Why a Podcast?

I've never understood people.

Not because people are irrational. Because the explanations never seemed to explain very much.

Before MindStretched I was an elementary school science teacher. My favorite part of the year, by far, was the science fair. A student would have an idea, test it, and discover it didn't work. Nobody thought the student had failed. The hypothesis had been proven untrue. Good to know.

Years later I went to life coach school because I thought psychology might finally explain why people do what they do. Instead, I kept running into advice. "Change your thoughts." "Your thoughts create your emotions." "Your emotions create everything in your life." The advice wasn't necessarily bad. It just wasn't an explanation that worked.

People understood the advice, even agreed with the advice. Then they went home and did exactly what they'd been doing before. If understanding something isn't enough to change it, then the explanation is missing something.

Around that time a friend told me the future is fixed. I told him he was crazy. He told me it’s physics. I dove in. Not because I suddenly thought physics explained people, but because physics explains something I've always trusted, scientific laws.

The planets don't make decisions. Water doesn't decide whether to boil. A bridge doesn't choose whether to collapse. Systems behave according to the laws governing them. That raised a different question, What if people do too? That's basically what I've been working on ever since.

Just investigating one question at a time.