Memory Palaces: Simonides' Collapsed Banquet Hall to 48 Blindfold Games
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The method of loci, also called the memory palace or mind palace, stores information as vivid im...
28 Okt 21min
Meditation's Mechanics: 108 Beads, the Keisaku Stick and Patanjali
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Hindu japa malas and Buddhist prayer beads hold 108 beads, while the Sufi misbaha holds 99 for t...
28 Okt 25min
Maria Montessori: From Rome's Asylums to Sawed-Off Chair Legs
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Maria Montessori rejected teaching, one of the few careers open to women in 19th century Italy, ...
28 Okt 25min
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: A War-Tent Diary That Nearly Vanished
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Marcus Aurelius was born into the Roman aristocracy to Marcus Annius Verus and Domitia Lucilla a...
28 Okt 21min
Management by Objectives: Drucker's 1954 Idea and Deming's War on Quotas
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Management by objectives, or MBO, grew out of a reaction against the top-down, assembly-line vie...
28 Okt 20min
Jim Rohn: Millionaire at 31, Broke at 33, Then Mentor to Tony Robbins
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Emanuel James Rohn was born in September 1930 in Yakima, Washington, and grew up as the only chi...
28 Okt 20min
Jack LaLanne: From Bulimic Sugar Addict to the First Modern Gym
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Born Francois Henri LaLanne, Jack LaLanne was by his own account living a miserable hell as a te...
28 Okt 22min
Stephen Covey: How a Failing Hip Led to The 7 Habits' Character Ethic
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Stephen R. Covey grew up in Utah in the 1940s as a fiercely athletic teenager until a slipped ca...
28 Okt 19min
