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Mac Frazier is a writer, pastor, and YouTuber who talks about life, and the big ideas in philosophy, religion, spirituality, psychology and culture that can make it more worth living. This podcast is the audio from the YouTube channel, "The Big Idea, with Mac Frazier".
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Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
Tuesday Mar 16, 2021
Four and a half years ago, I was thinking about someone I loved very deeply, who was suffering terrible pain that I felt I couldn't do anything to ease. And I was thinking about my own pain, past and present. I was thinking of losses I had experienced, and some of my darkest moments of doubt and despair. And I was thinking about many others I knew or had known, who struggled. And some who lost the struggle. Not knowing what else to do with my thoughts and my feelings, I wrote a letter to everyone in the world.
I keep meeting new people who need this message. I keep discovering I need to hear it again myself. So here it is, in the hopes that it reaches one more person who needs it.
I'm doing fine, by the way. But life is pretty rough sometimes, isn't it?
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
This one is short. Just a page or so of interchapter material from the novel. It's more an excuse for me to play with some editing techniques I'm learning, most (but not all!) of which will probably be lost on a listener who has no access to the original raw files.
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
Tuesday Feb 16, 2021
And I'm ready to go forward.
Thoughts on hope, despair, laughter, living in the present, and planting gardens. (Also a tiny bit about Jeremiah 29:5-7.)
For those who actually DO read these notes, here is the cat reference as first seen on the wall in Act One:
Tuesday Feb 09, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
Wednesday Feb 03, 2021
This week's episode I take a break from fiction in order to bounce some ideas off of y'all. I've been wondering about the post-pandemic world we are currently building, and I've got some hopes and some concerns.
For a shortened, text-only version of today's musings, check out my blog:
http://macfrazier.com/2021/02/the-centre-cannot-hold-but-perhaps-thats-good/
To watch Justin McElroy's TEDx talk, "Bridging the gap between the job you want and where you are", go to YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErdVm8p6GA8
And to read Derek Thompson's article, "Superstar Cities Are in Trouble", go to The Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/remote-work-revolution/617842/
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Wednesday Jan 27, 2021
Having met two viewpoint characters and only killing off one of them, we now introduce a third character. A Noodle to our Bloom.
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
After last week's sudden and bloody murder of a viewpoint character, this week's chapter of the as-yet-untitled novel introduces our protagonist, James.
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Thursday Dec 03, 2020
Objective vs. Personal Truth: are some people right and some people just wrong? Or are all viewpoints always valid? Why does this question matter? Is there anything wrong with judging people based on the correctness of their "truth"?
Original video at https://youtu.be/95aBzKjnY3U.
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
As a rare (so far) and weird (unless you were somehow expecting this) "treat", this week's episode of the podcast features the opening chapter of a novel I've been slowly writing for a REALLY long time. If you aren't interested in listening to fiction on this podcast, then go ahead and skip this ep. In a week or two I'll have something more "normal" for content, I'm sure.
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Odds are, many unnecessary conflicts are happening in your life because of two things: your tendency to get stuck on being "right" at the expense of being "good", and the difficulty everyone has in understanding the perspective of others. In this video, I share some insights and some practices that will help you overcome these sources of conflict and improve your relationships with others.