Thought Works

Introvert or extrovert, which are you? Maybe you have never thought about this much. Perhaps you have looked into this with much interest. Either way, this discussion may tell you something about this element of our personality types. Learning what you and others around you score, will explain how you and they get along or not. You may take a number of tests and disagree with the results. If so, asked your spouse/partner/closest person to you what they think. It may be that you don't understand yourself, just yet. By no means is the end all be all of how to break a person down. However, it is a tool to guide you in this process. Take a listen, this is actually a subject that blows Eddie's mind.

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Processes. How do you keep up all of the things you need to do and maintain in your life? The system we use conscious or not, has elements of efficiency or not. As we age and see elements of our life systems, we edit or add on to proceed. When you notice 'there is this thing I always do manually, but it has automaticity', why not add the auto feature? Eddie and Darren talk about everyday life and travel and how systems and processes have worked and not. Schedules feel like work for some. Even managing your free time is a system. If you feel like your time is not managed well often, why not look at how you do it and make a change. Darren has a sense of accomplisment that makes or breaks his days, whether work or free time. Eddie definitely has systems, but may not want a schedule for his leisure time. In an elevated view of life, time is the currency we all have. No one knows how much of that we will given. One thing that is similar among people with a long life, they often comment in the end of their lives about how they spent their time.

Have you ever thought about how many humans enable you to live your current life? Tribes have given the human race the ability to increase exponentially. Not only in number, but technology and all areas of advancement. Just think, without all of the people that protect and take care of us. From military to fire to police, all the way to the people that haul our trash away. We all need each other. Early human experience required tribes to survive the environment of the time. Now in a more civilized and populated world, we still have the need to belong to a tribe. Tribes back our ideals, beliefs, and standards. Tribalism is not all good though. Just as there are benfits to the protection in community, groups of common thinking people can push for negative or evil ideas. Everyone has their own set of tribes. Within the sets of tribes, we align for common goal or interest. Hopefully, it is for the good of all.

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• Alone Full Episodes, Video & More | HISTORY
• You're Getting a Free Audible Book | Audible.com
• Biologist E.O. Wilson on Why Humans, Like Ants, Need a Tribe

A person's identity in its whole form is unique. We are a summary of the closest people around us, but do we share all of their traits? Have their been times in your life you literaly feel like someone else? Many times we put on a persona to get a job or a date. How much of this do we do in the day to day living? As you think about your own identity and how you share yourself, listen to these guys. Eddie is looking to be original and not be fooled in this life. While Darren is ever seeking of who and what he is made of. Subscribe and listen to satisfy the curious part of your identity.

Prefernce and taste are part of the make up of all our identities. They are generally speaking, our likes and dislikes. We are a combination of things we inherit and things around us. Simply, our tastes are relative to our nature and nurture. Do these change as we grow older? How is our taste relevant to our experience of life? What does your taste or prefence say about you? Just some things to ponder when you give a listen to this episode as Eddie and Darren chew on this topic.