Synopsis
The Reasonable Adventurer is a graduate capable of creating opportunities for satisfaction. Be that professionally, socially or just in your family life. Graduation can be from any form of school, including the school of hard knocks. Our focus is entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education and learning.
Episodes
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Episode 119: Developing Models of the World
11/10/2025 Duration: 20minEver wonder how you develop mental models of the world? Join us for Episode 119 of the Reasonable Adventurer to explore this question from the perspective of Jeff Hawkins work on the Thousands Brain idea.
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Episode 118: The Pursuit of Happiness
04/10/2025 Duration: 23minSick of trying to be happy? Come along for the ride with Episode 118: The Pursuit of Happiness, where we travel back in time to 1955 to tap into some sage advice, before reconciling with the six attributes of the reasonable adventurer.
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Episode 117: The Adventure
30/09/2025 Duration: 29minWelcome to Episode 117: The Adventure, where we reveal a little more about the forthcoming development of the show. In this show we set the scene for Primed Adventuring. Come along and audit yourself as an adventurer in your everyday life.
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Episode 116: The Unlived Life
21/09/2025 Duration: 21minHave you ever found yourself regretting the actions you haven't yet taken in life? Or, perhaps, you feel anxiety about the future you often dream about? Welcome to Episode 116 - where we will take a deep dive into the idea of the 'unlived life', and it benifits for your outlook on life.
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Episode 115: The Courage to Create
18/09/2025 Duration: 23minWelcome to episode 115, where we celebrate the idea of a 'pause' to create the space for intelligent choice. Join me as we walk through the highlights of Roll May's classic, The courage to Create. If you would like a free copy of my recent ePub, 'In Praise of Pause', just email me (colindavidjones28@gmail.com), also available in paperback on all Amazon sites.
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Episode 114: In Over Our Heads
15/09/2025 Duration: 16minWelcome to Episode 114 of the Reasonable Adventurer. There has been quite a break in the production of episodes for the show. Fear not, there are concrete plans to bring the show back to you regularly, and to create so much more value for listeners. The show recommences by providing listeners with an introduction to a good number of books and thinkers whose ideas have been used to help me build the coming personal development framework. Stay tuned for more information on that! Until then, enjoy our first book, Robert Kegan's In Over Our Heads.
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Episode 113 - The Fantastic Five Christmas Special
21/12/2020 Duration: 01h06minTo celebrate the end of a very challenging year, join me to discuss reflection with Andy Penaluna, Norris Krueger, Elinor Vettraino and Kath Penaluna.
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Episode 112 - The Fantastic Five
10/11/2020 Duration: 56minJoin us for Episode 112 where the Fantastic Five (Elinor Vettraino, Andy Penaluna, Norris Krueger, Kath Penaluna and yours truly come together to discuss the good and bad of entrepreneurship education.
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Episode 111 - An Inside View
16/07/2020 Duration: 23minIn Episode 111 we explore the challenge we all face in balancing what we know intimately from experience against what we presume to know from a distance.
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Episode 110 - Self-Love
09/07/2020 Duration: 23minEpisode 110 explores the need to become differentiated in order to successfully interact with others in society.
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Episode 109 - The Scholarship Scoreboard
02/07/2020 Duration: 33minIn Episode 109 we consider the process of evaluating one's scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). Join us to explore a way to further develop your scholarship in ways that do not require a comptition to take place.
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Episode 108 - More Reasonable Adventurers
22/06/2020 Duration: 40minListen in to Episode 108 to find out how Dave Jarmen is supporting the development of reasonable adventurers at the University of Bristol.
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Episode 107 - Believing that Small is Beautiful
16/06/2020 Duration: 16minListen in to Episode 107 to explore the notion that small is beautiful. We will explore a range of examples of how we can see that less is often more.
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Episode 106 - Thrust, Parry and Dismount
10/06/2020 Duration: 34minJoin us for an episode getting to understand the wonderful world of Zen Parry, entrepreneurship educator extraordinaire. The role of EE in tribal education makes for a very interesting show, enjoy!
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Episode 105 - Wauntash
01/06/2020 Duration: 27minWelcome to Episode 105, on this episode we are going to consider the nature of wisdom, its connection to the reasonable adventurer and some useful resources to help you get started exploring the role and value of wisdom in your life.
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Episode 104 - A Little Wray of Sunshine
21/05/2020 Duration: 33minEpisode 104 presents a conversation with Katie Wray (https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sage/staff/profile/katiewray.html#background) of Newcastle University in the UK. Topics related to 'findings a good place' to be in and general topics related to academic development are canvased.
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Episode 103 - Wandering into New Worlds
13/05/2020 Duration: 15minWelcome to Episode 103, which revisits the challenges discussed in Episode 102, and considers the impact of my decision to preference academic development as a career change, leaving behind entrepreneurship education, but creating new enthusiasm for the shows further development.
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Episode 102 - Does EE Need Some Fatalities?
02/11/2019 Duration: 18minWelcome to episode 102. Today's show considers the importance of EE in terms of developing competencies for graduates to enable them to successfully engage in entrepreneurial action. If the ideas discussed provoke some thinking for you, please share on Twitter, or perhaps better, at Linkenin. Just search 'tasdevilcol' on either platform and you will see the episode posting and hopefully, related comments.
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Episode 101 - The 12.09 to Hypeville
30/03/2018 Duration: 19minHave you ever wondered what comes next after we have built the infrastructure of the 21st century and encouraged disruption in all domains of our life? I think about this often, join me to contemplate past events that may help us to understand whats just around the corner.
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Episode 100 - The Biggest Challenges
09/03/2018 Duration: 25minWelcome to Episode 100, a joint affair with entrepreneur Peter Harrington, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Entrepreneurship. Join us as we reflect of the biggest challenges facing young entrepreneurs in today's dynamic world.