"The invitation is not to be right. It is to be willing." - Ken Woodward
"The invitation is not to be right. It is to be willing." - Ken Woodward
The small decisions we make without examination carry consequences we never see coming. Ken calls this the long tail. It does not stay inside us. It speaks, votes, stays silent when silence enables harm, and over time shapes the people and institutions around us in ways no single decision can account for.
Drawing on Roald Dahl's collapse, a question posed by author Jason Pargin about what we would actually do in someone else's position, and a personal story from a church lobby that still lands hard years later, this episode explores the difference between a foundation and a position. A foundation is what you would sacrifice almost everything to protect. A position is a conclusion you have built on top of lived experience that you have likely never examined.
The invitation is not to abandon what you stand on. It is to know what you are standing on. And to have the courage to look when something challenges it.
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Episode Notes
00:00 Welcome to Curated Questions
02:17 Broadway Show Giant
03:28 Integrity Misused
04:10 Humility Before Judgment
05:42 Foundation vs Position
07:34 Name Your Foundation
08:11 Church Lobby Conversation
09:16 Hearing the Harm
11:15 Staying in Discomfort
12:04 Community Pays a Price
13:02 The Long Tail Spreads
14:15 Political Identity and Waking Up
15:17 Questions for Archaeology
18:35 Dahl Cannot Hear Himself
19:56 Where We Go From Here
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