Why Having a Backup Plan Is Making You Fail - Burn the boats with Matt Higgins
In 1519, Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico and promptly set fire to his own fleet. By any conventional measure of military logistics, this seems profoundly counterproductive. It wasn't. Matt Higgins — S...
13 Mar 44min
Why You Have Great Ideas but Never Actually Do Anything With Them
We are spectacularly good at having ideas and remarkably reluctant to do anything with them. It turns out that the distance between "I've got it!" and "here it is" is not a step but a rather long, oc...
10 Mar 22min
You Didn't Choose Your Attachment Style, but Here's How You Can Change It - With Jessica Baum
Most people think their relationship problems are about the other person. They're not — they're about an 18-month-old version of you who learned the only way to survive. In this episode, psychotherap...
6 Mar 53min
From Reactance to Resilience: How to manage psychological triggers and create freedom
Most anger isn’t about the thing. It’s about what the thing means: “Someone just messed with my control.” When your expectations get violated... plans change,d a process breaks, a person does someth...
3 Mar 24min
How To Train Your Mind: The surprising benefits of play
Turns out you don't learn faster when you're stressed, you learn faster when you're happy! So let's talk about treating your brain like a friend, not a factory worker. Muscles respond to stress with ...
24 Feb 23min
The Weird Psychology of Communication, Self-control, and Gossip: What evolution teaches us about communicating your needs clearly
In the noble quest to understand our minds, today we take a new angle. We track how grunts turned into gossip, myths, and the weird human habit of blushing when we screw up. You’ll see why your brai...
17 Feb 39min
Hidden Potential: The Psychology of self-sabotage and changing what's possible - Heather Moyse (2x Olympic Gold)
We all love the idea of “potential” until it quietly turns into pressure, guilt, and a weird fear of actually trying. Heather Moyse didn’t start professional sport until 27 and still became a double ...
13 Feb 53min
The Feynman Technique: The 4 Steps to Learn and Master Anything
Most people “learn” by hoarding facts, which doesn't mean you understand them. Then you forget them all anyway... In this episode, learning stops being about cramming and starts being about curiousit...
10 Feb 20min
