Balance Pod

by Shyam and Rishi

Self-Improvement Fitness

Season 1

#14: The Value of Opinions and Authentic Thinking

Today, Shyam and Rishi discuss the value of having your own opinion and not being a product of your circumstances. Audio only.

#13: We Should Live Like Our Ancestors

Today Rishi and Shyam sit down to talk about evolutionary psychology, and how behaviors that we used to exhibit back in the hunter-gatherer days affect us now. They discuss why people care so much about status, basic comfort, and sex, and why most of the behavior we exhibit links back to these three things. They explain different areas in which our brain hasn't grown for ten thousand years, why internet addiction is a thing and why we are so inclined towards certain behaviors . 0:00 - Why does Internet help with procrastination 9:45 - The ways in which we behave like our ancestors did #evolutionarypsychology #evolution #internetaddiction #socialmediaaddiction #podcast #balancepod #ancestors #huntergatherer #lifestyletips

#12: The Relationship between Our Ideas and Human Development

Today Shyam and Rishi sit down once again to discuss the implications of our ideas to development of humanity. Are humans really the smartest thing to ever exist? Our brains aren't the biggest but our ideas have led to our development beyond any other species, very much going against our mammalian nature to stick to tribes. Unfortunately their camera died after 3 minutes, so we know this will be a low tier episode, but numbers on the board man.

#11: Dreams and Why We Don't Understand Anything

Today Shyam and Rishi sit down to talk about dreams and accessing the subconscious. They start out by discussing the meaning that people assign to everything around them while failing to look inward, then they move onto spirituality, and how some people are transparent between the mind and their self expression. Name dropping Naval Ravikant, Joe Rogan, and more, Rishi then shares the story of a dream he had that made him question reality as it is, and also about connection to God through our subconscious. Thanks for watching.

#10: David Ding: The Westernization of the Modern World

Today we sit down with David Ding, our third guest on the podcast. David was born in Michigan, but raised in China until he came to the US at 15 years old. As someone with a lot of experience in both areas of our civilization, David discussed with us the transition of immigrant parenting, education and curiosity, why the US cares so much about mental health as opposed to the East, hyper-competitiveness, and the ideals that we should impart on the next generation.

#9: Traditional Health: Pulluted Food/Water Manufactured Diets

Today we sit down and discuss the importance of traditional health and ancient routines. We brief over seed oils, flame retardants, fluoride and chlorine in water, and how our diets are changing our hormones due to the omnipotence of endocrine disrupters in food. #balancepod #seedoils #manufacturedfood #education #fluoride #chlorine #diet #skincaretips #podcast #shyammariappan #rishitarapareddy #flameretardant #endocrinedisruptors #testosterone #estrogen #hormoneimbalance

#8 The Death of Curiosity and Academic Performance

Today we have on Yoonjae Chang. Yoonjae is someone who shares a great assortment of thoughts on different aspects of education, and is actively bringing up topics that we believe there is a need to discuss, especially with the shape of the system in America right now compared to the both extremes of international education.

#7 Zain Meer: Islamic Controversy, Tradition, and the Conservative Pushback

We're here today with Zain Meer, someone our age that has taken the initiative to learn more about his religion and his cultural upbringing. We take a deep dive into Muslim culture, a reflection of similar values in Hinduism, and some controversial topics on this episode. NOTE: whatever we mention is through the lens of Islam and Hinduism only, not through the law or any cultural values, don't take it as an indication of our opinions on controversial topics unless specifically stated so.

#6 Aliens and Advanced Ancient Civilization

Today we reflect our thoughts on the hearing on UFOs that went viral on Twitter (or X), and we link it to prehistoric civilization in the sense of destruction.

#5 Oppenheimer: Controversy and the End of the World

Today we discuss the recent Chris Nolan movie Oppenheimer, alongside some controversy that the movie generated amongst Indians alongside strong feminists, and the implications the film leaves us with. Full spoiler warning.

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