The Science of Self
Despite so many studies being done on improving ourselves, it can be hard to find specific, actionable steps to make our lives better.
Bestselling authors cut out the jargon and pop psychology to give insight and tips to be a better you.
If you want proven ways and applicable tips to live a better life, listen in weekly and improve your life from the inside out!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 261
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Tesla and Edison: Two Paths to Success
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00:01:22 Let's begin with Nikola Tesla
00:03:10 Both Tesla and Edison shared a passion for late…
It’s a WRAP
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00:01:16 The Wrap Methodology
00:11:36 The 3 P Technique
00:18:44 The ICE Scoring Model
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Passion And Motivation For Lifelong Pursuits
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00:05:53 Passion, according to life coach Susannah Newso…
Rethink Toxic Relationships—Including The One You Have With Yourself
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• No man is an island. Your unique thought patterns and habits ar…
Rene Descartes And Starting “From Zero”
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• Descartes’ genius traits included intellectual hon…
The Six Hats Method
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00:02:26 The white hat is Sherlock Holmes.
00:04:08 The red hat is Sigmund Freud, the psychotherapist.
00:06:25 The black hat is Eeyore, the morose don…
A Completely Rational Fear Of Failure
00:03:14 In fact, it took Milton Hershey years of experimentation before he finally perfected his chocolate-making process.
00:04:45 Elizabeth Day’s book How to Fail: Everything I’ve Learned from Thin…
Where Does Negative Thinking Really Come From?
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00:05:13 Your Negativity May Be “Hardwired”
00:07:38 But that Doesn’t Mean It’s Written in Stone
00:10:53 Authors, researchers, and neuroscientists Kahneman and Tversky
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Darwin’s Golden Rule
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00:01:06 Charlie Munger once said he thought that if Darwin attended Harvard in 1986, he probably would have graduated around the middle of the pack.
00:04:28 “Strong opinio…
Primed For Good Decisions
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00:02:08 Ego Depletion
00:08:48 Combat Decision Fatigue
00:14:40 Impulsive and knee-jerk reactions usually turn out to be very bad or wrong.
00:15:19 L…
From “Comfort Zone” To “Growth Zone”
00:00:17 today we pull from Peter Holland's new book The lifelong learner it contends that Humans have a startling tendency to gravitate toward the mundane, the monotonous, and the known.
00:00:52 Jud…
One Underappreciated Way To Genuinely Feel Better
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00:02:42 Emotional Regulation
00:10:02 The Life Cycle of an Emotion
• Keeping a gratitude journal is a great way to create genuine feelings of positivity.
• Rather than c…
Socrates’ Endless Questions
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00:09:20 1. Clarification Questions
00:09:28 2. Probing Assumptions
00:09:35 3. Probing Rationale, reasons, evidence
00:09:44 4. Questioning Viewpoints and pers…
Understanding Your Needs
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Welcome to the science of self
00:00:24 Don't know what your personal values are?
00:12:59 STEP ONE: CLEAR YOUR MIND
00:14:15 STEP TWO: START A LIST
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Avoid The Trap Of Toxic Positivity
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• Toxic positivity is a kind of cognitive distortion and is an overgeneralization of a positive and optimistic attitude. It consists of denial, minimization, and invalida…
Einstein And Combinatorial Play
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• Einstein’s genius traits included curiosity, having broad areas of interest (i.e. being a polymath), and a refusal to bow to convention.
• Einstein is known…
The Core Of Decisions: You
Often, decisions can be consciously articulated. If you want Chinese food for dinner, that’s easy to justify. But for both quicker and bigger decisions, you are likely more influenced by your subco…
“Remember That You Must Die”
• The ancient Stoics were masters of living in the present.
• One way of rethinking your relationship to the past is to adopt the Stoic attitude of amor fati. This translates roughly to “love of one’…
Spartacus And The Servile Wars
• Spartacus was able to do what he did because he was exquisitely focused on his goal – justice. Freedom is being outside of the control and dominion of any other being except yourself. Even if you a…
Intellectual Honesty
• Intellectual honesty is also important, and this includes humility and the ability to admit that you don’t know something, or that you have made a mistake. Geniuses know that stubbornness, bias, ex…