EF2 (Intro): Life is a Near-Death Experience (Welcome to The Evolve Faster Podcast)

Summary: What if you could reset everything? George Carlin joked that life is a near-death experience. But what if this clever wit is actually concealing the meaning of life itself? And if you could access this truth using some tricks to completely reset your mind, life and soul, would you have the guts to do it? Same as every day, you’ll wake up faced with the ability to take several high-stakes gambles—change the world, change yourself or do nothing—three core options that are always right at your fingertips. The problem is you’re most likely on auto-pilot and not consciously aware of this potential you have each day. So instead, you will likely take another step into the comfortable yet dark cave of dissatisfaction; it’s safe, but also tightly shut with a limited air supply. In this introduction to the Evolve Faster Podcast, we’ll take an hour-long roller coaster ride down into the rabbit hole of a thought experiment that might just challenge your daily experience of life as one where you acknowledge the fact that you could, in fact, die around the next curve. We’ll look at a psychological tendency that makes it difficult for you to break out of this mental auto-pilot. Next, we’ll investigate what it means to Evolve Faster as a metaphor for personal and societal change. And finally, we’ll investigate where the podcast will go from here into the regular seasons–groups of 10 (or so) themed episodes, written and produced in a unique fiction-meets-nonfiction format. So buckle your philosophical seatbelt, pull down your psychological shoulder harness and lock up your kids (ok, don’t do that) if you’re ready to see how deep this rabbit hole goes with some foundational content that will prepare us for the upcoming Season One of the Evolve Faster Podcast…The Evolve Faster Podcast is written, performed and produced by Scott Ely. Writing and production of each episode of the podcast is a major undertaking spanning many months—it’s a labor of love, but it needs your help to survive. To help ensure the creation of more episodes, please learn about ways you can support the podcast (register, share, review and subscribe) at https://evolvefaster.com/subscribe/