EPISODE 10 - DEREK LOUDERMILK (THE ART OF ADVENTURE) - PART 1

• Intro
• Rapid response questions
• Jack of all trades and evolution
• Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project - https://www.thevenusproject.com/
• The Venus Project documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb5ivvcTvRQ
• The Best That Money Can’t Buy - https://www.amazon.com/Best-That-Money-Cant-Buy/dp/0964880679
• Creativity is [just] “taking known elements and putting them together in unique ways” - Jacque Fresco
• The Straight-A Conspiracy by Hunter Maats and Katie O’Brien - https://www.amazon.ca/Straight-Conspiracy-Secret-Ending-Totally/dp/0985898836
• The Straight-A Conspiracy website - http://www.thestraightaconspiracy.com/
• Cross modal neuroplasticity - the power of the brain to rewire itself - https://www.edutopia.org/neuroscience-brain-based-learning-neuroplasticity
• The role of emotions, feelings, and the stories we tell ourselves are incredibly important in the learning process
• Charisma can be learned?
• The power of smiling, good eye contact, and posture
• Nature vs nurture on learning
• The Bell Curve by Charles Murray - Intelligence and Class Structure - https://www.amazon.ca/Bell-Curve-Intelligence-Structure-American/dp/0684824299
• Sam Harris and Charles Murray discuss nature vs nurture on Sam’s fantastic podcast, Waking Up - https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/forbidden-knowledge
• Epigenetics - https://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2014/apr/25/epigenetics-beginners-guide-to-everything
• Breast cancer and genetics - Breast cancer is a common cancer and 1 in 8 women develop it during their lifetime in the UK. But fewer than 3 out of every 100 breast cancers (3%) are caused by an inherited faulty gene. http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/inherited-cancer-genes-and-increased-cancer-risk/inherited-genes-and-cancer-types#inherited_genes1
• Derek’s thoughts on parenting
• Parenting and infant development
• Move your DNA by Katy Bowman - https://www.amazon.com/Move-Your-DNA-Movement-Expanded/dp/1943370109
• Katy Bowman’s awesome website - https://nutritiousmovement.com/
• The benefits of exposure to sunlight are not the same as supplemental Vitamin D https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/02/12/why-vitamin-d-supplements-are-not-the-same-as-sunlight.aspx
• The natural fallacy - just because it occurs in nature doesn’t mean it’s ‘good’ or ‘right’ -https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/131/Naturalistic-Fallacy
• The toughest thing about parenting?
• Play It Away: A Workaholic's Cure for Anxiety by Charlie Hoehn - https://www.amazon.com/Play-Away-Workaholics-Cure-Anxiety/dp/0615918174
• Why aren’t we having more fun?
• The wonders of ultimate frisbee
• Derek’s superpower of choice...yes we’re still in the ‘rapid fire’ questions...sort of
• Derek’s time as a professional cyclist and coach
• The game of strategy in professional cycling
• MMA isn’t just two half naked dudes battering each other in a cage
• Richard Feynman videos on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/FeynmanVideoLectures
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman - https://www.amazon.ca/Surely-Youre-Joking-Mr-Feynman/dp/0393316041
• How did your training as a scientist help you in coaching and life?
• A Mind For Numbers by Barb Oakley - https://barbaraoakley.com/books/a-mind-for-numbers/
• The focus and diffuse modes of thinking - https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/lecture/75EsZ/introduction-to-the-focused-and-diffuse-modes
• Remote working
• Cycle coaching and imposter syndrome
• Exceptional vs good athletes

Richard Feynman flower quote:

“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.”