Scott H Young Podcast

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(Ep 20) - Should you strive to desire more or less Mar 03, 2019

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Should you set goals, cultivate ambition and strive for greater and better things? Or should you diminish your needs and be more accepting of life?

(Ep 19) - Play is learning Mar 02, 2019

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Why does learning have to be hard work? Why is studying such a chore? Why making your study more like play will help you learn more and have more fun.

(Ep 18) - How to find time Mar 01, 2019

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Time is limited. But your energy, attention and enthusiasm are limited even more. How can you find time when there always seems to be so little of it?

(Ep 17) - How to cultivate mental stamina Feb 28, 2019

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The ability to focus on hard work for a longer period of time is essential to success in your career and studies. Here's five strategies to do this.

(Ep 16) - The three different types of luck Feb 27, 2019

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Chance and randomness have a big impact on our lives. Life isn't fair, but the kind of luck that impacts your life can have dramatic differences in how you should respond.

(Ep 15) - Is old advice better? Feb 26, 2019

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Is it better to read the Stoics, Buddhists and other ancient wisdom? Or is older advice out of date? I try to show both sides of this debate and give my recommendations.

(Ep 14) - Habit Stacking: How to keep up with everything (When you don't have time) Feb 20, 2019

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In this episode, I discuss how to keep on track with everything even when you don't have time.

Why Do People Go To School [The Case Against Education - 1] Aug 08, 2018

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We've updated the format of our bookclub and will be breaking each month's book into smaller, shorter discussions. Hope you enjoy! This month we're reading The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan. In this thought-provoking book, Caplan argues that the main function of education is not to enhance students' skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity―in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee. The author draws on the latest social science to show how the labor market values grades over knowledge and even explains why graduation is our society's top conformity signal.

(Ep 13) Book Club: The structure of scientific revolutions Jul 24, 2018

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This is the wrap-up video for this month's book club where we read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn. About the book: This is the wrap up video for this mont's book club where we read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn. American historian and philosopher of science, Kuhn was a leading contributor to the change of focus in the philosophy and sociology of science in the 1960s. He taught at Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1962, Kuhn published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which depicted the development of the basic natural sciences in an innovative way. According to Kuhn, the sciences do not uniformly progress strictly by scientific method.

(Ep 12) - Book Club: The wizard and the prophet Jun 26, 2018

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This is the wrap-up video for the twelfth month of the book club. This month we read The Wizard & The Prophet by Charles C. Mann.

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