Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Mavericks and Renegades Talk The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. Pablo Picasso

Purloined Poetic Polemics No sooner had the Snake beheld this reverend figure, than the King began to speak, and asked: "Whence comest thou?" "From the chasms where the gold dwells," said the Snake. "What is grander than gold?" inquired the King. "Light," replied the Snake. "What is more refreshing than light?" said he. "Speech," answered she. Goethe The Green Snake And The Beautiful Lily

Talkfish Catch A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson

Playful Fucking Institutional Analysis An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. Oscar Wilde

Not Only Money Talks Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with. Alain de Botton

Sophisticated Backtalk We love the opportunity to disagree and I think that's something that's at risk of being quashed to too much of an extent. And really, I think over the last couple years we've been in listening mode — I don't think any of us listen enough, I don't think we listen enough as a culture.. Marcus Mumford Mumford and Sons address their photo with Jordan B. Peterson CBC

Switchyard For Trains Of Thought To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul-  would you understand why that's much harder? Roark, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead The Outer Courtyard, where pain is... where our ego selves play out their funny little dramas... Frank Sims in the 1970's