Episodes

  • The Puzzle of Creative Masterpieces

    The Puzzle of Creative Masterpieces
    Dec 24 2022
    There is a huge gap between the creative cultural icons of our time and the artists and designers who are just as talented but remain overlooked. Creative people go through a lot of trial and error to make beautiful work, and it can be very disheartening when nobody cares about it. When faced with an open-ended design problem or tasked with creating a work of art, the creative process can feel like trying to solve a puzzle. There is no such thing as a cautious creative; either you're cautious or you're creative, but you can't be both.
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    15 mins
  • Stress Shrinks Your Brain!!

    Stress Shrinks Your Brain!!
    Nov 29 2022
    About Lisa Genova: Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, Inside the O'Briens, and Every Note Played. Still Alice was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, and Kristen Stewart. Lisa graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in biopsychology and holds a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University. She travels worldwide speaking about the neurological diseases she writes about and has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, Today, PBS NewsHour, CNN, and NPR. Her TED talk, "What You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer's," has been viewed more than five million times. The New York Times bestseller REMEMBER is her first work of nonfiction.
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    9 mins
  • Flow Focus: Easy Effort

    Flow Focus: Easy Effort
    Nov 27 2022
    Flow is often described as a state of effortless effort. The term is coined by Gerta who uses the German word roush, which means overflowing with joy. William James worked on the topic, but Mihaly csikszentmihalyi is the godfather of flow psychology. The flow triggers are your toolkit. 22 of them have been discovered. Once you have purpose, the system demands autonomy. Flow is universal in humans, actually universal in most mammals and deaf, all social MAs. Performance is how we amplify all the results beyond all reasonable expectation. Learning allows us to continue to play creativity, which is optimal. About Steven Kotler: Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world's leading experts on human performance. He is the author of ten bestsellers (out of thirteen books total), including The Art of Impossible, The Future Is Faster Than You Think, Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, Bold and Abundance. His work has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes, translated into over 40 languages, and appeared in over 100 publications, including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, TIME and the Harvard Business Review. Steven is also the cohost of Flow Research Collective Radio, a top ten iTunes science podcast. Along with his wife, author Joy Nicholson, he is the co-founder of the Rancho de Chihuahua, a hospice and special needs dog sanctuary.
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    8 mins
  • 20 Signs of Emotional Maturity

    20 Signs of Emotional Maturity
    Nov 26 2022
    No matter how old we get, none of us ever quite become entirely emotionally mature, but having a list of what emotional maturity looks like on hand could be a way to keep track of our progress and nudge ourselves in the right direction. Here is a detailed summary of many of the possible components of maturity. Produced in collaboration with: Sophie Olga De Jong http://www.sophieolga.com/ Produced in collaboration with: The School of Life
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    8 mins
  • Afford Anything

    Afford Anything
    Nov 24 2022
    It's very simple to think of bright, instantly rewarding investment possibilities as a path to financial security. A software that can lead you to easy street, a cryptocurrency with a hockey-sticking price, and a tremendous. success on the stock market. Paula Pant, the host of the Afford Anything podcast, argues that achieving true financial freedom is a lifelong journey. Imagine your financial situation as a tree. Although the leaves and fruit are appealing and stimulating, the tree's strength rests in its roots. The same is true for good finances: they start with determining what you value most and what you can actually afford. The long-term strategies you need to see that through can then be created from there. A world of freedom can become available to you with some discipline and a steady, value-driven attitude. You might not be able to purchase everything, but you can purchase anything. About Paula Pant: Paula Pant is the host of the Afford Anything podcast, an award-winning show with more than 24 million downloads. It was named by the New York Times as one of "7 Podcasts Your Wallet Will Love." She is also the founder of Afford Anything, a personal finance brand with more than 75,000 newsletter subscribers. She is a Knight-Bagehot Business and Economics Journalism Fellow at Columbia University. Pant is frequently featured in financial media inclu ding Money Magazine, the Washington Post, Oprah.com, CNBC, Fortune, Marie Claire, Marketplace Money, Men's Health, Real Simple, Outside Magazine, Cosmopolitan, the New York Times, and more. She's spoken at the "Talks at Google" series and guest lectured at Georgetown University. She lives in New York City. About Big Think | Smarter Faster™ • Big Think The leading source of expert-driven, educational content. With thousands of videos, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye, Big Think helps you get smarter, faster by exploring the big ideas and core skills that define knowledge in the 21st century. • Big Think+ Make your business smarter, faster: https://bigthink.com/plus/
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    6 mins
  • Ways we conceptualize “Work” and “Society”

    Ways we conceptualize “Work” and “Society”
    Nov 22 2022
    How do you think hunter-gatherers lived throughout human history? You may assume that in a society where simply existing was a full-time job, their daily lives consisted of a perpetual struggle between eating and being devoured. However, according to an anthropological study, that wasn't the case. For instance, when anthropologist James Suzman visited the Ju/'hoansi hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari Desert to study them, he discovered that they worked only 15 hours per week, and that a large portion of that time was spent on pursuits that many people in the contemporary West would consider leisure, such as hiking and fishing. Of course, there were many difficult times for hunter-gatherers throughout history. But an anthropological study of both modern and prehistoric hunter-gatherers has revealed a common theme: Rather than being a constant battle for energy. As Suzman told Big Think, looking at the lives of hunter-gatherers can help us rethink the ways we conceptualize work and society.
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    8 mins
  • On the Nature of Secrets. 1 in 3 commit infidelity. Are you the 1?

    On the Nature of Secrets. 1 in 3 commit infidelity. Are you the 1?
    Nov 21 2022
    About one-third of people have committed infidelity at some point in their lives. If you're one of them, should you confess it to your romantic partner? One way to answer the question is to consider whether you would want to know if your partner had cheated on you: Surveys show that 77% of people would want to know, but that still leaves about a quarter of us who'd prefer ignorance. It's also worth questioning your own motives: Maybe you only want to get the secret off your chest to make yourself feel better. Michael Slepian, Professor; Columbia University Author, The Secret Life of Secrets About Michael Slepian: Michael Slepian is a Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. He previously was a visiting scholar at Stanford University, and received his Ph.D. from Tufts University. He is an elected fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, has received the Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science, and received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
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    5 mins
  • Stoic philosophy for developing self-discipline.

    Stoic philosophy for developing self-discipline.
    Nov 20 2022
    This podcast explores Stoic philosophy that may help develope self-discipline.
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    15 mins