In this chapter I have a huge announcement to make, one that I’ve not revealed to anyone outside of my immediate team yet..
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#29 Dacher Keltner: Survival of the Kindest
When Pixar was dreaming up the idea for Inside Out, a film that would explore the roiling emotions inside the head of a young girl, they needed guidance from an expert. So they called Dacher Keltner.
Dacher is a psychologist at UC Berkeley who has dedicated his career to understanding how human emotion shapes the way we interact with the world, how we properly manage difficult or stressful situations, and ultimately, how we treat one another.
In fact, he refers to emotions as the “language of social living.” The more fluent we are in this language, the happier and more meaningful our lives can be.
We tackle a wide variety of topics in this conversation that I think you’ll really enjoy.
You’ll learn:
- The three main drivers that determine your personal happiness and life satisfaction
- Simple things you can do everyday to jumpstart the “feel good” reward center of your brain
- The principle of “jen” and how we can use “high-jen behaviors” to bootstrap our own happiness
- How to have more positive influence in our homes, at work and in our communities.
- How to teach your kids to be more kind and empathetic in an increasingly self-centered world
- What you can do to stay grounded and humble if you are in a position of power or authority
- How to catch our own biases when we’re overly critical of another’s ideas (or overconfident in our own)
And much more. We could have spent an hour discussing any one of these points alone, but there was so much I wanted to cover. I’m certain you’ll find this episode well worth your time.
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E10: Dom’s Diary – Mental Health, Addiction & Quitting Business
In this chapter, Dominic McGregor, Co-Founder of Social Chain joins me to talk through his story of building Social Chain, the pressure’s of entrepreneurship, mental health, his struggles with addiction & his recovery.Dom’s EverydayHero challenge – https://calmchallengeevents201718.everydayhero.com/uk/TeeTotalRunner
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E9: Social Media Is Destroying Our Society
In the ninth instalment of the podcast, I discuss my recent trip to Sri Lanka and the lessons it taught me about gratitude, the power of networking, the trap of social media and impacts on mental health, and as always, and update on relationships.
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#28 Michael Mauboussin: A Decision Making Jedi
Michael Mauboussin returns for a fascinating encore interview on the Knowledge Project. We geek out on decision making, luck vs. skill, work life balance, and so much more.
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Michael Mauboussin is back as a returning guest on the Knowledge Project!
He was actually the very first guest on the podcast when it was still very much an experiment. I enjoyed it so much, I decided to continue with the show. (If you missed his last interview, you can listen to it here, or if you’re a member of The Learning Community, you can download a transcript.)
Michael is one of my very favorite people to talk to, and I couldn’t wait to pick up right where we left off.
In this interview, Michael and I dive deep into some of the topics we care most about here at Farnam Street, including:
- The concept of “base rates” and how they can help us make far better decisions and avoid the pain and consequences of making poor choices.
- How to know where you land on the luck/skill continuum and why it matters
- Michael’s advice on creating a systematic decision-making process in your organization to improve outcomes.
- The two most important elements of any decision-making process
- How to train your intuition to be one of your most powerful assets instead of a dangerous liability
- The three tests Michael uses in his company to determine the health and financial stability of his environment
- Why “algorithm aversion” is creating such headaches in many organizations and how to help your teams overcome it, so you can make more rapid progress
- The most impactful books that he’s read since we last spoke, is reading habits, and the strategies he uses to get the most of every book
- The importance of sleep in Michael’s’ life to make sure his body and mind are running at peak efficiency
- His greatest failures and what he learned from them
- How Michael and his wife raised their kids and the unique parenting style they adopted
- How Michael defines happiness and the decisions he makes to maximize the joy in his life
Any one of those insights alone is worth a listen, so I think you’re really going to enjoy this interview.
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Jordan Harbinger – How to Connect with People, Network, and Make Friends (#15)
I’m a geek. Making new connections with people has always been difficult. Jordan Harbinger (host of The Jordan Harbinger Show) teaches us how to destroy social anxiety and make meaningful connections. Show notes.
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#27 Chris Voss: The Art of Letting Other People Have Your Way
Negotiation expert Chris Voss teaches a masterclass on the art of negotiation. Chris is the former lead international kidnapping negotiator at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Dr. Valter Longo, How to Live to 100 (#14)
Dr. Valter Longo is director of the Longevity Institute at USC and the Program on Longevity and Cancer at IFOM in Milan. In this podcast, we discuss Dr. Longo’s new book, The Longevity Diet, which is the culmination of 25 years of research on aging, nutrition, and disease across the globe.
Dr. Longo has put together a powerful combination of fasting and diet. The diet is that of centenarians (people living 100+ years) combined along with with the scientifically engineered 5-day fasting-mimicking diet (or FMD), done just 3-4 times a year. Dr. Longo designed the FMD after making a series of remarkable discoveries in mice, then in humans, indicating that specific micro-fasts can activate stem cells and promote regeneration and rejuvenation in multiple organs to significantly reduce the risk for diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease. Full show notes here.This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.kevinrose.com/subscribe
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Tim Urban, Wait But Why (#13)
Tim Urban has become one of the Internet’s most popular writers. His in-depth and geeky posts have garnered millions of visitors and famous fans like Elon Musk. In this episode, Tim and Kevin talk Bitcoin, VR, how to be more like Elon Musk, cryonics to live forever, and much more. Get all the show notes here.
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#26 Warren Berger: Improving The Questions You Ask
The quality of your outcome depends on the quality of your questions.Through asking the right questions we can spark innovation and creativity, gain deeper knowledge in the topics that are most important to us, and propel us forward in our personal and professional pursuits.
Yet very few of us do it well — if we do it at all.
My guest on the podcast today is Warren Berger — journalist, speaker, best selling author, and self-proclaimed questionologist.
His insightful book A More Beautiful Question shows how the world’s leading innovators, education leaders, creative thinkers, and red-hot start-ups ask game-changing questions to nurture creativity, solve problems, and create new possibilities.
In this episode, we discuss the importance of asking the right questions, why they’re critical to your success, and how you may be one great question away from a major breakthrough.
You’ll also learn:
- How Warren manages the constant input and stimulation from online consumption when it’s time to create.
- The small habits that pack the biggest punch and make the most difference in Warren’s life
- What makes a question more or less effective
- How to create a culture where questions are welcome and encouraged
- Why answering all your kids’ questions may be doing them a disservice — and what to do instead
- What “collaborative inquiry” is and how to use it to get the most out of your teams in the workplace
- How Warren transformed one of his most painful failures into one of his most proud achievements
- Why Warren insists that everyone is creative, and what we can do to fan the flames of our own creativity
If you think you could improve the quality (and frequency) of your questions to enhance key areas of your life, this is not a conversation you’ll want to miss.
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