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
Episode 309: Rosi Sexton: True Badass
Rosi Sexton fought in Mixed Martial Arts for 12 years. She’s a true master of Mixed Martial Arts, Mixed Mathematical Arts, Mixed Medical Arts, and Mixed Mental Arts. She has a PhD from Cambridge, an…
Ep 308 Sex in the Trenches: Asa Akira
Asa Akira is a feminist, an intellectual, a podcast host, and the author of three books, Insatiable, Asarotica, and Dirty Thirty: A Memoir. Oh, and she also has been appearing in porn for 10 years. T…
Ep 307 - Content And Inspiration On Hyper Island: Jamie Black Enters The Dojo
Jamie Black works at Hyper Island. Hyper Island is a Swedish model of education that emphasizes innovation and technology. The Hyper Island team has expanded worldwide and has been lucky to bring on …
Ep 306 - Federalist No. 1: The Mother of All Podcasts
January 20th, 2018 After full experience of the insufficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are invited to deliberate on a New Constitution for the United States of America. The subject…
Ep 305 - Homo Socialis: Talking Humans with David Sloan Wilson
If you haven’t heard the name David Sloan Wilson, then you’re definitely new to Mixed Mental Arts. David Sloan Wilson has pioneered Multi-Level Selection which is one of the cornerstones of the Mixed…
Ep 304 - Evolution Never Ends: Michael Garfield Enters The Dojo
Michael Garfield is a paleontologist who brings the study of the longest imaginable evolutionary timeline to the study of the future. If you’re looking for a new intellectual rabbit hole to fall down…
Ep 303 - Doughnut Economics: Kate Raworth Enters The Dojo
Kate Raworth got into economics to change the world. She then found out that the discipline was full of men, in grey suits, who cared only about making GDP go up at all costs. She later left economic…
Ep 302 - Best of East, Best of West: Don Mei Enters The Dojo
Don Mei has spent his entire life mixing the mental arts. As the son of a Swiss mother and a Chinese father who spent their lives bridging East and West, Don has help set the table for Humanity’s Fir…
Ep 301 - Talking Economics With Adam Smith: Russ Roberts Enters The Dojo
For the last eleven years, Russ Roberts has hosted the Econ Talk podcast from Stanford’s Hoover Institute. He is a founding father of Podcasts. In addition, he’s the author of the excellent book How …
Ep 300 - How To Set The Right Goals, Man : Jordan B. Peterson Enters The Dojo
In our 300th episode, Bryan Callen talks with Jordan Peterson about his self authoring program, the Wilfred Laurier scandal, political polarization, how to set the right goals, sex, and individualism…
Ep 299 - Humility Is The New Smart: Katherine Ludwig Enters The Dojo
Katherine Ludwig is a former corporate finance and securities lawyer-turned writer and editor. Now, she has authored Humility is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age. T…
Ep 298 - Nanooks, Knife Fights, and Terrorists : Lt. Col John Nagl (Ret.) Enters The Dojo
After fighting in the first gulf war, John Nagl returned to the United States and took part in a simulated military exercise. As a tank commander, he had all the overwhelming firepower any soldier co…
Ep 297 - The Physics Of Life: Prof Adrian Bejan Enters The Dojo
Growing up in Soviet-controlled Romania, Adrian Bejan found himself living in system that tried to prevent of ideas, money, goods and people. It’s only fitting then that his career would not only see…
Ep 296 - What Happened To The Party Of Mandela? South Africa Enters The Dojo
In the wake of the US Civil War, the Republican Party had won itself a lot of political goodwill. The Party of Lincoln, as it was called, could, in the eyes of many, do no wrong. Not only had it brou…
Ep 295 - Does Altruism Exist? David Sloan Wilson Enters The Dojo
In 1759, while working as a tutor, Adam Smith wrote a book called The Theory of Moral Sentiments that begins as follows: "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles …
Ep 294 - MMA Saturday Sessions: Jared Diamond
We don’t know just where we’re headed. But we know Saturdays can feel weird. Technically, it's one of your chill days. At the same time, you promised Mom you'd cut her grass - and you have that thing…
Ep 293 - The Eternal Tao Has No Name: Chris Ryan PHD and Daniele Bolelli Enter The Dojo
Hunter has been doing a lot of thinking lately - Gathering his thoughts. Taoism strikes him not as a discovery, but as a rediscovery of an earlier way of being: the way of the Hunter-Gatherer. The Hu…
Ep 292 - I Am Bryan Callen's Daddy: Big Mike Enters The Dojo
If you have friends that still subscribe to the old podcast feed, wake them up. Steal your girlfriends phone and subscribe to Mixed Mental Arts (Official), like Daddy would. Follow us on whatever SM …
Ep 291 - A Biological Case For Democracy? Acemoglu and Keltner Enter The Dojo
Both Daron Acemoglu (MIT economist and co-author of Why Nations Fail) and Dacher Keltner (Berkeley psychologist and author of many books including Born to Be Good) have appeared on Mixed Mental Arts …
Ep 290 - The Inequality of Citizenship Is Russia's Super Power, For Now: Lawrence Lessig Enters The Dojo
This is a repost. Think of what could have been. We added the music to avoid the Haters Hatin'. If you don't like it. Well, sorry :( Music Courtesy of Honeystone. A Kick Ass band you should know abo…