When you take a picture with a digital camera, most of the time, the camera’s sensor will process the pixels and all the information and then generate a file that you’re able to view on the camera right away… this file is usually a JPEG; however, most high end professional digital cameras, and even some new smartphones cameras have the ability to take a photo in a format called RAW, this is an unprocessed file containing everything the camera sensor captured…  now, one of the biggest advantages to capturing RAW is the level of control that you have over the information in post-production… RAW generally provides much broader control and creativity, and produces stunning, one-of-a-kind imagery… Now the JPEG isn’t a crappy file at all, though it also doesn’t offer the same degree of flexibility as RAW, because in short, the user gave the camera control over the file when it was captured… so that little thing your camera does before it spits out a preview… that’s the brains of the camera, eliminating what it considerers, for lack of a better term, useless information… now what’s this got to do with today's podcast… so here’s the thing... I think that this is a perfect illustration of what we are going to dive into on today's podcast.

Have you ever thought about why it is that very few of us, you, me… we actually change very little at our core the older we get. Frightening maybe to think of this way, but it’s true… I’ve concluded this… One of the biggest reasons why this is true is because, for much of our lives, we’ve given the “camera — processing control over the information”  —  the way of life we engage every day, the expectations are written into the culture along with the status quo… form the “camera that determines — wait for it — what we look like.

On today’s podcast, we are going to explore more of this… as we move into part two of a series of talks about a clever new word I made up — Acceptionalism —- so let’s do this…

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