Today we tick two more realizations off the list we began in the last episode: that your relationships are not really nourishing you and that your parenting was far worse than you thought. These realizations are proving to be rich discussion topics filled with rabbit holes inside of rabbit holes. 

My favorite of these is how the existence of a cookie still has the power to collapse the Catholic Church if just one of their leaders could think paradigmatically. Paradigmatic thinking, as we discuss, includes critical thinking, but critical thinking doesn’t necessarily include paradigmatic thinking. I mention a Christopher Hitchins video in the podcast here’s a link to that, in case you’re interested: https://youtu.be/yuGjcCByVyc