Phil Shea
Host of Pros & Concepts
Phil is a nomadic person who has lived in Asia for the past 4 years, and Australia for 6 months before that. He enjoys exploring new areas, testing ideas, and exploring problems with creativity. He especially enjoys taking the core ideas of a discipline and mixing them with others. Fusion of ideas, cultures, and techniques is what he aspires to develop, and hopes that Concepts will help to bring interesting ideas his way.
He's currently working on MakeASkillCheck.com (D&D 5e Website) and his personal blog is HittingEject.com.
Phil Shea has hosted 49 Episodes.
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Episode 29: Just-World Hypothesis - Nice Guys Finish First
December 21st, 2021 | 53 mins 4 secs
logic, logical fallacy, philosophy, political science, psychology, rationality
Phil introduces some research into the Just-world Hypothesis, where we view the world as being fair and evenhanded; hard work is always rewarded and bad deeds don’t go unpunished.
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Episode 28: Historiography ft. Matt Beat - The Ever-Changing Past
December 8th, 2021 | 54 mins 8 secs
epistemology, historiography, history, philosophy, politics, science
In this episode, we welcome Mr. Beat, a Youtuber who focuses on American history and politics. We discuss Historiography - the study of how we understand history and how it's an ever-evolving process.
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Episode 27: Naive Realism - I'm Right; You're Misinformed, Evil, and Stupid
November 22nd, 2021 | 45 mins 31 secs
ideas, philosophy, polisci, political science, politics, psychology, sociology
Phil introduces the idea of Naive Realism, and comes dangerously close to "enlightened centrism" at some points. Steve and Phil discuss how to have better conversations about politics, and how to possibly sway some people's way of thinking.
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Episode 26: Self-Publishing ft. Jack Pierce - Putting Yourself Out There
November 7th, 2021 | 50 mins 21 secs
authoring, creative, editing, horror, self publishing, writing
In this episode, Phil and Steve interview horror author, Jack Pierce. Jack's podcast is Terror Trax, and we invited him on to talk about self-publishing. You'll notice we veer away from the topic quicker than usual, but we do tend to gravitate around that concept. So different from the norm, eh?
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Episode 25: Ikigai - Finding Your Reason to Be
October 22nd, 2021 | 52 mins 9 secs
actualization, fulfilment, herpes, ikigai, japan, language, personal development, raison d'etre
In this episode, Phil and Steve spar off with research, trying to stump each other about the truth about Ikigai, the myths surrounding it, and how to best apply it to your life.
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Episode 24: Urban Revitalization - Resurrecting Wastelands
October 5th, 2021 | 41 mins 35 secs
Today is a special day, we have a guest! His name is Storm Cunningham; he is an author, speaker, activist, and more, and he’s from the reconomics institute. His newest book is “Reconomics: The Path to Resilient Prosperity” and we speak about environmental revitalization in urban environments.
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Episode 23: Ambient Knowledge - Personalized Culture
September 20th, 2021 | 50 mins 21 secs
china, culture, philosophy, psychology, sociology
Ambient knowledge refers to the knowledge of geography, customs, regulations, and other often-unstated information that would be useful to know. The outcome of not knowing can result in social gaffs, but more often it will simply result in squandered money through overpaying, scams, or fines.
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Episode 22: Chiplessness - Making New Emotions
September 4th, 2021 | 47 mins 40 secs
Steve leads the charge on this episode which discusses the idea of "chiplessness", offered to us through the book How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett. We meander around the topic of emotions as per usual, and eventually declare that dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive.
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Episode 21: Loss Leaders - Losing to Win
August 17th, 2021 | 46 mins 59 secs
business, business development, business strategy, pricing, self-development
Phil talks about loss leaders from both the consumer and business side in this episode. See one of the tricky ways that businesses try to get you in the door and separate you from your money with designed trails of temptation.
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Episode 20: Self-Determination Theory - How to Find Motivation
August 9th, 2021 | 52 mins 18 secs
communication, counseling, interpersonal skills, motivation, personal development, psychology, self-improvement, sociology
Steve introduces his favorite theory of everything: self-determination theory. The three secrets to motivation are: autonomy, mastery, and connection.
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Episode 19: The Hedonic Treadmill - Pleasure Disappears Over Time
July 23rd, 2021 | 55 mins 34 secs
happiness, hedonic treadmill, hedonism, philosophy, pleasure, psychology, sociology
Phil talks about the Hedonic Treadmill, what it means, and how to get off of it to enjoy life more. As usual, they meander around the point and tie in several disparate ideas.
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Episode 18: Intuitive Eating - Listen to Your Gut
July 8th, 2021 | 49 mins 53 secs
diet culture, diets, health, healthy living, philosophy, psychology, sociology
Steve introduces the idea of Intuitive Eating and how it differs from "other diets" as described in the book, Intuitive Eating. Phil and Steve discuss the societal and social influences surrounding diet and fitness culture, including some of their own experiences.
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Episode 17: Force Multiplier - Getting More From Less
June 25th, 2021 | 1 hr 2 mins
In this episode, Steve talks about getting lost in grocery stores and Phil talks about Force Multipliers, which can be defined as:
“In military science, force multiplication or a force multiplier refers to a factor or a combination of factors that gives personnel or weapons (or other hardware) the ability to accomplish greater feats than without it.”
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Episode 16: Emotional Maturity - Healing and Dealing with Immaturity
June 11th, 2021 | 1 hr 4 mins
counselling, maturity, parenting, psychology, self-help, self-parenting, therapy
In this episode, Steve leads the discussion on emotional maturity and, in particular, how it relates between parents and their now-adult children. It is largely a discussion of the book “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents”.
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Episode 15: Time Arbitrage - Money is Time
June 3rd, 2021 | 50 mins 39 secs
arbitrage, business, entrepreneurship, self-development, self-improvement
In this episode, Phil starts talking about Arbitrage and the time form of that, but because he had no notes, he ended up meandering from topic to topic to do with entrepreneurship, business, and some common pitfalls he’s seen.
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Episode 14: Meta - Of or Beyond the Self
May 25th, 2021 | 1 hr 9 mins
In this episode, Phil leads the discussion on all things meta, or at least all that he could find. Ranging from metacognition to meta-ignorance to meta-emotion, this one is more of a grab bag than most.