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Walking my local streets amongst the lavender, discussing sleep deprivation and shift work. Whilst shifting your day around can enable an early or a late start, it is seriously incompatible with a young family. Your thoughts on sleep? Go to walkthepod.com.

Walking in the woods this lunchtime, thinking about Matthew Walker’s book Why we Sleep, particulary the section on Sleep and Learning. Sleep, it seems, helps us prepare to learn, acts as a ‘save’ button for what we’ve learned, and can even help with recall within the day of learning if we take a quick nap in between study sessions.

Walking in my local woods at lunchtime today discussing our new theme: Sleep. Today, Robin’s voicenote prompts a discussion of circadian rhythms, sleep breathing and noradrenalin.

Welcome to a brand new series of Walk the Pod. This series our theme is Sleep! Invoting you to contribute your thoughts about sleep, and I’ll be introducing ideas from Matthew Walker’s ‘Why We Sleep’.

A final episode on Ego, closing our series. Walk the Pod will return on Monday 20th April. If you’d like to vote for our next theme, you can do so by joining the walk the Pod lunchtime walk club on Patreon. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for theme voting, private Discord server, and beautiful Walk the Pod artwork stickers! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley

A summary of some of what we’ve discussed this series plus an invitation to join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime Walk Club. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for theme voting, private Discord server, and beautiful Walk the Pod artwork stickers! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley

In today’s episode, a walk in the woods discussing Ursula Le Guin’s discussion of ego in ‘The Dispossed’. On Le Guin’s fictional planet, Annares, humans in an egalitarian society are ostracised for ‘egoising’. Egoising is an inevitable corrollary to the struggle between community and a sense of self. Le Guin does not describe it as a moral failing, just a tension. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for theme voting, private Discord server, and beautiful Walk the Pod artwork stickers! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley

Considering different types of ego this lunchtime including Clyde Barrow’s inability to admit defeat. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for theme voting, private Discord server, and beautiful Walk the Pod artwork stickers! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley

Discussing Alan Watts today who wrote that viewing ourselves inside the head, as an ego, is a ‘dangerous hallucination’. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for theme voting, private Discord server, and beautiful Walk the Pod artwork stickers! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley

Everything we’ve discussed so far this week, plus an invitation to join the Walk the Pod lunchtime walk club. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for theme voting, private Discord server, and beautiful Walk the Pod artwork stickers! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley

Discussing various leaders and how ego drives behaviour this lunchtime. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for theme voting, private Discord server, and beautiful Walk the Pod artwork stickers! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley

Welcome to your walk, and episode 3 of our new series on the theme of Ego. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for theme voting, private Discord server, and beautiful Walk the Pod artwork stickers! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley

Introducing Douglas Adams’ Total Perspective Vortex and Hanlon’s razor.

Get out into nature with Walk the Pod! Today’s episode introduces our new Series theme: Ego. realbubbs shared on Instagram: time x space x silence = luxury Anything else calling itself luxury is a trinket of the ego Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for theme voting, private Discord server, and beautiful Walk the Pod artwork stickers! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley

Walking around my local woods with some more reflections on our Slowing Down theme, plus a huge thank you to members of the Walk the Pod lunchtime walk club: Rob in New Zealand, Marcel in The Netherlands And in the UK: - Catherine in Ealing - Nick in Worcester - Jim in Manchester - Gaynor and Tati in Brockley - Hannah, Sam and Katie in SW London - Helen in Crystal Palace - John in Muswell Hill - Hilary from Trundl - Mum in the beautiful Malvern hills - Dad in rural Norfolk - DJ Postie Nige - and Rear Admiral Tim in The Independent People’s Republic of Croydon Join the club for theme voting, private Discord server, and beautiful Walk the Pod artwork stickers! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley Your 62nd Series of Walk the Pod starts on Monday 2nd March.