Episode 12: Idea Excavation – Finding Treasure in a Dump

Phil introduces the concept of Idea Excavation, which can be shortly summarized as “take what’s valuable, leave what’s not”. Through Steve’s clarification, they also talk about “Learning from the Negative”, examining the traits something or someone lacks, and learning to better foster that missing trait in one’s self, such as patience, gratitude, compassion.

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NEW: This episode was edited by BroganMolloy

Citations

• Archaeological Excavation    
• Letting Go  by David R Hawkins, MD, PhD
• Steel Manning
• Declarative Memory (aka Explicit Memory)
• Procedural Memory
• Learning from the Negative: Taking a lesson from something or someone by a trait that they lack. E.g., learning to be more patient from someone without patience.
• Internalization
• Jordan Peterson
• Postmodernism (Philosophy)
• Mysticism (Religion/spiritualism)
• Lindsay Shepherd
• Alt-Right (Polisci)
• Disenfranchisement (Polisci, Sociology)
• Peterson-inspired Red Skull (Media)
• Nut Picking (Rhetoric, Media Representation)
• Postmodern Conservatism (Innuendo Studios, “The Alt-Right Playbook: The Card Says Moops”)
• Poisoning the Well (Rhetoric)
• Queer Theory
• Nomological Network (Network of Ideas)
• Banana Argument
• Urn of Invention by Nick Bostrom
• Just-So Arguments
• Ancel Keys
• Institutionalization
• Cognitive Psychology
• You Are Now Less Dumb by David McRaney
• Cognitive Distortions
• Logical Fallacies
• Don’t Should on Yourself
• The Drunkard’s Walk by Leonard Mlodinow
• Inoculation
• The Cowpox of Doubt by Slate Star Codex
• Wilfrid Laurier University
• Pyramid Schemes
• Internalized Capitalism