The Dakota Hanshew Podcast Dakota Hanshew

In this episode, I go all over the place about empathy, listening, and learning from others mistakes. Hope it helps someone listening.

Mental Gurus is an online algorithmic based system that helps do the following: 1 - Identify your personality & characteristics. 2 - Identify possible areas of needed help. 3 - Help with those that struggle at all with anxiety, depression, and/or ADD/ADHD. 4 - Help find most likely personalized areas of high purpose, fulfillment, and likeliness of understanding/competence 5 - Get perspectives from friends, family and others to help you understand how others see you

In this episode, I discuss the facades we put on through social media and how we cover up our flaws to often hide our true selves. This is the opposite approach that we need to be taking if we are after confidence, fulfillment, purpose and real substance within ourselves and our relationships.

Why do we idolize consumption? We get our anxiety and our excitement from the same part of our brain and surprisingly the same chemical.
I briefly discuss a few chemicals in our brain such as dopamine and how our cultural habitualization of instant gratification is impacting us on a personal level day to day. This involves the speed and amount of positive feedback we receive from friends or peers through social media platforms which serve us fake and highly superficial (not authentic) positive indicators / stimuli to get us addicted to the small “high” that the chemicals released give us when receiving positive feedback or buying a new Louie Vuitton purse. Either way, we have this constant need for more as a society and that’s what I want to address and hopefully root up and replace with real self confidence which is built up over a long amount of time of reducing the amount of external feedback and staying true to ourselves in most cases.

I discuss the point and new direction of my podcast and what a I’ll be doing to filter out people i do and don’t want following me. I’ll use my most drastic and radical opinions on subjects and It’ll be more or less a flow of principles and thoughts (that I usually internalize because I’ve become a more introverted person as I’ve had to become more analytical) I’m trying to prevent from going to my head and instead trying to understand my why behind my belief or the principle I have a belief in and my goal (which is) to objectively explain my point of view on situations, topics and discussions I’ll be posting about.

I go into how technology is used to track us and get our attention and how it can be used to your advantage as well if you want to self educate and create a very valuable skill for yourself and anyone selling anything.