#167: The Cost of Censorship with Africa Brooke

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Themes: Self-Sabotage, Healthy Discomfort, Courage, Curiosity & Cancel Culture As a collective, we must exit our echo chambers, open our minds, embrace nuance, and return to curiosity & reasoned discourse. Discover: Practicing critical thought & becoming okay with the potential of being wrong Creating an environment where it’s acceptable to experience healthy discomfort The intrinsic power of curiosity and the value of embracing nuance Collective self-sabotage and how “cancel culture” has created an environment where discourse is viewed as an affront In this episode, I sit down with globally recognised mindset coach Africa Brooke to talk censorship, collective self-sabotage, and how the success of humanity relies on the understanding that we must be capable of coexisting, which requires healthy, productive engagement with one another instead of forced homogeneity & conformity of thought. This is one of the most important podcasts you’ll listen to this year. Links: IG: @africabrooke Website: africabrooke.com ~~~ Your body is an amazing organic machine that can accomplish miraculous feats. But it needs the right fuel and signals to function at its best. Some of those signals include adaptogens which can help boost energy and help you return to a state of calm when you’re feeling stressed. Create The Love’s favourite source of adaptogens is Organifi! Grab your Organifi at organifi.com/createthelove and receive 20% off all products with code CREATETHELOVE at the cart! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Mark Rose podcast. I've been waiting to have today's conversation. It's a very important one. I mentioned previously that one of the most important skill sets we can develop in relationships. It doesn't
0:24.1	matter the type it's especially true with romantic relationships is the ability to sit across
0:30.8	from someone else who has a different experience, a different belief, different thought process,
0:34.9	and still be curious, that I can disagree with you but still love you.
0:40.8	And that's hard, right? Because a lot of our beliefs are tied to our identity and also
0:45.9	our beliefs are often correlated to our values. And so we make, you know, a lot of judgments
0:50.8	and a lot of assumptions based on that. And it's challenging to practice objectivity, you know, a lot of judgments and a lot of assumptions based on that. And it's challenging to
0:55.7	practice objectivity, you know, to look at someone else and, and see them and say, you got to that
1:02.7	conclusion through your experiences in life, through whatever has occurred in your life. And I can
1:09.3	hold space and compassion to understand that. And the real gift here,
1:13.2	because of course, we're not saying be compassionate and understanding to abuse or racism or anything
1:19.4	like that. What I'm inviting is to be compassionate and curious about political stances,
1:26.6	stances in terms of people's decisions, medical
1:29.7	decisions. It's such a heightened subject matter. And it actually requires an immense amount
1:36.5	of nuance, an immense amount of gray, an immense amount of dialogue, patience. And I would imagine
1:42.1	it's probably hard to do because we've been so inundated with fear.
1:47.7	We've been so inundated with messaging about fear of death. And whenever death comes into the
1:54.0	picture, it's hard for us to actually explore things. We get into a very protective
1:58.8	survival space, and that makes absolute sense.
2:02.7	And so there's this really important ability that we must be able to develop and explore.
2:10.2	And it didn't come naturally to me, and it's still ever expanding. And that is the ability to
2:15.6	sit in a space of curiosity and be open to the possibility that what
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