Whole Phil early April
Welcome to The Whole Phil podcast, I am your host, Phil Reese, the DJ, that's my Facebook name, Really Phil Reese, that's my Twitter, and Phillip J Reese, that's my Instagram, my twitch, my dot com and my real life. Tweet me right now, hashtag #getyourwholephil and tell me about yourself.
I am a loving, lovable, chubby, queer, sober, spiritual, vegetarian, feminist radical leftist web developer, and deejay in DC. This is the podcast where you get your whole Phil.
I talk about whatever I want, with whomever I want, and do whatever I want, because there's no rules, no format, and no fucking censors.
Let's start the show.
Today is Saturday, April10, 2021 and let me begin this show with an apology. It's been a few months since I've published and I'm sorry about that. If I'm being honest, I committed myself to doing the meditation series, and then fleshing it out became daunting and intimidating and then it paralyzed me mentally and creatively. And meditation should not do that.
I didn't think I could continue the show unless I stuck to my meditation series, and then I just got into this negative feedback loop.
While meditation is still very much a big part of my daily life, and has been for two years, I also am not ready to put this series together, I don't feel equipped just yet. When I started the series, there was a bit of the Dunning-Kruger Effect in play. Because I was doing so much meditation and already helping other people get more into meditation, I felt like I could do even more.
If you've never heard of it before, The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a proposed cognitive bias in the field of psychology that states that people of entry-level experience with a subject underestimate the true complexity of the subject or skill and overestimate their mastery of the subject. It's the opposite of imposter syndrome where people with mastery of a subject or skill doubt their mastery.
I am not a master of meditation, by any means. And it will be a long time before I am. I hope to be some day, but for now, I still have some more learning to do. I have actually taken on new meditation teachers in order to do so in the right way.
When it became obvious to me that I had no business, yet, recording a podcast series teaching meditation, I realized I had to abandon the plan, and return to my old format.
I do plan on returning to doing a meditation series in the future, but when I feel more confident in my ability to give the best direction to my listeners. Though I still encourage each of my listeners to do some learning on their own about how meditation can improve your life. I truly believe that it's life changing.
For now I'm going to get back to just sharing whatever is on my mind, and back to a regular publishing schedule.
I hope you're doing well, and thanks for staying subscribed in the mean time!
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