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Oct 27, 2026
Steven KotlerGUEST
I'm going to fumble around for a little while.
Steven KotlerGUEST
But I will tell you that the areas where Josh learned how to learn versus his chess player and then as a martial artist, especially in Tai Chi, which is a sort of a slower, more meditative stuff.
Steven KotlerGUEST
When you make errors in thinking, in chess you're going to lose and in tai chi push like he's going to get thrown out of the ring right because he was doing competitive the the martial version of tai chi um and you get pushed out of the ring that's how you lose in that version um and so his thinking errors were very visible to like the errors of thinking have consequences um that are that were right in his face and i think Something like that, even like me learning to think as a journalist, right? When I got something wrong, I would get fired or I wouldn't get hired again.
Steven KotlerGUEST
You know what I mean? So I think...
Steven KotlerGUEST
develop the meta skills one like i think the consequences sort of help a little bit to help you think about thinking um i also think i'm a long time meditator josh is a long time meditator and when you start getting that separation between emotion and feeling right because emotions surface first and they're automatic and feelings come second and they feel automatic and they feel like but you know like if you can get into the gap between feeling emotion and feeling you start to figure out oh wait a minute that feeling is a frame it's not exactly trustworthy it's different there's two things going on here and the minute that feeling shows up it locks me into a meaning And so when you start doing that work and you start noticing there's like there's a difference there, I think all these things are very helpful sort of on the way
Steven KotlerGUEST
I wasn't thinking about that.
Steven KotlerGUEST
That is obviously true.
Steven KotlerGUEST
I think anybody who's good at learning doesn't like I have a I don't like being bad in public so I try very hard like even with you know when I ski I try to get as far away from the chairlift like I will you know I want to iterate in the woods out of sight I think Josh was a little bit like When Josh was transitioning from Tai Chi and martial arts, Gracie Jiu-Jitsu at that point, and moving into surfing and paddle boarding, which is, you know, where he is right now, he left New York and went down to Costa Rica, right, where he doesn't really know anybody he got.
Clint SteeleGUEST
I'm talking like chill yoga, like basically stretching.
Clint SteeleGUEST
How about tai chi, qigong? How about just stretching? Walking, I like a lot as well, but speed walking might be too much for some people because it raises their heart rate too much.
Clint SteeleGUEST
But I do love walking.
Clint SteeleGUEST
There's a lot of research around getting a certain number of steps, etc.
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Ramsey AlwinGUEST
administering the tai chi programs they were missing the richness and the joy that comes from that level of service and so what they needed from us is what drove me the weight on my shoulders was giving them what they need let's make sure we can keep them safe yeah
Adam JeskeHOST
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Adam JeskeHOST
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Ramsey AlwinGUEST
It was so wonderful.
Ramsey AlwinGUEST
Another senior center was really focused on their health promotion programs.
Ramsey AlwinGUEST
And so we did a Tai Chi class.
Ramsey AlwinGUEST
We were in there stretching and building our balance ourselves.
Stephen ShawGUEST
So anyway, so we went to work.
Stephen ShawGUEST
So the next night, I was, at that point in my life, I was just starting to study Tai Chi.
Stephen ShawGUEST
I became a teacher for 23 years, and I'm a master of it.
Stephen ShawGUEST
So anyway, I was reading this book by Paramahansa Yogananda called Metaphysical Meditations.
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Stephen ShawGUEST
I was still doing cabinet making and I had the house to myself and I would just go in my bedroom and just lay down like at noon and totally bright lights no big deal and i would be able to like hear like a djs like two djs talking to each other like having this full-on conversation in english but
Leslie ShawGUEST
too far away to understand what they were saying it
Stephen ShawGUEST
was clear as day and at first time it happened i thought well my neighbor harold must have the radio on too loud you know so i i i what i was i was really good at putting myself into like a deep delta state at that point in my life i could really get into alpha state and delta as i was practicing all the tai chi and the meditation techniques i was really good at it it was easy to do so i would be able to get in that state and i would hear these full-on conversations so the first time i thought well it's got to be the television i left on or it's got to be herald so i got up and of course nothing's on so then i went back and said oh let's go back to relax again.
Stephen ShawGUEST
And the same guys, the same two guys, same Caucasians sounding guys were having this conversation, like an animated conversation.
Ryan MichlerHOST
He was also a founding member of the Integral Institute.
Ryan MichlerHOST
He's practiced yoga and Tai Chi and meditation since 1975.
Ryan MichlerHOST
And guys, he rarely gives interviews.
Ryan MichlerHOST
And he offers all of his books, his audio teachings, free chapter by chapter.
Happy RintalaGUEST
And I relieved a lot of pressure personally and professionally on my shoulders by taking somebody in my life that was causing me problems and really releasing them.
Happy RintalaGUEST
I call it Tai Chi for business.
Happy RintalaGUEST
When they come in and you just sort of take their energy and send them off, right? Right,
Happy RintalaGUEST
right.
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Happy RintalaGUEST
I would take the piece of business they love the most and just give it to them and send them on their way.
Happy RintalaGUEST
And I did this a few times.
Happy RintalaGUEST
And again, that's that Tai Chi for business.
Happy RintalaGUEST
It's this higher road approach where you basically kind of like when the stress is weighing you down, you you're like pressed into the earth.
NitinGUEST
I
James MartinHOST
think the meditation thing, say the last... 18 months, I've been back into doing Tai Chi and morning routine.
James MartinHOST
And at the end of that, there's a breathing exercise.
James MartinHOST
And that's when I do a meditation.
WendyHOST
regimen.
WendyHOST
It's sort of exercise with ballet and tai chi and, yeah, that's a little yoga-ish.
WendyHOST
But all to really nice music.
WendyHOST
So, yeah, we did that today.
Robert MoorGUEST
And you have like, you know, sort of older Asian American guys who are fishing.
Robert MoorGUEST
You often have like a lot of those guys in their 70s fishing and some people doing some Tai Chi or doing some of these sort of little exercises and stuff.
Robert MoorGUEST
And then you'll go farther down and people are just getting up there, you know, on their way to work.
Robert MoorGUEST
It's just a great sort of people watching experience running at 530 in the morning on a summer morning down these rivers.
John JakicicGUEST
If you want flexibility and balance and things, you need to do those.
John JakicicGUEST
You need to do kinesthetic activities like yoga, Pilates, Tai Chi, these kinds of things.
John JakicicGUEST
There's a Dr.
John JakicicGUEST
Pitch is doing it right there.
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