2025-11-30 - Toughening Up for Christmas! - Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir - Ep. 288
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
Release Date: 12/01/2025
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
In which Robert & Amy fight Chaos with Order, fight The Irrational with Reason, fight evil & vices with values & virtues. How to change the world with just one small change in focus ... and have a great time in the process. Love, affection, kindness ... for others, and for oneself. Why choosing to take The higher Ground ... properly understood ... is a success strategy. Also, Mary Queen Of Scots (and why we no longer behead politicians), the mind/body dichotomy (and how NOT to fight it), and James Dean (drive carefully!). Plus, Valentine's Day, and the Superb Owl!
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Join us (and Ask Us Anything!) as we celebrate Randsday Eve! Robert & Amy discuss current events (except for that one) and answer your questions (well, anything that that)! Also, the OED, Groundhog Day, National Freedom Day, Groundhog Day, and Happy Randsday Eve ... celebrate your fine self! (Also, tomorrow is Groundhog Day!)
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Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism, as a Source and System of Wisdom. Wisdom vs. knowledge. Metaphysics and gratitude. Rationality and equanimity. The primacy of values. The Three C's of Capitalism: Creation, Cooperation, Competition. Purposeful action. Being right in order to live right (versus chasing distractions, experiencing trivial (non-)victories, winning arguments). The value of debate, contrasted with the value of self-interest, self-composure, serenity. "We never had to take any of it seriously, did we?" What we never had to take seriously ... and what we must take very seriously.
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What can one do? Let's have a war! Blind followers and blind rebels. "21st Century Schizoid Man." Something must be done. Beans on toast. Robert & Amy address current events (for a change)!
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Join Robert & Amy as we speak with Catherine Dickerson, an educator, long-time Objectivist, and Parent Effectiveness Training Instructor and Expert. We'll discuss Dr. Thomas Gordon's Parent Effectiveness Training, what the Gordon Training approach has to offer parents and others, and Catherine's upcoming course, 9 weekly sessions, beginning Tuesday, February 3, ending Tuesday, March 31!
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In which Robert & Amy celebrate the New Year and join the movement to make 2026 The Year Of Selfishness! Celebrate your fine self, and make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! Reliving The Me Decade in a year. Looking back on 2025, and looking forward to a new year of virtues, values, and living large! Also, Pooh, Braille, Stipe, how to think about news, trends, war, and general mayhem in the culture. It's the 1980's All Over Again! Let's relive the Me Decade!
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In which Robert & Amy celebrate the season, share our favorites for the holidays, and ask you to share your faves & traditions too! Films, music, fiction, audiobooks, traditions. Also, Basketball, Samuel L. Jackson, and Keifer Sutherland. Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie? (Maybe not, but here's one that is!) And just this once ... DON'T Make Your Bed. Look sharp, friends ... Santa Claus is coming to town!
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In which Robert & Amy say, Do All The Things!!! ...and ask your advice. Keep saying Yes! Explorers, Performers, Weddings, Weekends & Holidays, Christmas, and the Festival of Lights. Upping your adventurousness and risk tolerance the easy way ... just say YES!
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In which Robert & Amy opt out of yelling at clouds, and Let It Snow ... 'cause the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate ... people gonna people ... Mel Robbins' and "The Let Them Theory". Holiday Nights. Gail Wynand and "love is exception making" ... lovers as friends? 'Tis the Season for Equanimity AND Discernment in 2025. Also, Bernini, Letters, and Robert joins The C.I.A.!
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Toughening up for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Eve! Do NOT put up with ingratitude and unkindness anymore! Demand gratitude & good will ... the Thanksgiving & Christmas Spirit. Driving the bus. Being the kindly brontosaurus. Also, Galileo, DaVinci, Football, Meteors, Dessert ... and Robert & Amy's Anniversary Report. Christmas songs you need in your life. Finally, an Attitude of Altitude for the season. And Robert joins The C.I.A.!!!
info_outlineToughening up for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Eve! Do NOT put up with ingratitude and unkindness anymore! Demand gratitude & good will ... the Thanksgiving & Christmas Spirit. Driving the bus. Being the kindly brontosaurus. Also, Galileo, DaVinci, Football, Meteors, Dessert ... and Robert & Amy's Anniversary Report. Christmas songs you need in your life. Finally, an Attitude of Altitude for the season. And Robert joins The C.I.A.!!!