232 - Think Again - Adam Grant
How to manage procrastination according to Margaret Atwood, how to work around your first-instinct fallacy, the upsides of imposter syndrome, the best way to avoid falling prey to the Dunning-Kruger e...
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231 - On Being Certain - Robert Burton (rebroadcast)
In this episode, we sit down with neurologist Robert Burton, author of On Being Certain, a book that fundamentally changed the way I think about what a belief actually is. That’s because the book posi...
17 Huhti 202254min
230 - The Science of Stuck - Britt Frank
Feeling stuck? Can't build momentum to escape all the loops keeping you from moving forward? Our guest in this episode is professor, author, therapist, and speaker Britt Frank, a trauma specialist who...
3 Huhti 202250min
229 - What's Your Problem? - Jacob Goldstein
In this episode, Jacob Goldstein, the longtime host of NPR’s Planet Money, talks about his new podcast about technology and business called What’s Your Problem? with Jacob Goldstein. Goldstein spent m...
27 Maalis 202248min
228 - The Power of Regret - Daniel H. Pink
NO REGRETS - Our guest in this episode of the You Are Not So Smart podcast is Daniel Pink, the five-time NYT Bestselling author of When and To Sell is Human and Drive and A Whole New Mind. His new boo...
19 Maalis 202243min
227 - Imaginable - Jane McGonigal
Jane McGonigal's new books details how she creates alternate reality games in which people take part in virtual worlds, and, in so doing, gain a sensitively to the cues (and a familiarity with the con...
6 Maalis 202259min
226 - The World's Greatest Con - Brian Brushwood
In this episode, we sit down with famed stage magician, infamous instructor of the school of scams, Brian Brushwood, whose new podcast explores the world's greatest con artists and con jobs from World...
20 Helmi 202254min
225 - Blindsight and Neuromarketing
In this episode, neuromarketing experts Prince Ghuman and Matt Johnson discuss the many strange examples from their book, Blindsight, in an effort to make us all smarter consumers, empowered to make b...
6 Helmi 202259min
