The Mercer Journal Podcast

A closer look at the unseen mechanics shaping conversations and human cognition. wardmercer.substack.com

The Mercer Journal Podcast is a society podcast hosted by Ward Ethan Mercer, with 25 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Ward Ethan Mercer hosts The Mercer Journal Podcast, a society show with 25 episodes published.

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  Why People Talk Past Each Other

  May 22, 20265 minS0

  <p>Why People Talk Past Each Other</p><p>From Conversations That Should Have Worked</p><p></p><p>When the same problems in conversations repeat themselves, perhaps there is a variable we are missing.</p><p></p><p>This series, Conversations That Should Have Worked explores these problems, and leads up to that variable.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wardmercer.substack.com

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  How to Start When You Don’t Feel Like It (Movement Pt2)

  May 21, 20267 minS0

  <p>How to Start When You Don’t Feel Like It (Movement Pt2)</p><p>From The Mechanics of Cognition</p><p></p><p>The common conception is that movement follows motivation. This so often is wrong. The truth is that, so often, motivation follows movement. </p><p>And the hardest part of starting a fire is ignition. This is where friction is highest. </p><p>The Movement series examines why the act of starting is so hard, where to see the problem, and how to get past the friction.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you wo...

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  The Pile Problem

  May 21, 20266 minS0

  <p>The Pile Problem</p><p>The Mind, Unbuilt Pt1</p><p></p><p>The problem of human consciousness has existed for centuries. Definitions have grown and grown, and now, after so long, there are a pile of definitions.</p><p></p><p>Why, after so long, has this question not been answered? What, after all, is the core of consciousness?</p><p></p><p>This series, The Mind, Unbuilt, looks at this problem, and attempts sort the pile.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access...

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  Why Explaining Makes Things Worse: Conversations That Should Have Worked Pt6

  May 15, 20268 minS0

  <p>Why Explaining Makes Things Worse</p><p>Part 6 of Conversations That Should Have Worked</p><p>By The Mercer Journal</p><p></p><p>In this episode:</p><p>-Why explaining feels responsible</p><p>-When explanation genuinely works</p><p>-Why some conversations quietly “change shape.”</p><p>-How clarification becomes escalation</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit wardmercer.substack.com

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  Why the Mind Won’t Move-Pt 1 of the Movement Series

  May 13, 20267 minS0

  <p>Why the Mind Won’t Move — Part 1 of the Movement Series</p><p>From The Mechanics of Cognition | The Mercer Journal</p><p>⸻</p><p>Episode Summary</p><p>You know what to do. You’ve already decided. And still—nothing happens.</p><p>This episode breaks down a common but poorly understood experience: the moment where action should begin, but doesn’t. Not because you lack knowledge, discipline, or motivation—but because something much smaller and more precise is happening.</p><p>This is not a productivity problem.</p><p>It’s a movement problem.</p><p>The episode identifi...

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