Mixed Mental Arts
As kids, we're like little sponges blindly copying culture from the people around us. The cultures into which we were all born evolved to fit very old agricultural environments. Each contains timeless wisdom about human affairs but none of them is ideally suited to navigating the ever-changing environment in which we find ourselves.
The goal of Mixed Mental Arts is to steal the best cultural software from everywhere and apply the core principle of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." Welcome to the dojo! We're excited to learn from you.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 366
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2020
Ep146 - Professor David Goldberg
Dave Goldberg works on issues in theoretical cosmology. He also writes books that make physics accessible to the general public including the subject of today’s interview: The Universe in the Rearvie…
00:49:06 |
Thu 21 Aug 2014
Ep145 - Professor Nye
In a recent survey of internatinal relations scholars, Professor Nye was ranked as the most influential scholar on American foreign policy, and in 2011, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 Gl…
00:45:13 |
Mon 18 Aug 2014
Ep144 - Dr. Wendy Chen
Dr. Wendy Chen is an assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an oncologist affiliated with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Initially, we conta…
00:57:34 |
Thu 14 Aug 2014
Ep143 - Aubrey De Grey
Aubrey De Grey is fighting the deadliest cause of death in the world. It kills two thirds of all people, far more than all other forms of death combined, and yet very little attention is given to cur…
00:51:28 |
Mon 11 Aug 2014
Ep142 - Spiros Michalakis
The last time we had Spiros Michalakis on. We knew we needed to get him back on asap. Partly, because we got such amazing feedback from the community of listeners and partly because we were so busy h…
00:53:18 |
Thu 07 Aug 2014
Ep141 - Detlev Schlichter
While Ben Dyson has argued that we need to take the power to create money out of the hands of bankers and put it entirely in the hands of government (you can here that episode here) Detlev Schlichter…
01:01:39 |
Mon 04 Aug 2014
Ep140 - Daron Acemoglu
Daron Acemoglu is the co-author of one of Hunter’s five favorite books of all time, the incomparably brilliant Why Nations Fail in 2012. In a previous podcast, it was our pleasure to host Jared Diamo…
01:03:40 |
Thu 31 Jul 2014
Ep139 - Freeway Rick Ross
Freeway Rick Ross came from nothing and started a business that grossed nearly a billion dollars and spanned forty-two cities. The problem is that the business was illegal. After his inability to rea…
01:01:43 |
Mon 28 Jul 2014
Ep138 - Jason Selk
While serving as the Director of Mental Training for the St Louis Cardinals, Dr. Jason Selk helped the team win their first World Series in over 20 years, and in 2011 he assisted the Cardinals in the…
00:27:46 |
Thu 24 Jul 2014
Ep137 - Carol Dweck
Carol Dweck had a simple question she wanted answered: why did some people take failure so personally while others seemed to thrive on it? Beginning her work with students, she realized that the key …
00:51:11 |
Mon 21 Jul 2014
Ep136 - A.J. Jacobs
AJ Jacobs likes to experiment on himself and once he sets himself a challenge will do whatever it takes to meet it. He spent eight hours a day reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica. He spent a y…
00:53:47 |
Thu 17 Jul 2014
Ep135 - Michael Callen
Bryan sits down with his dad, Michael Callen for another installment of the Callen Report. Be sure to rate and comment in iTunes. Also, you can find the show on Stitcher.
01:02:44 |
Mon 14 Jul 2014
Ep134 - Dacher Keltner
As a professor of psychology at UC Berkley and the founding faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, Dacher Keltner studies how we negotiate our relationships with others. After having Ro…
00:42:25 |
Thu 10 Jul 2014
Ep133 - Ryan Holiday
When he was 19, Ryan Holiday dropped out of college, apprenticed under Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power and Mastery, and asked Dr. Drew for a book recommendation. Dr. Drew’s recommendati…
00:53:05 |
Mon 07 Jul 2014
Ep132 - Craig Nelson
Craig Nelson is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Rocket Men, as well as Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations (winner of the Henry Adams Prize), The Fir…
00:52:10 |
Thu 03 Jul 2014
Ep131 - Rebecca Jeschke
Nearly 25 years ago, before the world wide web even existed, two technologists and one lyricist for the Grateful Dead banded together to form an organization that would defend freedom of speech on th…
00:55:40 |
Mon 30 Jun 2014
Ep130 - Coach Bill Courtney
In 2011, Coach Bill Courtney was catapulted to national fame when Undefeated, a documentary about his volunteer coaching of the Manassas High Football team, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary…
01:03:49 |
Thu 26 Jun 2014
Ep129 - Spiros Michalakis
Spiros Michalakis is a quantum physicist at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech. Drop the mic... I mean…really…Spiros is a quantum physicist at the number 1 program for quantu…
01:02:27 |
Mon 23 Jun 2014
Ep128 - Partners in Passion
Patricia Johnson and Mark Michaels know a lot about sex. In fact, they may know more about it than anybody else on the planet. They write about it; they interview people about it; they’ve even done i…
00:59:26 |
Mon 16 Jun 2014
Ep127 - Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss is the creator of the 4-Hour Series of books. The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef have all become bestsellers and been translated into dozens of languages. In this his t…
00:59:20 |
Mon 09 Jun 2014
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