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What started as a tabletop project of regular meeting and conversation, The Friday Council is a place of thought, questioning and seeking understanding of the ins and outs of life. Join David, Daniel & Nav as they discuss different topics, current events and navigate modern day living in New Zealand.
41 Episodes
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In this episode:
- Living in a comfortable rut can shrink your worldview
- Discomfort in relationships
- Gamifying life and uncomfortable tasks
- Planning spontaneity
- Self medicating against discomfort
- Deep work, deep rest vs little work, little rest
- Seeking discomfort online
- The role passion has to play in discomfort
- Seeking discomfort online
- Mainstream culture being comfortable
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In this episode:
- 'Resonating' with role models
- Controversial role models
- Being nonchalant about choosing
- Fraudulent role models
- Internet role models requiring more trust
- Parents as role models
- Cultivating self awareness is key
- The cultural 'gap' of masculine role models
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In this episode:
- Public mental health endgame
- Feelings and emotions vs mental health
- Is just talking more enough?
- Expectations of men
- Mentor/mentee relationships
- Men's attitudes towards professional help
- Conceptualizing life trajectories/momentum
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In this episode:
- Why isn't supplementing testosterone commonplace?
- The future of testosterone
- Pro's and con's of testosterone consumption
- Behavioural consequences
- Toxic Masculinity = Toxic testosterone?
- Less testosterone = more submission?
- Nicotine, vaping, ram raids
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In this episode:
- 'Dupe' products and brand loyalty
- New Zealand as a brand
- Country identities and travel
- Monetary inflation
- Tax Refunds
- Businesses at large scales
- Permanent gaps in the market
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In this episode:
- David's ADHD experience
- Feeling defensive about other people's mental accomplishments
- Just harden up?
- Empathy
- Is overpathologisation a social issue?
- Increased recognition or increasing disorders?
- Drug use and neurotypicality
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In this episode:
- The school system lacking porn education
- Impacts on children and how to teach it
- The future of pornography
- Porn relating to human fertility rate
- Conservatism vs Libertarianism
- Age restriction of pornography
- Censorship vs freedom
- Mental attitudes towards porn
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In this episode:
- Embracing 'cringe'
- Lucas' father's golden simple advice
- Outside opinions, positive and negative
- Early pickup artist culture
- Falling role model 'attention spans'
- Artificial Intelligence and Universal Basic Income
- Cycling through goals, settings new ones, the in between
- Parenting, families, and societal expectations
- Cookie cutter education and self help
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In this episode:
Drugs as mitigating factors in crimes
Individual cases being made an example of
Youth crimes/ram raids
The holistic causes of crime
Enforcement of laws
Serious crimes
Institutional racism
Different types of murder
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In this episode:
'Bring back bullying'
Online activism
Feeding the anger-reaction-anger cycle
How much a social issue impacts your life
The slippery slope argument
Are we all in need of a reality check?
Life reflects reality back to you regardless
Interactions with political adversaries in real life
A voting and taxation tangent
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In this episode we talk about:
Daniel's crackhead neighbour interaction
Drugs as a crutch for vulnerability and connection
Being comfortable initiating interaction
Context with being vulnerable
Risking betrayal
Vulnerability and trust as a currency
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In this episode we talk about:
Failure to negotiate and missed opportunities
'Yes men', Doormat people taking L's
Negotiating non-negotiables
The rewards for developing your negotiating skills
Holding your own tongue as a form of negotiation
Negotiating with your own ego
Knowing your reasons giving your negotiations depth
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In this episode we talk about:
Is food a medicine?
The health star rating system
Sugar taxes
Condensing all nutrition into one pill
Eating as a ritual
Limiting food options for beneficiaries?
The healthy food is too expensive argument
Fasting
Listening to the wisdom of the body
Diet trends
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In this episode we talk about:
When we realised our parents were flawed human beings
Adult bad habits becoming engrained
The importance of intergenerational relationship
How to help children in bad living situations
Do different cultural upbringing help or hinder society?
Identifying your good and bad traits
Improving relationships can start with you
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In this episode we talk about:
Focusing on one skill/lesson
Making self help specific to you
An inch of action is worth a mile of thought
Copium. Copes and self owns
Are our desires truly our own?
Failure is success
Mainstream schooling and parenting deficiencies
Men's mental health
Our low hanging self help fruits
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In this episode we talk about:
The urge to intervene in world tragedies
Being too empathetic vs too callous to tragedy
Government social campaigns
Deep internal change 'curing' addictions
Drugs, the need for connection
Religion
Normalized therapy
Generational trauma
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In this episode we talk about:
'Proxy' friends, as coined by David
Intentionality as an adult
Individuating as you age
Online relationships, romantic and platonic
Smart use of messaging apps
Handling break ups responsibly
Being consistently yourself across different relationship types
Parental relationships and family love
Cultural differences in familial relationships
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In this episode we talk about:
What are Universities good for now?
Authority figures were more ignorant than we realised
Great teacher stories
Using retrospection intelligently
First or early relationship Successes
Old people and wisdom from retrospection
Seeking out people who have already 'done it'
The power of retrospection to extract meta life lessons
Lack of open mindedness towards unusual life paths
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In this episode we talk about:
Infantalisation of adults
Beta male hard-core collectors
Societal expectation to become adults
Is nostalgia useful?
It is easier to copy than to create
20th century consumer culture changes
Collecting as an entire personality
Fast food and nostalgic marketing
Changing attitudes to childishness
'Good times create weak men'
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In this episode we talk about:
The difference between great marketing and a scam
Large debts/money moves taking time to correct
Housing as a human right
The over 65's demographic mentalities
Facebook marketplace vs trademe
Quality of life trends and the wealth gap
Join us again for episode 23!
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