“You’re not your political view. You’re not these little beliefs that you hold. You are so much more complex than that. And to limit yourself to these thoughts and to limit your experience, this brief experience to that is to me, insane.”
— NICK BUEGEL
My guest, today on the podcast, is Nick Buegel. In this conversation, we try to unpack how Nick has adjusted during this pandemic. Like many of you, this has been a time of extreme change. And change that many of us don't either want to happen or have to accept that's happening. All of our routines have changed and shifted and adjusted. And in many ways, we have to learn to lean into that change and accept it for what it is.
For me personally, I'd thought of this as a way to, even though there are certain things of this that I don't enjoy, like I can't go out and travel like I had planned to do, given that I'm finally out of school, but now. I thought, what can I do to learn? So that by the time this all.
Goes away or dissipates somehow come out better for it. And Nick, I think, is a true example of how to make the most out of this situation, making. Lemonade out of lemons. And the other part of this is we get into some ideas around social media and the polarization within the internet sphere.
This podcast was recorded in early September before the debates, and before all of this political stuff had really ramped up to the degree that it is now. I think we get too many points that other people will find useful. Thinking about their own beliefs and ideas and how to help handle other people's ideas they might disagree with and but that everyone please enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with Nick Buegel.
Show notes:
(00:05:21) How did Nick react to the pandemic?
(00:06:45) Anchoring in purpose
(00:08:00) Adjusting to being furloughed
(00:11:29) What books have impacted the most?
(00:15:12) Accepting change
(00:20:10) Focusing on what we can control
(00:23:47) Becoming Part of the Whole
(00:26:32) Being present and reading
(00:29:29) Getting out in nature
(00:32:31) What helped take action?
(00:35:44) Information Diet
(00:37:58) Managing Social Media Use
(00:44:24) A question of priorities
(00:48:02) A cultural phenomenon we haven't quite figured out yet
(00:52:28) The iPod in the Twenties
(00:54:23) Gifts and Curses of Technology
(01:02:33) The Century of the Self
(01:08:29) Your digital doppelganger
(01:10:07) Connected on Netflix
(01:13:09) Closing thoughts
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