Comments? Send me a text message. Our accidental mind is a marvel of evolution—capable of breathtaking creativity, yet vulnerable to distraction, self-deception, and runaway ego. In this week’s Welcoming Wisdom podcast, we explore two unlikely partners in this drama: the premotor cortex and the default mode network (DMN). The premotor cortex rehearses actions before we move, allowing us to simulate outcomes and imagine future possibilities.The default mode network weaves our sense of self and...
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Comments? Send me a text message. Our accidental mind is a marvel of evolution—capable of breathtaking creativity, yet vulnerable to distraction, self-deception, and runaway ego. In this week’s Welcoming Wisdom podcast, we explore two unlikely partners in this drama: the premotor cortex and the default mode network (DMN). The premotor cortex rehearses actions before we move, allowing us to simulate outcomes and imagine future possibilities.The default mode network weaves our sense of self and...
America's Lousy Report Card on Health & Well-Being
Flourish As You Age
29 minutes
9 months ago
America's Lousy Report Card on Health & Well-Being
Comments? Send me a text message. In this episode I focus on how our socioeconomic ecosystems affect our ability to flourish - or, more to the point, how they makes it harder for us to flourish. Early this year, 2025, as the Trump administration took power, a group of politically diverse scholars published a Report Card on American Well-Being. On the one hand, the economy is doing great - for the wealthy. But by most other measures the nation is floundering. We are a wealthy nation, but...
Flourish As You Age
Comments? Send me a text message. Our accidental mind is a marvel of evolution—capable of breathtaking creativity, yet vulnerable to distraction, self-deception, and runaway ego. In this week’s Welcoming Wisdom podcast, we explore two unlikely partners in this drama: the premotor cortex and the default mode network (DMN). The premotor cortex rehearses actions before we move, allowing us to simulate outcomes and imagine future possibilities.The default mode network weaves our sense of self and...
