Curious Humans with Jonny Miller

Leo Babauta is the prolific writer of Zen Habits who is joining me from the distant island of Guam 7,400 miles away. Here are a few tasters for what to expect in this wide-ranging conversation:😨 How Zen Habits evolved into his mission to help others push into their uncertainty.👨‍🎓 How Leo unschooled and de-programmed his kids to facilitate their own natural state of curiosity.🚀 Leo's compelling case for why a fully-optimised life would actually suck and risks being the most controlled boring thing possible.💪 Developing and training 'radical curiosity' to dive inwards even when you don't like what you're seeing—how to hold the pose when you're entire body wants to shut down and run.🤼 What he's learned about learning and his no-holds-barred debate with Tim Ferriss on the idea of abandoning goals.🧘‍♂️ The incredible Zen Habits origin story – his path from being in debt, overweight, a smoker and feeling miserable to escaping debt, gaining a following of over a million readers, publishing books on habit-change, finding joy and even running an ultra-marathon!***📝 Read the Full Transcript here over on Medium❓Listener Question >> “How do you feel about the balance between achievement and appreciation?” Tag @jonnym1ller on Twitter or Instagram.***🙏 Join Leo's new Fearless Academy and support his mission.👨‍🎓 Learn more about his Sea Change Habit Academy🖋️ Join over 2 million readers of Leo's Zen Habits🐦 Find Leo on Twitter @Zen_Habits***💌Curious Humans NewsletterIf you’re not already subscribed you can also sign-up for my free monthly curious humans newsletter by going to jonny.life and also get monthly nuggets of brain food that I’ve found in the corners of the internet.🎵Musical CreditsThanks so much to the Heinali who generously provided the musical accompaniments.

David Whyte, an acclaimed poet, writer, and philosopher, discusses the rich interplay between language and our emotional lives. He reveals how his experiences on the Irish coastline influence his understanding of identity and vulnerability. Whyte challenges traditional views of ambition and encourages embracing the complexities of human connections. He also delves into the societal implications of masculinity through figures like Trump, advocating for a more mature and reflective approach to life. Join in for an enchanting, profound journey into the heart of human experience.

Karina Guthrie is a yoga teacher at The Practice with a background in academia studying psychology and philosophy. We covered a lot of ground, touching on:📚 why her parents would confiscate abridged books from her as a child and the book she would love to write one day.🏫 the story of how she left a career in academia to follow her curiosity in the yoga world🧘‍♀️ the importance of becoming more Kinaesthetically literate in the 21st century📖 the difference between knowledge and lived wisdom❤️ favourite untranslatable words💫 thoughts on yoga as a spiritual technology for re-connecting us with the 'bigness of the universe’ and all that which takes us beyond ourselves.❓Listener Question >> “What is the project or creative endeavour that you’ve been putting off – and what might be a way to start it before you feel totally ready?”You can follow her bombshells of wisdom & thoughtful yogic musings @karina.guthrie on Instagram.Say hi on Twitter or sign-up for the Curious Humans Newsletter.

I truly believe that CURIOSITY is the birthplace of knowledge and creativity… it’s a gateway to awe & wonder – for the world around us— allowing us to experience the familiar, as if for the first time. It has been called the insight emotion, the key to life-long learning and recent studies have even cited it as the antidote to anxiety & depression.–––If we’re all born with this innate sense of curiosity, why do most of us lose touch with it in our teenage years? I know that in my own life, I felt like my experiences at school nearly crushed many of my interests... And in our productivity obsessed culture I struggle to justify investing time or money into something that doesn’t have a defined outcome... –––So really this podcast is a personal journey to turn the lens of curiosity back on itself, to find out how courageous humans have dared to take it more seriously and exploring insights that the rest of us can learn from their journeys.–––In Season One you can expect fireside conversations with the TED speaker and poet David Whyte, you’ll learn how astronomy is a lens for understanding yourself with a NASA researcher Kevin Hainline, how Yoga can be a technology for cultivating better humans with Karina Guthrie, and thoughts on curiosity from 12 year old conscious fashion designer Hanalei Swan.–––Each guest will share a beautiful and mind-expanding question for you to take with you on your own adventures hopefully leaving you a little bit more curious than you were before.–––If you like the sound of all this... it would mean a lot to me if you can take 15 seconds to open up whichever app you listen to podcasts on and give Curious Humans a 5 star review and share this trailer with fellow curious humans.–––💌Subscribe to the monthly Curious Humans Newsletter 👋Say hi on Twitter