New beginning : Welcome to my mind, Episode 1

Here I come again, with another new beginning, another try at sharing my thoughts.

Thanks to the collaboration of my dear friend Dimitri we have produced 2 podcasts episodes.
Making the first one, the 13th episode of Dimitri's podcast, made us pretty happy but it was in french and I also wanted to share in english. So we gave it another try and ended up with what is now the first episode of my new podcast "Welcome to my mind".

Let's see how you like it and where it goes! (58 min)

And here is the transcript of the #warning for that new project :

Here goes nothing…

I have been told one too many times that I should write a book, 

or do a podcast or something 

for my poor inflated ego to resist any longer.

So, I’m gonna give this a try, I’m gonna share my thoughts. 

Publicly that is. 

Because whoever has met me once, knows I actually don’t have a problem sharing my thoughts.

I apologize to my French speaking friends and family, this is gonna be in English (and I apologize to my English speaking listeners: I am French).

I try to resist putting labels on myself in order to stay flexible and keep on believing that I can always grow out of being or acting a certain way; but I am a weird one and I know it. 

To begin with, I like weird.

I have been put in many boxes, but the one that seems to fit the most is probably mental over-efficiency.

« Mental over-efficiency is an over-activation of the mind due to a brain that functions constantly and at full speed »

It’s the same as HIP (high intellectual potential) or giftedness, but it speaks to me more, because over doesn’t mean high or great/better, it means too much. 

I think too much. I over think. And it’s not just an expression, it’s a condition. 

One of the atypical, a zebra amongst the lions.

So this is my disclaimer I guess.

I’ll share about the things my brain thinks about « constantly and at full speed » and that can be a lot of things because once something popped up in my mind there’s a good chance my brain is not gonna let go of it, or at least not until it finds resolution. 

I’m doing this to share my thoughts, get feedback and open up conversations. It’s probably gonna be messy and chatty, because that’s who I am. 

So please, react, ask, suggest, but know I am not here to debate, I’m here to converse. 

What I share are only opinions, and I am only an imperfect human being. 

I don’t claim to hold the truth, I am just trying to find it.

My words are gonna be biased because all thinking is subjective. 

I might say things I wish I didn’t, because as much as I wish I were the spiritual child of Maria Montessori and Marshall Rosenberg, I am not. 

They inspire me deeply and I strive to walk in their footsteps, but I can't hold a candle to them.

And don’t get me started on God, Jesus or The Bible. I’m finding it hard today to have one conversation that doesn’t lead me back to it. I’m as passionate about faith as I am disappointed by religions. 

Oh, and my brain likes to wake me up at 3 am, or simply not let me go to sleep for hours, 

so a lot of this thinking happens on sleep deprivation. 

So bear with me. Or don’t. Just be warned. 

Welcome to my mind.