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Episode 30 – One Sure Way to Make Yourself Happier

By shaundmcmillan March 13, 2021PodcastNo Comments

Research has shown that most self-help techniques may temporarily boost your happiness but most people soon return to what for them is a certain consistent base level of happiness. But there is one technique that research has shown dramatically and consistently raises people’s reported base level happiness.

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Low Prep Game-Based Learning Solutions

By shaundmcmillan March 12, 2021Best of, Game Based Learning, Journal, The ALLIANCE MegagameNo Comments

This week my interview with Board Gaming and Education was published! Dustin and I talk about low prep game-based learning solutions. For those of you interested in this subject I have some helpful follow up URLs provided below.

Episode 29 – The Best YouTube Channels

By shaundmcmillan March 7, 2021PodcastNo Comments

I love learning. I find it both meaningful and fun, which is a magical combination. This is also why I love teaching and why I love school. But somehow schools have managed to take the fun out of learning. While I love a great class, I no longer believe the best learning is taking place in schools. The best learning is taking place on YouTube.

Episode 28 – What happens after you die?

By shaundmcmillan March 2, 2021PodcastNo Comments

What do you think life after death looks like? Is it so different from the life we are living now, is it the end, or just another beginning? Today let’s talk about life after life.

Episode 27 – Dear Future Me

By shaundmcmillan February 22, 2021PodcastNo Comments

Want a clever way to time travel and cheat death? Play your favorite music from when you were a teenager and take a look at some old photos or journal entries. Write an email or letter to your future self and write your own eulogy to be read at your funeral. But if you are going to go on this adventure, there is one critical ingredient you will need...

Episode 26 – How to Get Critical Work Done: The Eisenhower Decision Matrix

By shaundmcmillan February 14, 2021PodcastNo Comments

Transcript: We would all love to be people who really get big things done. But so much of our day is spent procrastinating and avoiding the work we really need…

Episode 25 – When Is it Right to Be Angry?

By shaundmcmillan February 10, 2021PodcastNo Comments

Even Jesus the Messiah of Christianity and the ultimate archetype of all that is good got angry and publicly denounced the religious leaders of his time period. Obviously those benefiting from the status quo are not going to agree with these revolutionary thinkers and will find such self-righteousness to be condescending. So who can judge between these opposing factions?

Episode 24 – Ideologies & Morality

By shaundmcmillan January 31, 2021PodcastNo Comments

In the last lesson we spoke about the two leading political ideologies, liberalism and conservatism, and how they might be related to differences in common personality traits. Today let’s talk about how we talk about politics.

Episode 23 – Dueling Ideologies – The Left & the Right

By shaundmcmillan January 24, 2021PodcastNo Comments

Which do you value? Equality or Patriotism? Compassion or Societal Order? Do you prefer, dogs or cats? Through personality tests we can often tell which side of the political spectrum people fall into. Do you lean left also known as liberal, or to the right, also known as conservative?

Episode 22 – Aliens & Angels

By shaundmcmillan January 17, 2021PodcastNo Comments

Whether in a galaxy far far away like Star Wars, or in the very near, very possible future like Black Mirror, science fiction deals with issues that we face in the here and now. Issues like race, politics, and religion might be too hot to discuss directly for a lot of us, but fictional realities allow us to take a step back and talk about what ifs. So let’s explore today’s world by looking at stories about tomorrow.