Host explores the difference between culture and intuition, showing how cultures form through repeated behaviors and how intuitive impulses can be countercultural yet valid. Invites reflection on what feels true in the moment.
The host greets the Cadre community, sets the scene from downtown Minneapolis, and invites viewers to pause and be present. He frames how noticing the moment changes our experience of time.
The speaker names the topic as culture versus intuition, explains his discomfort with binaries, and recounts a TV exchange where he preferred 'countercultural' over 'counterintuitive' as a key idea he returns to.
He describes culture as a set of repeated behaviors that become normal and stresses that by becoming aware we can intentionally shift culture to support healthier, mindful practices.
The speaker explains intuition as gut feelings and instinctive thoughts and highlights how what feels right personally can be labeled 'not right' by prevailing culture, giving examples like taking breaks or self-care.
He invites listeners to consider what they know to be true in the moment, lean into intuitive choices even when culture resists, and to positively influence the broader culture by modeling well-being.
A brief closing expressing gratitude for presence, affirming care for the audience, and a warm sign-off until tomorrow.
Cadre, how are we doing? How are we doing, Cadre, on this Sunday afternoon? I'm sitting downtown Minneapolis in my jeep, getting ready to head into my next work from my last work. Jules, nice to see you, my friend. It is Sunday. It is November. It is the other side of daylight savings time. All the things, all of a sudden we are here. And if you're one of those people who goes, my gosh, time flies or time slow or I can't believe it's already, it's true, right? When we take moments to be in the moment, time slows down.
When we don't take time to be in the moment, those moments can fly by. So here's your moment to be in the moment. Jules, I've missed your smile emojis as well. So culture versus intuition. You know me, I'm not a big binary person. I don't even like using the word versus. But I was on TV once and what I was saying, the host was like, JC, what you're saying is counterintuitive. And I instinctually jumped on him. I was like, No, no, it's not counterintuitive. It's countercultural. I didn't think about it, but in that moment I said something that I that I have come back to again and again and again and again and again.
Culture is something we create and it's super important. But culture we create it is not created because two plus two equals four. Culture is created because we go, you know, we're doing this, we're doing this, we're doing this, we're doing this, and then it becomes the thing that we do. So the beautiful thing about culture is when we become aware of it, we can start to shift it in ways that allow us to have the things we do without thinking about doing them. They become healthy, they become mindful, they become strategically placed to accomplish the things we want to accomplish together.
Intuition, on the other side, is something that is innately us. We are going to feel things. We're going to have gut feelings. We're going to have thoughts that are born of those feelings. So something can be incredibly counter cultural, yet incredibly intuitive. And what I was saying in that moment, I don't even remember what it was, but it was so easy for the host to go, huh, this is counterintuitive, meaning it's not normal for us to think or feel the thing we're thinking or feeling. And in reality, it was incredibly normal for us to think or feel whatever we were talking about.
But it was opposite of what culture had established as normal. You can be feeling something that is incredibly right, but culture will say, that's not right. Taking a break, that's not right. Doing something for yourself, that's not right. Realizing that there is many ways to be well, that's not right. It's countercultural, but is incredibly, incredibly intuitive. So my invitation for you today, consider what you know to be true. Consider what you know to be within this moment gut right. And even though if culture is saying, no, that's not the right thing to do, lean into it and be someone who positively influences and shapes and shifts the culture and everybody will benefit from it.
That's what we're doing right here in the Cadre Sphere. Doing little things often, showing the world there's lots of ways to be well, and taking minutes and moments to go, Huh, I am right here. Because I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know the things I know, and I care about you. See you tomorrow.
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