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The Comfort Zone Trap - How Failure Builds Courage, Confidence, and an Interesting Life
Human beings have an issue. We want adventure, growth, and transformation, provided they arrive gently, avoid inconvenience, and never make us look f…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Chemistry Isn’t Compatibility: How to Choose Better Partners in Love and Work - w/ Matt Higgins
The psychology of healthy relationships: hidden rules behind better marriages, better teams, and better choices.
In this episode, I sit down with leg…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Psychology of What Matters: How to Stop Wasting Time
A psychological guide to choosing priorities, resisting urgency, and spending time well.
Time is the universe’s most brilliant and inescapable invent…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Neuroscience of Growth Mindset: How to rewire your brain
The human brain is a wonderfully absurd little organ. It powers civilization, invents jazz, and still somehow convinces you that being bad at somethi…
5 months ago
Are You Thinking Your Thoughts, Or Are They Thinking You?
You like to think of yourself as someone who thinks for themselves. But what if the ideas running through your head aren't really yours — what if the…
5 months, 1 week ago
The Psychology of Never Feeling Good Enough (Even When You Clearly Are)
Hedonic adaption busily sweeps our wins under the rug like they are a nuisance. We look at how to fight back against your own psychology.
I once ran…
5 months, 1 week ago
7 Weird Life-Changing Skills that are Strange to Work On
Nobody tells you that curiosity is a skill. Or that humor can be built. Or that the way you think is quietly deciding everything.
Most of us are runn…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Having a Backup Plan Is Making You Fail - Burn the boats with Matt Higgins
In 1519, Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico and promptly set fire to his own fleet. By any conventional measure of military logistics, this seems profoun…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Why You Have Great Ideas but Never Actually Do Anything With Them
We are spectacularly good at having ideas and remarkably reluctant to do anything with them.
It turns out that the distance between "I've got it!" an…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
You Didn't Choose Your Attachment Style, but Here's How You Can Change It - With Jessica Baum
Most people think their relationship problems are about the other person. They're not — they're about an 18-month-old version of you who learned the …
5 months, 3 weeks ago