Welcome to A Better Life Walkthrough Podcast! Me and Arthur started this with hopes to fulfil the original goal of this channel- to keep each other accountable and grow a community. (Hopefully) by the time this airs this podcast will be available on Apple podcasts and Spotify. We expect to start as amateurs and grow from there. Hope ya'll find something useful out of this project. I think we have a good intention and a pretty novel idea with the 'check-in'.

Is Arthur wearing a cowboy hat in this episode due to any of his own free will? What would it even mean to say he chose it, but it wasn't his free will? Is one of our biggest subconscious assumptions about having free will simply an elaborate illusion? Find out here why it could be! But more importantly find out how acknowledging we lack free will can be good for personal happiness, compassion towards others, court, and legal punishment.

This is part 1 of a 2 part series. In this first part we check what Arthur's intuitions are about free will before being exposed him to any literature which may convince him otherwise. In part 2 (releasing next Monday), we see if Arthur is at all persuaded for arguments in favor of determinism [spoiler alert-it may not even take that long to convince him].

In this series (mostly part 2) we will be referencing two of the most prominent books on the topic: "Free Will" by Dr. Sam Harris and "Determined" by Dr. Robert Sapolsky. As always, we encourage you to get the information on the topics directly from the source, but we are grateful you found us here today :). Helping people is the primary goal of this channel and we hope we can expose you to topics, thoughts, or literature that leads you to creating a better life for yourself and those around you. We hope you stuck around for our 'check in' segment and are actively finding ways to stay out of your own way in the same method we are. Let us know how we may assist you better. Much love!

Peter and Arthur share their experiences with dating apps, but also talk more generally about how they can be harmful. They shared a couple articles regarding modern day relationships and a very ABLW-relevant article discussing pornography's correlation to anxious attachment styles in the dating world.

"Your Boyfriend Isn't Your Camerman": https://www.afterbabel.com/p/your-boyfriend-isnt-your-camera-man

Porn and anxious attachment: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6155976/