Erin and Hannah continue their Ready, Set, Think! series with a conversation about the blocks that form the foundation of our thinking for good or for ill.
Category: Episodes
Thinking Twice Afterthoughts
We all want people—and life—to be tamed and to make sense, so we sort and label things based on whatever information we have available.
Persuasion 157 | Thinking Twice, with Jen Pollock Michel
Show Summary For all the thinking we do, we usually don’t think twice about the preconceived notions we use to keep life simple. We like to place ideas into categories and give everyone a label according to their personality type or their social leanings. It’s a sort of shorthand, relieving us of the effort it…
Persuasion 156 | Thinking It Through
We’re kicking off a new series titled Ready, Set, Think! Each episode will explore how we arrive at our beloved stances and opinions and ways we can grow in processing information.
Persuasion 155 | Silent Night
There’s a tension between the peace we sing about and internal chaos we so often experience during Christmas.
All I Want for Christmas Afterthoughts
Being “ready” for Christmas is code for gathering up the stuff we give and dreaming of all we hope to receive.
Persuasion 154 | All I Want for Christmas
Our culture has tied Christmas fulfillment to the amassing of stuff.
Blue Christmas Afterthoughts
If Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, why do I feel so sad?
Persuasion 153 | Blue Christmas
From Hallmark Christmas specials to receiving the perfect gift from that perfect someone, we’ve all taken in ideals that lead our hearts to unavoidable disappointment at Christmas.
Persuasion 152 | Live Talk
Is it possible for Erin and Hannah to talk to each other without the usual digital divide?!
