MetaLearn Podcast
The MetaLearn Podcast gives you the knowledge and skills needed to understand yourself and the world around you so you can thrive in the 21st century. Host Nasos Papadopoulos interviews the world's top experts in every field, extracting the principles needed learn faster, think smarter and live better.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 203
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
ML62: Uri Bram on Thinking Statistically, Understanding Music and How To Learn from Experts
Uri Bram is the bestselling author of Thinking Statistically and speaks about using data and statistical thinking effectively in the real world. In this episode we discuss: - The key statistical prin…
ML61: 5 Language Learning Myths Dispelled
Anyone can learn another language but the thing that holds most people back is a series of limiting beliefs. In this episode we discuss: - Whether there is a "language learning gene" that most great …
ML60: Gabriele Oettingen on Rethinking Positive Thinking, The Science of Motivation and How To Achieve Your Goals
Gabriele Oettingen is a Professor of Psychology at New York University and the University of Hamburg and a bestselling author. Her research focuses on human motivation and goal setting, exploring the…
ML59: Jack of All Trades, Master of None?
If you’re someone with multiple interests, you’ve probably been branded a “Jack of all Trades, Master of None” more times than you can remember. And those of us with many interests sometimes struggle…
ML58: Ellen Langer on The Power of Mindful Learning, Common Learning Myths and How To Practice Mindfulness in Your Daily Life
Ellen Langer is a Harvard psychologist widely known as the “mother of mindfulness” and is the author of eleven books and more than two hundred research articles on mindfulness over the last 35 years.
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ML57: Simon Peyton Jones on The Ideas That Drive Computers, Building Programming Languages, and Teaching Computer Science in Schools
Simon Peyton Jones is a computer scientist who currently works as a researcher for Microsoft and has built his own programming language, Haskell. He is also chair of Computing at School, which was ce…
ML56: Jeff Cobb on The Learning Revolution, The Key To Good Content and The Future of Mobile Learning
Jeff Cobb is a thought leader in the field of lifelong learning and the author of the bestselling book, Leading The Learning Revolution. He also runs a popular blog and podcast, and is the founder of…
ML55: Ed Fidoe on Building a School from Scratch, Learning 21st Century Skills and Reinventing Education
Ed Fidoe is one of the founders of School 21, an innovative new school in Stratford, East London that's reinventing education by preparing its students, aged 4-18, for the 21st Century.
For so many p…
ML54: Barry Schwartz on Practical Wisdom, The Meaning of Work and the Paradox of Choice
Barry Schwartz is an acclaimed Professor of Psychology who recently retired after 45 years of teaching at Swarthmore College. Barry has also written three bestselling books on the Paradox of Choice, …
ML53: Barry Pousman on Learning in Virtual Reality, Building Soft Skills and The Power of Storytelling
Barry Pousman is the founder of Variable Labs, a Virtual Reality company that creates immersive experiences to help people develop soft skills.
Virtual Reality is likely to be a game changing technol…
ML52: Kalid Azad on How To Get Better at Math, the Key To Good Explanations and the Art of Rapid Skill Acquisition
Kalid Azad is the founder of Better Explained, one of the world's most popular maths websites that makes hard concepts easy to understand. After studying Computer Science at Princeton, Kalid spent a …
ML51: Niklas Jansen on Applying What You Read, Becoming an Entrepreneur and Creating a Learning Organisation
Niklas Jansen is the co-founder of Blinkist, an app that distills the core insights from non-fiction books into 15-minute summaries that you can access from your smartphone or tablet in written or au…
ML50: Reflections on Learning and Education with Joshua Fields
The MetaLearn podcast has reached the big 5-0. The show is now in 127 countries with listeners on every continent and is growing rapidly – in fact in the first 3 months of 2017, the podcast had 40% m…
ML49: The Difference Between Knowledge and Wisdom
They're two words that get thrown around a lot but what exactly is the difference between knowledge and wisdom?
Knowledge is something closer to what the Ancient Greeks called Episteme – a specialise…
ML48: Ben Medder on Learning Physical Skills, the Art of Teaching and the Magic of Movement
Ben Medder is a movement coach who has trained in martial arts, athletics and parkour. He’s taken inspiration from the likes of Ido Portal, best known for his work with MMA fighter Connor McGregor, a…
ML47: What Makes A Great Teacher?
In modern society, learning has become synonymous with taking in information passively and retaining it. Students view teachers as people who are supposed to deliver information into their heads so t…
ML46: Barbara Oakley on Learning How To Learn, Retraining Your Brain and The Secrets Behind Great Online Education
Barbara Oakley is an educator and writer who’s empowering people all over the world to learn more effectively. Barb is best known for her role as the lead instructor on Coursera’s Learning How To Lea…
ML45: How To Learn from Animals
Is it really possible to learn from animals? For thousands of years, all kinds of authorities have been repeating the idea that we humans are exceptional and by far the most intelligent in the animal…
ML44: How To Learn from Mythology
In ancient cultures, mythology served a number of other important functions on an individual and personal level which may not be immediately obvious.
On a personal level mythology created a sense of …
ML43: Zahra Davidson on Learning Communities, Creative Collaboration and the Art of Self-Directed Learning
Zahra Davidson is a multidisciplinary designer innovating in education by encouraging people to learn in communities. She is the founder of Enrol Yourself, an organization that gives people the struc…