What You Will Learn

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Noise Jul 08, 2021

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In this book, Kahneman, Sibony, and Sunstein break down the concept of noise in human judgement and how it impacts our society.

Medicine is noisy. Faced with the same patient, different doctors make different judgments about the diagnosis.

Forecasts are noisy. Professional forecasters offer highly variable predictions. Whether it's about the popularity of a new product, the change in the unemployment rate, the likelihood of bankruptcy of a particular company, or the results of the next election.

Asylum decisions are noisy. Whether an asylum seeker will be admitted to the United States is like a lottery of which judge you get – some judges granted 5% of cases while others granted 88% of cases.

Wherever you look at human judgements, you are likely to find noises. In real-world decisions, the amount of noise is often scandalously high. So, to improve the quality of our judgments, we need to not only overcome bias but also overcome noise.

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Man's Search For Meaning Jul 01, 2021

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Man's Search For Meaning - by Victor E Frankl

We find ourselves in middle of World War II. Frankl had been captured by the Germans and is in a concentration camp. "Every man was controlled by one thought only: to keep himself alive for the family waiting for him at home". This is a dark book and highlights the atrocities of the time, but also shows us that terrible things happen when we lose a sense of meaning in our lives.

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LAUNCHING Our Audiobook Jun 22, 2021

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Today we're launching our audiobook: The Sh*t They Never Taught You.

For a limited time, you can get 50% OFF! Use the code LAUNCH at checkout to buy the audiobook for half price: https://mysoundwise.com/soundcasts/1623277740633s

This episode is a free chapter - the introduction to the audiobook.

Buy from the above link, or head to the landing page at theshittheynevertaughtyou.com

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Best of Season 5 May 04, 2021

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We've come to the end of our FIFTH year of podcasting! As we do at the end of every season, we're gone through our respective "Top 10s" of our favourite books that we've covered on the podcast in 2021 (so far).

We're also super proud to have announced that our first book, The Sh*t They Never Taught You, is now available for Pre-Order. If you order the hardcover book before the official release date (June 23, 2021), you'll also receive the audiobook for free as a pre-order bonus. Just forward your receipt to book@theshittheynevertaughtyou.com

PRE-ORDER NOW: http://theshittheynevertaughtyou.com/

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BOOK LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT: The Sh*t They Never Taught You Apr 28, 2021

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IT’S HERE!

THE SH*T THEY NEVER TAUGHT YOU

After 16 months, six iterations of writing and rewriting... we’re proud to say our book has finally arrived! We pushed through The Dip and put the very best we have into the best book that we could possibly write.

PRE-ORDER NOW: theshittheynevertaughtyou.com

Purchase before June 23 (pre-sale), send the receipt to book@theshittheynevertaughtyou.com and we will send you the audiobook for FREE.

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Here is a taste from the blurb:

Have you ever stumbled upon a piece of life-changing knowledge that made you think: why the hell didn’t someone tell me this sooner?!

Millions of people have listened to Adam and Adam on the What You Will Learn podcast, where they have spent tens of thousands of hours studying the best ideas from the greatest minds on the planet. Their most frequently asked question: what is the best lesson you’ve come across? While you’d think a simple question would have a simple answer, it didn’t - until now!

The Sh*t They Never Taught You will take you on a journey through takeaways from over a hundred of the world’s greatest thinkers capturing lessons in personal development, career, business, personal finances, human nature, history, and philosophy. Every lesson will be useful, and one might change your life.

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Lean Startup Apr 25, 2021

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The Lean Startup - by Eric Ries

'How constant innovation creates radically successful businesses'

If you've ever created your own business, or tried to, you will probably see in hindsight that you wasted a lot of resources, be that time, money, or energy and effort. 'The Lean Startup' is a different approach to building a business. In every idea, you have 'leap of faith' assumptions. Rather than assuming you're right, you should build a 'minimum viable product'. This MVP is the smallest and simplest thing you can make that replicates the features of your desired end product that will allow you to TEST your assumptions before committing to the project. If you're right, you 'persevere' and continue to build out your offering ad test the next phase. If you're wrong, you can 'pivot' and make changes before it's too late.

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The First 90 Days Apr 17, 2021

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The First 90 Days is effective to help new leaders — from first-time managers to CEOs — understand the skills and factors that ease the transition process of their leadership journey. A long career at a single company is increasingly becoming a history. Employees usually experience many transitions, especially those in leadership roles. The ability to adjust quickly and effectively into a new role has become a critical skill to thrive in your career.

If the president of the United States gets 100 days to prove himself, you get about 90 days.

Every new leader needs to become quickly familiar with the new organisation to secure wins and build supportive coalitions. And this book provides guidelines for translating these principles to fit your own situation.

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Coddling Of The American Mind Apr 10, 2021

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Coddling Of The American Mind is about: "How good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure"

Well intentioned overprotection from peanut bans in elementary schools through speech codes on campus; are doing more harm than good. But overprotection is just one of the larger trends that we call problems of progress. This refers to bad consequences produced by good social changes.

In this episode we cover the three great untruths that seem to have spread:

The untruth of fragility: what doesn't kill you makes you weaker
The untruth of emotional reasoning: always trust your feelings
The untruth of us vs them: life is a battle between good and evil people

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A Crack In Creation Apr 03, 2021

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The biological world is undergoing profound, human-induced changes. For billions of years, life progressed according to Darwin's theory of evolution - organisms developed through a series of random genetic variations. Up to now, species has been shaped by this process. Today things could not be more different. Scientists have succeeded in bringing his primordial successfully under human control.

Scientists can now manipulate and rationally modify the genetic code that defines every species on the planet, including our own. And with the newest and arguably most effective genetic engineering tool" CRISPR-CAS9 (CRISPR for short).

The genome, an organism's entire DNA content including all its genes, has become almost as editable as a simple piece of text.

Crack In the Code of Creation shows Jennifer Doudna's discovery of the technology and how it can be applied to change our future rapidly.

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Beyond Order (Part 2) Mar 30, 2021

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Jordan Peterson went massive world wide with his first book 12 Rules For Life. His new book, Beyond Order provides ’12 more Rules For Life’.

Order is explored territory. We are in order when the actions we deem appropriate produce the results we aim at. We regard such outcomes positively. Chaos is anomaly, novelty, unpredictability, transformation, disruption and all too often descent. Neither the state of order nor the state of chaos if preferable. Like the yin yang, we need to find the balance between the two.

12 Rules For Life was the antidote to chaos and increasing order. Beyond Order, is about moving into chaos.

We both loved this book so much we are spreading it across 2 episodes.

In this second episode we look at the interpersonal rules:

•Rule 3: Do not hide unwanted things in the fog

•Rule 10: Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship

•Rule 1: Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement

Listen back to Part 1 where, we covered the personal rules:

•Rule 4: Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated

•Rule 7: Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one this and see what happens

•Rule 2: Imagine who you could be, and then aim single-mindedly at it

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