Finally Learn to Say No
When someone asks us to do something we don’t want to do, we often say yes even though we want to say no, because we think that saying no will feel terrible. But my guest, Dr. Vanessa Patrick, says th...
26 Jul 202344min
Set Your Future Self Up for Success
As you move through time, you exist as a present self who makes decisions, an in-between self who should carry out those decisions, and a future self who will benefit from those decisions. Yet as we a...
24 Jul 202349min
The Fourth Turning — How History's Crisis Period Could Unfold
While studying history back in the 1990s, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss noticed something: there seemed to be a pattern to history that repeated itself again and again. Howe and Strauss devel...
19 Jul 202350min
Here's What It Could Look Like to Put the Trades Back in School
Lately, I've been talking to my son Gus about considering a career in the trades. A lot of the white collar jobs out there don't seem very fulfilling, and A.I. is going to make more and more of them d...
17 Jul 202341min
The Science of Getting Psyched Up
If you’re an athlete, you know that it can be helpful to get psyched up before a big game. But getting in the right mindset is important in any kind of high-stakes scenario, whether you want to perfor...
12 Jul 202342min
Thick Desires, Political Atheism, and Living an Anti-Mimetic Life
The last time we had entrepreneur, professor, and author Luke Burgis on the show, he discussed the concept of mimetic desire, which says that we want the things we want because other people want them....
10 Jul 202343min
Master Microtransitions to Improve the Happiness, Success, and Flow of Your Life
Throughout each day, all of us make little shifts in our roles and responsibilities; we take off one hat and put on another. Sometimes these shifts are physical, as when we commute from home to the of...
5 Jul 202354min
Would You Have Been a Patriot or a Loyalist?
When Americans think back to the War of Independence, most are apt to feel that, had they lived back then, they would have been Patriots for sure. In retrospect, the decision to rebel and get out from...
3 Jul 202346min
