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036 - The Coach Up: Steve's Best Strategies for Handling Pressure
Over many years of evolution, we've been wired to have very trigger happy alarm systems. Unfortunately, those alarms tend go off most loudly right be…
2 years, 3 months ago
035 - Tools to Move More, Eat Better, & Boost Productivity
Today's roundtable is all about building a more robust and more effective toolbox for handling the challenges life throws at you. After years of stud…
2 years, 3 months ago
034 - The Coach Up: Why "Live Your Best Life Now" is Bad Advice
On the fifth episode of FAREWELL, Kate Bowler joined the show to talk about the ways in which the cult of wellness is failing us—namely, by making un…
2 years, 3 months ago
033 - How to Change Your Behavior and Make Better Decisions (with Katy Milkman)
We humans have a tendency to get in our own way. When it comes to starting new habits, changing our behavior, or making big decisions, we create all …
2 years, 3 months ago
032 - The Coach Up: Use this Pyramid to Organize Your Life
Brad has been a performance coach for some time now, working with executives, physicians, founder, attorneys. Today, we're going to get a little insi…
2 years, 3 months ago
031 - Let's Make Work — and Technology — Less Insane (with Cal Newport)
For the last couple decades, Cal Newport has been thinking about how to do quality work productively, effectively, and sustainably. His latest book S…
2 years, 3 months ago
030 - The Coach Up: 3 Mantras for Work, Anxiety, and Exercise
Mantras are a good tool to have in your toolkit when life inevitably gets frustrating and difficult (to wit: in their FAREWELL interviews, ultrarunne…
2 years, 3 months ago
029 - How to Lose Well & Age Gracefully
This week, NCAA March Madness wrapped up, and two teams were crowned National Champions—which means 134 other teams lost. This is the hard reality of…
2 years, 4 months ago
028 - The Coach Up: The 4 Levels of Competence
Any time we are developing a new skill, hobby, craft, or practice, we have to go through various stages of development—these are called the four leve…
2 years, 4 months ago
027 - The Case for Less Technology & More Boredom (with Manoush Zomorodi)
Good news, bad news. The good news: in our modern world of endless entertainment, we have essentially solved the problem of boredom. The bad news: tu…
2 years, 4 months ago