FOMO Sapiens with Patrick J. McGinnis

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Bucket List Basics Mar 01, 2021

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Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail.

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16. Die With Nothing Left on Your To-Do List Feb 25, 2021

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Consider this question: If you had only one day more to live, what would you do?

That's what Ben Nemtim, keynote speaker and New York Times best-selling author of What Do You Want To Do Before You Die? asked himself in 2006 and that question was the start of a new journey.

Ben recounts how a college project, The Buried Life, allowed him to answer that question by making a list of seemingly impossible goals and then going after them. In the process, he surprised himself by doing things like playing basketball with President Obama and having a beer with Prince Harry.

Ben also provides practical advice for team leaders and how supporting your team members' bucket list can increase productivity and retain top performers in any business.

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Listener Mail and Finding Flow Feb 22, 2021

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Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail.

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15. The Neurobiology of Peak Performance with Steven Kotler Feb 18, 2021

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Steven Kotler, New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and Executive Director for the Flow Research Collective unpacks the formula to achieve peak performance and the science to sustain it.

Steven shares how he became an expert in human performance and how he can replicate peak performance through Flow, an optimal state of consciousness where humans feel and perform their best.

To conclude the show, Steven provides practical tips to get more Flow into your life and an online assessment to understand your Flow.

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How to Cold Call on LinkedIn Feb 15, 2021

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Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail.

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14. How to Not Die (or Wake Up) Alone Feb 11, 2021

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Logan Ury, Director of Relationship Science for the dating app Hinge and author of "How to Not Die Alone" discusses the evolution of dating apps and their use during COVID-19 - a period during which most of us have felt more alone than ever.

She talks about how her background in behavioral psychology has helped her use data-driven evidence in her research of online dating and finding the key to a happy relationship.

She also gives us her take on the three common dating personas that people embody when looking for their "ideal" relationship: the romanticizer, the maximizer, and the hesitator. Logan and Patrick discuss how FOBO - or the "Fear of a Better Option" - can play a big role in how some people approach dating and how FOBO can also lead individuals down a never-ending search for that "perfect match."

Finally, Logan provides her take on how she thinks that dating will evolve in the future - from more video dating via apps to increased gender fluidity and types of dating among Gen Z daters.

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How to Be a 10% Activist Feb 08, 2021

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Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail.

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13. How Entrepreneurs Can Fix Government Feb 04, 2021

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Mitch Weiss, Professor at Harvard Business School and author of We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems, shares his experience working in public office and using entrepreneurial thinking to solve significant problems.

Mitch recounts his story during the fatal Boston Marathon Bombings. He was Chief-of-Staff to Boston's mayor, Thomas Menino, at the time, and was responsible for implementing an innovative initiative to aid victims and direct funds to them efficiently.

He also unpacks Public Entrepreneurship, a relatively novel concept, and stresses that governments need to emulate what works in the private sector and apply it to the public sector.

To conclude the episode, Patrick and Mitch discuss examples of countries that have successfully implemented entrepreneurial thinking in public problems; and share practical ideas on how you too can get involved, contribute, and help make a change.

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How to Make Time Count for More Feb 01, 2021

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Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail.

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12. How to Avoid the Trap of Multitasking to Get More Done Jan 28, 2021

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If you think you are great at multitasking, you're actually probably not. Dave Crenshaw, the author of The Myth of Multitasking: How “Doing It All” Gets Nothing Done, explains that multitasking is - as he says - a myth. By accepting that reality, you can change the way you operate to get more done through a series of small, yet important, changes. Multitasking is not a superpower, FOCUSING is.

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