Hi guys, welcome back to Shower Thoughts. My name is Tara Shower. This is a podcast for left and right brainers, middle brainers, anyone with the ponds, medulla, brain stem, any sort of nerve. Welcome. This is a podcast where we just discuss, you know,

neuroscience-y topics, science, you know, steam, science technology, engineering, arts, math,

because the arts are incredibly important. What are we getting into today? Well, we are picking up

where we left off with last week talking about WUMNB. I said I didn't want to get

philosophical, but what I meant by philosophical was more talking about people's beliefs on what

type of socioeconomic system works the best. Because the thing is, I'm down for a debate,

but there's always going to be the people who are like, let me play devil's advocate and tell you about Adam Smith. And I'll be like, oh, please, no, because I was talking about, you know, zero sum, positive sum, negative sum, how envy is more of a zero sum emotion if you don't know how to aim it. But before we get into that, we're going to talk about how my week has been going,

just because, you know, shower thoughts, they're musings while you're in a relaxed state,

a little bit free-flowing thought, hence shower, but we're entering flow state.

What I've done this week is, oh, yeah, my new book club is going to

start soon. I'm posting the information for that today. So by the time this episode goes out,

the new book club will be starting. We're most likely going to be doing a decision-scape,

how thinking like an artist can improve our decision-making by Elspeth Kirkman or thinking in systems by

Danella H. Meadows. And I know thinking in systems is like a number one bookseller when it comes

to systems thinking. And systems thinking is kind of like, like how I think usually, you know,

when it comes to like inputs, formula, output, feedback, right,

that's basically it for systems thinking.

And I really want to read it with a group because I love thinking in systems.

It just helps you comprehend topics a lot easier.

And then another thing is I think I'm also going to do a magazine club

because I want to get people into reading and literacy, but I know that a lot of people don't

have time for a full book. And so having a magazine club where once a month we just come together

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