The podcast episodes provided demonstrate the importance of considering context when examining historical figures, literary works, and human cognition.

For example, the episode 'What Do You Commemorate? | No One Said It'd Be Easy' from The Daily Stoic discusses how we must look at history fully, understanding the contextual reasons for people's choices, in order to selectively commemorate their values over personal failings. Similarly, the episode 'The History of Bad Ideas: The Death of the Author' from Past Present Future examines the historical and cultural contexts that informed Roland Barthes's influential but controversial 'death of the author' concept.

The episodes also highlight how context shapes our perceptions and interpretations, as seen in the discussion of the 'dress' optical illusion example in 'BITESIZE | How Your Brain Creates Your Conscious Reality' from Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee, and the exploration of how context and mood influence memory recall in 'Charan Ranganath (on memory)' from Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard.