“Thoughts Beyond Thought” is an unscripted conversation hosted by Travis Meredith and Chris Fogle. This episode mashes stress and superabundance together. Here’s a summary:

-The guys have their Quick Ketchup where Chris talks about change saturation and Travis discusses work stress, prioritization, and how these impact our external spirituality.

-Travis explains how his dad’s death has impacted how he deals with stress.

-Chris hypothesizes that because we’re not perfect, maybe when we falter due to stress, we have grace with ourselves and mature on quickly getting back to our healthy mindset.

-Ask ourselves if stress is from discontentment or change, and act accordingly.

-Chris brings up Professors Tupy and Pooley’s book Superabundance (link below). Their research shows that globally we’re not headed toward an apocalypse, but resources are now more abundant.

-The guys wrestle with caveats to that idea and recognize resource management and transit is still an issue.

-Taking responsibility for poor decisions, both personally and nationally.

-We don’t have a crystal ball, but we should humbly evaluate ourselves to consider where we’re currently complicit or actively impacting the world negatively.

-And finally, the “Beyond Books” segment.

Links:

-Professors Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley’s book Superabundance.

“Thoughts Beyond Thought” is hosted and produced by Travis Meredith and Chris Fogle, artwork by Erin Meredith, edited by Chris Fogle.