Priming Psychology: The Elderly-Walk Study, the Coffee Cup and Amnesia
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Priming is the way one stimulus pre-warms the brain for the next: flash the word doctor and the ...
28 Loka 21min
The Science of Persuasion: Aristotle's Pillars to the Left-Ear Whisper
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Persuasion is defined as influencing someone's beliefs, attitudes or behavior without coercion, ...
28 Loka 21min
OKRs: How Andy Grove's Intel System Reached Google Through John Doerr
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Objectives and key results, or OKRs, grew out of the hardware labs of Intel in the 1970s under A...
28 Loka 14min
Business Networking: Medieval Guilds to a 13% LinkedIn Racial Gap
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Roughly half of all jobs in the United States are secured through networking rather than formal ...
28 Loka 18min
Mr. Money Mustache: How Pete Adeney Retired at 30 on Two $67K Salaries
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Pete Adeney, known online as Mr. Money Mustache, was born in Canada and settled in Longmont, Col...
28 Loka 19min
Mnemonics: Peter of Ravenna, Number Ciphers and Vin Diesel Verbs
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 15th century Italy, Peter of Ravenna recalled legal codes and texts so precisely that people ...
28 Loka 22min
Minimalism: Aram Saroyan's One-Word Poem to Ed Hawkins' Warming Stripes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1965 poet Aram Saroyan wrote a poem consisting of one misspelled word, lighght, which won $75...
28 Loka 23min
Mindfulness Once Meant Memory: How Sati Became Kabat-Zinn's MBSR
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1881 British Pali scholar Thomas William Rhys Davids chose the English word mindfulness for t...
28 Loka 20min
