Freedom and Flourishing

My purpose is to promote greater understanding of the nature of human flourishing as a self-directed activity, in which individuals accept responsibility for managing their own lives and seek opportunities to obtain mutual benefits from voluntary interactions with others.

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Freedom and Flourishing

Finding my voice

October 07, 2021 • Winton

This podcast tells the story of how I gained fluency after many years of stuttering and blocking. I discuss the cognitive and behavioral approaches that helped me within a framework I find useful to my own understanding.

The framework for transformational change involves five elements:

Challenging the hidden assumption
Avoiding self-interference
Coping with self-doubt
Accepting whatever happens as a learning experience
Practice.

There are three segments in the podcast:

My story about stuttering and blocking
Transformation (beginning about 14 minutes into the podcast)
Toastmasters and personal development (beginning about 39 minutes into the podcast).

The following books are referred to in the podcast:

Bates, Winton Russell, Freedom, Progress, and Human Flourishing, Hamilton Books, 2021.

Bodenhamer, Bob G Mastering Blocking and Stuttering, A cognitive approach to fluency, Crown House Publishing, 2004.

Gallwey, W Timothy, The Inner Game of Golf, Pan Books,1981.

Gallwey, W Timothy, The Inner Game of Tennis, Pan Books, 1975.

Gallwey, W Timothy, The Inner Game of Work, Texere, 2000.

Hall, L Michael, Movie Mind, Neuro-Semantics, 2002.

Harrison, John, Redefining Stuttering, What the struggle to speak is really about, 2002, How to conquer your fears of speaking before people, Words that Work, 2011. (An online version is freely available.)

Kegan, Robert, and Lisa Laskow Lahey, Immunity to Change, Harvard Business Press, 2009.

The music used in the podcast is Clumsy Dance by Roa Music | https://soundcloud.com/roa_music1031
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