Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick

Hello and welcome to Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick. We discuss the things that make you go "Hmm?" — the most pressing topics of contemplation in your mind as you interface with the reality of your day-to-day life. Are you open, curious, and ready to solve the mysteries of why stuff happens? Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses.

Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick is a education podcast hosted by Dr. JC Doornick "The Dragon", with 214 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Dr. JC Doornick "The Dragon" hosts Makes Sense - with Dr. JC Doornick, a education show with 214 episodes published.

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  Episode #216

  Curiosity Is Your Superpower: Beat Imposter Syndrome for Good- E216

  Oct 2, 202626 min

  Even Dr. JC Doornick is not immune. One presentation was all it took to send his mind spiraling into doubt, comparison, and the question every high achiever quietly fears: what if I am not as good as I think I am? Then he did something small that changed the whole story. In this episode, he shows you the one move that puts you back in the driver's seat, and why it might be the most underrated skill in a world that never stops handing you answers. The people who learn this are the ones who stay sharp, stay calm, and stay ahead. And one more thing: you are going to want to hear how this one ends. Follow Dr. JC Doornick and the Makes Sense Academy: ► Makes Sense Substack - https://drjcdoornick.substack.com ► Instagram: /drjcdoornick ► Substack: /drjcdoornick ► Facebook: /makessensepodcast ► YouTube: /drjcdoornick MAKES SENSE PODCAST Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW & SHARE our new podcast. FOLLOW Podcast: You will find a "Follow" button in the top right. This will enable the podcast software to alert you when a new episode launches each week. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/makes-sense-with-dr-jc-doornick/id1730954168 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1WHfKWDDReMtrGFz4kkZs9?si=003780ca147c4aec Podcast Affiliates Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon OUR SPONSORS Operly - Take Back Control of Your Work Day and Get Rid of All Your AI Apps - Welcome to the new world of Time Freedom and Unlimited Scaling and Success with Operly - https://go.getoperly.ai/video?ref=jean-claude-claude-d-2a95 Blue Blinds Bakery - Handcrafted with all-natural ingredients - https://www.blueblindsbakery.com Timestamps 0:00 - 1:09: Cold Open and Welcome to the Podcast 1:10 - 4:49: How a Presentation Triggered 60 Seconds of Comparison 4:50 - 7:37: Catching the Thought and Saying Hmm 7:38 - 11:01: What Else Might Be True and What Is Your Superpower 11:02 - 13:29: The Need for Cognitive Closure and Intellectual Humility 13:30 - 17:25: Trait Curiosity, State Curiosity, and the Longevity Research 17:26 - 19:09: Why Better Questions Matter in an AI Driven World 19:10 - 21:59: Currency, the Currency of Care, and the State of Carelessness 22:00 - 25:08: Staying Present, Saying "I Don't Know," and the Closing Challenge 25:09 - 25:52: Outro and Call to Action Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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  Episode #215

  Good Shift - How Creative Allowance Changes the Way You Plan - E215

  Sep 30, 202610 min

  What if the life you keep trying to make happen is not the only one available to you? In this Good Shift episode, a new series where Dr. JC Doornick brings one of his favorite Makes Sense Substack blogs to life, he starts with a question he was asked about who he creates for and what makes his voice different. That leads to a thoughtful look at allowance. Dr. JC explores the sweet spot between setting goals and letting life have the final say, and why we so often confuse certainty with safety. He leaves you with a few honest questions to sit with. Stay with me. Read the Original Blog Post: GOOD SHIFT - Creative Allowance: https://drjcdoornick.substack.com/p/good-shift-creative-allowance Follow Dr. JC Doornick and the Makes Sense Academy: ► Makes Sense Substack - https://drjcdoornick.substack.com ► Instagram: /drjcdoornick ► Substack: /drjcdoornick ► Facebook: /makessensepodcast ► YouTube: /drjcdoornick MAKES SENSE PODCAST Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW & SHARE our new podcast. FOLLOW Podcast: You will find a "Follow" button in the top right. This will enable the podcast software to alert you when a new episode launches each week. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/makes-sense-with-dr-jc-doornick/id1730954168 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1WHfKWDDReMtrGFz4kkZs9?si=003780ca147c4aec Podcast Affiliates Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon OUR SPONSORS Operly - Take Back Control of Your Work Day and Get Rid of All Your AI Apps - Welcome to the new world of Time Freedom and Unlimited Scaling and Success with Operly - https://go.getoperly.ai/video?ref=jean-claude-claude-d-2a95 Blue Blinds Bakery - Handcrafted with all-natural ingredients - https://www.blueblindsbakery.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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  Episode #214

  Dr. Robert Epstein - This Harvard Scientist Was Warned to Stay Silent - E214

  Sep 28, 20261 hour

  What if the search result you trusted most was quietly chosen to change your mind? Dr. Robert Epstein is a Harvard-trained research psychologist and the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today. For more than a decade, he has studied how search engines, search suggestions, and video recommendations can quietly shift what people believe and how they vote. He has testified twice before Congress, and his team built America's Digital Shield, which he describes as the first nationwide system to capture the content tech companies send to real voters and children before it vanishes. In this conversation, Dr. Epstein explains why he says short-lived, invisible content is so hard to catch, why even people who notice the bias can still be swayed, and why he believes permanent monitoring is the only way to hold big tech accountable. We also get practical: a digital hygiene test you can take in under a minute, and the simple swaps he uses to protect his own privacy. These are Dr. Epstein's findings and views, and we work through them together. Stay with me. Connect With Dr. Robert Epstein: ► Website: https://drrobertepstein.com ► X: https://x.com/DrREpstein ► America's Digital Shield (live dashboard, sponsor a field agent): https://americasdigitalshield.com ► My Digital Hygiene (mini test and full test): https://mydigitalhygiene.com ► My Privacy Tips: https://myprivacytips.com ► The Case Against Gmail: https://thecaseagainstgmail.com ► The Selfish Ledger (leaked Google video, Internet Archive copy): https://archive.org/details/GooglesTheSelfishLedger ► Brave browser: https://brave.com ► Proton (email): https://proton.me Follow Dr. JC Doornick and the Makes Sense Academy: ► Makes Sense Substack - https://drjcdoornick.substack.com ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjcdoornick/ ► Substack: https://substack.com/@drjcdoornick ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/makessensepodcast/ ► YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrJCDoornick MAKES SENSE PODCAST Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW & SHARE our new podcast. FOLLOW Podcast: You will find a "Follow" button in the top right. This will enable the podcast software to alert you when a new episode launches each week. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/makes-sense-with-dr-jc-doornick/id1730954168 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1WHfKWDDReMtrGFz4kkZs9?si=003780ca147c4aec Podcast Affiliates: Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon OUR SPONSORS: Operly - Take Back Control of Your Work Day and Get Rid of All Your AI Apps - Welcome to the new world of Time Freedom and Unlimited Scaling and Success with Operly - https://go.getoperly.ai/video?ref=jean-claude-claude-d-2a95 Blue Blinds Bakery - Handcrafted with all-natural ingredients - https://www.blueblindsbakery.com TIMESTAMPS 0:00:00 - 0:03:19: Cold open and what it is like to be Dr. Robert Epstein 0:03:19 - 0:06:24: Why he does this work and how America's Digital Shield captures ephemeral content 0:06:24 - 0:10:20: Eisenhower's warning and Dr. Epstein's go-vote reminder findings from the 2024 election 0:10:20 - 0:14:13: Why monitoring must be permanent and the $50 million funding goal 0:14:13 - 0:16:45: Who holds the power and Google's leaked Selfish Ledger video 0:16:45 - 0:21:00: Why monitoring is not optional, undecided minds, and the case against Gmail 0:21:00 - 0:25:52: Teaching digital hygiene, the two tests, and the phone in your pocket 0:25:52 - 0:28:55: Why people forget the threat and why young people need digital education 0:28:55 - 0:33:35: How much of what we believe is really ours, and the manipulation experiments 0:33:35 - 0:38:49: Funding the research, the personalization effect, and sponsoring a field agent 0:38:49 - 0:41:53: Testifying before Congress and what worries him most 0:41:53 - 0:45:15: Dr. Epstein on Google's reach into universities, news organizations, publishers, and Siri 0:45:15 - 0:48:08: Blockchain, entrenched monopolies, and the Google antitrust case 0:48:08 - 0:52:38: Do-gooders with power, a lasting legacy, and why laws move too slowly 0:52:38 - 0:56:24: Practical steps: Brave, Proton, and leaving Google software 0:56:24 - 0:59:07: Closing thoughts on the book, gratitude, and staying curious 0:59:07 - 1:00:02: Sign off Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. 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  Episode #213

  Radical Responsibility: When Life Chooses You - E213

  Sep 25, 202641 min

  What if the very thing draining your energy every day isn't your circumstances, but the hours you spend rehearsing a future that hasn't happened yet? Dr. JC Doornick is currently navigating a stage 4 cancer diagnosis, and instead of talking around it, he uses it as the live case study for the system his book and coaching are built on: the Interface Response System. He walks through what he calls radical responsibility, introduces a concept from his next book called Carency, the limited currency of care, time, and attention we all spend, and explains why he's stopped bracing for what might happen so he can actually show up for what is happening. Along the way he pulls in Jim Dethmer's above the line and below the line framework, Mel Robbins on why no one is coming to save you, and Steve Jobs on connecting the dots, then leaves listeners with a challenge for the week ahead. Follow Dr. JC Doornick and the Makes Sense Academy: ► Makes Sense Substack - https://drjcdoornick.substack.com ► Instagram: / drjcdoornick ► Substack: / drjcdoornick ►Facebook: / makessensepodcast ► YouTube: / drjcdoornick MAKES SENSE PODCAST Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW & SHARE our new podcast. FOLLOW Podcast: You will find a "Follow" button in the top right. This will enable the podcast software to alert you when a new episode launches each week. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/makes-sense-with-dr-jc-doornick/id1730954168 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1WHfKWDDReMtrGFz4kkZs9?si=003780ca147c4aec Podcast Affiliates: Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon OUR SPONSORS: Operly - Take Back Control of Your Work Day and Get Rid of All Your AI Apps - Welcome to the new world of Time Freedom and Unlimited Scaling and Success with Operly - https://go.getoperly.ai/video?ref=jean-claude-claude-d-2a95 Blue Blinds Bakery - Handcrafted with all-natural ingredients - www.blueblindsbakery.com 0:00 - 2:10: Gratitude, YouTube Growth, and Welcome to the Show 2:11 - 3:44: Introducing Radical Responsibility and the Idea of Carency 3:45 - 6:27: The Cost of Living in an Uncertain Future 6:28 - 7:58: The Moment of Diagnosis, When the Mind Races to the Worst Case 7:59 - 12:07: Hmm, the First Move of the Interface Response System 12:08 - 15:01: Responsibility Is Not Blame, and Feeling Lucky at Stage 4 15:02 - 18:00: Above the Line by Choice, Knowing My Relationship With Adversity 18:01 - 20:03: America's Responsibility Crisis and the Excuse Trap 20:04 - 22:33: Finding Your True North and Reclaiming Agency 22:34 - 25:35: What I Can and Cannot Control, Participating in My Dot 25:36 - 26:53: A Note on the Make Sense Mastermind and Academy 26:54 - 31:27: Responsibility Means Ownership, the Interface Response System 31:28 - 35:23: From Preparing for the Future to Being Glad It's Me 35:24 - 36:34: Not Wasting or Missing This Experience 36:35 - 39:43: This Week's Challenge, and Why Responsibility Is Lighter Than Helplessness 39:44 - 40:31: Closing, Spend Your Care Currency Wisely Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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  Episode #212

  Good Shift - The Currency of Attention - E212

  Sep 23, 20266 min

  What if the people you love most aren't getting your best attention, just whatever is left after the noise has taken its share? In this Good Shift episode, Dr. JC Doornick brings his Makes Sense Substack writing to life with a short, powerful reflection on Carrency: the limited supply of time, energy, attention, and focus we distribute each day. He explores how the brain's filter, programmed by the world around us, amplifies deadlines, conflict, and threat while quietly muting the moments that matter most: a partner who needs to be heard, a child who just wants your eyes on them, a few undivided seconds of connection. Using the Interface Response System, JC shows how to catch the automatic pattern and choose where your attention goes, because attention is also a form of love. Read the Original Good Shift Post: ► Good Shift - The Currency of Attention: https://drjcdoornick.substack.com/p/good-shift-the-currency-of-attention Follow Dr. JC Doornick and the Makes Sense Academy: ► Makes Sense Substack - https://drjcdoornick.substack.com ► Instagram: /drjcdoornick ► Substack: /drjcdoornick ► Facebook: /makessensepodcast ► YouTube: /drjcdoornick MAKES SENSE PODCAST Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. This podcast explores topics that expand human consciousness and enhance performance. On the Makes Sense Podcast, we acknowledge that it's who you are that determines how well what you do works, and that perception is subjective and an acquired taste. When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at begin to change. Welcome to the uprising of the sleepwalking masses. Welcome to the Makes Sense with Dr. JC Doornick Podcast. SUBSCRIBE/RATE/REVIEW & SHARE our new podcast. FOLLOW Podcast: You will find a "Follow" button in the top right. This will enable the podcast software to alert you when a new episode launches each week. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/makes-sense-with-dr-jc-doornick/id1730954168 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1WHfKWDDReMtrGFz4kkZs9?si=003780ca147c4aec Podcast Affiliates: Kwik Learning: Many people ask me where I get all these topics, which I've been covering for almost 15 years. I have learned to read nearly four times faster and retain information 10 times better with Kwik Learning. Learn how to learn and earn with Jim Kwik. Get his program at a special discount here: https://jimkwik.com/dragon OUR SPONSORS: Operly - Take Back Control of Your Work Day and Get Rid of All Your AI Apps - Welcome to the new world of Time Freedom and Unlimited Scaling and Success with Operly - https://go.getoperly.ai/video?ref=jean-claude-claude-d-2a95 Blue Blinds Bakery - Handcrafted with all-natural ingredients - www.blueblindsbakery.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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