And now administering third-eyed drops.

How goes it, my friends? Michael P here. And whether or not you're trying to work on yourself by

turning that investigative lens of inquiry inward or you're bemoaning the sorry state of the

festering discourse we largely have going outwardly. There's one thing that is so basic and

foundational to all of the rotten thinking and behavior that we often miss it in a kind of

forest for the trees kind of way. And it's binary thinking our desire to be right. The way that

we're seemingly programmed to look at the world as a one or a zero with me against me right wrong

to seek absolute answers in an open ended world. Think about how absurd that is yet here we are. We're

just we're swimming in it. We can't escape it. And it's definitely not as simple as just

throwing our opinions away. I think that's totally unrealistic. But if we change our default

mental posture from absolute this or that right or wrong, whatever definite binary to a both

and state of mind, I think that's really massive. And even just that saying it sounds pretty

ideal. Pretty utopian. It's not some place. I think we can really arrive at I mean to say we

can arrive anywhere completely would be pretty hypocritical considering I'm talking about open

endedness. But even if we do shift our trajectory a few degrees closer to that way of being think

about what that does it changes the way you relate to the world and implies that you are seeking to

understand to empathize with that perceived other whomever they might be relate to them in a

more human way. And also this again, it applies inwardly to to understanding the shadow parts of

ourselves and our own psyches. This ever-ungulating ever shifting always open ended epistemological

streak is nothing new for me. You know I've been into this for a long time if you're a

longer bearded wonder dipper, a longer term listener. And for that reason, I am supremely excited

to have professor Wendy Smith on the show because she's dived deeper into this topic than pretty much

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