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How To Deal With Being Anxiously Attached - Jessica Baum - #489 Jun 20, 2022

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Jessica Baum is a Licensed Mental Health Counsellor, Relationship Expert and an author.

Attachment styles have become a hot topic recently, they underpin much of why we behave the way we do in relationships. Anxious attachment can be a serious challenge to overcome and gets in the way of everything, so working out how to defeat these dating demons is an important insight to uncover.

Expect to learn what the science is behind attachment styles, why anxious attachment develops, whether you can fix your attachment style while you're single, how to communicate with an anxiously attached partner more effectively, how to control your body and mind if you feel anxious, why Love Island's promo photos aren't that bad and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:32) How Social Media Misrepresents People (05:55) Jessica’s Work Background (09:35) Impact of Upbringing on Attachment (20:46) Beginning to Understand Attachment (29:56) Attachment Differences in Men & Women (39:29) Healing Attachment Issues (48:34) Practical Strategies to Calm Anxiety (56:52) Exploring Past Traumas (1:10:46) Harsh Truth of Attachment Anxiety (1:22:48) Where to Find Jessica

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Consistently Good Not Occasionally Great - Nick Bare - #488 Jun 18, 2022

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Nick Bare is the founder of Bare Performance Nutrition, an endurance racer, YouTuber and a podcaster.

Being consistently good will beat being occasionally great. But consistency is hard to find when life throws setbacks, business failures, injuries and babies at you. However, Nick has found a way to balance everything and today we get to discover how.

Expect to learn why doubters shouldn't affect your performance, why Go One More is a useful rule for everything in life, how Nick avoids burnout when juggling lots of projects, where the drive to get up at 5am every day comes from, how gut instinct can beat brain-power and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:43) Nick’s Marathon Progress (08:46) Preparations for Fatherhood (14:04) Choose What to Suck At (18:29) How to Avoid Burnout (22:18) Hiring the Right People (34:15) Framework for Being Consistent (41:04) Modern Definition of Success (49:16) Consistency in Hard Times (1:02:40) Define Personal Success (1:08:14) Moving Towards Intentional Parenting (1:18:18) The Price Paid for Success (1:23:41) Where to Find Nick

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How To Identify Your Internal Fears - Corey Wilks - #487 Jun 16, 2022

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Corey Wilks is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Executive Coach.

Fears hold us back. They encourage us to shy away from challenges, they cause us to fall short of our potential and make life miserable while they’re at it. Corey has created a framework of identifying and overcoming our internal fears from a decade of clinical and coaching experience with some of the world’s highest performers.

Expect to learn why 76% of people talk about not facing their fears as a deathbed regret, the four categories of fears Corey has most commonly found with his clients, how self-sabotaging behaviour is driven by internal worries, how procrastination, perfectionism and complacency are all part of the same equation and much more…

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(00:00) Intro (01:19) From Therapist to Coach (10:08) Are Successful People Fearless? (20:15) Spotting Self-Sabotaging Behaviour (30:36) Problems of Independent Workers (35:07) Dealing with Complacency (44:19) Being Raised in a Low-Income Home (50:07) Strategies to Mitigate Internal Fears (55:04) Importance of a Support Group (1:06:12) Where to Find Corey

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14 Mental Models To Understand Human Nature - Gurwinder Bhogal - #486 Jun 13, 2022

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Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.

Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written another monstrous thread exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media. It's one of the best things I've read this year, so I just had to bring him on.

Expect to learn why stupidity is more dangerous than evil, why most content has to appeal to midwits, why political debates are essentially mass-scaled ventriloquizism, how lower stakes lead to more vicious arguments, why the word retard is a strange choice as an unspeakable slur, why being a mess is more likeable than being perfect and much more…

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(00:00) Intro (00:38) How Companies in the West Virtue-Signal (07:35) Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity (12:19) Mean World Syndrome (20:40) Two-Step Flow Theory (26:38) Introspection Illusion (33:58) Sayre’s Law (41:28) Nut-Picking (54:43) The Lesser Mind’s Problem (1:01:03) Discussing the Word ‘Retard’ (1:09:38) The Iron Law of Oligarchy (1:12:50) Noble Cause Corruption (1:18:58) Fire-Hosing (1:23:02) The Beautiful Mess Effect (1:32:20) Where to Find Gurwinder

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Why Sensitive People Enjoy Feeling Sad - Susan Cain - #485 Jun 11, 2022

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Susan Cain is a best-selling author and speaker.

There’s a tyranny of positivity in the modern world. Talking about emotions like longing and sorrow are not usually encouraged. And yet tons of people feel like this and hearing others tell us about their melancholy brings us closer to them, so how can we integrate bittersweet emotions into our lives and what can they teach us about ourselves?

Expect to learn whether the world has become better for introverts, why sad music seems to make us happy, whether people are genetically predisposed to feeling bittersweet emotions, how to deal with impermanence in life when everyone we love is going to die, why I felt sad after looking at the moon and much more…

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(00:00) Intro (00:19) Is the World More Introvert-Friendly? (03:34) The Need to Embrace Joy & Sorrow (09:48) Experiences of Awe & Dread (17:00) Where Creativity Comes From (26:48) Struggling to Accept Being Introverted (36:38) The Tyranny of Positivity (41:01) Witnessing a Lunar Eclipse (47:31) Being Open in Competitive Environments (55:44) How to Accept Death (1:08:01) Where to Find Susan

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8 Impossible Thought Experiments - Cosmic Skeptic - #484 Jun 09, 2022

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Alex O'Connor is a philosopher, podcaster & a YouTuber.

Philosophy is hard. Ethics are hard. Working out what is moral is hard. Today we get to put our mental muscles to the test with some of the most challenging thought experiments in moral philosophy.

Expect to learn why brain tumours might be a good way to learn what is actually moral, whether ethics is just an expression of emotion, whether we can kill someone to stop them nuking a city, why it might be best to just not have any more children, whether an expensive education is cheating, what it means to say that someone is morally responsible for their actions, why Alex wore a suit to a boat party and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (01:35) What’s the Point of Discussing Ethics? (04:54) Rediscovering Ancient Truths (13:24) Is Ethics About Minimising Suffering? (24:46) Reductio Ad Absurdum (28:09) Is it Right to Harm People for the Greater Good? (41:50) Moral Responsibility Vs Ability to Act Differently (1:06:01) Unfairness of Imbalances in Wealth & Intelligence (1:17:28) Do Non-Smokers Deserve Medical Treatment More Than Smokers? (1:29:11) Where is the Source of Goodness? (1:33:37) Where to Find Alex

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Has Woke Taken Over Everything? - Dr Joanna Williams - #483 Jun 06, 2022

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Dr Joanna Williams is the Founder of Cieo, associate editor of Spiked and an author.

The last few years has seen progressive ideas capture institutions, academics and headlines. But how much has this ideology actually trickled down to making a real impact in the world? Is it just a moral panic about a moral panic or is there something to really be concerned about?

Expect to learn why police officers are being told to actively refer to themselves as woke, how 3 month old babies can be racist, why air conditioning is a tool of the patriarchy, whether the people pushing these narratives actually believe this stuff, what the future of progressive messaging has in store and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:23) Woke Policing (05:52) What Minorities Really Want (14:36) Origin of ‘Woke’ (20:05) How the Left is Demonised (26:22) The Shift from Class to Identity (36:52) Does the Woke Movement Impact Women’s Rights? (52:06) Adversarial Nature of Current Society (59:28) The Right’s Moral Panic (1:07:04) Is the Panic Justified? (1:12:50) Where to Find Dr Williams

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The Secret To Finding Great Talent - Tyler Cowen - #482 Jun 04, 2022

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Tyler Cowen is the Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University, a columnist, podcaster and an author.

Finding and recruiting the best talent is perhaps the most important job that an organisation has. Skilful, enthusiastic, keen staff can make or break a business, so why is it that most companies are mostly useless when it comes to discovering talent?

Expect to learn whether population collapse is coming very soon, whether talent is innate or developed, why there is a crisis of talent when we have more people on earth than ever before, whether you should look at someone's parents before hiring them, the best questions to ask in an interview, what SpaceX's hiring strategy teaches us about thoroughness, how Tyler screens young staff for the most original thinkers and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:26) Is Population Collapse a Problem? (04:26) Why the Recruitment Process is Wrong (08:32) Defining and Finding Talent (15:13) Measuring Ambition (23:37) Is Talent Genetic? (27:39) Improving the Education System (31:55) Influence of Parents & Attributes (38:49) Thinking Like an Athlete (47:08) How to Source Talent (57:22) When Are Charisma & Confidence Important? (1:01:31) Where to Find Tyler

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Lessons Learned Through Pain - Tim Kennedy - #481 Jun 02, 2022

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Tim Kennedy is a Green Beret, Special Forces Sniper, Army Ranger and Professional MMA Fighter.

Tim has spent most of his life fighting. Whether that's been against kids in kindergarten, Special Forces selection officers, UFC champions, enemy combatants, ISIS, or his own compulsion to make a mess of his life. He's seen his fair share of pain and discovered a lot of insights through it.

Expect to learn whether Tim has ever used BJJ in a combat situation, what motivates him to put himself through the discomfort he's endured, why he refused pain killers throughout his entire MMA career, why he swam a mile out to sea after getting two women pregnant and thinking he had AIDS and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:41) How Tim’s Childhood Shaped Him (05:26) Is Extreme Ownership Negative? (11:58) Tim’s Military Deployments (24:19) Comparing the Octagon with the Military (29:32) Tim’s Motivations & Sacrifices (37:47) The Loneliness of Natural Selection (40:23) Where to Find Tim

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