Did you know learning is a skill? Did you know that learning to learn stuff better is much easier once you know how? Did you know there are dozens of ways to improve your ability to learn more stuff in less time that you can apply immediately? It doesn't require brain surgery, hormone injections, getting tattooed in unmentionable places or paying for extra tuition. In fact, beyond the (extremely modest) cost of this book, applying them is virtually free. Avoid wasting any more study time and sta...
Jun 14, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 163
The fast-moving up-and-down economy we live in makes keeping our companies afloat increasingly difficult. Just as we handle one crisis, another appears. Digital, millennials, new regulations, new competition, political turmoil, Artificial Intelligence, Industry 4.0, Blockchain, sharing economy, circular economy, substitute products, you name it – the waves of disruption come crashing faster and faster, fundamentally changing the way we work, profit, and compete. For nearly 20 years, our guest ha...
Jun 07, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 162
Stunning new scientific discoveries about your brain's functioning show that all the cells of your body are affected by your thoughts. Our guest is a renowned cell biologist and describes the precise molecular pathways through which this occurs. Using simple language, humour, and everyday examples, he explains how the new science of epigenetics is revolutionising our understanding of the link between mind and matter, and the profound effects it has on our personal lives and the collective life o...
May 31, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 161
America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powerful companies dominate key industries that affect our daily lives. Digital monopolies like Google, Facebook and Amazon act as gatekeepers to the digital world. Amazon is capturing almost all online shopping dollars. We have the illusion of choice, but for most critical decisions, we have only one or two companies, when it comes to high-speed Internet, health insurance, medical care, mortgage title insuranc...
May 25, 2019•35 min•Season 1Ep. 160
The questions we will grapple with in today's show are not about transistors and neurons and algorithms and such. They are about the nature of reality, humanity, and mind. The confusion happens when we begin with "What jobs will robots take from humans?" instead of "What are humans?" Until we answer that second question, we can't meaningfully address the first. We welcome serial entrepreneur, founder and CEO, of GigaOM and author of "The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Fut...
May 18, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 159
Our guest's goal was to create a book and guide that allows us to redirect our thoughts in a positive, focused manner. This book is the culmination, it presents easy ways to learn a few simple changes you can make in our lives, and why these will help us enjoy life more. After many years of hands-on research and collaboration with top professors, Our guest has put together a 90-day guide book and journal, written for the everyday person to help get their head in the game and see results instantl...
May 11, 2019•49 min•Ep. 158
"We teach our children how to read and write, but not how to speak and listen. Listening is untaught and usually unpractised. Our amazing human voice is marginalised as we communicate more and more through text, not spoken word." - Julian Treasure (5xTED talk speaker and author) Have you ever felt like you're talking, but nobody is listening? Wouldn't it be nice to know how to speak so that people listen – and how to listen so that people feel heard. Our guest today is a leading sound expert and...
May 04, 2019•56 min•Ep. 157
What do James Bond and Lipitor have in common? What can we learn about human nature and world history from a glass of water? In Loonshots , our guest reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behaviour that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs. Drawing on the science of phase transitions , our guest tells us why teams, companies, or any group with a mission will suddenly change from embracing wild new ideas to rigidly rejectin...
Apr 20, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 155
Inside each of us is a vision of how things could be. Yet most people remain frustrated by a lack of impact, unable to connect and inspire the people they care about the most. Why? There's a language we understand but rarely use. A language that's sincere. Powerful. Compelling. A language of words—and actions—that can't be denied. Leadership Language will help you to peel back the ineffective "business speak", so you can change the conversation. And change your results. Imagine what could happen...
Apr 13, 2019•53 min•Season 1Ep. 154
For many of us, the thought of work brings to mind a daily nine-to-five grind, reporting to disinterested supervisors, and ''working for the weekend.'' You probably enter the office feeling disenchanted, counting down the minutes until 5 p.m. Whether this approach to work is due to feeling unrecognised for your work, being a cog in a corporate machine, or the influence of apathetic coworkers, there is something you likely forgot along the way, YOU, you are the one in the driver's seat of your ca...
Apr 06, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 153
Our guest today argues that we have now reached a turning point in history from which creating Competitive Advantage may no longer be in the best interests of an organisation. He presents today's business and social challenges through a new strategic lens and offers this book as a practical guide to help you create Collaborative Advantage, transform your business and change the world. You will gain access to world-leading techniques to enable you to: Mobilise staff, partners, collaborators and c...
Mar 30, 2019•48 min•Season 1Ep. 152
Any leader in any size company, no matter the size or sector, feels the pressure to innovate, find new ideas and business models, and create enduring customer value. There is no one formula or set process to find and execute the ideas that achieve these goals; customers set moving targets, shareholders are unforgiving and demanding, and society expects companies to care about much more than the bottom line. The answer to the dilemma every business faces today is that innovation is exhilarating, ...
Mar 23, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 151
If you could make a change—any change you wanted—what would it be? Would it be something in your organization or your industry? Maybe something it's in your community or throughout society as a whole? Creating true change is never easy. Most startups don't survive. Most community groups never get beyond small local actions. Even when a spark catches fire and protesters swarm the streets, it often seems to fizzle out almost as fast as it started. The status quo is, almost by definition, well entr...
Mar 17, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 150
We all want to discover our hidden talents and make an impact with them. But how? Our guest, an ex-footballer and performance specialist, quit his job and for six intense months lived with the world's best athletes in an attempt to answer this question. Why have the best middle distance runners grown up in the same Ethiopian village? Why are the leading female golfers from South Korea? How did one athletic club in Kingston, Jamaica, succeed in producing so many world-class sprinters? Our guest p...
Mar 10, 2019•38 min•Season 1Ep. 149
"You Are Not So Smart" Biases, Heuristics and Fallacies with David McRaney How many of your Facebook friends do you think you know? Would you help a stranger in need? Do you know why you're so in love with your new smartphone? The truth is: you're probably wrong. This episode examines the assorted ways we mislead ourselves every single day, a psychology course with all the boring bits taken out. Prepare for a whirlwind tour of some of the latest research, fused with a healthy dose of humour. You...
Mar 03, 2019•46 min•Season 1Ep. 148
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." —Aldous Huxley Have you ever wondered what a profiling session would tell you about yourself? Our guest helps some of the most successful people in the world to understand their behaviour and improve their performance. Here she guides you through the professional profiling assessment process in private, to help you discover your strengths, understand what really drives you and learn which enviro...
Feb 25, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 147
"Optimism, like pessimism, is a bias, and to be avoided. But summoning the determination to rise to a challenge and succeed is a virtue." - Calum Chace Today's guest argues that in the course of this century, the exponential growth in the capability of AI is likely to bring about two "singularities" - points at which conditions are so extreme that the normal rules break down. The first is the economic singularity, when machine skill reaches a level that renders many of us unemployable and requir...
Feb 18, 2019•53 min•Season 1Ep. 146
The Beginning of Infinity, Explanations That Transform the World, David Deutsch, A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of today's great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life's mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous. Our guest is a multiple award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation and argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe. They have unlimited scope and pow...
Feb 12, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 145
"If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not." — James Baldwin We are living in a time of mounting political segregation that threatens to tear us apart as a unified society. The result is that we are becoming increasingly tribal, and the narratives of life that we get exposed to on a daily basis have become echo chambers in which we hear our beliefs reinforced and other...
Feb 06, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 144
Today we discuss an iterative organisation, the only kind of organization that can learn and adapt fast enough to keep up in today's world. For anyone running a team of managers, or advising someone who does, today we explore the fundamental behaviours that create iteration. Our guest will explain how to implement them, and how to get the process started. Iterate defines what management really is and helps readers create a fast, flexible, focused management team that does it well. Our guest is r...
Jan 30, 2019•54 min•Season 1Ep. 143
Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralysed by a stroke. Today, he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. As a child, his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead, he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exerc...
Jan 24, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 142
"The Toltecs believe that every human is an artist, and the art we create is our lives." —Don Miguel Ruiz Today's guest uses practical examples and guides us through conceptual, transpersonal art experiments to demonstrate how we can use the power of art to access our inner child, express our buried emotions, and use any form of art as a catalyst to transform our lives. Pure creativity is an activity that has no predefined destination or purpose, while applied creativity is an activity that alwa...
Jan 17, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 141
Matt Lovell is an expert in corporate wellness, he is a Performance and Health Nutritionist and Body recomposition expert and he develops top health and nutrition products via his site aminoman.com. His clients include England Rugby, Tottenham Hotspur, Man City and currently Reading and Bournemouth football clubs. We talk: How the brain always wins with habit changes Easing out of old dietary and training habits Sugar Cravings Small dietary changes Short 15 minute workouts Workplace and Life Str...
Jan 11, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 140
Weaving together philosophy, social science and neuroscience research, personal anecdotes and dialogues, A Child at Heart takes a radically different approach to the traditional boundaries between childhood and adulthood to reveal how rather than lapse into adulthood, we can achieve what the Greeks of old call arete —all-around excellence—when we look to children and youth as a lodestar for our development. Childhood is our primary launching pad, a time of life when learning is more intense than...
Jan 05, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 139
"Those who say you cannot guarantee the achievement of goals are those who do not know how to do it." - Frans De Groot Businesses are on the lookout for the one methodology that singlehandedly helps to achieve their goals, and definitively address issues such as "what needs to done" and "which activities to avoid". BITSING is a scientifically proven methodology, which enables you to predict results by using facts in order to be 100% certain of achieving goals. This episode enables factual insigh...
Dec 30, 2018•50 min•Season 1Ep. 138
"The legalisation of marijuana is not a dangerous experiment – the prohibition is the experiment, and it has failed dramatically, with millions of victims all around the world." ― Sebastián Marincolo The work today's guests is based on a vast body of knowledge and represents a new methodology for researching the potential of the marijuana high. It is informed by the philosophy of mind, the cognitive sciences, psychology, chemistry, neurobiology and a systematic analysis of hundreds of anecdotal ...
Dec 24, 2018•44 min•Season 1Ep. 137
Discover your strengths, live your dreams! Let go of fear. Discover your true sense of purpose. Live the life you've only imagined! Maximise your creative potential. Find success with dignity. Deal with personal crises. Why does the thrill of soaring begin with the fear of falling? How can you overcome that fear and dare to live? Today's guest shares some solutions. He has spent over 30 years working with leaders aligning their organisations to inspire individuals, teams, and hundreds, even thou...
Dec 16, 2018•40 min•Season 1Ep. 136
For centuries, people have searched for ways to access inspiration and streamline content creation. Whether praying to the muses or shutting themselves into dark rooms, authors use trial and error to find the methods that work for them. What if we could apply cognitive science principles to determine our own perfect methods for creativity and productivity? We welcome the author of "Writing to Be Understood, Subscription Marketing, The Workplace Writer's Process and the focus of today's episode "...
Dec 09, 2018•44 min•Season 1Ep. 135
As the forces of globalisation, automation, and artificial intelligence combine to disrupt every field and every career, having a good idea isn't good enough. Mastering the ancient art of persuasion is the key to standing out, getting ahead, and achieving greatness in the modern world. Communication is no longer a "soft" skill—it is the human edge that will make you unstoppable, irresistible, and irreplaceable—earning you that perfect rating, that fifth star. Carmine Gallo is the bestselling aut...
Dec 02, 2018•41 min•Season 1Ep. 134
The key to success in sales and marketing often lies in the art of persuasion, but in a world of distractions, it can be challenging to capture the attention of your audience and tap into their decision-making process. Today's guest is the founder of SalesBrain, the world's first Neuromarketing agency, built upon two decades of research on the effect of advertising and sales messages on the human brain to create a breakthrough persuasion strategy. Based on the latest research in neuroscience, me...
Nov 26, 2018•58 min•Season 1Ep. 133
