This is Deep: Taking a dive into things like Meaning and Depression #5

This week Mike is off pursuing a way to change the world and Ben talks through some of the weirdness doing a podcast solo. Its That Deep will also be going on hiatus until the new year, so we'll see you then!

Bruce Lee is a rare person. He's the kind of person that changes the essence of the world. Over his lifetime Bruce Lee would be a child actor, a teenage delinquent, a student of philosophy, a teacher, a father  and so much more. Simply put, Bruce Lee is a man that is remembered, both by history and by culture. This week we look at Bruce Lee, greatness itself, and probably get lost along the way. 

Who was Albert Einstein? Certainly one of, if not the single, greatest scientific minds in history. Alongside all of his accomplishments were many shortcomings, just as every person is cursed with. What does it take to manifest genius? We try to get to the bottom of this and may or may not get lost along the way.

What does a true obstacle look like? Likely, it's some difficulty so great that you must fundamentally change to even face it and must also be fundamentally changed in overcoming it. Helen Keller faced this kind of obstacle when fever stole her sight and hearing. Despite this, and with the help of Annie Sullivan, Helen was the most popular girl in school, wrote an extraordinary amount, and became the Helen Keller we all should study. What was the last obstacle that you overcame? 

What makes a great person great, or, what makes Michael Jordan, Michael Jordan? Is it the heights they're able to reach, the difficulties they overcome, or any one of an infinite number of other reasons? This week we try to get to the bottom of that and do our best to explain why we think these giants among men are simply always in a state of becoming themselves.

This week we take a look at what a high quality friend looks like, what a high quality friendship feels like, and why it might be in everyone's best interest to pick the best friends we possibly can

Today we take a dive into finance and some things that we try to keep track of and grow this little thing called money. We also try to see where money fits on the hierarchy of Things You Need™, and get lost a little bit on the way.

This week we look at some of the struggles of just being alive, like finding meaning and trying to move forward. We also do our best to come up with solutions for what to do when Mother Nature decides to take control away from you. 

Today we take a dive into how other people can shape your reality, what life looked like for Mike before he came to America, and why, just maybe, you should be selfish at least some of the time. "In the individual’s mental life someone else is invariably involved, as a model, as an object, as a helper, as an opponent; and so from the very first individual psychology, in this extended but entirely justifiable sense of the words, is at the same time social psychology as well.” - Sigmund Freud

This week we take a loosely organized deep dive into some things we thought up while longboarding, doing free associations in nature, and online dating.