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Underestimating Resilience and the Communication of Important Things – Episode 195

In this episode, Dara is looking at the value of letting others know what’s important to you. How else are the people in your life meant to know what you care about? He argues that this can not only help to strengthen the relationships that matter most, but also mitigate against disappointment and unmet expectations. However, it is useful to keep those expectations fair and realistic.

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Reckoning with a Hustler, or What a Lucky Guy! – Episode 193

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In this episode, Dara is totting up the wins in his life. There aren’t many, considering his age, but maybe more than enough. A cat on a wet shack roof is not one of them. Nor is revisiting ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’, which he did in stealth mode. But the wins he does list are pretty cool, and some are just about the most important things in his life.

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Speaking for Myself – The Challenge of Maintaining Focus – Episode 192

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In this episode, Dara reflects on abandoning his recording session last week and admits to a loss of faith in the podcast. He reminds himself of a couple of the motivations behind starting the show 4 years ago and cites Bob Rafelson’s brilliant New Hollywood film of 1972 – The King of Marvin Gardens – as being one of his sources of inspiration.

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A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Exhibition, or The Ether has Spoken – Episode 189

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In this episode, Dara recounts a series of unexpected events, incidents and coincidences that all occurred in a relatively compressed period of time. Something was obviously in the ether.

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The Humble Art of Reading the Room, or It’s Not All About You! – Episode 181

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In this episode, Dara shares final thoughts on the US presidential election and speculates that the Democrats still haven’t shaken the patronising habit of belittling those who disagree with them. He argues that if you take this attitude in the world of martial arts, you are setting yourself up to fail – the assumption of superiority is a dangerous flex of ego that can result in complacency and abdicated diligence.

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You Have It So Easy! Resentment, Ease, and Reaching for the Good – Episode 176

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In this episode, Dara considers the elements that contribute to our resentment buckets and shoulder chips. He believes time and the ease of others are two key ingredients in the mix. He confesses to giving voice to some very uncharitable resentfulness around the time he became a father. He also speaks carefully around a significant source of resentment in his marriage.

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What Do You Do If You See a Space, Man? – Episode 173

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This episode is all about the presence of absence. How are your comfort levels with empty space and dead air? Do you struggle when the void isn’t filled with something to stimulate? And more importantly, with what do you fill empty spaces and awkward silences?

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The Existential Toolkit to Approaching the Unknown – Episode 164

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In this episode, Dara is wondering about what comes next. We can never truly know what lies in the future so how do we cope with that uncertainty? Are we willing to step into the unknown without the security of a plan? Do we trust we have the resources to deal with what we find?

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Scene from a Garden – Tall Trees, High Kicks, and Low, Low Wages – Episode 163

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In this episode, Dara is taking time to express thanks to a place that has served him well over the last few years, and he’s so determined to do so in a special way that he moves the podcast to the location he’s honouring! At the end, when a certain flying creature appears, it’s time to bring things to a close. No, it’s not a dragon…

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What Is a Man, Anyway? Part 4 – Episode 158

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In the fourth part of his series on masculinity, Dara tries to point out the hierarchical nature of masculinity when the idea of manhood is being discussed. The legacy of Western European colonial domination has resulted in the idealisation of white, straight, middle class masculinity. In other words, for many people when they’re asked to consider men and masculinity, they will default to the aforementioned model. But where does that leave other iterations and expressions of masculinity?

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Underestimating Resilience and the Communication of Important Things – Episode 195

Reckoning with a Hustler, or What a Lucky Guy! – Episode 193

Speaking for Myself – The Challenge of Maintaining Focus – Episode 192

A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Exhibition, or The Ether has Spoken – Episode 189

The Humble Art of Reading the Room, or It’s Not All About You! – Episode 181

You Have It So Easy! Resentment, Ease, and Reaching for the Good – Episode 176

What Do You Do If You See a Space, Man? – Episode 173

The Existential Toolkit to Approaching the Unknown – Episode 164

Scene from a Garden – Tall Trees, High Kicks, and Low, Low Wages – Episode 163

What Is a Man, Anyway? Part 4 – Episode 158

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