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Dan Ariely found that not only are we IRRATIONAL (pick the wrong things that don't give us maximum benefit), we're also PREDICTABLY irrational (we make the same mistakes for the same reasons all the time). The Upside of Irrationality looks at how these irrationalities impact us at home and at work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Success and failures in life are often determined by our ability to manage conflicts. When conflict arises, what is your response? If we arent dealing with conflict rationally, it could very well make the situation worse. When you are forced to fight, you can aim for the Strategic Warrior ideal. Consider your long-term goals, and then choose your fights wisely. This is for those who want to solve their issues through intelligent maneuversthinking of the long term goals and deciding which f...
Success and failures in life are often determined by our ability to manage conflicts. When conflict arises, what is your response? If we arent dealing with conflict rationally, it could very well make the situation worse. When you are forced to fight, you can aim for the Strategic Warrior ideal. Consider your long-term goals, and then choose your fights wisely. This is for those who want to solve their issues through intelligent maneuversthinking of the long term goals and deciding which f...
Success and failures in life are often determined by our ability to manage conflicts. When conflict arises, what is your response? If we arent dealing with conflict rationally, it could very well make the situation worse. When you are forced to fight, you can aim for the Strategic Warrior ideal. Consider your long-term goals, and then choose your fights wisely. This is for those who want to solve their issues through intelligent maneuversthinking of the long term goals and deciding which f...
There are two numbers you need to know about climate change: The first is 51 billion and the second is 0. 51 billion is how many tons of greenhouse gases the world typically adds into the atmosphere every year. Although the figure goes up or down year to year, this is where we are today. Zero, is what we need to aim for. To stop warming and avoid the worst effects of climate change. It sounds difficult, because it will be. The world has never done anything quite as big. Every country...
Think Again by Adam Grant - The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know This book is an invitation to let go of knowledge and opinions that are no longer serving you well and to anchor your sense of self in flexibility rather than consistency. If you can master the art of rethinking, you'll be better positioned for success at work and happiness in life. Thinking again can help you generate new solutions to old problems and revisit old solutions to new problems. Its a path to learning more from the ...
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is the self-told story of a middle-aged man and his son, Chris, who go on a motorcycling trip accompanied by an adult couple. The man describes what it is like to hear the wind moving across the plains, to see birds rise up from marshes next to the road, to ride through a ferocious storm, and to breath the fresh air of a mountain above the tree line. The author shows us that we won't live a great life by pursuing the answers through the rational mi...
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell is about understanding the notion of virality. What exactly triggers the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or the phenomena of word of mouth? Gladwell suggests that the best way to understand any of these is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas, products, messages and behaviours spread just like viruses do. The tipping point is that one dramatic moment in an epidemic where everything can change all at once. The point of all of thi...
In 1998, when Oprah was doing an interview for the movie Beloved, a film critic from the Chicago Sun Times asked her a question, Tell me What do you know for sure? It was such an expected and powerful question that she was at loss for words. But it prompted Oprah to spend months, years, and decades thinking about the possible answers. What do I know for sure? became a central question in her life, and shes explored that question in her monthly column for 14 years. Hosted on Acast. See acas...
We had the honour of speaking with Daniel Kahneman, author of 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' and 'Noise'. Danny Kahneman won with 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for "having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty. His first book, 'Thinking, Fast And Slow', showed us two modes of thinking: System 1 ("fast", intuitive, non-cognitively demanding thinking), and System 2 ("slow", laborious, eff...
In this book, Kahneman, Sibony, and Sunstein break down the concept of noise in human judgement and how it impacts our society. Medicine is noisy. Faced with the same patient, different doctors make different judgments about the diagnosis. Forecasts are noisy. Professional forecasters offer highly variable predictions. Whether it's about the popularity of a new product, the change in the unemployment rate, the likelihood of bankruptcy of a particular company, or the results of the next el...
Man's Search For Meaning - by Victor E Frankl We find ourselves in middle of World War II. Frankl had been captured by the Germans and is in a concentration camp. "Every man was controlled by one thought only: to keep himself alive for the family waiting for him at home". This is a dark book and highlights the atrocities of the time, but also shows us that terrible things happen when we lose a sense of meaning in our lives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Today we're launching our audiobook: The Sh*t They Never Taught You. For a limited time, you can get 50% OFF! Use the code LAUNCH at checkout to buy the audiobook for half price: https://mysoundwise.com/soundcasts/1623277740633s This episode is a free chapter - the introduction to the audiobook. Buy from the above link, or head to the landing page at theshittheynevertaughtyou.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
We've come to the end of our FIFTH year of podcasting! As we do at the end of every season, we're gone through our respective "Top 10s" of our favourite books that we've covered on the podcast in 2021 (so far). We're also super proud to have announced that our first book, The Sh*t They Never Taught You, is now available for Pre-Order. If you order the hardcover book before the official release date (June 23, 2021), you'll also receive the audiobook for free as a pre-order bonus. Just forward you...
ITS HERE! THE SH*T THEY NEVER TAUGHT YOU After 16 months, six iterations of writing and rewriting... were proud to say our book has finally arrived! We pushed through The Dip and put the very best we have into the best book that we could possibly write. PRE-ORDER NOW: theshittheynevertaughtyou.com Purchase before June 23 (pre-sale), send the receipt to book@theshittheynevertaughtyou.com and we will send you the audiobook for FREE. ---- Here is a taste from the blurb: Have you ever stumbled...
The Lean Startup - by Eric Ries 'How constant innovation creates radically successful businesses' If you've ever created your own business, or tried to, you will probably see in hindsight that you wasted a lot of resources, be that time, money, or energy and effort. 'The Lean Startup' is a different approach to building a business. In every idea, you have 'leap of faith' assumptions. Rather than assuming you're right, you should build a 'minimum viable product'. This MVP is the smallest a...
The First 90 Days is effective to help new leaders from first-time managers to CEOs understand the skills and factors that ease the transition process of their leadership journey. A long career at a single company is increasingly becoming a history. Employees usually experience many transitions, especially those in leadership roles. The ability to adjust quickly and effectively into a new role has become a critical skill to thrive in your career. If the president of the United States gets ...
Coddling Of The American Mind is about: "How good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure" Well intentioned overprotection from peanut bans in elementary schools through speech codes on campus; are doing more harm than good. But overprotection is just one of the larger trends that we call problems of progress. This refers to bad consequences produced by good social changes. In this episode we cover the three great untruths that seem to have spread: Th...
The biological world is undergoing profound, human-induced changes. For billions of years, life progressed according to Darwin's theory of evolution - organisms developed through a series of random genetic variations. Up to now, species has been shaped by this process. Today things could not be more different. Scientists have succeeded in bringing his primordial successfully under human control. Scientists can now manipulate and rationally modify the genetic code that defines every specie...
Jordan Peterson went massive world wide with his first book 12 Rules For Life. His new book, Beyond Order provides 12 more Rules For Life. Order is explored territory. We are in order when the actions we deem appropriate produce the results we aim at. We regard such outcomes positively. Chaos is anomaly, novelty, unpredictability, transformation, disruption and all too often descent. Neither the state of order nor the state of chaos if preferable. Like the yin yang, we need to find the balance b...
Jordan Peterson went massive world wide with his first book 12 Rules For Life. His new book, Beyond Order provides 12 more Rules For Life. Order is explored territory. We are in order when the actions we deem appropriate produce the results we aim at. We regard such outcomes positively. Chaos is anomaly, novelty, unpredictability, transformation, disruption and all too often descent. Neither the state of order nor the state of chaos if preferable. Like the yin yang, we need to find the balance b...
There is a particular set of problems that all people face that are a direct result of the fact that our lives are carried out in finite space and time. What should we do? What should we ignore? What should we do today? What should be leave til next week? What degree of mess should we embrace? What balance between NEW experiences and FAVOURED ones make for the most fulfilling life? These might sound like very HUMAN problems... but they're not. For more than half a century, computer scienti...
Derek Sivers was the author of the first ever book we did on the podcast back in June 2016, 'Anything You Want'. Now, almost five years later, we're circling back to cover his newest book, 'Hell Yeah Or No'. In this episode we speak about: Changing Your Identity (admitting your true priorities) Choosing What To Do (based on your values, deciding what is worth doing) Saying Yes (seeking inspiration and being open to any and all opportunities that come your way) Saying No (once you find something ...
Do you know who you really are and what you're capable of? Don't worry, you are not alone. In every town, country all over the world, millions roam the streets. Dead-eyed zombies addicted to comfort, embracing the victim's mentality and unaware of their true potential. Like most of us, David Goggins used to be one of them Life dealt him a bad hand. He was born broken, grew up with beat downs, tormented at school and copped racism more times than he could count. He was poor, surviving on w...
We read the 2000+ year old text known as Enchiridion by Epictetus (and we had a little help from Sharon Labelle's more modern translation The Art of Living). In this episode we talk about: what is inside your control (and what is outside of your control), perceptions, objectivity, other people's opinions, managing our desires, and controlling our emotional reactions. Grab our free document, The Top 50 Best Books Of All Time: https://www.whatyouwilllearn.com/top50/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...
Our political debates are not debates but are instead vehement expressions of tribal anger. That insight was the basis Arnold Kling to write this book. Since then, the insight has been reinforced. There is now widespread concern with the way political divisions are exacerbated by the communication that takes place in both traditional and social media. Politically interested people sort themselves into 3 coalitions: progressive, conservative and libertarian: - Progressives will communicate along ...
What they say about Jordan Belfort in the Wolf Of Wall Street is True. He is one of those natural-born salesmen who can sell ice to an Eskimo, oil to an Arab or port to a Rabbi. If you've seen The Wolf of Wall Street, starring Leonardo De Caprio, you may remember the scene of how Jordan took thousands of kids who could barely string a sentence together and turned them into world-class closers using his magical system called The Straight Line. This book is the same turnkey solution as shown in th...
Being disliked is a cost for exercising freedom. If you're disliked by people, it is proof that you are exercising your freedom and a sign that you are living in accordance with your own principles. It is certainly distressful to be disliked. But it can be seen as a necessary cost for a better life. The Courage to be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within yourself to become your best and truest self, change your future and find lasting happiness. This is the most re...
For some people, events in our past determines a failed life. But for others, the same even can be the seed of success. It is the perceptive filter that leads to two entirely different destinations. There is no escape from your own subjectivity. At present, the world seems complicated and mysterious to you. But if you change, the world will appear more simple. But do you have the courage to change? The Courage To Be Disliked shows you how to unlock the power within yourself to becom...
As always, this episode is NOT financial advice. Peter Lynch is one of the most successful professional investors of all time. According to him, amateurs can win. The most important rule to follow is that you should stop listening to professionals! Most investment books recommend passive investing, where you buy a whole haystack and assume you'll get a few needles. Peter's shows a strategy that gives us amateurs a chance at beating the investors, picking the needle. There are some things you're ...
