125 Journey

About this episode

Kimberly and Cara discuss the concept of 'journey' through personal anecdotes about internal soundtracks and the nature of perfection.

Kimberly and Cara pull the word "journey" and immediately split - Kimberly lands on Princess Leia's epic arc while Cara's brain starts playing Journey the band. What follows is a personal conversation about internal soundtracks: Cara has music playing in her head at all times (right now it's a blend of Oklahoma and birdsong), while Kimberly's brain runs on human conversation - a comfort she traces back to childhood holidays spent in her grandmother's kitchen while the men watched football in silence. The "Is It Just Me?" segment turns into a real one when Cara asks whether feeling like you missed the handbook on being human is a neurospicy thing or just... a human thing. Kimberly drops a pinball analogy that sticks: you can predict where the ball is going, but life keeps popping up bumpers you didn't see coming. They close on a phrase that's still rattling around Kimberly's brain: the spectrum of perfect. Not perfectionism as a problem to solve - but what if perfect itself had a range, and you were already somewhere on it?

People in this episode

Hosts: Kimberly, Cara

Topics covered

• journey
• internal soundtracks
• music
• human conversation
• perfectionism

Keywords

• Princess Leia
• Journey
• Oklahoma
• birdsong
• pinball analogy
• spectrum of perfect

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Is It Just Me

Places: Oklahoma

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