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Leaning Toward Wisdom

Randy Cantrell

Modern Tales Of An Ancient Pursuit

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24:22

Does Your Printer Have Paper? (and other urgent...

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2023/04/27

It's a digital age and I fully embrace it. But I still need paper in my printer. Let's ruminate on these and other urgent analog matters facing us in the digital age. Please tell a friend about the podcast! • Join our private Facebook group • Email me

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34:11

Turning Over A New Leaf Won’t Help If It’s Poison Ivy

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2023/04/20

Jo Marsh is the dreamer and a scribbler character in Louisa May Alcott's novel, Little Women. Here's an observation about her life in the book. “I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.” It means making a change. Improving. Doing something differently. Doing different things. Our unwillingness to make a change is detrimental to our life and everybody else influenced by us. It's rebellion

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32:08

How’s Your Clock Speed?

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2023/04/13

Computers have a clock speed. The clock speed measures the number of cycles your CPU executes per second, measured in GHz (gigahertz). A “cycle” is technically a pulse synchronized by an internal oscillator, but for our purposes, they're a basic unit that helps understand a CPU's speed. The higher the clock speed, the faster the computer. There are other factors, but depending on your computing - gaming, graphics, CAD, video rendering, and other intensive tasks - you'll want the highest clock speed

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26:05

Always Improving (A.I.)

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2023/04/06

There are about 9.84 BILLION search results for A.I. - which we mostly think stands for "artificial intelligence." ChatGPT is the latest, greatest, coolest, trickest A.I. It is pretty spectacular. For mere mortals like me, I don't know how A.I. improvement could even be measured, but I do know there's a data gap that is a constraint. A.I. needs high-integrity data. I'm intrigued by artificial intelligence, but I'm far more obsessed with a different A.I. Always Improving “Always dream and shoot

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36:50

The Yellow Studio version 3.0 Is Now Live (kinda sorta)

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2023/03/31

It's happened. The Yellow Studio is in a new iteration. Let's catch up a little bit and talk about whatever version of your life you may be working on. Please tell a friend about the podcast! • Join our private Facebook group • Email me

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53:01

Growth Comes By Ending Something So You Can Begin...

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2023/03/04

“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.” ― John Irving, The World According to Garp It's time to say goodbye! Only to The Yellow Studio 2.0. It's officially over. Done. Next week I'll be getting The Yellow Studio 3.0 set up. Version 3.0 will be a transition studio that I hope will take me through the end of 2023. After that, I'm planning to settle into The Yellow Studio 4.0. Around 1999 The Yellow Studio 1.0 was born, dubbed with that name because I wanted

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32:40

Learning Optimism: You Find What You’re Looking For

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2023/02/23

The story may date back earlier than 1917. President Reagan made it famous because it was among his favorite jokes. That's likely where I first heard it. A couple had twin boys who were six years old. Worried that the boys had developed extreme personalities – one was a total pessimist, the other a total optimist – their parents took them to a psychiatrist. First, the psychiatrist treated the pessimist. Trying to brighten his outlook, the psychiatrist took him to a room piled to the ceiling with

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49:48

Why Do You Want What You Want?

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2023/02/16

We're closing in on saying goodbye to The Yellow Studio version 2.0. It's where every podcast episode I've ever produced (other than a few field recordings) was recorded. But I'm looking forward to the next chapter, The Yellow Studio version 3.0. Lots of people want more money, but they don't necessarily have any specific thing they want to do with it. They just think having more of it will make them happy. Or maybe they do know what they want - or think they do. A nicer house. A new car. Exotic

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36:01

Conversations, Podcasts & A Focus On Others

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2023/02/09

I leave a client's office after a normal, but intense 2-hour conversation. These are common conversations for me. Twice, during the course of a few hours, the client grows visibly emotional. I love these moments because it means we're speaking to issues of the heart. These are the things that really matter. As I walk to my car, leaving the client's office building, I'm thinking about podcasting, co-hosts, having guests and engaging in conversations. But mostly, I'm thinking about two words:

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53:01

The Ask-Me-Anything Episode

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2023/02/02

Let's do some scatter-shooting today. Today's show covers a few subjects: Our 45th wedding anniversary (me and Rhonda, not me and you) ;) My hyper-local podcast, HotSpringsVillageInsideOut.com Spammers and scammers Personal pain Your ideal outcome / my ideal outcome - plan A may give way to plan M, O, or Z The Starfish Parable I'm an INFJ-Introvert, Intuitive, Feeler, Judger The VIA Survey, click here to take it (free) - this is a character strength assessment Our (me and Rhonda)

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33:07

Will You Allow Your Failures To Pole Vault You To...

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2023/01/26

During the MLB playoff telecast of the NLCS between Philadelphia and San Diego, game 2, Fox analyst and Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz made an observation about failures. He remarked how nobody wants to be that guy who has a mishap or failure during a game...but if you allow it to pole vault you to success it can be a positive thing in your career. I've seen good athletic coaches approach players who just experienced a disaster and convey the same sermon. "You can let that failure define you as a

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35:44

Getting It Right In Realtime May Mean Changing Your Mind

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2023/01/19

“In a good bookroom, you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.” ― Mark Twain Twain was right. I know the feeling well, having surrounded myself with books for most of my adult life. Only recently did I rid myself of the vast array of books that surrounded me. But it was time and I have no regrets. Hopefully, somebody else is benefiting from the thousands of books I donated not long ago to a local

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33:44

Age, Broken Hearts & The Getting of Wisdom

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2023/01/12

Some time ago I ran across this verse and in short order I wrote the title of today's show: age, broken hearts and the getting of wisdom. I don't agree with every sentiment expressed, but I found it interesting. What do you think about it? What does it feel like to be old? The other day, a young person asked me: - What did it feel like to be old? I was very surprised by the question, since she did not consider me old. When he saw my reaction, she was immediately embarrassed, but I explained

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36:42

Ambition Has No Expiration Date

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2023/01/05

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” – Mark Twain People under 40 tend to think that as you get older your ambitions wane. I was once 40 and I thought the same thing. Until I grew older and hit 50. Then I hit 60. And my ambitions changed, but if anything, they intensified. Then I hit 65 and the intensity had grown even more intense. Compared to my younger ambitions, while very

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45:24

Two Women, One Dream & Plan M

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2022/12/31

Happy New Years! This is a bonus episode. I wasn't sure if I'd release it or not, but why not? I hope it serves to inspire you to dream your own dreams. And better yet, to pursue them so you can make them your reality. Thank you for listening. -Randy I've already introduced you to one woman, Re, my maternal grandmother. The second woman I've not yet talked about, is Nelda, my mother-in-law. Nelda passed away from breast cancer when she was only 42. Rhonda and I were in our first year of marriage

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36:08

If I’d Known I’d Live This Long, I’d Have Tried A Bit...

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2022/12/29

So long 2022. I hated much of my time with you! ;) “I can’t believe it’s been a year since I didn’t become a better person.” —Anonymous My hatred for this year - okay, that's an exaggeration, but only a minor one - is coupled with my love for the challenges that came with it. Challenges provide growth. I wish it weren't so. I'd much rather learn from calm, tranquil success. Today's headline is pure snark because few years have received the effort put forth to make 2022 a decent year. I was never

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31:51

Are You Putting Off Choosing?

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2022/12/22

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967 Reinvention. It seems an odd word when applied to us, to our lives - to who we are or who we hope to become. He tells me he'd like to reinvent himself. Oh, okay. I wonder what he means so I ask a few questions hoping to understand. "Into what?" I ask. We laugh, but it's a serious question, even if the

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39:56

Subject To Change

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2022/12/15

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. -Winston Churchill I must not be a fanatic. ;) Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. -George Bernard Shaw I grew up mostly thinking that change meant the potential for improvement and growth. Sometimes I was disappointed, but not always. Turns out life sometimes disappoints, but not always. So change isn't that unique. Some people take a stand against change

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39:44

Are Your Muses Too Unreliable?

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2022/12/08

“Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.” ― Helen Hanson A muse is a person or personified force who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist. I'd modify that definition slightly by saying a muse is any source of inspiration for creativity. Do you have a muse? Have you ever? Through the years of Leaning Toward Wisdom, I've talked about two that have occupied The Yellow Studio from the beginning - for over 22 years. Books. A

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41:13

Looking Forward Toward The Present

Leaning Toward Wisdom ·

2022/12/01

Pearl Jam's 1996 song, Present Tense (from their No Code album), is a fitting theme for today's show. To live in the present tense. But first, as I am wont to do, let me give you the impetus for today's show. I’m watching some house hunting kind of show on HGTV, the kind I normally don't watch - I much prefer the renovation shows. A couple is going through a few houses and in each house one or both exclaim how they could see themselves doing this or that in the space. Says the husband about a

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