NOBODY’S PRODIGY
Fascinating thoughts from My Own Overfull Brain shared weekly for your consideration! Celebrating free thinking, the self-taught, and free-range ideas that spread beyond the box!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 34 minutes
- Episodes
- 58
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2024
Episode 18 - The Talent Myth
What does it take to achieve great things? How do we define abilities and the differences between the able and the less able?
As a culture, we have long fixated upon the idea of talent,…
Episode 17 - Economies of Scale
Money and business. Buyers and sellers. Competition and the invisible hand of the market. Our economy is an evolving ecosystem of producers and consumers, but who is producing and wh…
Episode 16 - Thresholds and Boundaries
Night and day, hot and cold, childhood and adulthood, our lives are lived among recognized extremes, and yet it is the lines between these points that define us. From birth to death, w…
Episode 15 - Notes on Notes
Music is not only a powerful art form that can make you move your body, stop to think, or vent your emotions. It is also a complex and intricate language through which we, as humans, c…
Episode 14 - Thar Be Monsters!
Bigfoot, the chupacabra, unicorns, dragons, and fairies… our world is filled with tales of amazing creatures spanning the depths of time. Some, we have found. Some, we have killed. S…
Episode 13 - Human and Nature
The rise of environmentalism, after centuries of neglect, has become the great transformation of our time. Grasping, for the first time, our power to alter the very nature of the plane…
Episode 12 - Teen Spirit in the 90s
Every decade has its flavor and style, driven by unique circumstances, but over time the essence of a cultural era can be forgotten, or even corrupted.
In this episode we explore the par…
Episode 11 - Fill’er Up
The transition to electric vehicles seems all but an inevitability. The serious consequences associated with fossil fuels have made that clear. Yet, despite the imperative, the transi…
Episode 10 - A Paint Peeve
Crafting artwork is the act of struggling to represent a vision, feeling, or idea through the manipulation of a set of materials. Time and expertise can greatly facilitate the process,…
Episode 9 - Necessary Rebellion
Kids will be kids…
There comes a time in every generation, and in every person’s life, when doing what you are told becomes a very real struggle. As we develop into adulthood, we are fa…
Episode 8 - Fixing Santa
(Recorded at a slightly more pertinent time of year…)
As we grow older, and our years sweep by more quickly in retrospect, it can be easy to forget the precious windows of time that lay …
Episode 7 - Never Tell Me The Odds
In a universe of untapped possibilities, we live within a culture too often bounded by certitudes. From the moment an idea is given voice, it is assaulted by assertions of what simply …
Episode 6 - Fantastic Follies
The Pyramids, grand palaces, cathedrals, Stonehenge, and even the world’s biggest ball of yarn… we are privileged to witness acts of greatness at will in today’s media-heavy world. We …
Episode 5 - Aliens!
Popular culture loves to speculate about beings beyond our small planet. Conquerors, monsters, unknowable mysteries, or simply differently shaped versions of ourselves, it seems we hav…
Episode 4 - The Political Spectrum
At a time in our nation’s history when nearly every action, opinion, or decision is painted with the broad brush of political partisanship, it seems that our lives are split down the mi…
Episode 2 - Imagination!
In a world of unprecedented breakthroughs in entertainment and visual aids, the simple skills of self-creation languish in the competition. As our society grows more and more dependent…
Episode 3 - Unqualified.
What is the nature of Qualification? How does it relate to skill? By what measure were our ancestors deemed to be capable to take on a task? More importantly, what standard do we hol…
Episode 1 - Introduction
The first ever podcast!
A brief rundown of the show, and what to expect in future...
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