Highly Functioning is a podcast and community built around exploring the human mind, with a goal of understanding and optimizing "non-neurotypicals". If you want to better understand your mind such that you can flourish as a human, this podcast and community is exactly where you're meant to be.
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On this week's episode, we talk about free will. We talk about our own opinions on the topic, the arguments from both sides on whether free will exists, and explore our beliefs on idea that “everything happens for a reason”. We also introduce the notion of applying focus versus drifting and how it may causing the common mid-life crisis as well as talk about how the habits we instill now may become barries to exercising you free will in the future.
As always thank you for listening, be sure to subscribe on YouTube and your favourite podcasting app. Follow us and like us on facebook @facebook.com/highly functioning and if you like our content considering supporting us at highlyfunctioning.ca. There you’ll find bonus content, Q&As and be able to provide direct input on how you can change the show !
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16 Jun 2021
Running in Reverse
On this week's episode, we talk about looking forwards and backwards. We touch on the differences, pros and cons of depth and breadth of thinking and talk about the ways in which we intake, integrate and generate new knowledge differently. A key concept we touched on is managing people with principles as opposed to rules, using Agile & Design Thinking on yourself and how anxiety can result in Impulsive thinking and/or analysis paralysis.
As always thank you for listening, be sure to subscribe on YouTube and your favourite podcasting app. Follow us and like us on facebook @facebook.com/highly functioning and if you like our content considering supporting us at highlyfunctioning.ca. There you’ll find bonus content, Q&As and be able to provide direct input on how you can change the show !
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2 Jun 2021
Feeling Stuck in Your Family
On this week's episode, we talk about feelings of Stockholm syndrome within your friends and family. We explore cultural values and personal experience that shape this feeling within us and share our own stories about making the decision to go outside our own circles.
Key concepts we talked about are about how moving away from you family doesn’t have to equate to cutting them off and how a sense of community and individuality can co-exist and do so in many ways
As always thank you for listening, be sure to subscribe on YouTube and your favourite podcasting app. Follow us and like us on facebook @facebook.com/highly functioning and if you like our content considering supporting us at highlyfunctioning.ca. There you’ll find bonus content, Q&As and be able to provide direct input on how you can change the show!
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