Release Date: July 19, 2024

When you find your purpose, it gives you a reason to get up every morning. It may even help you find some happiness along the way. Or have you gotten a taste of happiness and that's what now becomes your purpose, to chase happiness. We discuss this and more, along with some other fun tangents. 

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. We take difficult topics and try to identify what’s blocking your view. We try to unlearn, rewash, and rewire our brains since we don’t seem to be having much luck changing other people’s views. This is for self-help through Kaizen, a Japanese term for improvement in small increments.

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.

Introduce - Our guests

OPTIONAL introduce skilled areas. Impact of bias on the listeners opinion.

Relation

• Friends

• Family

Length of time knowing each other.

• Years

• Months

• Weeks

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?

Biases - How aware are you of your inclinations?

Does that make the right or wrong, or just your own?

Topic - Finding purpose vs Finding Happiness - How do we know if we’re maturing

Scenario - Scale from 1-100.

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

Scenario 1

You are running your own business and need to hire staff, you value maturity. One applicant is 25 and has lived on their own since they were 18. The other applicant is also 25 but still lives with their parents.

1. On a scale of 1-10, who do you think may be a more mature applicant.

   • Gabriel - 8/8

   • Vero - 7/7

   • Sal - 8/8

Scenario 2

Which side do you lean towards more. On a scale of 1-10.

1. Does having purpose find happiness. 10 Happiness gives you purpose. 5 they are both the same thing/symbiotic

• Gabriel - 1/3.5/5

• Vero - 3/5

• Sal - 3/5

Scenario 3

How similar are animals to humans. Do animals need purpose as much as humans do?

On scale of 1-10, 1 being, “No they do not,” and 10, “Yes they do.”

• Gabriel - 6/8/10

• Vero - 7/9

• Sal - 4/6

Questions to think about

1. How easily are you able to change your opinions?

2. How aware are you of your biases when forming opinions?

3. What is blocking your view? What is keeping you from changing your mind?