Episodes

  • Welcome to Thinking Well & Why

    Welcome to Thinking Well & Why
    Jun 10 2026

    Your biggest obstacle to being right is trying not to be wrong—the same cognitive biases that shape every area of life show up in your reasoning, usually invisible. Thinking Well & Why explores the thinking skills that actually make sense of the world.

    This is the trailer for Thinking Well & Why, a new podcast on the Awareness to Action network hosted by Creek, Mario Sikora, and Lee Fields. The show tackles critical thinking, reasoning, and intellectual honesty—not as abstract disciplines, but as practical tools for making sense of life. The opening frames a central tension: the drive to avoid being wrong often becomes the biggest barrier to actually being right. The hosts highlight how cognitive biases and blind spots that operate universally in human cognition show up undetected in all domains of thought and decision-making. The show promises no guarantees, but offers sharp, direct conversation about the thinking skills worth defending.
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    1 min
  • Why Your Brain Wasn't Built to Think Well

    Why Your Brain Wasn't Built to Think Well
    Jun 11 2026
    In the premiere episode of Thinking Well & Why podcast, Mario, Lee and Creek explore why clear thinking and the Enneagram are inseparable. Our brains are wired for survival in simple environments, not for the complex information landscapes we inhabit today. The hosts discuss how clear thinking applies to the Enneagram, which can become a map of the nine adaptive strategies when used rigorously and with intellectual humility. Mario walks through his framework of clear thinking, listing the five nested obstacles we struggle to see and the five solutions to those obstacles.“I have just always felt that the ability to think well is the key to living a productive life.” -Mario [07:20]“We don’t have to agree on everything, but we need to be playing a similar game, at least, of what it means to have a well thought out theory or a well thought idea. Such that in some ways, we can still disagree, but we have both built a case that these are my reasons, my well thought out reasons, trying to avoid as many pitfalls as possible, etc, etc.” -Creek [23:30]“The Enneagram has helped me see myself more clearly. Helped me see what I do more clearly. It’s given me some patterns to point my inevitable confirmation bias at to recognize myself, and it’s been helpful to see that understanding that can ultimately give me more flexibility in how I choose to behave.” -Lee [29:20]TIMESTAMPS[00:01] Intro[00:55] Meet the hosts[05:01] A framework of clear thinking[09:51] Thinking is not that easy[13:43] Five nested obstacles to clear thinking[20:01] How clear thinking applies to the Enneagram[27:24] The Enneagram and the role it plays[36:11] Final thoughts and takeaways[41:11] On the next episodeRESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODEThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanHow to Think Well and Why: The Awareness to Action Guide to Clear Thinking by Mario SikoraThe Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl PopperConnect with us:Awareness to ActionMario Sikora: IG: @mariosikoraTikTok: @mariosikoraWeb: mariosikora.comPod: Enneagram in a MoviePod: The Awareness to Action EnneagramLee Fields:Web: enneagrammatic.comIG: @enneagrammaticSeth "Creek" Creekmore: IG: @_creekmorePod: Fathoms | An Enneagram PodcastPod: Delusional OptimismPod: The Awareness to Action Enneagram
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    43 mins