[11/12] EMOTIONS, THEY'RE GREAT! (Season 1 Recap)

📖 Maskat gets one last critical conversation with his grandfather 🎤 Atta Pilram blows our minds with his emotional capacity 🧐 Omar and Paul discuss the Elephant and the Rider.

Jan 9

Happy New Year! We made it to the end of the season 1 recap (#12 will contain all the bonus material that we created). Get ready for Season 2!

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READ 📖 CHAPTER 11: FULFILLMENT

LISTEN 🎤 S1EP11: FEEL YOUR FEELINGS w Atta Pilram

REFLECT 🧐 FAREWELL, RIGHTEOUS MIND | Writer’s Commentary by Omar
++ FEED YOUR ELEPHANT, CHANGE YOUR LIFE | Reader’s Commentary by Paul

📖 CHAPTER 11: FULFILLMENT

The last of the published chapters takes us straight to Maskat’s grandfather’s wisdom. Do not wake up to a life you do not feel like living.

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Chapter 11. Fulfillment

This was the last time Maskat had seen Babu, his grandfather. “Few things feel better, than to conceive an idea from imagination and into reality, Maskat.” Babu said as he ushered him towards a wooden ladder that took them 3 stories up into the belly of the gigantic wooden whale that he was commissioned by Iran to build…

2 years ago · 2 likes · Omar Shaker

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🎤 S1EP11: FEEL YOUR FEELINGS (AND DON’T BE A VICTIM) w/ATTA PILRAM

On our season finale, we are joined by our friend and honorary grandfather (and Omar’s honorary grandson), Atta Pilram. Atta shares with us his own journey on learning about his emotions, through family, business, and especially in his art. Omar and Pilram take a deep dive into creativity and the importance of emotional intelligence in our ever-transforming world.

This episode covers:

How it felt growing up in Iran, and the many ups and downs of Atta’s life.
How feeling into your emotions can be a healing experience.
Creativity and its pursuit.
The limiting nature of making yourself a victim.

These are all covered through Atta's plethora of stories and imagery, as he reflects on his whole life from a 5-year-old kid to a 68-year-old grandpa.

Sit back, relax, and reflect. What is your relationship to this world of emotions?

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Ep11.Feel Your Feelings (and don't be a victim)

Listen now (35 min) | Are emotions a distraction from the rational? Or is it really our superpower as humans? On our season finale, we are joined by our friend and honorary grandfather (and Omar’s honorary grandson), Atta Pilram. Atta shares with us his own journey on learning about his emotions, through family, business, and especially in his art. Omar and Pilram take a de…

10 months ago · 2 likes · Omar Shaker and Paul Kist

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🧐 Reader’s Commentary | Feed Your Elephant, Change Your Life by Paul kist

In our quest for concrete understanding of the world around us, we’ve prioritized the rational, saving us from the control of superstitious dogma but also depriving us from connection to our bodies and hearts. You, me, and all of us have been trained to rationalize everything. If it can’t be motivated or explained by reason, it is ignored, or even devalued. Even our emotions become victim to this imbalance, as we are expected to understand and explain our feelings (and therefore be able to do something about them.)

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Feed Your Elephant, Change Your Life

It’s quite fitting that the last chapter of Part 1, we find ourselves receiving some age-old wisdom from Babu, Maskat’s grandfather. These are Maskat’s final days before he and his family are to leave his childhood home, and head for a new life in the United States. As the origin story comes to a close, and are about to embark on Part II of the book, aw…

a year ago · 4 likes · 3 comments · Paul Kist