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23 episodes
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Collected Thoughts Keshawn Harper
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- Society & Culture
For years, society has always told you how to think. We are constantly bombarded with different points of views, all screaming at the top of their lungs on how right they are. Sometimes, you just have to sift through the bull, and figure out for yourself what works in your life. Collected Thoughts is an attempt to do just that...with a microphone of course
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Am I Adulting Yet?
“Am I adulting yet?” is usually something we say when we do something big in our lives. While usually in a joking manner, the fact that we ask the question reflects on how complicated being an adult really is. In this episode, we discuss what it means to be an adult and why it has changed overtime.
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Would You Join a Cult?: How Our Circumstances Can Betray Our Wills
What would it take for you to join a cult? We see different documentaries on how cults get started and how they find followers, but most of the time we feel as though we would never get caught up in something like that. And yet, we still see people committing mass suicide, or giving up their life savings in the name of a cult. Today we explore why people follow cults and I will try to convince you that believe or not, you are susceptible too.
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Apathetic Ambition: Why do we lose motivation?
In today's high paced society, ambition and progression is king. We all want to grow and achieve the next thing. But what do you do when simply wanting something becomes too much? When you don’t have the energy to want anything? Recently I’ve found myself facing these questions and wanting to figure out what factors keep me in such an apathetic headspace? Allow me to tell you what I’ve found.
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New Faces in New Places: How Pretending Drains Us of Our Identity
To get through hard times, people can adopt personas that are nothing like their true selves. But what happens when we wear that persona for too long? How do we learn to become ourselves again? I had this very problem after I graduated from the police academy. But luckily an experience at a car show, along with the help of a great officer showed me how to take off my mask.
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Love is Patient. Love is Kind. Love is Selfish
Love is a powerful emotion that can inspire someone to do the most selfless things. However there is a dark side that looms in the name of love that leads to a darker path. How can the same force result in both life and death? And is the idea of love truly selfish in nature? Listen and find out.
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What Can Be Lost in Pursuit of Love
We change for the people we love...or rather we change to get our crushes to like us. We are groomed and conditioned to do this, but what is there a line? How much change is too much? How nice is too nice when trying to impress someone you have feelings for? In this episode we talk about the sad truth about attractive people, what we do for them, and what it does to us in the process.