Why Modern Life Feels So Empty (The Master and His Emissary Part 2)

A Message To Our Future Selves

In Episode 14 of Learning to Live, we record a message to our future selves. Will this podcast still exist in 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? We make predictions about our future careers, relationships, fitness, finances, YouTube growth, and what our daily lives might look like in 2036. Some of these predictions are wildly optimistic. Some are probably completely wrong. But that's the point. This episode became an unexpected reflection on ambition, uncertainty, sacrifice, and what it means to pursue a dream when there are absolutely no guarantees it will work. Along the way we discuss: • Our predictions for the podcast's future • Subscriber and episode count guesses for 1, 5, and 10 years • What we're sacrificing in our early 20s to build something meaningful • The loneliness of post-college life • Fitness goals, personal challenges, and future aspirations • Marriage, family, career, and where we hope life takes us • The skills we want to learn before we're 33 • Our biggest fears about the future Whether you're building something yourself, feeling uncertain about where life is headed, or just curious what two twenty-somethings think their future holds, this episode is for you. The real question is: when we watch this back in 2036... how much of it will come true? #LearningToLive #SelfImprovement #FutureSelf #PersonalGrowth #LifeGoals #Podcast #Motivation #TimeCapsule #Ambition #Purpose

Why Modern Life Feels So Empty (The Master and His Emissary Part 2)

We live in the safest, most connected, and technologically advanced period in human history. So why does modern life feel increasingly empty? In Part 2 of our deep dive into The Master and His Emissary, we explore a provocative idea from psychiatrist and neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist: that the growing emptiness, anxiety, disconnection, and loss of meaning many people feel may not be random. It may be the result of how our culture has shifted toward one mode of thinking over another. According to McGilchrist, the brain’s left and right hemispheres don’t simply handle different tasks, but instead represent radically different ways of relating to reality. The right hemisphere sees the world as living, connected, meaningful, embodied, and whole. The left hemisphere categorizes, abstracts, analyzes, controls, and turns reality into systems, models, and representations. Both of these viewpoints are necessary. But what happens when the part of the brain designed to serve reality begins replacing reality itself? In this episode of Learning To Live we explore the drastic consequences of a world shifting to the left hemisphere's viewpoint and how we can course correct now. This is the follow up episode to Episode 11, where we talked Part 1 of The Master and His Emissary. Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy! The Master and His Emissary: https://channelmcgilchrist.com/master-and-his-emissary/ [https://channelmcgilchrist.com/master-and-his-emissary/]

Why Your Progress Isn't Linear

For the past couple of months we’ve implemented challenging self-improvement habits into our lives: - No non-essential phone use - 30 minutes of meditation every day - 3 Tiny Habits - A strict “Good Energy” clean eating diet In this episode we sit down to reflect on our journey and rate the results. What actually improved? What completely failed? And why did some of these challenges feel impossible to sustain? We also reveal the new direction of the podcast: stricter accountability, tracked data, online tools, and a full system overhaul going forward. This is our second challenge check in, following Episode 7’s with the addition of a new diet. We hope you enjoy! Inspired by: - Deep Work by Cal Newport - Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg - The Untethered Soul and Living Untethered by Michael Singer - Good Energy by Casey Means

Why Your Brain Is Fighting Itself

Your brain has two hemispheres, and they don't always agree. This week, we dive into The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist, breaking down what the left and right brain are actually doing, why they're in conflict, and what that means for how we think, feel, and live. We cover the Nietzsche parable at the heart of the book, the left hemisphere's overconfidence problem, how language shapes (and limits) our perception, and why too much analytical thinking can make life feel hollow. We also connect the neuroscience to everything we've explored on this podcast, from The Untethered Soul to Good Energy, and why this book might be the thread that ties it all together. Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy! The Master and His Emissary: https://channelmcgilchrist.com/master-and-his-emissary/ [https://channelmcgilchrist.com/master-and-his-emissary/]

Our New Diet Plan Is Insane... And Our Blood Work Made Us Do It

In this episode of Learning To Live we're pulling back the curtain on our full blood work results and using them to build the most ambitious diet we've ever attempted, inspired by Casey Means' Good Energy. We break down our entire dieting history, what worked, what didn't, and why we kept falling off. Then we go through 15 key biomarkers from our extensive Function Health blood test, score ourselves on Casey Means' 8-category health quiz, and lay out the complete diet overhaul we're committing to. Thanks for listening, hope you enjoy! Good Energy by Casey Means: https://www.caseymeans.com/goodenergy [https://www.caseymeans.com/goodenergy]