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  1. Solo Session: What's the value of playing with philosophy? Terry McMullen 27:57

In this episode I go solo to “play with philosophy.” As you will hear me to talk about, I think playing in philosophy is super important. We have to be willing to explore some of these big, messy topics with a mindset of play. We need to be open, free flowing, curious, and willing to look at things from all different angles. That freedom and openness allows us to explore these topics in a way that helps lead to more learning and insights.

So for this session I played with the question: does any of it really matter if we can’t enjoy life? By that I meant, does anything else in life matter more than our own enjoyment of life? Can we ever care about other people, their needs, their suffering, if we don’t find any net positive enjoyment in life? Can we truly believe (and furthermore should we truly believe) that there is something bigger and more important than our own happiness?

When you play, it is messy and unpolished. You follow the logical thread where ever it takes you; so that is what you will hear in this episode. I hope it makes you think.

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I spent much of my career trying to consult companies on how to better achieve their goals. I was a Finance major, a Harvard Business School graduate, and a business strategist. I've always been curious and I've always loved trying to solve problems. It was a really good fit for a while, but then life happened.

Within the span of a couple of years I had a son, my sister tragically passed away, and my wife became severely ill with Multiple Sclerosis. All of a sudden everything I thought I knew about life didn't seem to make sense anymore. I needed to raise my son and teach him how to be a good person but I realized I didn't even know what it meant to be a good person, let alone know how to teach him to be one. I also realized that I wasn't capable of being the person my wife needed me to be to help care for her. Simply put, I wasn't good enough.