The Spaniard Show

Today's AMXbooks is an examination of adversity and its potential benefits, and the two types of knowledge (which to me, represent the wonder and awesomeness of life and learning). Enjoy the show!

Today's show is all about love and relationships. We're talking the importance of love in the development of children, the two goals that guide children's behavior and the two types of love that exis…

Enjoy a recap of this week's learnings!

Sources: The Happiness Hypothesis, Way of the Warrior Kid: Marc's Mission, Marc Weinstein

It was in another of Jonathan Haidt's books (Coddling of the American Mind) that I first heard the saying, "Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child." Today's episode focuses on jus…

Why is Instagram awesome? Among other reasons, because it deepened The Spaniard’s interest in Marc Weinstein (who he first got to know through Spartan Race’s podfest) as he observed Marc’s uplifting …

The chapter I discuss on today's show is titled "The Faults of Others." It's very difficult to NOT judge other people, and I believe it is an ideal worthy of our utmost pursuit. Tune in to hear how o…

What is the single principle that the sages elevate above all others? How do altruism, gossip and tit-for-tat help to keep us all in check as we grow and evolve into bigger and bigger cooperative gro…

Uncle Jake and Marc are back for another week! On today's show, we're talking: ownership of problems, respect for people and things and gathering intelligence.

We are born with a general happiness level, and we have the ability to change that level. It takes work, as anything worth doing, but it's possible. Enjoy today's recap of happiness.

Today, we begin an incredibly cool and insightful book that focuses on some of the primary big questions of our lives: happiness, morality and meaning. I've learned so much from author Jonathan Haidt…

Enjoy a recap of this week's learnings!

Sources: Educated, Way of the Warrior Kid: Marc's Mission, Kobi Yamada

As we wrap up our time with Tara, I can't help but think of Muhammad Ali's quote, “The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” Tara's is the story of …

Today's episode of AMXbooks shows us that no matter where we start, we have the potential to go far, as we see Tara traveling around the world and self-reflecting on her journey. We also learn a deep…

Hey, want to read a private text from The Spaniard? He sent this out after interviewing today’s guest, Kobi Yamada: ”Check out live-inspired.com. The company is Compendium. The guy who runs it is an …

Have you ever been absolutely 100% certain about something, only to begin questioning yourself? Maybe it was something that happened last week or when you were a kid. Maybe you perceived a conversati…

We're back with the second book in the Way of the Warrior Kid series. Marc's Uncle Jake returns for another summer to help Marc handle the challenges he is facing, namely with the bully Nathan James.…

It's always great when you can link together great books and minds. On today's show, I connect Tara's traveling revelations with something I recently heard on one of Trevor Noah's Netflix specials. W…

The gold within you, Positive and Negative Liberty and the "animating surge of adrenaline" Tara feels upon learning about feminism are the topics in today's conversation.

As you listen and go on in y…

Enjoy a recap of this week's learnings!

Sources: Educated, What Do You Do with a Problem?, Jon Fitch

On today's show, we explore good people helping good people. Sometimes, it can feel like your hard work and perseverance can go for nought, but Tara experiences help and encouragement from outside so…