{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"What is a Good Life?","title":"What is a Good Life? #24 - The Paradox Of Life with Robbie Stamp","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3780,"description":"On the 24th episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast, I am joined by Robbie Stamp, who is the is CEO of BIOSS International, a Senior Fellow at the Resilience and Sustainable Development Programme at Cambridge University, Chairman of HappenedHere, and was an Executive Producer on the Hitchhikers’s Guide to the Galaxy feature film.\nIn this episode, we discuss the quality and significance of paying attention, cultivating compassion for ourselves and others, becoming ok with not knowing, appreciating all phenomenological and conscious experiences, the mirror AI holds up to us and the limitations AI will have in accounting for all human experience, and how there will always be a tension between creative and destructive behaviour, both internally and collectively.\nThis episode will help you appreciate the messiness of being human and yourself, feel more comfortable with the uncertainty and paradoxes of life, exhibit more compassion for us all while striving to improve, and to cultivate some humility around the limitations of your own knowledge and perspective.\nSubscribe for weekly episodes, every Tuesday, and check out my YouTube channel (link below) for daily clips and reflections.\nContact me at mark@whatisagood.life to book a free 30 minute consultation for one-on-one coaching programs or to hear about corporate workshops I am offering around this question.\nRunning Order:\n01:31 Podcast begins\n\n02:06 Paying attention\n\n06:51 Compassion for the messiness of human beings\n\n10:14 The paradox of needing to be hard and kind to yourself\n\n17:29 Becoming ok with not knowing\n\n21:32 Getting comfortable with uncertainty\n\n28:19 AI and the mirror it holds up to us\n\n33:11 What AI cannot capture\n\n38:13 The significance of all conscious experiences\n\n44:31 Suspending our labels and perspectives\n\n48:08 How do we create better civil discourse\n\n51:21 Burdening ourselves with ideas of Utopia\n\n54:56 Paradox of humility\n\n57:36 What is a good life for Robbie?\n\nFor further content and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/bmT8FMFAsdpL8YpCcl1-OrgjJf3IhVZ_KJftDu8Wgy8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM3NDg2LzE2NzI4/MzUxMDgtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}