Calisthenics Science: Spartans, the Planche and the RCAF's 5BX Plan
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Calisthenics takes its name from the Greek kalos, beauty, and sthenos, strength, and the episode...
28 Loka 20min
James Allen's As a Man Thinketh: A Shilling Pamphlet From Proverbs
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1903 James Allen published As a Man Thinketh, a small book sold for one shilling and marketed...
28 Loka 18min
Musonius Rufus: The Stoic Nero Exiled to Gyaros Who Taught Epictetus
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gaius Musonius Rufus was born around 20 to 30 AD in Volsinii in Etruria, the son of a Roman knig...
28 Loka 25min
Cal Newport Beyond Deep Work: Fixed Schedules and the Hyperactive Hive Mind
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Cal Newport was born in June 1982 and raised in Pennington, New Jersey, the grandson of Baptist ...
28 Loka 20min
Norman Vincent Peale's Secret Manuscript, Smiley Blanton and the JFK Fight
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Norman Vincent Peale was born in Ohio in 1898, the son of a physician who became a Methodist min...
28 Loka 20min
Negotiation Tactics: Rockefeller's Railroads, the Nibble, Bogey and Flinch
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Negotiation comes from the Latin negotiatio, built from neg, no, and otium, leisure. The episode...
28 Loka 23min
Hygge Explained: Old Norse Roots, Danish Prisons and Self-Limiting Gamers
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2016, when Brexit was a UK dictionary's word of the year, the runner-up was hygge, the Danish...
28 Loka 22min
The Elevator Pitch: Philip Crosby's Ambush, Vanity Fair and Kingdom Hearts
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The elevator pitch has two origin stories. In the 1970s Philip Crosby, a quality director at a l...
28 Loka 13min
