Sutterfaction
We live in arguably the most inauthentic epoch in history. Big business manipulates and confuses with another carefully crafted marketing campaign. Influencers have replaced elders and authors as the go-to place for advice and support. Capitalism and neoliberalism condition us and then dictate terms. House prices, floods, bushfires, stress, busyness, poverty, and the rest. How can we enjoy our lives amongst all the conflicts of interests, biases, and uncertainty? The Sutterfaction Podcast, hosted by author, speaker, and activist Evan Sutter, plays at the intersections of philosophy, psychology, society and culture, ethics, human flourishing, politics, business, happiness, and meaning; so we can avoid the unlived life and construct one worth living.
Episodes
In this episode
Evan explores:
Why we tend to treat death as something distant and abstract.
What a minor health scare can reveal about the fragility of life.
Evan explores:
Why we often confuse activity with engagement.
Whether boredom is sometimes a form of restlessness.
What a nine-month experiment in removing exte...
In this episode, Evan explores:
Why adulthood and seriousness aren't the same thing.
The hidden cost of chasing certainty.
Lessons learned across corporate life...
Show Notes
Episode 34 — The Strength of a Balanced Life
For a long time I believed the answer was always more.
More work.
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In this episode:
Why external success can hide an unhealthy life.
The startup story that completely reframed my thinking about ambition.
What building SwiftReporter continues to teac...
Key Takeaways & Chapters
The Toddler’s Focus: Why children are born with a relentless curiosity that adults eventually trade for rigid self-defense.
Lessons from the Monastery: How stripping away modern complexity, technology, and cons...
In this episode, we cover:
The Metric Trap: Why we default to measuring money and growth instead of the actual quality of our lives.
The Condition of Ambition: Why building cool, difficult things is essential to feeling alive—but only if y...
In This Episode, We Cover:
The Illusion of a Scattered Life: Why moving in multiple directions isn't a lack of focus, but a collection of raw materials.
The Hidden Thread: The core lesson connecting social enterprise in Colombia, international k...
In this episode, we cover:
The Danger of Beginnings: Why constantly chasing the "spark" of new ideas is just another version of the pleasure trap.
The Hunter River Metaphor: Why the obstacles in your path aren't stopping the journey—they a...
The Invisible Season
One of the hardest parts of building anything meaningful is accepting the gap between effort and evidence.
We live in a world that celebrates visible outcomes:
T...
In this episode:
Why "I should be further ahead by now" might be one of the most damaging thoughts we carry
The unexpected lessons from paddling 470km down the Hunter River
Why progr...
In This Episode
The unexpected lesson from a 470km river journey
Why frustration often comes from the gap between expectations and reality
The phrase that quietly creates unnecessary...
In this 30-minute discussion, various relevant subjects will be covered, such as technology, consumerism, capitalism, entertainment, competition, and success. The argument presented is that these factors make it significantly more challenging for individuals in the modern Western world to lead a good, healthy life. Supported by research and ideas from renowned thinkers like Socrates, Thich ...
Welcome back, this is the Sutterfaction podcast. The show about looking deeper into society and culture, politics, current affairs, conditioning, and all that is around us, so we can then look deeper with more clarity and awareness into our own lives - so, we can enjoy our lives more - more deeply, more authentically, more vibrantly.
In this ep...
This is a very cool and important talk that will examine the wealth vs health conflict.
It will look at how to:
-Eat better, move better, think better
-Find balance
-Enjoy your life
-Cre...
Learning for a job or merely to advance your career is too often one dimensional and rigid, the other - learning for life - is interconnected, holistic and open, and then it flows into all areas of our lives. And, afterall, a life well lived, a good life, has to be connected. Our world is full of people with great careers and financial success, who are miserable in almost all other areas. T...
To construct a life worth living - a connected, interesting, interested and fulfilled life - we need to examine and explore everything outside and inside of us, and perhaps with a greater emphasis on the inside. We can tend to think of exploring in an external sense and think travel in this way is all the exploration we need. Travel is great, but in this day and age even this beautiful tool...
In each moment it is fascinating to observe just how many choices we are making. These choices shape our lives, our characters, our capacities. And, of course everything around us influences these choices. But, how many are really our own, and how many are merely the result of our schooling, the media, the TV shows and advertising we consume, even the area we happened to grow up in.
Philosopher Nietske emphasised the lived life - a move away from a preoccupation with trivial concerns - he told us to avoid the unlived life, and to live boldly and fully.
In today’s modern, uber connected, world it is easy to get lost in a pursuit of things - shinier, brighter, faster, better, more. Which makes the examination side, one...
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