Leaning Toward Wisdom
Modern Tales Of An Ancient Pursuit
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April 6, 2023 • 26 mins
There are about 9.84 BILLION search results for A.I. - which we mostly think stands for "artificial intelligence." ChatGPT is the latest, greatest, coolest, trickest A.I. It is pretty spectacular. For mere mortals like me, I don't know how A.I. improvement could even be measured, but I do know there's a data gap that is a constraint. A.I. needs high-integrity data.
I'm intrigued by artificial intelligence, but I'm far more obsesse...
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March 31, 2023 • 36 mins
It's happened. The Yellow Studio is in a new iteration.
Let's catch up a little bit and talk about whatever version of your life you may be working on.
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March 4, 2023 • 53 mins
“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp
It's time to say goodbye! Only to The Yellow Studio 2.0. It's officially over. Done.
Next week I'll be getting The Yellow Studio 3.0 set up. Version 3.0 will be a transition studio that I hope will take me through the end of 2023. After that, I'm planning to settle into The Yellow Studio 4.0.
Around 1999 T...
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February 23, 2023 • 32 mins
The story may date back earlier than 1917. President Reagan made it famous because it was among his favorite jokes. That's likely where I first heard it.
A couple had twin boys who were six years old. Worried that the boys had developed extreme personalities – one was a total pessimist, the other a total optimist – their parents took them to a psychiatrist.
First, the psychiatrist treated the pessimist. Trying to brighten his out...
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February 16, 2023 • 49 mins
We're closing in on saying goodbye to The Yellow Studio version 2.0. It's where every podcast episode I've ever produced (other than a few field recordings) was recorded. But I'm looking forward to the next chapter, The Yellow Studio version 3.0.
Lots of people want more money, but they don't necessarily have any specific thing they want to do with it. They just think having more of it will make them happy. Or maybe they do know w...
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February 9, 2023 • 36 mins
I leave a client's office after a normal, but intense 2-hour conversation. These are common conversations for me. Twice, during the course of a few hours, the client grows visibly emotional. I love these moments because it means we're speaking to issues of the heart. These are the things that really matter.
As I walk to my car, leaving the client's office building, I'm thinking about podcasting, co-hosts, having guests and engagin...
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February 2, 2023 • 53 mins
Let's do some scatter-shooting today. Today's show covers a few subjects:
Our 45th wedding anniversary (me and Rhonda, not me and you) ;)
My hyper-local podcast, HotSpringsVillageInsideOut.com
Spammers and scammers
Personal pain
Your ideal outcome / my ideal outcome - plan A may give way to plan M, O, or Z
The Starfish Parable
I'm an INFJ-Introvert, Intuitive, Feeler, Judger
The VIA Survey, click here to take it (f...
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January 26, 2023 • 33 mins
During the MLB playoff telecast of the NLCS between Philadelphia and San Diego, game 2, Fox analyst and Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz made an observation about failures. He remarked how nobody wants to be that guy who has a mishap or failure during a game...but if you allow it to pole vault you to success it can be a positive thing in your career.
I've seen good athletic coaches approach players who just experienced a disaster ...
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January 19, 2023 • 35 mins
“In a good bookroom, you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain
Twain was right. I know the feeling well, having surrounded myself with books for most of my adult life.
Only recently did I rid myself of the vast array of books that surrounded me. But it was time and I have no regrets. Hopefully, somebody else is benefiting...
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January 12, 2023 • 33 mins
Some time ago I ran across this verse and in short order I wrote the title of today's show: age, broken hearts and the getting of wisdom. I don't agree with every sentiment expressed, but I found it interesting. What do you think about it?
What does it feel like to be old?
The other day, a young person asked me: - What did it feel like to be old?
I was very surprised by the question, since she did not consider me old.
When h...
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January 5, 2023 • 36 mins
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” – Mark Twain
People under 40 tend to think that as you get older your ambitions wane. I was once 40 and I thought the same thing. Until I grew older and hit 50. Then I hit 60. And my ambitions changed, but if anything, they intensified. Then I hit 65 and the intensity had grown...
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December 31, 2022 • 45 mins
Happy New Years!
This is a bonus episode. I wasn't sure if I'd release it or not, but why not? I hope it serves to inspire you to dream your own dreams. And better yet, to pursue them so you can make them your reality. Thank you for listening. -Randy
I've already introduced you to one woman, Re, my maternal grandmother. The second woman I've not yet talked about, is Nelda, my mother-in-law. Nelda passed away from breast cancer w...
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December 29, 2022 • 36 mins
So long 2022. I hated much of my time with you! ;)
“I can’t believe it’s been a year since I didn’t become a better person.” —Anonymous
My hatred for this year - okay, that's an exaggeration, but only a minor one - is coupled with my love for the challenges that came with it. Challenges provide growth. I wish it weren't so. I'd much rather learn from calm, tranquil success.
Today's headline is pure snark because few years have ...
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December 22, 2022 • 31 mins
“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Reinvention.
It seems an odd word when applied to us, to our lives - to who we are or who we hope to become.
He tells me he'd like to reinvent himself. Oh, okay. I wonder what he means so I ask a few questions hoping to understand. "Into...
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December 15, 2022 • 39 mins
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
-Winston Churchill
I must not be a fanatic. ;)
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
-George Bernard Shaw
I grew up mostly thinking that change meant the potential for improvement and growth. Sometimes I was disappointed, but not always. Turns out life sometimes disappoints, but not always. So ...
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December 8, 2022 • 39 mins
“Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.”
― Helen Hanson
A muse is a person or personified force who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist. I'd modify that definition slightly by saying a muse is any source of inspiration for creativity. Do you have a muse? Have you ever?
Through the years of Leaning Toward Wisdom, I've talked about two that have occupied ...
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December 1, 2022 • 41 mins
Pearl Jam's 1996 song, Present Tense (from their No Code album), is a fitting theme for today's show. To live in the present tense. But first, as I am wont to do, let me give you the impetus for today's show.
I’m watching some house hunting kind of show on HGTV, the kind I normally don't watch - I much prefer the renovation shows. A couple is going through a few houses and in each house one or both exclaim how they could see th...
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November 24, 2022 • 21 mins
My first recall of such a thing was likely from watching stories about war. Combat was a popular TV show when I was a kid. It was a show about World War II and aired from 1962 to 1967.
Men would be injured in combat and their buddies would tell them, "Don't worry. We're not leaving you behind." The U.S. Marines have been known for never leaving anybody behind, even fallen comrades. Vic Morrow, as the sergeant in Combat! was awesom...
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November 17, 2022 • 50 mins
Romans 12:2 "And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God."
Mind transformation isn't just a religious thing, it's a human thing because God created us in His image.
Genesis 1:27 "And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
The fascinating t...
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November 10, 2022 • 25 mins
Ebb Dawson
Ebb Dawson, that deep-thinking philosopher character on the old TV series, Green Acres, is the person who uttered today's profound title.
I've loved that line since I first heard it. I have no idea how long ago that was. I was a kid who watched The Andy Griffith Show, Green Acres, F Troop, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, and McHale's Navy.
An online article entitled - 6 Signs You Can't Afford Your Lifestyle - prompted ...
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