If you're trying to determine, articulate, and defend what you value and why in our age of conflict and disintegration, then you're in the right place. Third Factor is a magazine, community, and podcast dedicated to the life of the mind and the pursuit of the higher path.
Focusing on the key planks of questioning, creativity, character, and courage, we seek conversations that help us orient ourselves in a society full of rapid change, conflict, disorientation, and positive disintegration.
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If you're trying to determine, articulate, and defend what you value and why in our age of conflict and disintegration, then you're in the right place. Third Factor is a magazine, community, and podcast dedicated to the life of the mind and the pursuit of the higher path.
Focusing on the key planks of questioning, creativity, character, and courage, we seek conversations that help us orient ourselves in a society full of rapid change, conflict, disorientation, and positive disintegration.
Grappling with her daughter's trans identification was but one step in Stoic Mom's positive disintegration, leading her to truly sort out her values intellectually and grapple emotionally with what it truly means for an individual to live up to her unique potential.
Julian Adorney is fighting our toxic political culture, both by striving to understand polarizing issues intellectually and with nuance, and also by confronting the deep and challenging emotions that are at the root of some of our most hostile rifts.
Alasdair Gunn and Jessie reflect on Genspect's conference in Killarney, Ireland. What does the experience of meeting online friends in person tell us about living well in the digital age, especially as people who sometimes privilege our minds over our bodies?
After spending too much time arguing unproductively on social media as a younger man, Jefferson Shupe sought a way to pass on what he's learned to the next generation. The result is his YA novel, The Bathwater Brigade. It's the story of a college society with a tradition of intellectual curiosity and rigor—and when the administration ceases to share these values, its members must find a way to defend them.
What goes into making your voice sound good, and what does the nervous system have to do with it? Voice coach and author Laura Stavinoha talks about the challenge of transmuting overexcitability into talent, a process she learned first from experience. Laura and Jessie discuss what really makes an effective speaker and how to overcome some challenges facing intense people who want to use their voices more skillfully.
Would you believe that a socialist organization used to be a champion of free speech? That combined with belonging and purpose grounded in ideas, was what inspired Jessie to sign up back in 2013. But when a new wave of members brought a different set of values, she had to figure out what she really valued—and make a difficult choice.
Gen Z's not doing so hot, or so it seems to this Gen Zer. That's why she's interested in the theory of positive disintegration -- at least as long as it doesn't lead to yet another celebration of fragility and (negative) maladjustment.
What do we mean when we talk about the life of the mind? What is the "intellect" and how can we use it well? What are some of the hurdles that intellectually inclined people face these days - and that they've faced throughout history? Jessie and community member Marie set the stage for one of our key themes with a 30,000 overview.
Overexcitability is often the concept that draws people to the theory of positive disintegration—but if you get stuck there, you'll miss what the theory is actually saying. In this pilot episode, Third Factor's founder and editor in chief draws on Kazimierz Dabrowski's original writings to explain what overexcitability is and why, though it's often a bad thing, it doesn't necessarily have to be. Spoiler alert: it's all about this thing called multilevelness.
If you're trying to determine, articulate, and defend what you value and why in our age of conflict and disintegration, then you're in the right place. Third Factor is a magazine, community, and podcast dedicated to the life of the mind and the pursuit of the higher path.
Focusing on the key planks of questioning, creativity, character, and courage, we seek conversations that help us orient ourselves in a society full of rapid change, conflict, disorientation, and positive disintegration.
