With Joe Wehbe

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel. Today we unpack why we should let some people quit the game, and why life is like a dance.  Sign up to The Doorman. One email a week with the top five insights from all podcast episodes, links to the best episodes, and giveaways exclusive to subscribers valued at $100+ Sign up at https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/ Full blog post corresponding to episodes 203-211 on Alan Watts' philosophy applied to education https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/alan-watts-on-education-for-unreality/

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel. Today is the second'Th of two episodes that I'll never forget, unpacking how this man before 1973 nailed to a tee the exact phenomenon going on in today's day and age. Sign up to The Doorman. One email a week with the top five insights from all podcast episodes, links to the best episodes, and giveaways exclusive to subscribers valued at $100+ Sign up at https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/ Full blog post corresponding to episodes 203-211 on Alan Watts' philosophy applied to education https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/alan-watts-on-education-for-unreality/

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel. Today is the first of two episodes that I'll never forget, unpacking how this man in 1973 nailed to a tee the exact phenomenon going on in today's day and age.  Sign up to The Doorman. One email a week with the top five insights from all podcast episodes, links to the best episodes, and giveaways exclusive to subscribers valued at $100+ Sign up at https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/ Full blog post corresponding to episodes 203-211 on Alan Watts' philosophy applied to education https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/alan-watts-on-education-for-unreality/

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel. Today we unpack the pockets of society that cultivate a 'practiced mediocrity' according to Watts... and how to avoid this.  Sign up to The Doorman. One email a week with the top five insights from all podcast episodes, links to the best episodes, and giveaways exclusive to subscribers valued at $100+ Sign up at https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/Full blog post corresponding to episodes 203-211 on Alan Watts' philosophy applied to education https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/alan-watts-on-education-for-unreality/

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel. Today we finish off the 5 reasons education is creating 'overgrown children', continuing off from yesterday. Tomorrow we'll continue with more on his philosophy.  Sign up to The Doorman. One email a week with the top five insights from all podcast episodes, links to the best episodes, and giveaways exclusive to subscribers valued at $100+ Sign up at https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/Full blog post corresponding to episodes 203-211 on Alan Watts' philosophy applied to education https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/alan-watts-on-education-for-unreality/

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel. Today we begin unpacking, thanks to his insights, how education creates overgrown children.  Sign up to The Doorman. One email a week with the top five insights from all podcast episodes, links to the best episodes, and giveaways exclusive to subscribers valued at $100+ Sign up at https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/Full blog post corresponding to episodes 203-211 on Alan Watts' philosophy applied to education https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/alan-watts-on-education-for-unreality/

Alan Watts was a British philosopher who spoke about modern life and is credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the Western World, and is often thought of as an autodidact, which is education without the guidance of masters. From episodes 203-211 we unpack his philosophy and why he thought the stage-based education system was cruel. "It’s all graded and what we do is put the child into the corridor of this grade system with a kind of, “Come on kitty, kitty.” Sign up to The Doorman. One email a week with the top five insights from all podcast episodes, links to the best episodes, and giveaways exclusive to subscribers valued at $100+ Sign up at https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/ Full blog post corresponding to episodes 203-211 on Alan Watts' philosophy applied to education https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/alan-watts-on-education-for-unreality/

The final episode on Peter Thiel unpacks how principles behind the Thiel Fellowship can be applied to your life, especially focusing on 1) innovation, 2) networks and people over information Full blog post on the Thiel Fellowship: https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/5-things-i-love-about-the-thiel-fellowship/ Sign up to The Doorman. One email a week with the top five insights from all podcast episodes, links to the best episodes, and giveaways exclusive to subscribers valued at $100+ Sign up at https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/

We're getting to the end of our series on legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel, and discussing the education solution he's driving. It's called 'The Thiel Fellowship', and it gives 20 young people each year $100,000 to quit college and work on their own ideas. As a recap, we've been talking about Thiel since episode 195. See corresponding blog post on the takeaways: https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/5-things-i-love-about-the-thiel-fellowship/ Sign up to The Doorman. One email a week with the top five insights from all podcast episodes, links to the best episodes, and giveaways exclusive to subscribers valued at $100+ Sign up at https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/

We continue to unpack Peter Thiel’s book ‘Zero to One’, as Part II continuing on from yesterday. This is part of a mini-series on Peter Thiel from episodes 195-202. I also really recommend the actual book itself but the ideas are also unpacked in this corresponding blog post: https://withjoewehbe.com/2022/01/14/11-big-takeaways-from-peter-thiels-book-zero-to-one/ Sign up to The Doorman. One email a week with the top five insights from all podcast episodes, links to the best episodes, and giveaways exclusive to subscribers valued at $100+ Sign up at https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/