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"dunbar" Discussed on Stuff You Should Know
"All right, so he landed on one 50 and it wasn't just like Friends. He looked at working groups. In factories and military squadrons and ancient villages in England and Christmas card lists, all kinds of things. And he found that one 50 sort of stuck in the anything above that it would either people would turn on each other and the case of many, many years ago. Or it would just become too unwieldy to manage and splinter off into smaller groups. Yeah, your Christmas card list goes over one 50, all the people are going to turn against each other. So he also said that even more fascinatingly, beyond the number one 50, that's just one of several numbers that pop up. And mind bogglingly, they're all factors of 5. Yeah. In fact. In fact, oh, it seems super hinky. In fact, he said, you have 5, the closest people, the people you consider your loved ones, usually number 5. After that, you've got 15 good friends. 50 friends. A 150 meaningful contacts, 500 acquaintances. 1500 people you can recognize. No. And then he said also, this is not these aren't like static lists. People, depending on how frequently you interact with these people, somebody from your recognized group can end up becoming one of your good friends. If you see them enough and you hit it off and you connect. So they're not locked in any list. And your loved ones can turn on you and end up as just people you can recognize. Who knows? It depends on how your life goes. Yeah, and obviously it's an arrange if you're an extrovert, you might have more acquaintances at least. I think they found that women have a smaller number of, I guess what would be considered good friends than men do and it's interesting though that some organizations and some of this stuff from this was an article on the BBC. BBC courts biology letters, a few others. Good stuff. But some organizations have sort of adhered to this. Like they buy into it. I like the Swedish tax authority apparently. With their offices, they don't have more than a 150 people in any particular location. Which is hilarious. I saw it pointed out in one of our sources. I don't remember which one they said, I guess the Swedish tax authority is just presuming that its employees don't have friends or loved ones outside of work because that totally undermines their entire pursuit there. Oh, interesting, you know? Let's see what you mean, yeah. Yeah. And some people say this is all bunk anyway. Right. Some people say it's completely bunk and then some people say, there's something to that, but I just don't know about that one 50 number. Right, so people have studied this in perform their own their own studies and have tried to reproduce Dunbar studies and have come up with different numbers. But they can come up with a number. It's just some of them are like 290. I saw one of them came up with 611, but the thing is Dunbar was convinced that it was a regression line. Where there was the data forms basically a bell curve where the average is the highest point and then the outliers are the smallest. And what a bunch of other studies have found is that it's probably actually what's called a power law, which is a huge steep curve that starts really high and then comes down and then evens out toward the bottom and power laws happen when some people really skew the numbers upward, but then most people have far, far fewer say contacts than those people who are the actual outliers. So rather than the outliers being the fewest, the outliers have the most. That changes a lot of stuff. So much so that I saw there was one study that found that the 95% confidence interval had a range of between four and 520 contacts that the average person had. So they kind of got the window. Yeah, exactly. Wow. That's interesting. And of course, with the advent of social media and more recent years, depending on what how old you are, you might, some people might not consider those people Friends, even though they may be Facebook friends, even though neither one of us are on Facebook, you know what I'm saying. Whereas I think a younger generation might say, oh no, those are my Friends. And my gaming network that I play, like these people are my Friends. We've never met or anything. So the idea of what friendship is means different things to different people. And a lot of times, depending on how old you are, what generation you're in. Right. And then Dunbar was saying that even still, he sees the same things hold on the online world as well. In that BBC article, he puts it that it's like the same design features of the human mind that are imposing constraints on the number of individuals in the real world also do so in the gaming world as well. Yeah. You know, which is pretty interesting. And then you also chuck just to wrap it up, you might be sitting there like, this is all fascinating, but it just feels like naval gazing to me. Why does any of this matter? Right. Well, if you're like a demographer or an economist, coming up with a way to reliably predict group size, starting at the individual level, would let you count huge groups. Like really accurately would let you count groups that are hard to count like victims of crimes who don't come forward. The homeless, there's a lot of people whose entire field would be revolutionized by being able to look at the size of a cortex and predict the number of people that person is friends with. But it just doesn't seem to be fully holding up. It holds up enough that the Dunbar Dunbar's number has stuck around this long, but it's not, it's not just proving reliable in case after case. Yeah, you know, kind of went down this rabbit hole interestingly recently because when I went to LA for spring break. Did you make more friends there? No, I didn't make any friends that week. Solidified some maybe. But I was, I wanted to throw I rented this house up in the Hollywood Hills with the pool and I was like, hey, you know, I get to go back to LA and live like a hot shot for a week. And I wanted to throw a party like a pool party because I have a lot of friends out there with kids. And so I've made a list and I went down that rabbit hole of making a list of my LA friends and I'm looking at it now and it was like a list of friends and then I even made a second list of fringe so like people I consider my friends like Joe randazzo and Janet varney and her
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Is It Really Racism or Something Else?
"Paul Lawrence Dunbar, odi wide, tremble tech, eastern heels, poly, all of the schools, there were full of black people were in black neighborhoods and most black people lived there. So then you have to beg the question and why is my education not as good as the white people's education? It ain't because the white people because they over there and we overhear in the principal of our school is black, the teachers are black, the parents who are parenting us are black, the baby we should look in the mirror and say, maybe it's something we doing wrong. What I went to school, it wasn't a matter of racism that whether people did work or not. A lot of times I had to do what your parents and then also whether you don't want to apply yourself or not. I would go to school, some dudes in a school shooting dice in the bathroom, smoking weed, skipping class, not going to class. They parents didn't care. They didn't care. And then there was others that went to my school, same school, same environment, same neighborhood, that they ended up getting full stop for academic scholarships to University of Texas, University of Texas a and M, you go down the list. All of football players, none of us would be one athletes. We all were able to pass and go be able to have our scholarships to go to college. None of us flunked out and wasn't able to go to college because our grades.
10% Happier with Dan Harris
"dunbar" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
"They have to say, okay, oh, well, yes, maybe I'd like to spend more time with you. The subtleties are getting this balance right where the complications of the social world really lie. Coming up Robin Dunbar talks about friendships across gender lines, the original meaning of gossip and how he came to study the science of friendship in the first place. Right after this. What has your research told you about the viability of friendships across gender lines? They work okay. But it's not as easy as I think everybody would like to suppose. And that seems to go back to any consistent finding that we've found and indeed other people have found, but it kind of caught us a little bit left field. We hadn't really expected it, I don't think. And that is that the two sexes seem to live in quite different social worlds. Otherwise, their social dynamics are very different. The way they manage relationships. And the way they create and maintain relationships are made of. For women, it's very much about engaging on a one to one basis very much more intimate than that sense and it's often based around conversation or indeed let's put it this way conversation plays a much stronger role in the creation and maintenance of women's friendships than is the case. And then men's friendships tend to be more diffuse and more casual, a little bit here today and gone tomorrow. And they tend to be activity based. So they're kind of more associated with clubs, if you like to think of it in those terms, a bunch of guys that do stuff together had might be hiking in my sitting around having a beer in the garden together on a regular basis. But the conversation is much, much less important in that respect for men. And then actually another feature of the way our social world is organized. So the sociologist who first discovered it, but a lot of people have been working on this since, including ourselves that have discovered that the single most important feature of what makes good Friends is this thing known as homophily, essentially, meaning the love of the same. In other words, similarity, Friends tend to resemble each other all sorts of dimensions. Many of them are just cultural, your likes and dislikes, the beliefs you have about the world and so on, but also on features like personality, so by and large, extroverts tend to cluster together, introverts tend to cluster together separately and gender is one of those. So around 70, 75% of women's social networks say that a 150 meaningful relationships consist of women and 70 to 75% of men social networks consist of men and that figure remains absolutely constant from the age of 5 to the age of 85 doesn't seem to budge at all. And, of course, ironically, the other 25% of opposite sex, friends and family in this relationship turned out mostly to be your family, whom you have no choice over you. You're stuck with, if you like. The ones you choose, there's this very strong tendency for the sexes to segregate. We really see this very strongly if you watch people in conversations that are reception or some sort of free flowing social event like that, a yard party or something. Just watch what happens. And you'll see very quickly by and large the men will gather together in little groups of men and the women will gather together in little groups of women. As partly because they're interested differ and partly because the dynamics of how they manage conversations is very different and it's kind of just easier to create and maintain friendships with people who are more similar to people of the same gender. This is not to say that you can't have friends across the sexes, but it's much rarer than people probably think. So women have this phenomenon called a best friend forever. It's a sort of almost a foreign concept to guys. I mean, a guy can have a best mate as it were that he does stuff with, but it doesn't have the intensity of his relationship to women's best Friends forever have. If you look at who these best Friends forever are, 85% of them are another woman. There's only 15% of them a man. Here's one of the striking contrasts is that in the case of men, they either have a romantic partner or they have a best friend as they were who they do stuff with. They don't have both, typically. Whereas the women will invariably have both a female best friend forever and a romantic partner. So sometimes I have to confess I wonder how on earth the social world and particularly the world of romance works at all when you've got two groups of people who operate in a different way if you like. The short answer is, of course, women are much, much more flexible and adaptable than this. It's kind of not a 100% comfortable from their point of view, I guess. But they're much better at adapting to male styles of conversation in order to fit in. With a man, then men seem to be able to do in reverse. So the world is kept going by the girls completely. I'm ready to believe that. Let's talk about gossip, the term generally has a negative connotation, but you have a bit of a different view. Can you hold forth on that? Yeah, I'm going to send this is how I first became interested in this whole issue of friendships. The possible role of language in allowing us to gossip and by kind of mean just hanging out over the fence that really having a kind of passing time with a neighbor. Perhaps not having a very deep or meaningful conversation necessarily, but spending time with somebody. And I tended to see it as really, it's this kind of declaration of as I'd rather be here hanging out with you than down the road hanging out with Jim. So an indication of my commitment to you as an individual. This is kind of interesting because you then always get, oh, well, this costs a generally bad and we don't like it and people are horrid and the things they say to each other. This is, of course, perfectly true. But actually the original meaning of the term gossip. Going back to its Anglo Saxon roots, is God sib. So it's the peer group equivalent of a godparent, so it's what you did with people who are unrelated to you, but in your peer group, your Friends, in other words. And this sort of then got transmuted into gossip gossiping is what you were doing with your God sibs. And in that sense, it's a very positive thing because it's sort of at the underpinnings of keeping relationships going as it were. But of course, nothing comes for free in life. So anything that biology invents in always get end up being used for negative purposes as well because we also compete with each other. So using language and conversation to kind of try and persuade somebody to be your friend rather than somebody else's friend by saying, you know, don't go out with Jim, he's dreadfully you'll end up paying for everything nice after night after night or whatever is kind of almost an inevitable consequence.
10% Happier with Dan Harris
"dunbar" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
"Ears this discussion of friendship could sound light. Not superficial, but you know like not urgent. However, you make the point and I'd love to hear you say more about this. That this actually is an urgent issue in that the quality of your friendships really will dictate the quality of your mental and physical health. Oh yeah, so I think one of the most surprising findings that has popped out of the woodwork over the last decade, decade and a half, probably not much more than that, really, in the medical literature, has been the extent to which the best predictor of your psychological health and welfare or physical health and welfare even how long you're going to live in the future is just the quality and number of close friendships you have and that is way more important than all the things your friendly neighborhood doctor usually worries about on your behalf, all the things like how much do you eat, how much alcohol do you drink, how overweight are you? How much exercise do you take? What medicines are you on? What's the air quality in the face where you live like? All these kind of things certainly have an effect on your health and well-being. But they are pale almost doing significance by comparison with simply the number and quality of close friendships. We've just published a paper on is a prospective study, so it's kind of looking at how likely you are to develop symptoms of depression in the future and the best predictor of not developing depression as it were as a major issue. And this is for older people. It's simply either having around four to 5 good friends or engaging in around about three voluntary activities. So you can compensate. So by voluntary activities, I mean doing things like perhaps helping to run the scouts or helping out your local church or some local hobby or interest group or your local sports club, whatever it may be. Social things, where you meet people and kind of embedded into a social environment with people. You can't do both. You can't have 5 friends and engage in three voluntary activities. That actually makes you worse off because what you're doing is you're spreading yourself too thinly. But you can have, let's say, three friends and two activities or four friends and one activity or three activities and two friends who can trade off between the two. And what that kind of speaks to me about really is the fact that it's being engaged with people. It's seeing people on a regular basis. It's being immersed in a kind of social world, cocooned in this little social world. And that's what kind of lifts you up, makes you just feel better, psychologically. And that has these knock on consequences for your physical health, which are quite dramatic. And really effect even things like the risk of heart attacks and cancers and so on. Coming up Robin Dunbar dives into why he thinks friendships and social connection are so important and the role endorphins play. We'll talk about the difference between extroversion and introversion when it comes to taking friendships seriously and he'll give us some advice on how to maintain friendships. That and more right after this, the shocking true crime podcast, the devil within, is back for a second season, with a story about love, exorcism, and a murder that's haunted the town of west Yorkshire for decades. In 1974, Michael Taylor was a doting father of 5, but after joining a local church and falling in love with its young, beautiful preacher, Michael changed. His new church determined that he was possessed by no fewer than 48 demons, and would require an exorcism to save his soul and protect his young family from evil. But the supposed remedy would come at a very steep price. The terrifying series, the devil within, is available on Amazon music, Apple podcasts, or wherever you're listening right now. If you'd like to binge the entire series early and ad free, subscribe to wondery plus in Apple podcasts or the wondery app. As an evolutionary psychologist, what's your take on why this is so important? Oh, well, this is a very low story. We got time. Okay, so back to origins as it were as a member of the primate, the monkey and 8 theological family. The big evolutionary development that monkeys and apes, if you like invented as a way of coping with the difficulty of successfully surviving and reproducing in the world, was the formation of bonded relationships and bonded social groups. So they clubbed together to essentially, I guess, watch each other's back because the main thing that's causing them problems is predation risk. It's predators running around on the forest floor of the Savannah floor or whatever it may be. And predators tend to go for prey animals that are on their own. So primate solution to that as with many other mammals and birds, in fact, is to form social groups as a protection. Everybody clubs together to reduce the risk of being caught unawares by predator, but the problem is by living in close proximity, it's very stressful. As we know, if you're living on top of people it can be very niggling at times and so it is with monkeys and apes. And their solution to that is to form these very close bonded friendships, which just keep everybody else off your back far enough that they don't destabilize the group. So it is a very fine balancing act they're doing. One reason why this whole family has such big brains compared with all the other mammals and birds. And you know, we just follow suit as members of that family. This is our social strategy as well. Except that we live in bigger groups, so we have a bigger brain that allows us to handle more relationships. That's the only real difference. But the way we Bond our friendships, the way we Bond our social groups is very, very similar to the way monkeys snape is doing. I believe you've also written from the physiological standpoint about the importance of endorphins. Yeah, the endorphin system in the brain, which is kind of these little chemicals that are major part of the brain's pain management system. And in fact, the name endorphin is a contraction of endogenous morphine because chemically they're very closely related to morphine, but because the body is adapted to them, we don't get addicted to them. They're just slightly chemically different that we don't get addicted to them. They're very remarkable. They're deeply involved as neurotransmitters in many things they do. But one of the things that seems to be a very important is they underpin social bonding. So they create this sense of warmth and relaxation and sort of comfortable nurse and trust and bonded Ness. When we do things with somebody else that releases endorphins, in monkeys and apes that social grooming we have a highly specialized neural system that runs from receptors at
10% Happier with Dan Harris
"dunbar" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
"Maybe your favorite soap opera character on TV if you feel you have a meaningful relationship with them, you talk to them, you feel that they communicate back with you. Usually, of course, most of the people you're number of a 150, which is the core number for Dunbar's number. Are actually real people, of course, and they're people you see on a fairly regular basis. I don't know if you were being somewhat maybe semi facetious with the TV show thing, but there are people who feel they have an active ongoing conversation with and relationship with God or Jesus. Oh, absolutely. Yes, absolutely so. If you like a perfectly reasonable thing to have God or Jesus or the virgin Mary, if you're a Catholic, perhaps or indeed I really am quite serious that some people really do feel that they have relationships with the people on TV shows and so on. My grandmother always said goodnight to the newscaster when he said goodnight to her. Called in by name. Sure. Sure, she felt that she was very much in her circle. I'm maybe not the closest friend she ever had, but he sat there and she saw him every night on TV news. She said, good night to him. He was part of her social circle. Well, on behalf of newscasters everywhere, I appreciate that. My salutation is right back at your grandmother. How did you come up with the number 150 though? Well, originally it was predicted of the back of an equation relating the size of social groups in monkeys and apes, the primates. That's the zoological family to which we belong. And their brain sizes. So species that lived in big social groups had big brains and out of curiosity, I just plugged human brains into the same equation to see what kind of figure it gave. And it gave a figure of about a 150 and that just sent me going looking to see whether this could possibly be true because I actually thought it was far too small after all we live in huge cities with tens of millions of people. And I thought 150 sounds awfully small for that, but then it transpired eventually when we started looking at the size of personal social networks, the people that you have meaningful relationships with. This is about what that number is. It's somewhere between a 102 hundred. We can sign out many more people on Facebook than that, but they tend to fall into the category of acquaintances and of course we have acquaintances and real life too. We work with a lot of these people. We go out and we have a beer with them maybe after work or engage with them over lunch or water cooler or something, but we probably wouldn't invite them home. So it turns out that quite a good definition for this number is the number of people who would feel an obligation to you and a closeness that they would turn up for your bar mitzvah, your wedding or your funeral. Dunbar's number is really Obama's first stroke wedding stroke funeral group size. And indeed, you look at the very nice website that provides data on American weddings. That is exactly the average size of weddings in America. And it's been very consistent for the last decade. That seems to be sort of the number of people that kind of mean something to you and you'd feel a sense of obligation to them. And you know that if you ask them to do you a favor, they would kind of say yes, they might kind of be a bit grudging, but they do it. Out of obligation to you. So you were initially surprised, you said that the number 150 because you thought maybe that was a little small, but the numbers get really small when you're talking about truly close intimate relations. Yeah, so it turns out that this number a 150 is really just one of a series of numbers. If you like a series of circles of friendship. So if you imagine yourself as a stone being thrown into the Lake, you would have this set of ripples that run out from the stone. And as the ripples go out, of course, they get bigger, but if you like the amplitude, the height of the wave gets gradually smaller and smaller until it dies away. So your social world bears some relationship to this, really, in the sense that you're surrounded by a series of layers of friendship. And the innermost layer is a very small, they're typically about 5 people on average, but they're really intense relationships. They're what I call the shoulders to cry on friendships. These are the people that, you know, when your world falls apart, they will drop everything to come and pick you up again. And then out beyond that, you get progressively larger and larger layers. But the emotional quality of those relationships and the frequencies that you see the people in these layers falls away until you get to the 150 and then beyond the 150, we know they're at least three more layers, one at 500, which would include all your acquaintances. And these layers count cumulatively, by the way. So the 500 would also include your 150 inside, but an additional 350 people who you sort of count as acquaintances, you know them well. Again, as I say, you work with probably a lot of them. Might include the kind of barista you buy your latter coffee from on the way to work and you perhaps pass the time of day at a brief chat with them. But it out beyond that, there's another layer of people whose faces you can put names to and then finally what's used to be the outermost layer takes us out to about 5000 people is the number of faces you can recognize as having seen them before. They complete strangers or have you seen that photograph before? So that kind of layer just inside that of photographs you could put name tool, include all sorts of people that you don't really have a meaningful relationship with. Let's just go back to the close friendships and I don't want to stress again that you're using friendship in the broadest most capacious way here that it can include your romantic partner can include your mom, your child, whatever. But four to 6 or 5 or whatever the number is, that is not a lot. And as I understand it, your argument is, this is a zero sum thing that somebody else is going to get knocked out if you add a new truly close friend. I sometimes say when we use the word friend here, we use it in the Facebook sense. To anybody you feel you have a relationship with, of course, that is going to include your mom and it's going to include your romantic partner and your granny and as well as your more conventional Friends. But these numbers seem to be quite robust. These layers seem to be quite robust and they're partly because they seem to reflect the brain's abilities to handle relationships of a particular emotional closeness, but they're also a consequence of how much time we invest in the relationship. So in order to keep a friendship in particular going, working, if you like, we have to keep engaging with the person. Somehow or other, usually, of course, it's in a face to face way. We either once or twice a week or whatever it is, and we go out with them, hang out with them. If you don't do that for some reason, practical you've moved away or because you've met somebody else who's more interesting. Then the emotional quality of that friendship is going to just decay ever so slowly, but surely, and eventually if you don't see them for a couple of years or so, they will drift down through the layers from being a good friend, probably not your best friend ever, but certainly a good friend will kind of end up as an acquaintance eventually somebody you once knew, but you haven't seen for
10% Happier with Dan Harris
"dunbar" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
"Hey everybody. I hope you'll humor me for a brief personal anecdote here. A little over a year ago, I had a couple of significant life events. The first thing was that I turned 50, which is often an occasion to reflect on the course of your life. The second thing was that I retired from the news business, which had dominated my life for about 30 years. When I was an acronym, I basically worked 7 days a week. For decades, particularly in the final ten years of my tenure at ABC News where I was anchoring the weekend edition of Good Morning America while trying to build my little 10% happier empire during the week. Long way of saying I was really busy and I made the grave error of letting a lot of my friendships lapse. They didn't go away per se. I didn't lose any friends, but the friendships atrophied a little bit because I wasn't around that much. And I wasn't making it a priority. But then when I experienced the aforementioned twin life events of turning 50 and retiring from the news, it hit me very hard that I now had empty stretches of time into my calendar and that I had failed to prioritize a part of my life that was really important to me. So I have subsequently made a huge effort along of course with my wife of jump starting old friendships and creating new ones. The takeaway here is that I never actually considered friendship to be an urgent psychological issue. This view, which I held more subconsciously than consciously, is completely wrong headed, of course. As I have learned, hosting this show over the past few years, the quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life. It's actually the great couple's counselor Esther perel, who invented that aphorism. So making and keeping Friends is a truly urgent issue and sadly, in many ways, it's harder than ever right now, of course, the pandemic made keeping in touch with people in meaningful ways pretty hard. But even before that, loneliness and disconnection was on the rise. Modern society just isn't constructed for social connection. In fact, recent data suggests we are in a friendship crisis with many of us reporting that we have fewer, close friendships than ever. Okay, so here's the good news. My guest today is a world renowned expert on human relationships and he has a ton of fascinating research findings and practical tips for upping your friendship game. Robin Dunbar is an emeritus Professor of evolutionary psychology at Oxford University and is the author of numerous books on the development of homo sapiens. He is perhaps best known for formulating Dunbar's number, which is a measurement of the number of relationships our brain is capable of maintaining at any one time, which is a fascinating thing that he and I will discuss in this conversation you'll hear professor Dunbar talk about the science behind human relationships, how to make and keep Friends, the upsides and downsides of maintaining friendships on social media, interestingly, he's not as antisocial media as you might have predicted. We talk about the viability of friendships across gender lines and what science says you can do to compensate if you feel you are currently lacking in close friendships. He will also touch on another of his areas of expertise, which is gossip, which he argues has gotten a bad rap. I should say this is a rerun episode. It was very popular when we first read it. So we're pulling it out of the archives to pair it with an interview that we're going to post in a couple of days with my old friend and ABC News colleague Robin Roberts. So stay tuned for that. It's coming up soon. In any event, we're going to get started with Robin Dunbar right after this. There's a lot more to Drew Barrymore than you'd think. Hollywood's favorite good girl had a very rough beginning. But now, drew's done it
THE EXPLODING HUMAN with Bob Nickman
"dunbar" Discussed on THE EXPLODING HUMAN with Bob Nickman
"Things that make your carbon world right. Uses have a faith and know that. Hey sales molecules and atoms. You know they make up the right. Well same thing with the spirit world you know you can consider these sales these products with these quarks. These adams this energy this life force and all of these invisible all of these terms you give for their invisible you can you know You can basically blame them for what's going on the physical so if you want to really truly control the physical truly get a handle on the physical where you must report to them. We're parts of who report to the adams. Report to the parks the molecules and the sales are all of the things that i might wisconsin. That you can't see with your naked eye in order so that you can produce the visit that you actually see in your mind right and so nobody actually realizes thing we. We're taught these things in church but we're only talk a piece of them right. We'll talk these things in a certain. Theology are certain philosophy but we're only talk pieces and bits and that's what i found out about like every single religion every single doctor and every single science has a piece in a bit of information a bit of bite that data. Every single piece is data for the puzzle. And you must take those pieces of the puzzle and artistry a full picture for your life the pieces of the the next to orchestrate the full picture for my life is going to be different from the dot that you connect to orchestrate a picture for your overall picture for your life. That was amazing. Thank you that was great. I'm like i just listened to a sermon. That was fantastic. Reverend i know i know i know you're you're the you got a lot of names. Hip hop jesus is one of your people. Yeah i love that Let me ask you this. I know that you You do yoga. And you've invented your own You've created let's say let's say created your own Type of yoga. What was the first yoga class that you took. How did you of the class of day of my life really didn't even know when i when i created yo when i created my yoga. I didn't even know. I was creating yoga. let's see. I didn't know. I was creating yoga until it was time for me to get licensed trademark in france Incorporating my corporation And it were trying to get licensed the trademark and i had to find out. What would i do fall into and yoga and i didn't even know i creating my own. Wait a minute. And that's crazy way This is a good way. I'm not saying it's crazy. It's crazy you're doing you doing like Different positions for the body and breathing. And those things. Or what what you do one day. You sort one day in jessica. Locked up in jail says It's two thousand and eight going into two thousand nine obama to the how old are you. How old are you at that point. How old are you at that at that point in nineteen eighty two and eighteen in two thousand and two thousand eight hundred twenty six. Okay young man okay. All right young man. Twenty six years old I'm about twenty six years old. And i'm There's this book in the prison in the garbage can and the dormitory. There's this book sitting on top of a garbage can as a pile of garbage in the garbage can't already but there's a book sitting on top of apollo garbage that's piled in. The name of this book is called. We're all doing time is about the yoga. Ashram pit krizan project right and i said what's the odds of book being on top of the garbage cans place like this. Let me grab this. And see what city and boyle boyle oil boy was is surprised. So many dots connected for me. Because i grew up in a christian church and i was always taught that this little light of mine. I'm gonna let it shine and i am. The jesus is the way the truth and the light. No one comes into the father but through him right and you always talked to shine the light and you know there's always you always talked to be. The light is all about light right and so six book up. And i read about these invisible lights that live inside of our body called chuckers. The word shocker translated is a wheel of light or circle of light are scared of like. Oh they're the circles of light it'd spheres of light that dwell with inside our body. This book is telling me at the time that and they're called chocolates and longest vital court right and they and they got other little other other little shockers answer to the major chocolate all throughout your body and beans basically the batteries that power your body enemies your body right I'm like if what he's saying. This book is true. I should be able to prove right. There's no way to that. I should be able to physically feel these batteries. I if the soccer are real like he say i should be able to physically feel my heart shock at the point. Whether it's person says my heart chocolate. I suppose it physically feel my route shock all of the different shocked at the point where this person says at and so that's so that's one thing and i said i've always been a person of great imagination. I've always gonna only child and the thing that entertain me. the most was my imagine. So i go in my brain on land my bed and i said okay if these things are real. Show me real right now. Trying all types of stuff. I'm like saying turn on chocolate. Turn on and dockers this. If you're live to me like i'm trying to talk with a shocker. Isn't there another guy. Trying to pray to jesus or something right And so you know the nfl voices like you know. Enemy like soccer. You you are the doctors you can't you can't call out to them as if they're separate from you And so. I said what they're meaning actually tell me to turn on by all kinds of different phrases. And then i'll find landed on a golden freeze. And i go with acting activate and i started stealing. These little buzzes. And these little tingling and started stealing these little warmth in these little presences Within the different areas and aspects of my body. And so. I said well. Let me take me. Orchestrate an organizing. And that's when i said. Okay i'm going to my route. Shocker and i and let me feel my chocolate. And i hope chakri if you real- if you're there you're live and you are a aspect of being you actually me then activate turn on. Let me know you real and by. Golly i felt my reach and so on with other chocolate until i started creating a meditation for myself. Just feel the chocolates now. One i was. I.
THE EXPLODING HUMAN with Bob Nickman
"dunbar" Discussed on THE EXPLODING HUMAN with Bob Nickman
"There's this book in the prison in the garbage can in the dormitory. There's there's book sitting on top of a garbage candidate. The garbage in the garbage can already but there's a book sitting on top of the pile of garbage that's out in the garbage. Can name of his book is called. We're all doing time is about the yoga ashram prison project right and i said what's the odds of a book being on top of the garbage cans. Plays like this. Let me grab this. And see what city and boyle boyle boy was is surprised. I pick this book. And i read about the invisible lights that live. Inside of our body called chaka's the word shocker. Translated is a wheel of life. A circle of light or sphere of light. I'm like if what he's saying. This book is true. I should be able to prove him right. I go in my brain on my bed. Okay show me real right now. Trying all type of stuff. I'm like saying turn on chocolate. Turn on and dockers base. If you're if you're alive to me like i'm trying to talk to the shockers. Isn't there another god. I pray to jesus or something right And so you know the interesting voices like you know. Let me like dockers are you. You are the doctors you can't you can't call it out to them as if they're separate from you And so. I said what they're meaning. Actually tell me to turn on bass tribe different phrases and then finally on the golden freeze and that goes into playing with acne. Well wait. Are you curious about discovering ways of making your life. Better than. Welcome to my podcast. I'm bob nick. Mun and this is the exploding human. Listen while i talk with all kinds of people in the fields of personal growth. Health and healing alternative therapies psychology spirituality environment and the future. I'm looking for those answers that make life better for everyone. You'll meet cutting edge practitioners. Doctors artists filmmakers business people and those who have overcome challenges. The brave curious anyone who is out there helping us humans to explore expand and explode. Hey welcome to the exploding human. My name is bob nick. Mun my guest. Today is the shaqra doctor. More about that in a second. I i'd like to invite you to visit my website. The exploding human dot com over there. You can listen to the episodes read. Synopsys see photos of my guests. Little bio on myself anders. Donate button if you'd like to Support the show. That would be fantastic. That will also give you access to some extra content. There's also a youtube channel. You can listen to the episodes. Which is the exploding human with bob. Nick mun add with bob nick. Mun and there is an exploding human facebook. Page as i said my guest. Today is the shocker doctor. His name is ron dunbar and his story is one of incredible transformation. He came from a situation of poverty and abuse drugs eventually prison and he has transformed himself through studying meditation. The shockers invented his own type of yoga. And now has created an eco village in texas. Which he's gonna tell us all about where you can go and Unplugged from society and tap into your inner self for a whole week. No phones no electronics. Nothing and He's a great guy really fun to talk to a great sense of humor and an amazing story. Please check it out. This is ranch. Dunbar the shaqra dr. good morning to mr rance dunbar. The shocker at dr. How are you. i'm doing swell well in great sir. How are you bob. I am good man. i Where are you by the way. What city are you in. I mean kenneydell. Texas got a piece of land on kennedy kennedy texas and Turning you. It was a former eagle village. And now i'm going to Revamp into present day. Modern day eco-village as and let let him be the base of my rations as a person and services as an entrepreneur okay eco-village. We'll get into that in a second. I wanna talk about because we talked a little bit before the We started talking just now about your past where you come from because this is a really interesting story of someone who should not be where you're at today if you were going to look at percentages of For where you came from. So let's talk about your past how you grew up some of the things that happened because you really a bit of a miracle in america in my opinion from just a little bit. You told me i'm like how did he get from there to here. So let's let's hear about the past. I yes over. The past was Everybody has a horror story right and my password. I like to call that you know. I like the car. The true horror story You know the horror story begins at five being five and six years old being abused physically for my stepfather You know at five and six years old receiving multiple no broken bones From being beat by you know a grown person that is that can be real damaging early in life and You know watching my mom. Get abused as well. You know that started early in life and but also seeing her five through and tough through it and being able to get us out of the situation also taught me her strength as well as a weakness right And so from from from that and then believe it or not nine years old. This guy was a stocker he could we got. We got away from him. When i was about seven years old and then two years later living in the whole you know a whole nother neighborhood and guide. Stocks are some fines and burns our house so at nine years old my house get burned out and everything goes up in flames right and so start off there and then you know you go through these things as a child and you're like man. Wh what's really going on. You know what did i do to deserve. Not knowing that the adults make their own decisions and children are part decisions. That adults make So a lot of bad mother decision making in the mansion chosen that man she told was a fanatical man and decided to make our lives living here But at about nine years old ten years old you know that subsided and data that left out of my consciousness meaning it stop happening and then on you know moving on into other things like And i've always. I've always wanted a specially gifted kid like people always say people. Even when i was young people used to always asking me for advice. The wonder why old people use asking for advice. When i was three four and five years old and my mom used to say you know you have avail- point you have a point here. You can see things that other people can't see. You can do things that other people can't do you know how to do it. You're not access it all now but you will how to do later. My mom used to tell me that when i was three four five six seven years.
The Ladies of Strange
"dunbar" Discussed on The Ladies of Strange
"Though n. welcome. We are the ladies of strange. I'm ashley i'm tiffany and i'm rebecca. Thank you for joining us each week as we discuss. The history mystery in theory of all things. Questionable awed an eerie high france would. Hi ed niche us all. What are we learning about today. Actually toppy possibly. What do you mean. possibly you'll understand. Someone suggested this topic to me. But i don't remember who tried to go back and search but now that we have like social media and discord and private messages and a topic suggestion. I could not so if it was you. Thank you and i hope you enjoy. We are on our game. I tried i looked for like forty five minutes today through like private messages and social media messages. And did you with a word features. Okay i believe you keep going born in nineteen. Oh eight robert clarence dunbar. As he was better. Bobby was the first born child of lessee. And percy dunbar in palooza louisiana. Oh belousova i think i said that right sure. I'm never from that part of the louisiana with two young sons. The dunbar family was a growing family of four like most parents. They cherish their children and wanted the world for them. This the jazz guy. No okay the jazz guy. Yeah there was a jazz murderer. No we'll cover it. One day. With the heat becoming unbearable they decided to head into the by you and cool off to enjoy some family time to louisiana in april heading into a by you to cool off is not what you do heading into a bayou where you go when you want to get. Hot and sticky and let. Apparently that's what they were in hot sticky sweet lou on august. Twenty third one. Thousand nine hundred. Percy unless he dunbar loaded up their tucson's and left for a camping trip near sways lake. Bobby would be four. Yes that night for your old bobby. Dunbar wandered away from his family's tent and disappeared. No a search party soon tracked bobby to the lakeside and authorities conducted that. He had fallen into the water and possibly drowned. Wait i have issues. I understand i gave you a heads up. Don't like it the local police and eventually the state police began a statewide manhunt for the boy. They caught and dissected alligators and threw dynamite into the lake hoping it with ejects the body from the water flock. Okay so i understand that thought process because alligators. If i remember correctly they don't just take an eat food. They take the food stash it somewhere allowed to decompose before they start munching on it. So the dynamite would dislodge anything. That's been stored. Yes if they did not eat him krakow. You are smart well. They also didn't have search and rescue teams back in nineteen twelve twelve. I mean the fire department was a dude with the bucket. And they probably were like idiots this gala gator water. We're not going in there. Delegators alligators none of their efforts turned up a body. But don't like this already. I've prefer when you started it. And i thought bobby was going to end up a murderer. I'm sorry probably a day. Or so later. Bobby's hat was discovered. Some distance away from the lake and people began to wonder if you might have been kidnapped win. An intensive search failed to recover. Bobby's body percy dunbar. And opelousas officials concluded that he had been kidnapped and offered a six thousand dollar reward. Which would be about one hundred and sixty thousand dollars today. Not bad for information about the missing boy. They had postcards of bobby and his physical description printed up and distributed far and white quote large round blue eyes hair light but turning dark complexion very fair rosy cheeks well-developed stout but not very fat big toe in left-foot badly scarred from when burned by from burn when a baby is what the postcard read that is very descriptive. The william burns detective agency and a psychic. Join the hunt. Newspapers picked up the story spreading word across the country. Eight months later on april thirteenth. Nineteen thirteen police arrested. William cantwell waters. Traveling handyman near columbia. Mississippi in connection with the disappearance walter was a peddler who would accompany who is accompanied by a young boy the same age in general appearance as bobby dunbar. Walter claimed. The boy was bruce anderson the illegitimate son of his brother. Juliet his brother and julia anderson. Who is a single woman. Who cared for walters parents in north carolina. According to walters anderson had allowed bruce to travel with him while she looked for work or while his mother looked for work. What is total click. I feel like i've heard this before now. I really hoping. This is bobby. Because i don't like the idea of a missing child but No the to- very distinguishable ate eaten by an alligator. That'd probably not as distinguishable anderson later. Confirmed that she had given permission for her son to accompany walters but it was just for a couple of days while she didn't finish her notes while she did being ball. She did. her thing that she needed to do was mom sometimes. Need to do to rebecca. They're still bourbon downstairs. Make a whisky. Sour comeback will wait. I just lived off that little section. There are times where. I'm like mom dad. You want to out with her for an entire weekend. her go for it. Strangely anderson never reported her son. Missing even though walters claimed that bruce had written with him for over a year. Jesus i'll do a weekend but that's about the Yeah the whole story was suspicious. So percy unless he. Dunbar travel by train to mississippi to see if they could identify the boy as their missing son. Bobby lessee examined the child while he was asleep. But what happened. Next is disputed one account claims the boy woke and cried out mother and reached out for less and less. He fainted another source state. So the boy woke up as less he stood over him a began to cry. Lessee gasped step back and said quote. I don't know. I'm not quite sure louis. I i would imagine after eight months. You would know if it's your kid. Well yes but also the to- grief is powerful. Yes that true that true that is true. Didn't we discuss doing learn grammar for learn something new this month. You should work on that. I did not. I never made that. How projecting much. I'm just gonna throw little shade that way. Toss toss okay. I like it cooler than the shade. Newspapers also disagreed as to whether the boy recognised any of the dunbar family members percy was said to have stated that the boys is were smaller than bobby's lessee finally recognize some familiar moles and scars and declared that. The boy was indeed her son. Bobby got if it weren't that other mom well. She left her kid for a year. Never mind keep going. I very extreme feelings. I noticed in making the identification that dunbar's had to had to overlook some details. The scar on bobby's foot for example was not clearly visible on this child but months had passed since they had last seen him and they rationalize that the scar may have faded in no as guard that he's had since he was a baby. Faded away eight months. you know. I've got scar on my arm. That i got from one of ashley's cats when we first became friends scars from when i was three. Oh i've got scars from when i was two from standing in bed. You told me in the not the moose reason episode but you told me in a recent episode that you don't have distinct memories from before you were five years old no. My mom told me that the scars on my feet are from santana firing pedants. Yeah no. I don't have any memories from before it was five as before. The aliens planted her. That i do either. Who meals got memories. Because you're smart..
The Digiday Podcast
"dunbar" Discussed on The Digiday Podcast
"You have the interview and you spoke with. I'm anne dunbar. Who is the head of equity strategy at lincoln I am very curious to hear about How this conversation went. Because linked in is kind of like one of the main tools that not just publishers or marketers but every company really uses to find new talent and You know post job openings. And things like that But a big conversation that a lot of companies have been having an and thinking about recently is how to fulfill those like diversity equity and inclusion promises that they made in the past year I know well. I'm saying publishers. But like companies in general have been kind of blaming a pipeline issue. Not being sure of where to find diverse talent which i don't know if they necessarily should be saying that as an excuse or not i mean really they should be but lincoln is one of the platforms that they can use to search for talent What did he say about I guess ellington is helping companies that works with to you. Know tackle diversity in their in their own organizations. It's interesting because that that was one of the main reasons why i wanted to talk. With is because of that. Position linked is as a platform. That's used for recruiting and hiring and so one of the things that we talked about. Is this feature that remember right. Lincoln just recently began. Roll out where You know recruiters can hide candidates names and profile photos from hiring managers when evaluating people for up positions basically to ensure that whoever the hiring managers are aren't taking a person you know what a person looks like or what their name suggests about their identity into account over what their qualifications would be For a given position Other than you know led me to wonder will in the same way that solves a problem also introduced the problem of you know what about companies that do want to be taking. You know people's identities into account because they wanna have a lot of room for improvement when it comes to the diversity. Inclusivity of their workforce. They don't want to just hire more. You know white men example but she had actually really good answer that l. nuts spoil so that people can come across that in the conversation. Yes no that's really interesting. I'm curious to hear what she has to say about that for sure. I'm also wondering though so like lincoln is a company itself right at has the external kind of focus on helping other companies. But you know internally how they've been kind of approaching like deion i Are they working on improving their own staff diversity or did you get into that at all on the diversity front. We didn't get too much into that because linked is gonna be publishing its diversity report in october and so she is very much locking key with the details there but We did talk about The equity at the company and and actually like their equity situations pretty admirable and probably better than guests the majority of other companies unfortunately but You know for every dollar earned. By lincoln's male employees female employees earn point. Nine eight cents. So there's you know to one thousand dollar difference so obviously there's still work to do. The took close that gap entirely. But you know that gap is pretty small especially when you consider. It's generally seventy eighty cents on the dollar that women make a lot of other companies and then when it comes to employees of color in the us they earn as much for every dollar employees of color earn white employees. Earn the same. So there is that equity parody. When it comes people you know different races and ethnicities. i mean. he's so. I'm it's very clearly possible. lessons other companies to follow as well But that's awesome. I'll let you get into.
Digiday Podcast
"dunbar" Discussed on Digiday Podcast
"You have the interview and you spoke with. I'm anne dunbar. Who is the head of equity strategy at lincoln I am very curious to hear about How this conversation went. Because linked in is kind of like one of the main tools that not just publishers or marketers but you know every company really uses to find new talent and You know post job openings. And things like that But a big conversation that a lot of companies have been having an and thinking about recently is how to fulfill those like diversity equity and inclusion promises that they made in the past year I know well. I'm saying publishers. But like companies in general have been kind of blaming a pipeline issue. Not being sure of where to find diverse talent which i don't know if they necessarily should be saying that as an excuse or not i mean really they should be but lincoln is one of the platforms that they can use to search for talent What did he say about I guess ellington is helping companies that works with to you. Know tackle diversity in their in their own organizations. It's interesting because that that was one of the main reasons why i wanted to talk. With is because of that. Position linked is as a platform. That's used for recruiting and hiring and so one of the things that we talked about. Is this feature that remember right. Lincoln just recently began. Roll out where You know recruiters can hide candidates names and profile photos from hiring managers when evaluating people for up positions basically to ensure that whoever the hiring managers are aren't taking a person you know what a person looks like or what their name suggests about their identity into account over what their qualifications would be For a given position Other than you know led me to wonder will in the same way that solves a problem also introduced the problem of you know what about companies that do want to be taking. You know people's identities into account because they wanna have a lot of room for improvement when it comes to the diversity. Inclusivity of their workforce. They don't want to just hire more. You know white men for example but she had actually really good answer that l. nuts spoil so that people can come across that in the conversation. Yes no that's really interesting. I'm curious to hear what she has to say about that for sure. I'm also wondering though so like lincoln is a company itself right at has the external kind of focus on helping other companies. But you know internally how they've been kind of approaching like deion i Are they working on improving their own staff diversity or did you get into that at all on the diversity front. We didn't get too much into that because linked is gonna be publishing its diversity report in october and so she is very much locking key with the details there but We did talk about The equity at the company and and actually like their equity situations pretty admirable and probably better than guests the majority of other companies unfortunately but You know for every dollar earned. By lincoln's male employees female employees earn point. Nine eight cents. So there's you know to one thousand dollar difference so obviously there's still work to do. The took close that gap entirely. But you know that gap is pretty small especially when you consider. It's generally seventy eighty cents on the dollar that women make a lot of other companies and then when it comes to employees of color in the us they earn as much for every dollar employees of color earn white employees. Earn the same. So there is that equity parody. When it comes people you know different races and ethnicities. i mean. he's so. I'm it's very clearly possible. lessons other companies to follow as well But that's awesome. I'll let you get into.
10% Happier with Dan Harris
"dunbar" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
"Terms of the basics of language they can pretty much structure sentences perfectly grammatically. Well the old saying Wrong the past tense wrong things like that and show they acquire much bigger vocabulary during the rest of the childhood and teenage years and they can learn how to structure much more complex sentences. Tell much more complicated stories if not basic understanding of the principles of grammar and how to converse with people is in a pretty much adult level by the age of five at the age of five is still got another twenty years of learning how to cope with this impossibly. Complicated sexual will in which you have to live annetta professor dunbar. Before i let you go can you please plug your latest book and any other books and places on the on the internet where we can find you and learning more about you. Oh well my first book. It's a lot of people still like actually is grooming gossip evolution of language which is published heavens twenty-five years ago lest another world away. That was kind of fun to do. It's still widely available at other kind of later worn on the science of love which was published probably about two thousand fourteen. Something like that but the one. That's just come out. Which kind of puts all of this stuff together and dictate research over the last twenty five years really and tries to put it all together in one place and show how. It's all interconnected. It's the book that's just come out In in in europe anyway called friends understanding the power of our most important relationships. It's due to be published in the us in january. I believe by dental brown. But i show you can buy digital versions of it in in in all good digital shops close to you in the meantime professor. It's been a pleasure to get to know you a little bit into here here. Becher your work. Thank you for coming on. Thank you for having me on. It's been great fun. Thank you robin dunbar. Great conversation before we head out. Let me just mention again. The ted lasso challenge it starts on tuesday. September seventh over on the ten percent. Happier app just downloaded the app. That is wherever you get your apps and the way of course get ready as Checkout season two of which is airing right now. This show is made by samuel john's gabrielle. Zuckerman dj kashmir justin davey. Maria were tell. Jen poignant with audio engineering from ultraviolet audio special shoutout to kim bukamal. Who's no longer with us but did a great job in her brief tenure here on the t. p. h. Podcast and i should say she is the one who brought a rub and dunbar to our attention so big. Thank you to kim and as always a shout up to ryan kesler and josh callaghan from. Abc news. we'll see well on wednesday with medusa akinola who's gonna talk about optimizing stress shoes. It incredible professor from columbia university. She's been on the show before and she's got a lot to say especially about stress during the pandemic and stress. That might come up when you're talking about diversity issues. That's on wednesday..
10% Happier with Dan Harris
"dunbar" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
"You can trust always credible always solid start here from abc news twenty minutes every weekday on your smart speaker or your favorite podcast app com. I've a million questions on to serve of tendrils of my interest spread out a lot of different directions but just to put a fine point on the urgency of this issue. Can i get you to make your pitch to anybody out. There might be thinking consciously or subconsciously you know. The friendship is not something. I need to take seriously for my psychological and physical health. What would you say to anybody who continues to harbor. Some doubt this be at the outset and say look Some of us are more social than other. Some of us are happy on our own with fewer friends. Some of us know kind of liked to see more more. Social butterfly likened liked to have lots of rates basically. That's the difference between introverts next reports. The differences is simply that introverts preferred to have fewer friends and give each of the more times that the relationships more robust extroverts preferred to have more friends but spread there available central time we'll thinly and therefore they have less close relationships on average these are just equally good ways of solving the same problem but it it. I liked the point that some of us prefer to have fewer friends perhaps a little more a social in that sense other people really liked to have lots of see lots of people and and have lots of friends even if they are a bit more casual so without friends. Altogether i think is very difficult. And most of those who don't have friends low for a while. They may feel very happy about that. There will come a time. In the end. I think when loneliness will hit you and it will have serious psychological and physical consequences right and this is what kind of underpins the in a pandemic loneliness that Really the whole of the western world is has been suffering for some time now in respect of the elderly. The elderly often feel very isolated. They can't get out of course so easily. It's not up to going clubbing playing around the goal for whatever it is just physically so don't get out that Have opportunity to beat people anymore. Hand out with smaller smaller sexual networks and become intensely lonely and depressed and full prater even minor illnesses. That the rest of us would be able to shrug off so it's fine to be on your own for a bit you know. Sometimes that's a relief you might say From the precious this sexual world but then stay in that whole toodle. I'm glad you drew the line there between extroversion and introversion. Because i mean. I'm a little of both but i probably lean toward extrovert Might have forgotten to ask that question. So i'm glad you brought that up. It did bring to mind for me though. I wonder how you compute the fact that there are these are meditators who live in caves largely on their own and appear from the brain. Scans to be sort of at the apex of psychological health. Yeah yeah well. What are the reasons that causes that they are often in doing things which are highly ritualized and which we use very often in in religious services of one religion or another to bring people into trance state so they sa- some suggestion here that Getting into drones involves the release of a massive endorphin surge. Which is why you get this. Feeling of relaxation and calmness and old at peace with the world. The world is wonderful. And and so on that you get from from going into into trance. In many people's experience you can bring that on traditional goes if you think of native american sweat houses and the kind of rituals associated with that. That's one way of doing it but equally you can sit in quiet contemplation and this is the the yoga tradition as it were came out of india you can go into trance in a quieter. More controlled way often involves control over breathing and this talks back a little bit to the role of seeing in bringing on this sensitive cameraderie in a and so on that we get in the the icebreaker effect because breathing is very hard to do. What control do it. Very slowly in controlled way seems to trigger the endorphin system that's why laughter also triggers in dolphin system. It seems say if you keep dosing up if you like put it this way on these endorphin producing effects. You can do it on your own. And i suggest that if you walk past the gymnasium anywhere in the nearest city to where you live or indeed you watch a group of joggers. Running along you'll see people who are getting are in endorphin fix largely on the road and coming away from it fitting really nicely set out for the day that the you know they can approach the rest of the day's work and activities in a mall kind of peaceful zen like way we might put it that way. It does seem to be remarkable. Physical activity will do it. That's why danzig works. in this way for example. So you can't do it at my sense. Though is ed requires probably a special sort of person. Who would want to be able to do that for for the rest of their life and not have a deep any kind of deep social engagement people because one of the things we do find is if you do any of these activities in synchrony as a group of people it ramps up the endorphin effect dramatically absolutely dramatically. Something about doing something like singing or laughing. Physical exercise even Jogging in a group roses and on your own will leasings ramp up the endorphin if eighteen give you a much bigger if you like this and you come out of feeding you relaxed and calmed and the stresses of the will drop away from your shoulders and you can face the day wherever in a much more contented frame of mind. I'd love to hear you talk a little bit about how to make and keep friends. Because i suspect there may be some people listening. Who are saying. Look i will. First of all many of us are still constricted because of the pandemic either because they're still lockdowns in our area. We have some nervousness about going out or offices are not open but even beyond that there are people out there who just feel like. Maybe i moved somewhere for working. I don't know how to go. Meet people and i don't have any family and friends around or you know in this digital era. It's hard to meet people. So what do you say to people who might be sold. But don't know what to do about it. I think this is the great dilemma of the modern world. Actually because if you go back one hundred years or so from the radio lesson that even in a people spend most of their life you know within a relatively small community in communities in some sense functioned much more as communities by and large. We've become say mobile particularly since the second war when cheap transport became available and and decreasing globalization. That's allowed us to move jobs all been just gun retired by the seaside in your old age and all these things that we do but it's one of the difficulties everybody has has to move is kind of trying to re imbed themselves into a new social network and part of the problem is actually because thanks to digital media. They spend a lot of time trying to keep their old relationships gang on the end of a computer when actually they should be getting out now. The question is when you go to meet people For most people in other to meiji choices. One is where you work because you spend such a large.
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"Sectors at the base of every half follicle your body straight up into the brain and triggers an endorphin. Release whenever the has of your body mechanically moved which is what happens during grooming so grooming social coming the leafing through the for to remove bits and pieces of vegetation. Heavy the monkeys To is the kind of cool to the creation of these bonded friendships and that movement through the fear of the hand does they part the for a and stroke it is what triggers these mechanical receptors but the base of the half now these only respond to light slows stroking at exactly about one and a half inches per second. If you stroke faster than that or slower than that it doesn't set the receptors off. And that's me turns out to be the speed dove sexual grooming and we see it in humans. You can see the brain firing if you put somebody. In a brain scanner we can see the brain firing or the brains endorphin receptors. Firing up when we're stroke very gently on the tour. So for example in diesel. Though we don't obviously have very much hair anymore nonetheless the receptors are still. They're all over. The skin is the them mechanically. Moved as you strike the skin so at fis it up and we discovered how to exploit that system more generally so that we can kind of virtually grew with more people because one of the problems with a touch base system is just as intimacy. You don't go round caressing and stroking everybody in the community but even though you want to bond with them. This is something you do with your intimates but in order to extend this mechanism create on relationships with the white community. What we've discovered as you can trigger the same mechanism by a whole series of other behaviors which now form a core part of sexual toolkit if you like. These include laughter. Who's singing dancing. Many of the rituals of religion feasting together so eating socially drinking alcohol in particular and telling emotional sob stories. All of these triggers the endorphin system extremely well and allow us to kind of if you like groom virtually with large numbers of other people in their full bond bigger communities and and of all. These singing really is the probably the best we call it. The icebreaker effect because you can literally turn complete strangers into people who think they've known each other for life by just an hour as community singing around the campfire and singing is what we doing church. Sure in many other religious services religions much more of my conversation with robin dunbar. Right after this for many of us it's back.
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"dunbar" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
"Basically saying something similar to what i believe crosby stills and nash said about you know if he can't be with the one you love love the one you're with so that puts a new generation word old before i felt like i was you know i. I'm comfortable being lumped in there. I got my hair. Peak are the other day so go to join. Join the club so just go back to this five number maybe four to six but whatever for close friends if i have. I personally have a wife and a young son that means. I've only got three to four slots open whereas my brother who has a wife six children does that mean like one of the kids is not gonna make it. Make the cut or and does that mean. I'm i can't get into my brother's inner circle. I couldn't possibly commit back. The answer is i mean these numbers kind of you know every day to set look at we see the same numbers but they all kind of variable and they do depend a lot on individuals social skills and social cognitive abilities as well but we have to make judgments about how close we feel. We ought to people in where we put them in there for. How much time we invest in them. The average is always about five but it does vary between four and six or maybe the than that perhaps but Typically will in identical consists of two close family members to close friends and then one from either side to make up the fifth. But if you meet somebody really importantly new say meeting perspective romantic partner who attracts your attention is the classic case. Then actually the amount of time you invest in that person results in somebody being squeezed out in fact it turns out that when you fall in love with somebody the attention and effort mental effort you give to them is so great that you're actually caused to other people to be thrown out of your innocent because then not thrown very far. I mean they just shift over into the next layer as were the fifteen layer of of what you might think of his best friends as opposed to intimate friends. So they're still there but they just don't getting quite as much attention from you. The merit of family relationships and here you. You'll rescued as it were in terms of being your brother's social network Family relationships seem to be much more robust to these kind of decay. Fix them friendships. There's something about the kind of spider's web of interconnections that families create as well but the very fact that are an extensive that helps to hold people in place so family relationships they tend to be cheaper to maintain in that respect. So you can kind of leave them be Not invest too much in them on a day-to-day basis. Knowing that when you can get together you can pick up that relationship where you left off the last time without it having been dented. Too much now. That really doesn't help with friendships. If you leave a friendship be for a long period of time. You got a lot of renegotiating to do when you eventually beat up again. If that's you know a year or two down down the line. There's a way in which to some ears. This discussion of friendship could sound light not superficial but you know like not urgent however You make the point. And i'd love to hear you say more about this. This actually is an urgent issue in that the quality of your friendships really will dictate the quality of your mental and physical health. Oh yes i think. One of the most surprising findings that has popped out of the woodwork over the last decade decade. A half probably not much more than that really In the medical literature has been the extent to which the best predictor of your psychological health welfare physical health and welfare. Even how long you're going to live in the future is just the quality a number of close friendships. You have and that is way more important than wall the things you'll Friendly neighborhood doctor usually worries about on your behalf. Things like how much do eat. How much alcohol. You drink however wait. Are you exercise. Do you take medicine see on the air quality in the place where you live like all these kind of things. Certainly have an effect on your health and wellbeing. They all pale almost into insignificance by comparison with simply the number and quality of close friendship. So we just published a paper on edge is a prospective study is kind of looking at how like you ought to develop Symptoms of depression in the future and the best predictor of not developing depression as it were as a major issue and this is for older people is simply either having around four or five good friends or engaging in roundabout three volunteer activists. Say you can compensate. I say by volunteer activities. I mean doing things like perhaps helping to run the scouts. So helping out your local church. You'll some local hobby or interest group or or local club. Sports club whatever. It may be held up all these kind of social things where you meet people and you're kind of embedded into a social environment with people you can't do both you can't have five friends and engaging three volunteer activities that actually makes you worse off because what you're doing is you're spreading yourself too thinly but you can have. Let's say three friends and and to Activities or fall friends. One activity will three activities in two friends. Who can trade off between the two and what that kind of speaks to me about really is the fact that it's being engaged with people at seeing people. On a regular basis is being immersed in a kind of social world cocooned in an indus. It'll social world. And that's what kind of lifts you up makes you just feel better. Psychologically and that has these knock on consequences for your physical health which quite dramatic and really effective and things like the risk of heart attacks and cancers insulin as evolutionary psychologist. What's your take on why this is so important. Oh well this is a very low to go case back to Sort of origins as it were as a member of the primate the monkey and eight zoological family the big development monkeys and apes. If you like invented as a as a way of coping with the difficulty of successfully surviving and reproducing i in the world it was the formation of bonded relationships and bonded social group so they clubbed together to essentially. I guess watch each other's back because the main thing that's causing problems is predation. Risks predators running around on the forest floor of the savannah floor. Whatever it may be at predators tend to go for individuals who are on the prey animals on their own say primate solution to that as as many other mammals and birds factors to form social groups as protection everybody clubs together to reduce the risk of being caught unawares by predator but the problem is by living in close proximity. It's very stressful. As we know if you're living on top of people it can be very niggling at times At site is monkeys. Snakes and their solution to that is form. These very close bonded friendships. Which just keep everybody else off your back far enough. That they don't de stabilize the group so it's a very fine. Balancing act insists one reason why this whole family has such big brains compared with will the other mammals and birds and you know we just follow suit as members of that family this is this is all social strategy as well except that we live in bigger groups so we have a bigger brain that allows us to handle more relationships. That's the real difference. But the way we bombed off friendships the way we bondo. Social groups is very very similar to the way monkeys apes do. I believe also written you know from physiological standpoint about the importance of endorphins. Yea at the endorphin system in the brain which is kind of these little chemicals that major part of the brain's pain management system in fact the the name dolphin is a contraction of endogenous morphine because chemically. They're very closely related to bluffing bought because the bodies adapted to them we don't get addicted to them and that the just slightly chemically different That we didn't get addicted to them and they they're very remarkable like de deeply involved as neurotransmitters in many things they do but they one of the things that seems to be very important as they. Underpin social bonding. So they create the sense of walks and relaxation and so the comfortableness and trust and when we do things with somebody else that releases endorphins Monkeys apes that social grooming we have a highly specialized neuro system that Run some.
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"dunbar" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
"Happier app wherever you get your apps and And get excited for the ted. Laso challenge to launch on september seventh. Okay let's Let's circle back now to the first piece of good news. Today's guest He is one of the world's leading experts on relationships. As i said his name is robin dunbar. He's in meritous professor of evolutionary psychology at oxford university. He's the author of numerous books on the development of our species. He's perhaps best known for formulating. Something called dunbar's number. Which is a measurement of the number of relationships. Our brain is capable of maintaining at any time. It's actually quite important. He'll explain it better than i have in this conversation. You're going to hear professor dunbar about the science behind human relationships how to make and keep friends the upsides and downsides of maintaining relationships on social media. Interestingly he's a much less anti social media then you might guess we'll talk about the viability of friendships across gender lines. And what science says you can do to compensate if you feel. You are currently lacking in close friendships. He's also gonna touch on another of his very interesting areas of expertise gossip which he argues has gotten a bad rap so without further ado here we go now with robin dunbar professor robin dunbar. Welcome to the show. Thank you very much is a great pleasure to be here. Been looking forward to this soon. I'm here to talk about. Let's start with a question. I'm sure you've gotten a million times. But i it's a good way to level set for the audience here. What is dunbar's number. Essentially it's the limit on the number of relationships meaningful relationships that you can have at any one time so that includes friends. It includes family most of your extended family. Probably it might even include your cat and your dog and your favorite horse and maybe your favorite soap opera character on tv. If you feel you have a meaningful relationship with them you talk to them you feel that they communicate back with usually of course most of the people your number of one hundred fifty. Which is the core number for. Dunbar's number are actually real people. Of course that people you see on a fairly regular basis. I don't know if you're being somewhat may be semi facetious with the tv. Show thing but there are people who feel. They have an active ongoing conversation with and relationship with god or jesus. Oh absolutely absolutely so if you like a pefectly reasonable Thing to have goto jesus or the virgin. Mary catholic perhaps or indeed i really. I'm quite serious that some people really do feel that they have relationships with the people on on tv shows and saw my grandmother always said good night to the news costa when he said good night to her golden by name sure sure. She felt that she was very much in her circle. I'm maybe not the closest friend had but he sat there in. She saw him every every night on. Tv news the anchor and you know she said good night. He was part of cycle. Well on behalf of newscasters everywhere. Given that i am one at least for now. I appreciate that. My salutations right. Back at your grandmother. how did you come up with number. One hundred fifty though originally was predicted of the back of equation relating the size of Social groups monkeys the primates that's the zoological family to which we belong and their brain sizes so species that lived in big. Social groups had big brains and the outta curiosity. I just plugged human brains into the same equation to see what kind of figure it gave. And it gave a figure of about one hundred and fifty and That descent me going looking to see whether this could possibly be true. Because i actually thought it was far too small of role we live in. You know huge cities tens of millions of people. And i saw that one hundred and fifty sounds awfully small for that but then it transpired. Eventually we started looking at the size of personal social networks people you have meaningful relationships with this is about what that number is somewhere between a hundred and two hundred that we can sign out many more people on facebook than that but they tend to fall into the category of acquaintances and of course we have acquaintances in real life too. We work with a lot of these people. We go out and we'd have a beer with him. Maybe after work gauges over lunch or the Water cooler or something. But we probably wouldn't invite them home. Site turns out that Quite a good definition for this number is the number of people who would feel an obligation to you in a closeness that they would turn up for your bar mitzvah. your wedding. oil funeral says that. Stay dumbbells numbers really obama's first strike wedding stroke funeral. Groups is indeed. if you look at the Right nice website. That provides data on american weddings. That is exactly the average size of weddings in america. And it's been very consistent for the last decade while i can't say for the last year maybe prior to that it has been a very very consistent number. Seems to be sort of the number of people that Kind of mean something to you and you feel a sense of obligation to them and you know that if you ask them to do you a favor they would kind of say yes they might kind of be a big grudging but they do it out of obligation to so you were initially surprised at the number one hundred and fifty. 'cause you thought maybe that was a little small but the numbers get really small. When you're talking about truly close intimate relations. Yes so it turns out that this number one hundred fifty is really just one of a series of numbers if like series of circles of friendship so if you imagine yourself as a stone being thrown into the lake you would have this set of ripples that run out from the stone and the ripples go out of course They get bigger. But if you like the amplitude. The height of the wave guess gradually Smoldering smaller until it dies away. So you'll social world bessemer relationship to this really in the sense that you're surrounded by a series of layers of friendship and the intimacy last very small typically about five people on average but that really intense relationships. They have what. I call the shoulders to cry on friendships. The these are the people that you know. When you will for the day will drop everything to come and pick you up again. But then out. Beyond that you get loud progressively larger nargilehs but the emotional quality of relationships in the frequency that you see the people in these last falls away until you get two hundred fifty and then beyond the one hundred fifty we know there at least three more as one at five hundred. Which would include all your acquaintances. These last count cumulatively by the way the five hundred would also include your hundred and fifty inside but an additional three hundred and fifty people who you sort of count as acquaintances. You know them well again. As i say you work with probably autism might include the barista you buy hall used to buy.
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"dunbar" Discussed on 10% Happier with Dan Harris
"Start with a question. I'm sure you've gotten a million times. But i it's a good way to level set for the audience here. What is dunbar's number. Essentially it's the limit on the number of relationships meaningful relationships that you can have at any one time so that includes friends. It includes family most of your extended family. Probably it might even include your cat and your dog and your favorite horse and maybe your favorite soap opera character on tv. If you feel you have a meaningful relationship with them you talk to them you feel that they communicate back with usually of course most of the people your number of one hundred fifty. Which is the core number for. Dunbar's number are actually real people. Of course that people you see on a fairly regular basis. I don't know if you're being somewhat may be semi facetious with the tv. Show thing but there are people who feel. They have an active ongoing conversation with and relationship with god or jesus. Oh absolutely absolutely so if you like a pefectly reasonable Thing to have goto jesus or the virgin. Mary catholic perhaps or indeed i really. I'm quite serious that some people really do feel that they have relationships with the people on on tv shows and saw my grandmother always said good night to the news costa when he said good night to her golden by name sure sure. She felt that she was very much in her circle. I'm maybe not the closest friend had but he sat there in. She saw him every every night on. Tv news the anchor and you know she said good night. He was part of cycle. Well on behalf of newscasters everywhere. Given that i am one at least for now. I appreciate that. My salutations right. Back at your grandmother. how did you come up with number. One hundred fifty though originally was predicted of the back of equation relating the size of Social groups monkeys the primates that's the zoological family to which we belong and their brain sizes so species that lived in big. Social groups had big brains and the outta curiosity. I just plugged human brains into the same equation to see what kind of figure it gave. And it gave a figure of about one hundred and fifty and That descent me going looking to see whether this could possibly be true. Because i actually thought it was far too small of role we live in. You know huge cities tens of millions of people. And i saw that one hundred and fifty sounds awfully small for that but then it transpired. Eventually we started looking at the size of personal social networks people you have meaningful relationships
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The Science of Making and Keeping Friends With Robin Dunbar
"Start with a question. I'm sure you've gotten a million times. But i it's a good way to level set for the audience here. What is dunbar's number. Essentially it's the limit on the number of relationships meaningful relationships that you can have at any one time so that includes friends. It includes family most of your extended family. Probably it might even include your cat and your dog and your favorite horse and maybe your favorite soap opera character on tv. If you feel you have a meaningful relationship with them you talk to them you feel that they communicate back with usually of course most of the people your number of one hundred fifty. Which is the core number for. Dunbar's number are actually real people. Of course that people you see on a fairly regular basis. I don't know if you're being somewhat may be semi facetious with the tv. Show thing but there are people who feel. They have an active ongoing conversation with and relationship with god or jesus. Oh absolutely absolutely so if you like a pefectly reasonable Thing to have goto jesus or the virgin. Mary catholic perhaps or indeed i really. I'm quite serious that some people really do feel that they have relationships with the people on on tv shows and saw my grandmother always said good night to the news costa when he said good night to her golden by name sure sure. She felt that she was very much in her circle. I'm maybe not the closest friend had but he sat there in. She saw him every every night on. Tv news the anchor and you know she said good night. He was part of cycle. Well on behalf of newscasters everywhere. Given that i am one at least for now. I appreciate that. My salutations right. Back at your grandmother. how did you come up with number. One hundred fifty though originally was predicted of the back of equation relating the size of Social groups monkeys the primates that's the zoological family to which we belong and their brain sizes so species that lived in big. Social groups had big brains and the outta curiosity. I just plugged human brains into the same equation to see what kind of figure it gave. And it gave a figure of about one hundred and fifty and That descent me going looking to see whether this could possibly be true. Because i actually thought it was far too small of role we live in. You know huge cities tens of millions of people. And i saw that one hundred and fifty sounds awfully small for that but then it transpired. Eventually we started looking at the size of personal social networks people you have meaningful relationships
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Detroit Lions Release CB Quinton Dunbar, Sign RB Craig Reynolds
"Released a couple players the other day and then today They released veteran corner Quinton Dunbar and signed free agent running back Craig Reynolds. Now I think this is in response to the fact that DeAndre Swift, who has been injured in Lyons, camp is probably not going to be healthy enough. To play tomorrow. I'm guessing that's why they signed this running back to just have a body, right. Am ready to go away. I guess I don't know. But they're making me I
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"So i met this gentleman named at pnd bruin. Who owns seven cto's and he said you know do like executive peer groups for technology leaders. Vp's engineer cto's there on me. More like premium side or people are paying twenty thousand dollars a year and it's facilitated by a professional facilitator. You have to pay all that. So it's definitely good value. But he wanted to create something for the mid level of the market. Like you know people that are you know. They're they want to become a manager for the first time or they wanna move from manager to director in that was at a price point that was like much cheaper than that like super affordable even if they wanted to pay for it for themselves so i said okay because i have the audience and you have the knowledge of how to run these communities and the staff and the support so we created elevate one fifty dot com and the idea was elevate. Bring people up to the next level and then one fifty was like one of dunbar's numbers of community size. So we cap the community at one hundred and fifty people and so we have a hundred people now and We've grown over the past eight months and every week we have speakers and then the it's like a ten minute topic of conversation and then you go into a small group of like three to four people in that. That speaker has set you up with something. It's not like a generic cycling of speakers that are doing sales pitches like they have to adhere to our format. And so what it does is it gets you in these communities having these small discussions and building relationships. And that's been like unbelievable. So now i've now i've got this community where i can go and then every every week or every other week i'm getting introduced three or four new peers and were having legitimate conversations.
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"dunbar" Discussed on NEWS 88.7
"Dunbar's our social Media editor Wells. Welcome back. Bet you're seeing a lot online today. You know it, David. You know, we heard a little bit about this in the news round up earlier. Interesting story out of Do you see there well, with at least a phonic taking that house leadership position from Liz Cheney over the ladders. Refusal, essentially Torto play along with the president, Former President Donald Trump's contentions that the Action was stolen from him. Texas representative Chip Roy was in the running or put himself in the running for that position, but the former president Trump, he came out against him, saying that, at least in his words would do a better job and also even floating the prospect of more political trouble for chip Roy down the line, interesting turn of events there that's noted by one of our commenters online on her Facebook page, Paula Allen, she says the chip Roy made a play for party leadership. Flat to down by the former president and threatened with a primary challenger. She asked. Is there someone more extreme out there winning to take his place? And could that leave an opening for a strong Democratic candidate in his district? That does district of his does include Central Texas and some stretches of Austin s? Oh, yeah, interesting story there for representative Roy and how that played out for him there, one that we will continue to see where with what? At least Stefanik does in that role. Well, you know, the big story we're talking about earlier. This new CDC guidance. Lots of you know, we're talking about this earlier. There's a lot to explore their and it really seems like a lot of people are kind of taking it with a grain of salt. To be honest, That's the represented by one comment on our Facebook page. Barbara Stansfield, Terri. She says that the decision completely baffles her. She knows that we have barely a third of the adult population in the U. S vaccinated and very few people under 16. She asks if the decision is fully based on science, which she hopes or if part of it is some social incentive, AK Ah, way to convince more people to get vaccinated. You know what's on Twitter yesterday, people sharing this one. CDC graphic That was breathtaking it basically, you know it had this full list of activities on a sort of range of safety, You know, like one end doing something you know, distanced outdoors, the other in, you know, seeing a film in a theater going into a gym, and that vaccinated person could do all those all those activities person without a vaccination was still encouraged, you know, steer clear or wear a mask. S O. Is we heard again in that conversation with Dr Peter Hotez at the top of the show. You know, a lot of it is going to come down to where we are Tiuna. What part of the country we in with the vaccination rates are like, but I think a lot of people out there still, you know, breathing a sigh of relief as this appears to be something that you know speaks to how we should be turning the corner. In the fight against covered 19 David Wright, Facebook. Just Todd Garnet, Hey, applauds that new news with the vaccinations for the youth, he says. The 12 to 15 year olds getting vaccinated are showing a lot.
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Seattle Seahawks: Dunbar out, Dunlap in
"Quinton Dunbar was a Seahawk for one injury plagued season. He won't be back. He'll play for the Lions next season. Dunbar's agreed to a one year deal. Carlos Dunlap is coming back with with defensive defensive lineman lineman came came the the Seahawks Seahawks in in a a midseason midseason trade. trade. Last Last year, year, he he was was cutting cutting a a salary salary cap cap move move that that brought brought back back with with a a different different contract, contract, and and now now he's he's ready ready to to be be a a mainstay. mainstay. With With Seahawks Seahawks pass pass
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A Conversation With Dr. Maya Angelou
"With the release of her book. A song long up to heaven a song. I like to do at a song long enough to have enough. I said many times. Maya has been one of my greatest teachers. I am so blessed to have her in my life. She is the one. I often look to for strength for wisdom for comfort and courage and also just to talk you know everytime we on the we're not talking about courage and with sometimes we just laugh a lot anyway. The sheer power of her words and insights have moved and inspired me. And i know millions of you. Maya says at a song flung up to heaven is the sixth and final in the series of books about her remarkable life which she began with. I know why cage heard sing the first book of dr angelo's bestselling autobiographical series was. I know why the caged bird sings. It made her literary star. Stayed on the new york times bestseller lists for two years. It is brutally honest account of her painful childhood and how she rose above being raped by her mother's boyfriend when she was just eight. And the six years of self-imposed silence follows next. She wrote gathered together in my name about her struggle to make ends meet as a single mother at age. Sixteen working as a cook. a dancer. a madam even a prostitute next in singing and swinging getting married like christmas. Maya takes on her journey into show business touring europe as a singer and dancer walnut phone informative and millions read the heart of a woman. Were maya takes us through one of the most fascinating periods of her life from her debut at the apollo theater to her first meeting with malcolm x. to the joys and challenges of raising a teenage son then in all god's children need traveling shoes she follows her heart to africa in search of her roots where she teaches at the university of ghana and works as a journalist alongside malcolm x. world now poet author actress activist. Dr maya angelou has risen to greatness time and time again is more phenomenal phenomenal phenomenal woman than ever. Please welcome my dear friend. Dr maya angelou do want to talk about something. Other than and wisdom shrink in hope. What is seventy four wheel like. It's so wonderful. It is so good. I thought the fifties were hunt. Until i reach the sixty the sixties out there. They're out there who. Then when i reached the seventies mount no the seventies you want to reach the seventies. everybody's stay alive reach this because do you feel age you know. This is a society that so puts age and ageing. And we're so concerned about it. Is there a point where you say. Oh yes. I'm now an older woman. No there are some things that have not escaped. Me team has not. Ecstasy has not satisfaction has not disappointment has not fear has not courage has not so there are some things which have not escaped me. So that keeps you young If you start thinking that you know it and nobody can tell you anything. You found the one way and you can tell others faults. It's already over. it's already too late. You have become old at eighteen at twenty five when you think you know everything but when you know a do a lot you've been around a long time and you've paid attention like you so interesting though because people say to me when you call her up and you talk to her. Does she talk like she talks when she's and it is true many times i call them my and like just the other day he says on the morning. I'm sitting in my kitchen table and she just starts a conversation. Let me get a pencil. write this down. She's talking and then she are you there baby go. Yes so tell me. What is this significant of a song flung up heaven It comes from the third verse in the nba by pauline's dunbar. And i'd love to say please. That may i the first. I says i know what the caged bird fields on me when the sun is bright on upland slopes when the wind blows saw through the springing grass and the river. Floats like a sheet glass when the first bird sings and the first bird oaths and the same perfume from its chalice steals. I know but the caged bird field.
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Control of NFC West at stake as Arizona Cardinals visit Seattle Seahawks
"To bottle up one of the NFL's top young quarterbacks. Here's Bill Heisman Trophy winner Cuyler Murray, using his arm and legs to lift the Arizona Cardinals to first place in the NFC West. Seahawks Middle linebacker Bobby Wagner notices Murray running with more of a purpose this season. Honestly, I think is the confidence I think when he first got into the you watched him On on a film when he was making the runs. He was just kind of run out of bounds Post Seattle Starting corners Quinton Dunbar and Shaquille Griffin did not practice Tuesday because of injuries. Unlikely they played tomorrow night at home against the Cardinals. Pac 12
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What to watch for when the Seahawks play the Miami Dolphins
"For a Sunday football game against the one in two Dolphins. The Hawks are less than healthy team ruled out with injuries are defensive backs Jamal Adams and Quinton Dunbar, linebacker Jordan Brooks and coach Pete Carroll says. Those guys might rest until after the bye week, But there's an opportunity. You know if if a guy you know if it's just barely at the end of the week, he's just making it back that taking that extra week could be worthwhile, So we'll just have to gauge that as we go. Tomorrow afternoon in
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Seattle Seahawks’ list of injured players continues to grow
"Trainers earning their keep it Seahawks headquarters. Seattle's three no football team is far from healthy. Half a dozen players sat out practice yesterday. 12 more limited because of injuries. Secondary hard hit with Jamal Adam's Quinton Dunbar among the walking wounded Russell Wilson, now the NFC offensive player of the month. 14 touchdown passes in three games. A new NFL record. Teammate Tyler Lockett, says Russ, Visualize is greatness. When it comes down to that last play when it comes down to having to make that tough throw. He's already practiced it over and over within his head, and so is just another throw. The Hawks were a touchdown favorite on the road Sunday against the Dolphins. Inclement
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New York Giants Cornerback Deandre Baker Released From Florida Jail On Bond
"The desk newly acquired Seahawk defensive back Quinton Dunbar and giants defensive back Deondre Baker released from Broward county jail yesterday after surrendering Saturday on felony charges stemming from a cook out of the Miramar Florida home Dunbar charged with four felony counts of armed robbery posted a hundred thousand dollar bond the players lawyers say they have witnesses who will
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Report: Giants' Baker, Seahawks' Dunbar released on bond
"Newly acquired Seahawk defensive back Quinton Dunbar New York giant that the Andre Baker race for Broward county jail yesterday a day after surrendering on felony charges stemming from a cook out of the Miramar home Dunbar charged with four felony counts of armed robbery he posted a one hundred thousand dollar bond the players lawyers say they have witnesses who will
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New York Giants Cornerback Deandre Baker Released From Florida Jail On Bond
"NFL cornerbacks the Andre Baker and newly acquired Seahawk defensive back Quinton Dunbar released from Broward county jail yesterday after surrendering on felony charges stemming from a cook out of the Miramar home Dunbar charges for felony counts of armed robbery posted a hundred thousand dollars bond the players attorneys say they have witnesses who will
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Quinton Dunbar turns himself in to police on armed robbery charges
"To it after three days of being wanted by the authorities in South Florida Seahawks cornerback Quinton Dunbar turned himself in on four counts of armed robbery is common sports and family about the fake after the arrest warrant had been out for he and New York Giants quarterback de Andre Baker Dunbar and Baker were wanted after an alleged incident occurred at a house party late Wednesday night according to the police report done Martin Baker allegedly stole thousands of dollars in cash and jewelry while holding the alleged suspects at gunpoint Dunbar's lawyer Michael Greco says there are sworn affidavits from witnesses that exonerate Dunbar of any
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Miami - Giants' DeAndre Baker surrenders in armed robbery case
"And then in fort Lauderdale Florida New York Giants cornerback deandre Baker and Seattle Seahawks cornerback Quinton Dunbar they are in the Broward county jail they're facing charges of armed
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NFL players Deandre Baker, Quinton Dunbar turn themselves in
"Seattle's Quinton Dunbar in the giants see Andre Baker have surrendered themselves to police after warrants were issued for their arrests Thursday in connection to an armed robbery the pair is alleged to have committed the premeditated armed robbery in Miramar Florida after multiple witnesses identified them as holding up a party Dunbar and Baker are expected to appear in court later
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Miami - Deandre Baker and Quinton Dunbar turn themselves in
"Giants quarterback de Andre Baker is set to face a judge in Florida today after turning himself in on Saturday Baker is being charged with four counts each of armed robbery and aggravated assault with a firearm stemming from an alleged incident earlier in the week Seahawks corner Quinton Dunbar has also been charged in the incident Dunbar is facing four counts of armed robbery with a
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New York Giants CB Baker turns himself in to face Florida charges
"The entree Baker the giants in the Seahawks Quinton Dunbar surrendered to police in Florida after warrants were issued for their arrest this week in connection with an armed robbery both are expected to appear in court later today their lawyers say they have affidavits from witnesses which will eventually
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Deandre Baker and Quinton Dunbar turn themselves in
"To professional football players are under arrest for armed robbery but their attorneys say the only thing they're guilty of is being in the wrong place at the wrong time to NFL football players Quinton Dunbar of the Seattle Seahawks in de Andre Baker of the New York Giants surrendering to law enforcement today in Broward county Florida arrest warrants were