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Three Body Thinking

Three Body Thinking

by Zach Warring

Science Philosophy

Reading from My Book: Leaving the Lies Behind

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Is Your Life on Autopilot?

Our brains have developed to create shortcuts. The shorter the pathway is from stimulus to action, the more efficient our brain is and the fewer calories we need. Unfortunately, this means a lot of our life has turned into autopilot where we fall into routines and patterns that we just accept without question. All the way up to who you are married to, your job and how you parent. On this episode, we talk about metacognition and how more people need to question not just how they are living their life, but the way they think about their life altogether.

Being Good At Something Does Not Make You Good at Teaching It

As a coach, this is absolutely a hill I am willing to die on. We see a lot of "leaders" in our world today. With youth sports absolutely blowing up, coaches are on demand more than ever. Leadership advice hitting us from every platform in every direction. Influencers telling us how they did it and how you can do it too. If you want advice, there are millions of people around the clock ready to give it. But... being a good teacher and mentor takes a wildly different skillset from someone who is successful at their trade. Simply being a good teacher/mentor is a craft unto itself that takes just as much time getting good at as the trade/skill you are teaching. And yet, that is now how we value teachers or mentors in our society. In fact, it is quite the opposite.

Life is Bushwhacking, Not Paved Roads

Life is more like blindly bushwhacking through a dense forest than it is wondering down paved roads. And yet, society treats it the opposite. In a resource-abundant world, how could anyone ever not succeed? All the roads have already been laid. People have already shown you the path and they continue to do so through podcasts, books and interviews. If you listen to a millionaire, and do exactly what they did, surely you'll make it too. How could you not? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/making-sense/analysis-if-youre-rich-youre-more-lucky-than-smart-and-theres-math-to-prove-it https://news.liverpool.ac.uk/2023/06/02/are-rich-people-more-intelligent-heres-what-the-science-says/

Parenting is Getting Harder / What it Means to be a Kid is Changing

Parents have a hard job. Whether they are stay at home or working, the definition of what it means to be a parent, let a lone a "good parent" is an ever-moving goal post of higher expectations. The average parent today, who is working, spend about twice as much time with their children as a stay at home parent in the mid-1900's... And the investment doesn't stop there. This episode is all about the changing dynamics of parenting and how we view kids and raise kids differently because of it. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-emotionally-healthy-parent/202512/why-todays-parents-are-more-overwhelmed-than-ever https://www.psy-ed.com/wpblog/learning-from-negative-emotions/

Appeal to Nature Fallacy

Show Notes Isaac Quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/456687-there-is-a-cult-of-ignorance-in-the-united-states Carl Saga Quote (Crystals): https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/632474-i-have-a-foreboding-of-an-america-in-my-children-s Carl Sagan Quote (Pale Blue Dot): https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot Child Mortality Rate: https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality Golden Rice Saves Lives: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2120901118 Nitrogen Fixation: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-with-and-without-fertilizer Evolution of Corn: https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/evolution/corn/ Medication vs Supplement: https://www.usada.org/dietary-supplements/medications-vs-supplements/ Supplement Industry Value: https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/dietary-supplements-market-report

Train the Monkey First

If you want to train a monkey to play flute on a pedestal, where should you start? How you answer this question says a lot about whether or not you will ever achieve your goals or make a change in your life. Find out why!

Humans Are Terrible With Numbers + World's First Trillionaire

The human brain is terrible at numbers because we evolved during times where large numbers were not necessary for survival. We traveled in packs of dozens or hundreds for most of our ancestry and hunted and gathered for our food. It isn't until the last few thousand years that we started to see and understand the world in a Global scale and that amount of time is nothing in the eyes of humanity. Our globalization is still freshly born, barely taking its first breath yet. Meanwhile, the world has its first trillionaire already... This episode talks about the disparity between Elon and literally everyone else on this planet, including the second richest person as well as how we as humans have done this to ourselves. Poverty in the US: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-287.html US Billionaires: https://fortune.com/2025/12/08/how-many-billionaires-does-america-world-have-ubs/ More Debt than Money: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2025/09/17/global-debt-remains-above-235-of-world-gdp

Zipper Merge

If you are like me, the Zipper Merge can feel like a fairly theatrical moment in your day. People honking, yelling, swerving, cutting fellow drivers off and of course winners and losers. In this episode we talk about who is right and wrong in zipper merges according to data, police and civil engineers as well as what the whole experience can teach about how humans think. ITRE Studying How Zipper Merges Reduce Congestion: https://itre.ncsu.edu/itre-studying-how-zipper-merges-reduce-congestion-at-sites-across-north-carolina/ The Zipper Merge: The Best Way to Merge in Traffic https://www.acg.aaa.com/connect/blogs/4c/auto/zipper-merge-keeps-traffic-moving

An Introduction to Three Body Thinking

Welcome to Three Body Thinking, a podcast where we explore the inner workings of the Universe. In this episode, I explain a little about what Three Body Thinking is and how I arrived at it as a philosophical worldview. My thoughts and views have been constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed countless times over the past decade and I am happy to share what I have learned along the way!

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