Our co-host is comedian Christian Finnegan, and we learn: the difference between danger and fear; the role of clouds in climate change; and why (and when) politicians are bad at math. Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri is our real-time fact-checker.
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Tim Chang, Consciousness Hacking (#23)
Tim and I sit down to discuss consciousness-hacking, the future of wearables, nootropics, diet, the ego, our favorite books and much more. Tim Chang is the managing director at Mayfield Fund and has been twice named to the Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors. Tim is also an accomplished musician, who performs in three bands, as well as a body and consciousness-hacking enthusiast.
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313: Making Money in Your Sleep – By Blogging About Sleep
“Everyone needs it, people tend not to get enough of it – so that’s how the site came about,” said Kieran.
Kieran MacRae is talking about sleep.
The site he started is called TheDozyOwl.co.uk, a UK-based site that Kieran has taken from $0 to $2.5k a month in revenue in its first 12 months.
Do you remember Alan Donegan from PopupBusinessSchool.co.uk in episode 306? He told the story of one of his students getting frustrated with the business generation process; they were having a hard time coming up with anything that really got them excited.
“I just really like sleeping,” they said in exasperation.
And for a while, Alan didn’t have a great response. That is, until he learned about Kieran, who was earning a full-time income blogging about sleep and sleep-related products.
Tune in to hear how Kieran came up with the idea for his site, how he creates the content, and how the site makes money – without a server-shattering volume of traffic.
Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: Making Money in Your Sleep – By Blogging About Sleep
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361. Freakonomics Radio Live: “Jesus Could Have Been a Pigeon.”
Our co-host is Grit author Angela Duckworth, and we learn fascinating, Freakonomical facts from a parade of guests. For instance: what we all get wrong about Darwin; what an iPod has in common with the “hell ant”; and how a “memory athlete” memorizes a deck of cards. Mike Maughan is our real-time fact-checker.
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#47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
Author, educator, and hedge fund advisor, Adam Robinson shares powerful lessons on winning the game of life. He teaches us how to learn, how to fail, and his three secrets of happiness and success.
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Jim Kwik, Memory Improvement and Optimal Brain Performance Expert (#22)
Jim Kwik is a world expert in speed-reading, memory improvement, and optimal brain performance. As the CEO and Founder of Kwik Learning, Jim’s cutting-edge techniques and impressive mental feats have made him a highly sought-out brain trainer for top entrepreneurs and organizations with clients that include Virgin, Nike, GE, Fox Studios, Harvard University, and Singularity University. In this episode, Jim and I discuss his top strategies for memory and learning, motivation, limiting beliefs, digital distraction, and nutrition.
Show Notes:00:30 — Kevin’s childhood memory challenges (and the self talk that followed)
03:30 — Luminosity; Lion’s Mane Mushroom; Phospholipid Omega-3 DHA
04:30 — How Jim started as the “boy with the broken brain”
09:03 — The impact of limiting beliefs on learning and memory
13:20 — What Jim learnt while visiting nursing homes and seniors’ centers
18:50 — ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’; Dale Carnegie; Napoleon Hill
20:00 — Subvocalization as a constraint for fast reading
23:32 — Why clarifying your motivation is the missing factor for optimal learning
26:30 — The Albert Einstein quote that shaped Jim’s perspective on learning
30:00 — Jim’s ‘Head, Heart and Hands’ approach
31:17 — Simon Sinek
37:48 — The limitations of IQ and standardized tests
40:15 — How respect can be used as a powerful tool for remembering names
43:55 — Post traumatic growth
47:40 — What Jim uncovered about personal responsibility from Stan Lee
49:50 — Jim’s Morning Routine
51:05 — How to remember 10 new peoples’ names at a party
52:25 — ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’
53:30 — Jim’s strategies for digital overload and digital distraction
56:11 — Creating new habits: Dr. B.J Fogg
58:45 — Force multipliers: Jim’s podcast ‘Work Smart – Not Hard’
1:02:11 — Why Jim has a 10 foot Hulk in his backyard
1:04:00 — Jim’s ‘Be, Do, Have, Share’ success formula
1:05:29 — Dr. Wayne Dwyer
1:06:40 — Self talk is ‘software’ that needs to be worked on
1:08:04 — Information plus emotion leads to long-term memories
1:11:00 — Why Jim uses the Pomodoro Technique
1:11:58 — Jim’s top 10 brain foods
1:12:45 — The 2,500 year old memory technique Jim uses with his clients
1:16:35 — The P.I.E. method
1:21:03 — Jim’s ‘Vowel’ strategy for retaining complex information
1:25:05 — Digital dementia
1:31:47 — Connect with Jim at ‘Kwik Brain’, and on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
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312: 6 Rules to Scale any Side Hustle
If you’re still doing all the work in your side hustle or business yourself, you’re limiting your growth.
This is an episode about getting out of your own way–about the transformation from technician to business owner.
To help me work through the 6 Rules of Scale, I invited Sean Marshall from FamilyRocketship.com back to the program.
We last heard from Sean way back in episode 92 in early 2015. I think he’s someone worth paying attention to because he’s set up his business (an online marketing agency) in such a way that the day-to-day operations don’t require much of his direct involvement at all.
On the surface, his is a freelancing business, but Sean has avoided the common freelancing trap (or ceiling) of trading his own time for money.
In doing so, that affords him and his family a pretty cool lifestyle. Last time we caught up they were living in Cozumel Mexico, and today, he and his wife and 3 daughters are spending several months in Scotland.
Before we dive into the 6 Rules with Sean, he proposed two questions to ponder as pre-requisites:
- Why did you start your business in the first place? What do you want out of it? How big do you want it to be?
- What’s the highest and best use of your time? To achieve that ultimate why from question #1, what things do you need to do to get there, and equally important, what are the things you need to stop doing.
So those are 2 questions to keep in mind as we go through this episode.
Full Show Notes: 6 Rules to Scale any Side Hustle
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360. Is the Protestant Work Ethic Real?
In the early 20th century, Max Weber argued that Protestantism created wealth. Finally, there are data to prove if he was right. All it took were some missionary experiments in the Philippines and a clever map-matching trick that goes back to 16th-century Germany.
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311: How to Create Your Own Niche—and Your Own Income
Her escape plan was an interesting one.
April Whitney was staring at a future of pharmaceutical copywriting, and wanted out.
Today, April is the leading voice in the niche of petite fitness.
Where the story gets exciting, is that it’s a niche that for all intents and purposes, April invented.
Nobody was searching for this stuff, which would normally be a huge red flag. But when women came across April and her content, something resonated.
Starting a little over a year ago, she’s built a tribe of over 10,000 followers, raised $8,000 on Kickstarter for her first product, and now sells $1000 worth of that product on autopilot every month.
April built most of her tribe on Instagram, a platform that’s saturated with fitness-related content and notoriously difficult to convert followers into customers.
Tune in to hear how April found her tribe, converted them into followers and customers, and the products and services she created that ultimately funded her quitting that cubical job to do something she loves.
Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: How to Create Your Own Niche—and Your Own Income
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359. Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s?
The quirky little grocery chain with California roots and German ownership has a lot to teach all of us about choice architecture, efficiency, frugality, collaboration, and team spirit.
