#16: Dean Monks

Here's my conversation with my good friend Dean Monks

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0:00 The black belt
2:20 History of JuJitsu
5:30 The language of JuJitsu
12:00 Efficient Economy of movement 
16:40 Piano & Music theory
18:00  FACTCHECK:  Pythagoras - not Plato
23:50 The Art of Learning
30:00 Getting to the moon
37:00 Human curiosity
38:30 Building a cabin
43:00 The (real) Secret
48:00 Learning discipline 
53:00 New direction & decision paralysis
1:01:00 Burning out & back to college
1:18:00 Moving from chaos to order
1:24:00 Danger of video games
1:26:30 Football as simulated war
1:34:30 Diet, food & emotion
1:38:00 Eating meat, nutrition & ethics

1:38:00 + 
No idea is beyond criticism 
Already making up your mind
You are not your mind
Science fundamentalism 
We don't know anything
Armchair meta-physicists
Psychedelics
Pointing at the moon
What is happiness
We don't have to do anything
Ambition and contentedness  
Loving the process
Monksey coming up with my podcast name

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