change Yourself to Succeed?
Should you change who you are to get ahead, or wait to ripen into what you already are?Today's thought: trying to force your unique talents into a standard mold is like painting a banana red to look like an apple. It comes from a story in Nathan's 30-year journal, about a green banana who rolls...
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Will monetizing ruin your hobbies?
Is turning your hobby into a side hustle the best thing you can do with it, or the fastest way to kill it?Nathan brings the thought: turning every personal hobby into a side hustle destroys the hobby. Derek starts with a deodorant sponsor who doesn't want you talking about what's in their...
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Is AI writing like paying someone to exercise for you?
Is letting AI do your writing like paying someone to go to the gym for you?That's the thought Nathan brought to this episode, the first of season two. It started with a Cal Newport op-ed in the New York Times about technology making us intellectually lazy, and it took us from AI-written email...
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Episode 13: Are All Times Good Times?
In this episode of Thought Mining, we explore a powerful quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”What does Emerson mean by this? How can we apply it in a world full of uncertainty, distraction, and pressure? Join us for a...
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Episode 12: Impatience
Derek and Nathan thought mine the quote, "Impatience is an argument with reality," from Rick Rubin's book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being. What do you think? Is impatience an argument with reality?
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Episode 8: Predictive Processing with Tanner Wells
In this episode of the Thought Mining Podcast, hosts Derek and Nathan welcome Tanner Wells, a sophisticated explorer of geographic regions, cultures, and perspectives. They discuss predictive processing, explaining how our brains use life experiences to fill in details, sometimes leading to…
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Episode 7: Spontaneous Vulnerability
Derek and Nathan discuss experiences with being spontaneously vulnerable. They explore positive and negative consequences of times when they acted or hesitated to act on opportunities to do things beyond the scope of their comfort zone. The episode concludes with a peek into both of them being...
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Episode 6: The Six Fears (Part 2)
This is the second part of a two-part series on fears of speaking up in group settings. Derek and Nathan discuss fears related to passion, presence, and relevance.
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Episode 5: The Six Fears (Part 1)
Derek and Nathan continue mining thoughts related to fear. Their conversation includes a discussion on three out of six fears that Nathan feels have sometimes hindered his ability to speak up in meetings at work.
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Episode 4: Vulnerably Pursuing New Initiatives
Derek and Nathan mine thoughts associated with fears of doing new things. They discuss some of Derek's experiences with speaking a foreign language and doing improv comedy and explore a reflection that Nathan wrote after waking up from a dream related to the theme of feeling anxious about...
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Episode 3: Sporadic Thinking
Derek and Nathan continue their thought mining journey. Derek introduces his visions for an anti-Jobs character and a reality show for psychics. Nathan reads another excerpt from his original middle-of-the-night reflection on the concept of thought mining as well as a phrase from a recent walk…
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Episode 2: Characteristics and Strategies
Derek and Nathan discuss thought mining characteristics and strategies as they lead you on a journey of unconventional thinking and uncommon awareness.
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Episode 1: What Is Thought Mining?
This is the first episode of the Thought Mining podcast. Derek Olson and Nathan Anderson introduce the concept of thought mining. They discuss the origin of their awareness of the term, their initial interpretations of what it means, and how it inspired the title of the podcast. Their…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Thought mining seeks to extract insights from an assortment of thought patterns through contemplative discussions about resonating thoughts. Each episode begins with a thought that has been capturing the attention of the hosts and proceeds with a free-flowing, reflective conversation to explore deeper meanings of the initial thought as well as other thoughts that surface through the discussion. Listeners may feel inclined to practice thought mining or other reflective methods conducive to extracting meaning from the array of thoughts they encounter in their lives.
HOSTED BY
Derek Olson, Nathan Anderson
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Thought mining seeks to extract insights from an assortment of thought patterns through contemplative discussions about resonating thoughts. Each episode begins with a thought that has been capturing the attention of the hosts and proceeds with a free-flowing, reflective conversation to explore...
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Thought Mining is created and hosted by Derek Olson, Nathan Anderson.
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