SERIES III: Conscious Choices

One of the core tenets of the All We Need to Know podcast is that, more than anything over which we have control, the decisions we make day-to-day determine the quality and duration of our life experience. Why? Because they determine what we do and how we do it.

Our decisions are driven by what we want. What we want is rooted in what we need. In short, we do what we do because we want what we want.

Building on the foundation created in the first two series, in Series Three, Jonathan offers a deeper dive into understanding human needs, how the human mind interprets them, and then intuits how to meet them — in other words, guessing what to want and how to get it.

Thus, the Conscious Choices Series guides listeners farther along the path to answering The Four Essential Questions:

• Who are you?
• What do you want?
• Why do you want it?
• How are you going to get it?

Along the way, you’ll be given both a mirror and a magnifying glass to examine the perceptions and beliefs that underlie your needs and wants. You’ll gain insights into how the way we were parented conditions our needs, and thus our wants, and our approach to their fulfillment. You’ll also be led to appraise your personal definition of happiness and revisit how that definition is influenced by our cultural environment.

Ultimately, you’ll leave Series III with an increased understanding of why you want what you want and do what you do. You’ll gain a clearer sense of how to ensure that your decisions are aligned with who you are, with your values — what genuinely matters to you and gives your life meaning — in contrast with what you’ve been conditioned to believe and want. You’ll also come to further appreciate why such a way of being affords a life that requires far less effort, creates far less stress, and rewards you with far greater satisfaction — a liberating combination of both freedom from and freedom to.