Tapping Into Paradox Wisdom with Professor Wendy Smith | Mind Meld 326

THIRD EYE DROPS

Michael Phillip

Spirituality, Development, Philosophy, Psychedelic, Comedy, Psychology, Mckenna, Future, Plato, Rogan, Science, Society & Culture, Watts, Trussell, Mind, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Professor Wendy Smith enters the mind meld to talk paradox and open-ended thinking.

Wendy is the author of Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems

Wendy is a Harvard-educated, academic and the Dana J. Johnson Professor of Management at the University of Delaware. She is an expert on paradox and practical, open-ended approaches to problems-solving and creativity.

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0:00.0	And now administering third-eyed drops.
0:16.7	How goes it, my friends? Michael P here. And whether or not you're trying to work on yourself by
0:23.6	turning that investigative lens of inquiry inward or you're bemoaning the sorry state of the
0:30.8	festering discourse we largely have going outwardly. There's one thing that is so basic and
0:40.4	foundational to all of the rotten thinking and behavior that we often miss it in a kind of
0:48.3	forest for the trees kind of way. And it's binary thinking our desire to be right. The way that
0:57.1	we're seemingly programmed to look at the world as a one or a zero with me against me right wrong
1:06.7	to seek absolute answers in an open ended world. Think about how absurd that is yet here we are. We're
1:14.8	just we're swimming in it. We can't escape it. And it's definitely not as simple as just
1:19.7	throwing our opinions away. I think that's totally unrealistic. But if we change our default
1:25.3	mental posture from absolute this or that right or wrong, whatever definite binary to a both
1:35.2	and state of mind, I think that's really massive. And even just that saying it sounds pretty
1:41.1	ideal. Pretty utopian. It's not some place. I think we can really arrive at I mean to say we
1:47.6	can arrive anywhere completely would be pretty hypocritical considering I'm talking about open
1:52.9	endedness. But even if we do shift our trajectory a few degrees closer to that way of being think
2:02.5	about what that does it changes the way you relate to the world and implies that you are seeking to
2:09.2	understand to empathize with that perceived other whomever they might be relate to them in a
2:17.4	more human way. And also this again, it applies inwardly to to understanding the shadow parts of
2:23.8	ourselves and our own psyches. This ever-ungulating ever shifting always open ended epistemological
2:33.3	streak is nothing new for me. You know I've been into this for a long time if you're a
2:39.2	longer bearded wonder dipper, a longer term listener. And for that reason, I am supremely excited
2:47.7	to have professor Wendy Smith on the show because she's dived deeper into this topic than pretty much
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