100: Jamie Wheal - Sense-Making In Chaos

100: Jamie Wheal - Sense-Making In Chaos Jamie Wheal is a researcher and coach in the field of human potential, peak performance, and flow states. He is the co-author of the book “Stealing Fire” and director of Flow Genome Project. In this interview we talk about how to make sense in a world that is unraveling faster than we can keep up with, discuss the potential solutions to this crisis, and the challenges of building coherent and resilient communities. In This Episode Of Future Thinkers: - A quickening of complexity and consequence, and the state of overwhelm as a public health issue - How collapse of benign authority in the last 50 years contributed to the sense of abandonment and disenchantment - What is the actual urgency for a systemic change in the world - How complexity, cognitive biases and the capacity to process grief are affecting our understanding of what is going on in the world - The pitfalls of transformational culture and why we are making the same mistakes as the hippie generation of our parents - Weaponization, commercialization and hedonization - our most dangerous impulses when using powerful transformational tools - The importance of open-sourcing the tools for self-realization ahead of the efforts to co-opt them - The challenge of creating a post-conventional group flow and how ethical cults can emerge - The potential place for a Council of Women Elders in future communities Links and Resources Mentioned In This Episode: - Hacking Collective Intelligence, an interview with Jamie Wheal on Rebel Wisdom - https://youtu.be/BtdJy87z0Ys - Rule Omega: Greenhall, Schmachtenberger, Wheal (excerpt from the conversation on Rebel Wisdom) - https://youtu.be/rQA93ulyigg - Flow Genome Project - https://ift.tt/2JtLAoG - Existential Climate-Related Security Risk: A Scenario Approach, a report by Breakthrough - National Centre for Climate Restoration - http://tiny.cc/4zse9y - Interview with Dr. Gabor Maté on Tim Ferris Show - https://youtu.be/H9B5mYfBPlY - Reality Bites, a movie directed by Ben Stiller (1994) - https://ift.tt/2XzEed9 Recommended Books: - Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work by Jamie Wheal and Steven Kotler - https://amzn.to/2J5V0Yp - The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu - https://amzn.to/2xtV9OW - Upheaval, Guns, Germs And Steel and Collapse, a trilogy by Jared Diamond - https://amzn.to/2xqbGDk, https://amzn.to/2ROr9qj, https://amzn.to/2XCh7Or - Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben - https://amzn.to/2Ly7VUL - The Hero's Journey, the collected works of Joseph Campbell - https://amzn.to/2xtpUn0 More From Future Thinkers: - FTP098, 099: John Vervaeke - Overcoming The Meaning Crisis, https://ift.tt/2JupiTH - FTP097: Sovereignty vs. Identity, https://ift.tt/31UNGGv - Daniel Schmachtenberger Interviews on Future Thinkers Podcast, https://ift.tt/2JtWhHW - FTP062, 063: Jordan Greenhall - Deep Code: Learning How To Learn, https://ift.tt/2YgKtyO To learn how to thrive in this fast changing world, sign up for our mailing list and get the 50+ page guide: https://ift.tt/2JuE2C9 Register for A Course in Personal Evolution - Adapting age-old wisdom for a modern life of purpose and meaning: https://ift.tt/2ENvBiO #jamiewheal #futurethinkers #podcast #philosophy #psychology #consciousness