Aug 21, 2026 · 28 min · 13 segments
Positive Parenting 101, now in its first season, features *Step-Parenting: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly*, an honest exploration of the rewards and challenges of building a healthy blended family…
Mark L. ChristensenHost
Daniel LikasHostAnd it's a very interesting thing to realize that happens not only in an individual, but as a entire collective culture.
sociologically, and you also feel it individually when you're consciously plateauing.
So if consciousness is a growth process, which means the more information you receive as an individual, the more you're growing.
You've established a certain amount of information, but more keeps coming in.
And you can feel it in your own life when you're bored, when you haven't done enough, or when not enough information is going inside you.
you feel you start to stall out because you're not able to really grow anymore without new information.
And what the individual experiences is, well, you know, there's nothing to work for anymore.
Or, you know, you just feel like this blah, like there's nothing to do and you're not being fed anything.
Yeah.
For some of us who need to be fed constantly, which is most of us, fed constantly to grow and to enjoy our life, when there's not enough external information coming in, you reach that stagnancy where your attitude changes about life a little bit too.
So you learn to become more self-motivated at that point because you really do have to do it yourself.
You're not motivated by free information or free floating information that is going to stimulate you.
And it's kind of good because then you become the stimulator of your own growth.
But it's important to realize that you yourself and me myself can only grow when external technologies stimulate us.
So you and I are really 80% of our environment sociologically and psychologically.
And it's a very interesting thing to realize that happens not only in an individual, but as a entire collective culture.
sociologically, and you also feel it individually when you're consciously plateauing.
So if consciousness is a growth process, which means the more information you receive as an individual, the more you're growing.
You've established a certain amount of information, but more keeps coming in.
And you can feel it in your own life when you're bored, when you haven't done enough, or when not enough information is going inside you.
you feel you start to stall out because you're not able to really grow anymore without new information.
And what the individual experiences is, well, you know, there's nothing to work for anymore.
Or, you know, you just feel like this blah, like there's nothing to do and you're not being fed anything.
Yeah.
For some of us who need to be fed constantly, which is most of us, fed constantly to grow and to enjoy our life, when there's not enough external information coming in, you reach that stagnancy where your attitude changes about life a little bit too.
So you learn to become more self-motivated at that point because you really do have to do it yourself.
You're not motivated by free information or free floating information that is going to stimulate you.
And it's kind of good because then you become the stimulator of your own growth.
But it's important to realize that you yourself and me myself can only grow when external technologies stimulate us.
So you and I are really 80% of our environment sociologically and psychologically.
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