The Power of Rhyme. What Your Eyes WANT To See (no, not that).
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Poetry as a tactical device, from a slacker non-poet. And the myth of shiny object syndrome. That's what we're talking about on today's Good Life Update.
Good Life Riff: Poetry. Seriously? Yeah, poetry. What if was the secret sauce for sharing ideas in a way that bypassed defenses and made a beeline to the heart? What if information could be "packaged" in writing that awakened your inner slam poet and moved others to receive you, to feel and see and understand you differently? That's what we're talking about in today's GLP Riff. AND, wait for it...there will also be a live-reading of an original piece by JF (aka Mellow-J, reading in his usual Zen-slam style, lol). It's called The Window, and you can find the original text here.
Good Life Science: And, in our Good Life Science segment, we're diving into some fascinating new research on visual attention. For years, the prevailing theory on what got our visual attention (translation, what made ya look) was something called the "salience" theory. In a sea of visual noise, we "see" only the things that stand out and are different. But new research reveals there may be something much bigger going on. Hint: it's a meaning thing! We dive into that research in today's Good Life Science Update. And, as always, for those want to go to the source, here's a link to the full study.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, it's Jonathan Fields here with this week's Good Life Project update. |
| 0:09.2 | We're second of the week episode that we always complement our full length, long form conversations |
| 0:18.1 | with a couple of different segments. |
| 0:19.6 | Today, I've got two things that I want to share with you. |
| 0:22.5 | One is the power of experimenting with different types of language to say something and have |
| 0:31.0 | it land differently, kind of have it bypass the normal defenses. |
| 0:34.8 | What I want to talk about today, and I'm actually going to redo something I wrote is poetry, |
| 0:41.4 | which I confess to know absolutely nothing about. |
| 0:46.3 | But I still want to share something with you. |
| 0:48.4 | And on the science side, our Good Life Science update, we're talking about some really |
| 0:53.5 | cool new research that actually shows that our attention is not in fact drawn by what |
| 0:59.8 | people and researchers have thought for years, the equivalent of whatever the shiny object |
| 1:04.4 | in the room is, but by something very different and we'll dive into what that is. |
| 1:09.4 | I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:17.7 | So in today's riff, what I want to talk about is the way we use language and also the way |
| 1:23.4 | we sometimes fall into a rut and maybe an invitation to explore using language a little |
| 1:31.2 | bit differently. |
| 1:32.2 | So I podcast, I produce audio, and at the same time, I'm a writer. |
| 1:38.2 | If you actually ask me whether you consider your sort of primary creative medium, I probably |
| 1:45.2 | would still tell you that first I'm a writer. |
| 1:49.1 | Then I love producing audio and then painting and all sorts of other things. |
| 1:52.9 | But I've been writing for a while now. |
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