Release Date: Sept 1, 2023

Are these words toxic? Think of when you use these words. Are you using them to downplay a situation? Or are you using them to be very clear and specific. "It was 'just' one time!" vs "You can do it 'just' this one time!" Listen in and see if you agree with us.

DISCLAIMER: Some hard and difficult topics. If you are easily offended, this may not be for you. There are sometimes some hard topics and hard truths, and if you are not ready for it, i suggest maybe to revisit at a later time when you do feel more prepared.

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Welcome to Eclipsed Views where we see what it would take to change our views. This is for self-help through Kaizen, a Japanese term for improvement in small increments.

Introduce

Guests: Carolina Gonzalez & James Cordova

We are citizens, colleagues, professionals, consumers, friends, family-members, teachers, learners, human beings.

Street Epistemology - Socratic Questioning

• How did you come to that stance?

• Are those reasons legitimate enough to continue to hold that stance?

Conjecture - Forming an opinion based on incomplete information.

How do you know when you have enough evidence to form an opinion?

Topic - Creative Career Paths

State your position. At the end we come back and see if the needle moved at all.

Scenario 1

Your friends are having a gathering that you are really looking forward to. As it nears, you start getting feeling a sick and develop an average cough. Nothing to bad but nothing too minor. As you explain to your friends,

On a scale of 1-10, how likely are you to use “just” or “only”. I JUST have a cough or i have a cough. 0 being not likely at all, and 10 being very likely.

• Carol - 1/3

• James - 6/2

• Vero - 2/2

• Sal - 7/4

Scenario 2

You have a colleague, friend/family-member that is giving you constructive criticism over something that is either our of your control, or is unimportant to you. They are somewhat persistent and you confront them about it. They say I’m JUST trying to help.

On a scale of 1-10, how different is it to you that they used “just”?

- Carol - 2/2

- James - 1/1

- Vero - 2/4

- Sal - 2/1

What about you? What are your thoughts? Let us know.