1. I'm your host, Dave Thomas, and that guitar is Eric Nash. This is Pansophical Podcast. Catch up on all our episodes by visiting pansophicalpodcast .com slash episodes. We're also on Apple Podcasts and YouTube at Pansophical Podcast. Don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, follow, share, because your engagement is the only thing that keeps us on the air. This next series is called Manna. This is episode number one. gut -wrenching to watch the planet and my place in it decline for 70 years. I saw the earth before plastic. Growing up as a military brat, we moved so much that by the time I graduated high school, I'd attended 13 different schools. I
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4. tried college, but it kind of rubbed me the wrong way. I have dyslexia, so teachers back then thought I was lazy. I tried it, but it was a little bit too much indoctrination. It was a mindset that wasn't appealing to me. I never liked getting pushed. My dad pushed me. I wanted to experience everything and make my own choices. I wanted variety, challenge, some of the past with clues to an exciting future. You know, I chased experience in everything I could, and it opened it expanded my mind. You know, like my father before me, I served. But unlike my father, I left the army at 20. It was mostly a good experience. And it was a satisfying challenge. My abilities to visualize just about anything and simulate ideas and outcomes kind of gives me an edge to excel. Made me stand out as different. Well, not the same. My abilities came from adapting to and surviving childhood trauma. Everyone goes through hardships that are unique to them. Mine was long -lived, secret, and eventually, it made suicide seem downright attractive and appealing. But I finally found a psychotherapist, and after five years, I'd mentally upgraded and optimized my entire life.
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7. It was the hardest and the best thing that I accomplished for myself. I figured out ways to use my unique and odd biological DNA and my experiences became very positive and it's been an exciting life. That's why I'm still breathing and racing. Yeah, I'm 70 and I still race cars online where it's safe. I'm not what you think. None of us are. We are constantly evolving as a species. It is our process of ascent to a better version of us. And each new generation learns new ways to collaborate and succeed through failure. Learning is key.
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10. Truthfully, truthfully I learn the most working with women. Women elevated my everything. I mean, women see a bigger, inclusive picture. They plan flexible futures that deal with changes to plans. They include and deal with emotions, fairness, and sharing. This is a logical mindset that's a win for everyone. Men, men, men are simple. I mean, we're easily distracted. We're hunter protectors. Obviously, a collaboration of both genders would be the fastest evolution. Women are biologically superior to men. Men have one change in life, childhood to adulthood. Women, however, have three lives. They have childhood to adulthood, then they have motherhood, making babies, and then that gets turned off biologically and they transform into teacher, which gives them a longer life than...

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