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Thinkin' Bros Podcast
Chris and Alex
53 episodes
1 week ago
Your favorite corner-store philosophers trying to figure out life one conundrum at a time. We are two brothers in love with thinking. Our dream is to use casual philosophy to figure out most of life's uncertainties. Delusional? Perhaps. One thing is certain: we will not arrive at this goal without engaging in meaningful discourse with others. Help us achieve this dream.
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Your favorite corner-store philosophers trying to figure out life one conundrum at a time. We are two brothers in love with thinking. Our dream is to use casual philosophy to figure out most of life's uncertainties. Delusional? Perhaps. One thing is certain: we will not arrive at this goal without engaging in meaningful discourse with others. Help us achieve this dream.
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Thinkin' Bros Podcast
52. The End (Kinda) | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.


👉 In this season 2 finale, we discuss Plato's "The Apology". Although not an apology at all, Socrates defends himself in front of the Athenian court in his usual masterful way. His argumentative skills are unmatched and seem to check every box of a modern debate club specialist. Despite the 2000-year difference, it seems like politics haven't changed much, and persuasion seems to overshadow truth in this dialogue as well.

P.S. Thanks to everyone who supported us during this journey. This is not an ending, but a break that will make us come back more skillful than ever. Your constructive feedback has been a major reason for our progress, but now that we've plateaued, we will take some time off to break through it. Until next time!


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: We Forgot/10

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1 year ago
1 hour 22 minutes 15 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
51. Me No Know Virtue | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.


👉 We discuss Plato's "Meno", a dialogue on virtue. After somewhat determining what virtue is, Socrates moves on to determining whether virtue is innate, can be taught, or something else. Despite Plato's many peculiarities and rich ideas, such as the theory of forms and the distinction between true opinion and knowledge, we believe we did a good job at deciphering the point of the book.


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: 8/10

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1 year ago
1 hour 6 minutes 33 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
50. Passions Within Reason 2 | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.


👉 We discuss Robert H. Frank's "Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of Emotions". As stated last week, this book gives us an economist's perspective on the role of emotion in optimal decision-making (which can often not be solved through rationality). This is the second and last episode of a two-part series.


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: 8/10


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1 year ago
1 hour 14 minutes 1 second

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
49. Passions Within Reason 1 | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.


👉 We discuss Robert H. Frank's "Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of Emotions". This book is a Very Bad Wizards favorite, so we could not miss it. Frank is a professor of economics, and gives us a look into the interplay between reason and emotion on an interpersonal and societal scale. To illustrate his points, he gives various thought experiments, evolutionary pathways, and mathematical frameworks, which makes his work very holistic and straightforward. Easy to understand, rich and with a deep point. This is the first episode of a two-part series.


P.S. Sorry for the bad audio, we had to improvise.


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: ?/10


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1 year ago
1 hour 6 minutes 32 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
48. I Wonder if the Joke Will Land | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.

👉 We look into the rich but confusing work of Lewis Carroll. "Alice in the Wonderland" has become a classic, and it seems well-deserved. But is its message any good? How does the story influence children? What can be extracted from it for adults? Are the disturbing elements about Carroll relevant to the interpretation of the story? All of this is discussed in the episode!


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: 6/10

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1 year ago
1 hour 10 minutes 7 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
47. A Freudian Breakdown of Shrek (Kinda) | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.

👉 This week, our veteran philosopher clashes with an up-and-coming psychologist on the movie "Shrek". In this timeless masterpiece, there is a rich display of introversion, extraversion, anxiety, social expectations and determinism. Can happiness be reached by pursuing an imposed goal? Come find out in this week's episode.


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: 9/10

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1 year ago
1 hour 3 minutes 25 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
46. You Have to Be There | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.

👉 We finally discuss almost everything that remains of Alan Watts' "The Way of Zen". From the history of Zen Buddhism to fundamental misunderstandings about meditation, Watts' simple yet effective storytelling style essentially makes us monks within the duration of the episode. Of course, all this confidence gained in our understanding of Zen is characteristic of a misguided Zen student...


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: 🍩/10

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1 year ago
1 hour 41 minutes 27 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
45. Intro to Zen | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.

👉 In the main segment, we discuss chapters 1-3 of Alan Watts' “The Way of Zen". In this introduction to Zen Buddhism, we explore the influences of Confucianism and Taoism on the concept we now know as Zen. As some may know, we have already discussed chapter 3 of part 2 of the book, on spontaneity. But, in our usual fashion, we chose to introduce the concept of Zen after discussing one of its applications. Next week, we will advancing to the second part of the book, which describes the practices involved in Zen (which are apparently the only way to truly understand it).


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: 7/10

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1 year ago
1 hour 27 minutes 45 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
44. Memento Mori (Sorry) 2 | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.


🔗⁠ The timeline of the movie explained by Christopher Nolan⁠

He starts drawing the timeline around 4:30


👉 In this second episode of our first ever movie review, we dig deep into the moral implications of living with a person with anterograde amnesia. Could a person who cannot learn from their mistakes ever be called immoral? What is a "moral" attitude of a loved one toward a person with this condition? We also get a psychologist's view on the representation of anterograde amnesia in the movie. While Christopher Nolan nails the general idea, we find some fatal inconsistencies in the character's progression that suggest he may be able to learn.


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: 9/10


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1 year ago
1 hour 8 minutes 41 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
43. Memento Mori (Sorry) 1 | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.


🔗 The timeline of the movie explained by Christopher Nolan

He starts drawing the timeline around 4:30


👉 In this first movie review, Chris and Alex struggle to piece together the elaborate timeline of Christopher Nolan's "Memento". This first episode is focused on our take on the story and how we understood what happened in chronological order. For a proper enjoyment of next week's episode, where we discuss the moral and psychological aspects of the movie, we recommend watching the movie, which is free with ads on youtube at the moment.


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: ?/10


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1 year ago
1 hour 14 minutes 9 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
42. Feel, Then Think | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.

👉 In the main and only segment, Chris returns to his old ways. Through a fog of confusion and stuttering, he attempts to present the thesis of his future book which, unsurprisingly, has the humble objective of solving morality. As a bonus, he solves the conflict between men and women definitively, and summarizes the book "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" in about a sentence. Truly a throwback to Season 1.


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: 8/10


Do you agree with our conclusions?


🌐 Website: https://thinkinbros.com

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1 year ago
1 hour 34 minutes 48 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
41. Philosopher Retreat Barn Town | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.

👉 We begin by discussing chapter 5 of William James' "The Principles of Psychology". In this exploration of the automaton argument, James gives reasons for and against the belief that consciousness is merely an illusion and the human body is merely a machine. Under this view, specific mechanisms of our brain activate in a sort of domino effect, not through rationality and agency. Our perception that we are in control is really the illusion of a spectator.

👉 In the main segment, we discuss the Gettier problem. In this challenge to Plato's "Justified True Belief" account of knowledge, multiple situations characterized by fallibility and luck can be designed to cast doubt on our intuitions around knowledge. But are these situations really revelatory of anything useful... beyond the self-contained shenanigans of philosophy, that is?


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: 8/10


Do you agree with our conclusions?


🌐 Website: https://thinkinbros.com

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1 year ago
1 hour 6 minutes 32 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
40. Go Life One Fold at a Time | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.

👉 We begin by discussing L. A. Paul's "What You Can't Expect When You're Expecting". In this fun twist on a modern classic, Paul argues that the normal way of making "personally transformative" decisions such as having a child is irrational. In short, life is so different after having a child that any prediction about what it will be like is likely to be wrong.

👉 In the main segment, we finally finish our discussion of Anders Ericsson's "Peak". In this deep exploration of expertise, we once again confirm that experts aren't born, they are made. The last part of the book focuses on disproving common misconceptions about innate talent, and shows how anyone from Mozart to the greatest athletes to ever live got to the top through training alone. More specifically, the best type of training: deliberate practice.


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: 9/10


Do you agree with our conclusions?


🌐 Website: https://thinkinbros.com

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1 year ago
1 hour 32 minutes 38 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
39. The Pursuit of Unhappiness | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.

👉 In the main (and only) segment, we discuss Paul Watzlawick's "The Situation Is Hopeless, but Not Serious". This book is a parody of self-help books, and is cleverly set up to inform the reader of exactly what to avoid by giving us the recipe of our own unhappiness. While the psychologist bases a lot of his knowledge on interactions with patients with mental illnesses, a lot of what he discusses happens (way too often) in the life of the average person.


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: 9/10


P.S. Thank you to the first Thinkin' Sis, Anna, for being a guest on the show.


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1 year ago
1 hour 32 minutes 37 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
38. Don't Be a "L'Étranger" | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.

👉 We begin by discussing Camus' "L'Étranger" (The Stranger). While we begin as skeptics, our discussion makes our opinion of the book evolve throughout the episode. The main character, Meursault, represents the quintessential absurd man, and ironically (although by design) reveals a lot of absurdities about our own life through his routines and questions. A fascinating discussion.

👉 In the main segment, we discuss Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, by Anders Ericsson. While this is not the type of book most would qualify as "life-changing", we end up qualifying it as such. There is no big revelation or a portal toward cosmic consciousness - just a rigorous scientific study of expertise, with the ultimate conclusion that experts are never born, they are made. In fact, they are self-made, as "the gift" people usually refer to ends up being an outstanding intrinsic motivation to practice a craft indefatigably until it is mastered.


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: 9/10


Do you agree with our conclusions?


🌐 Website: ⁠https://thinkinbros.com⁠

📧 Email: ⁠thinkinbros@gmail.com⁠

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1 year ago
1 hour 34 minutes 40 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
37. Camus Who? Camus Watts? | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.

👉 We initially thought we would discuss Camus' "The Stranger", but we (luckily) didn't have time. It will have to wait for next week.

👉 In the main segment, we discuss Alan Watts' "On Being God". In this 6th episode of the "Alan Watts Being in the Way" podcast, which is really a collection of his lectures from the 1970s, he talks about what Jesus meant when he said that he, an all other humans are God. The conversation delves into free will, Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, heaven, hell, the problem of evil, and so many other complex philosophical topics. Of course, with Alan Watts' usual finesse, he presents the material through stories and conversations. As Alex once wisely noted: "Alan Watts is the William James of philosophy." He sure is.


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: 8/10


Do you agree with our conclusions?

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1 year ago
1 hour 16 minutes 56 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
36. "Success" (In Quotes) | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.

👉 We begin by discussing our favorite quotes. Unsurprisingly, Chris choses Socrates, and Alex chooses Marcus Aurelius. But, just before we sink into the mundane and the predictable, Chris pulls out a trump card: he teams up with his greatest enemy, history, to provide us all with a valuable piece of insight.

👉 In the main segment, we shortly discuss chapters 3 and 4 of Heidi Grant-Halvorson's "Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals". Despite the first segment taking up the majority of the episode, we still identify insightful and intuitive ways to set yourself up for success in goal pursuit.


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: 9/10


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1 year ago
1 hour 21 minutes 29 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
35. Progressive Handicapping and Success | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.


⭐️ We apologize for the bad audio of Alex’s mic, it was partially unplugged during the setup. Luckily, in an act of pre-cognition, Chris chose to speak for 70% of the episode, so it shouldn't affect the listening experience as much.

👉 We begin by discussing Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron". What started off as a light reading about a satirical dystopia quickly turns into Chris' opportunity to criticize modern society. Just another Sunday I guess...


👉 In the main segment, we discuss Heidi Grant- Halvorson's "Succeed". For this episode, we only read the first two chapters, and they were a breath of fresh air among the psychology's smoke cloud of the replication crisis. The goal setting methods felt intuitive, verified, and most importantly, agreed upon by both co-hosts. The highest scientific criterion, some say.


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: 10/10


Do you agree with our conclusions?

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🕺 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thinkinbros

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1 year ago
1 hour 22 minutes 54 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
34. The End of Psi-Chology | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.

👉 We begin by discussing Feeling the Future: Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Cognition and Affect by D. J. Bem. No, this is not a joke... his initials are really DJ. And he also analyses empirical evidence for the phenomenon he calls "psi", which is essentially people's ability to predict the future. Will you be convinced by this psychologist's rigorous findings? Come find out.

👉 In the main segment, we discuss the third and fourth chapters of Neil Postman's "The End of Education": Some New Gods That Fail and Some Gods That May Serve. It is the follow-up to last week's episode, where Neil introduced the idea of narratives and gods as a guide for children's education. This week, we discuss the failure of the god of technology and the introduction of five new gods that, according to Neil, would work synergistically in bettering the youth. His fix is not only centred on motivating children to go to school, but also getting them ready for the society that awaits them in the future.


🤔 “Figured it Out” rating: 9/10


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📧 Email: ⁠⁠thinkinbros@gmail.com⁠⁠

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1 year ago
1 hour 23 minutes 10 seconds

Thinkin' Bros Podcast
33. Affective Breakdown | Thinkin' Bros Podcast

🧠 Thinkin’ Bros Podcast is hosted by intellectual phenomena Alex and Chris. We make psychology and philosophy accessible through informal discussions and try to find ways to use these disciplines to enhance our everyday lives.

👉 We begin by discussing What Is an Emotion? This paper is a discussion between two psychologists, Ralph Adolphs and Lisa Barrett, mediated by Leonard Mlodinow, a theoretical physicist. If this sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, in some ways it is. This paper gives an overview of two opposing theories of emotion, on of which is objectively wrong (as assessed by Chris). Nonetheless, it introduces some good questions about what we think emotions are.

👉 In the main segment, we discuss the first two chapters of Neil Postman's "The End of Education": The Necessity of Gods and Some Gods That Fail. It introduces a foundational problem in the current education system: a lack of a greater purpose. While people usually focus on the engineering problems of education (where should students sit, what books they should study, etc.), Neil identifies something far deeper that is making our youth apathetic to their schooling: the lack of a god. But not necessarily god with a big "G".


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Thinkin' Bros Podcast
Your favorite corner-store philosophers trying to figure out life one conundrum at a time. We are two brothers in love with thinking. Our dream is to use casual philosophy to figure out most of life's uncertainties. Delusional? Perhaps. One thing is certain: we will not arrive at this goal without engaging in meaningful discourse with others. Help us achieve this dream.