Modern Wisdom

Nicholas Christakis is a Professor at Yale University and an author. Much of what I've covered on the podcast has focussed on evolution's effects on the individual, but today we look at how evolution...

8 Jul 201952min

David Epstein is a New York Times Best Selling Author and Investigative Journalist. Specialising early and hard is a frequent piece of advice I hear given to people asking for advice on how to become...

1 Jul 201955min

Jonny and Yusef from PropaneFitness.com join me for the start of a brand new series. We're talking all things careers and entrepreneurship as we call on our combined 30+ years of operating and failin...

24 Jun 20191h 3min

Caleb Jones is an online coach, blogger and non-monogamy advocate. Statistically, most marriages end in divorce. This limited life span for the traditional approach to relationships has lead some peo...

20 Jun 20191h 9min

Dr Stuart McGill is a professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo and a world expert in back pain. Dr McGill has worked with some of the best athletes in the world across pretty much every sport...

17 Jun 20191h 26min

Stephen Wolfram is the founder and CEO of the software company Wolfram Research. What happens when you track every email, every keystroke, every mouse movement and every project for 30 years? Today w...

13 Jun 20191h 14min

Laura Vanderkam is a writer, author, speaker and an expert on time management. We are all familiar with the phenomenon that is time, it passes at the same rate for all of us, so why do certain people...

10 Jun 20191h

Robert Greene is a New York Times best selling author. You can be a genius in your field and know all the things you need to know, but if you're bad with people you will totally neutralise your brill...

6 Jun 20191h 6min