The Philosophy of Karl Popper

In this episode of Thinking Well & Why podcast, Mario, Lee and Creek talk about Karl Popper, a philosopher of science who had some of the seminal ideas in 20th century philosophy. Mario discusses Popper’s theories, such as The Falsifiability rule and growth of knowledge, how they influence the way he thinks about the Enneagram as well as link to the Awareness to Action approach.

“For me, Popper’s ideas are at the heart of epistemology. For me, that’s the foundation, the bedrock for how we know what is true and what is not.” -Mario [06:12]

“I have spent a lot of my life avoiding error – not that I’m alone in that – but turning making mistakes into happy accidents is a mindset shift, but a useful one where I can grow and adopt just more curiosity generally instead of defensiveness.” -Lee [20:04]

“There would be multiple ways to experience this thing and kind of challenging my own narrative of ‘I’m going to fail and I suck at this.’ And turns out, I didn’t entirely suck at it, so trying to reorient of like ‘Hey brain, remember that you thought you’re going to suck and then you didn’t? Let’s reinsert that story into some other situations and see how that goes.’” -Creek [23:07]

TIMESTAMPS

[00:01] Intro

[01:21] Who is Karl Popper

[10:51] The Awareness to Action approach

[15:27] Context always matters

[18:59] Shifting mindsets with making errors

[23:36] Learning to love to be wrong

[29:20] Iteration in the face of friction

[31:49] How it applies to the Enneagram

[37:47] Practical work for everyday use

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Falsifiability rule by Karl Popper
• The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
• Philosophy and the Real World: An Introduction to Karl Popper by Bryan Magee

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