Anya Ruvinskaya shares about..
- The lifelong search for home within the overlap of many communities
- Connecting connect to the spiritual in any culture
- Finding creativity after living through communism and atheism
- When the answers aren’t the answers and won’t give you what you think you want
- Generational values of living for oneself and living for others, and how financial freedom can obscure community ties
- The development of the individual (and AI) within different cultural values
Chapters
00:00 The Power of Curiosity
00:52 Numbing Silence, Reflective Silence, and Going inward
09:02 Curiosity in Namibia
14:51 Assimilating and Finding the Culturally Universal
24:25 Searching for Home and Feeling Estranged
45:48 Exploring From a Wound
56:36 Giving Myself Permission to Explore Making Art (While Navigating Death)
01:02:31 The Questions I'm Still Holding
01:08:44 Material Success and Letting Myself Feel Free
01:10:44 Do I Want the Answers to My Questions?
01:14:47 Running Away From My Intuition
01:22:40 The (Im)possibility of Belonging
01:30:43 Finding Creativity After Communism and Atheism
01:41:11 Alone, Not Lonely
01:46:44 Encountering the Sacred in Any Religion
01:56:18 Feeling Understood by AI (and People)
02:04:52 Personal Sabbaticals and Communal Roles
02:10:09 Unsuccessfully Filling Social Needs With TV (and AI)
02:21:52 The Development of the Individual (and AI) Within Cultural Values
02:38:43 Fostering Understanding and Connection through Conversation
Show Notes
Gentle high pitch sounds that’s pleasant from Tiesto’s Walking on Clouds, especially around 5:42): https://youtu.be/K2CeXZlSZak
47:34 Laurie Santos’ Coursera offering The Science of Wellbeing https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being
48:40 The Artist’s Way https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-25th-Anniversary/dp/0143129252/
59:25 The Five Whys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys
01:25:15 - The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky https://www.amazon.com/How-Happiness-Approach-Getting-Life/dp/0143114956
01:29:01 - Thich Nhat Hanh’s book on anger https://www.amazon.com/Anger-Cooling-Thich-Nhat-Hanh/dp/1573229377
01:56:01 - Pi, the emotionally intelligent AI https://pi.ai/onboarding
02:43:15 - James Finley on a Meditation for Two https://youtu.be/E17l20-j8hk
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Music credits: Mozert by John Vallis (https://johnvallis.bandcamp.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
Ep. 4 - Anya Ruvinskaya's Conversational Portrait