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**What You Will Learn**

We’re Adam and Adam, two Aussie blokes that love reading great books. Each week we share the best bits from the best books, and interview the world’s top authors. The books we cover can help you improve every area of your life, from your health to your wealth, from your relationships to your mindset. You’ll learn to pick up healthier habits, and drop the ones that are holding you back. We put the world’s best ideas within your reach, for a fraction of the time it would take to read the full book.

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Latest Episodes:

Zero to One Aug 03, 2019

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Zero to One - by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

'Notes on Startups, or, How to Build the Future'

- The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system.

- The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine.

- The next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network.

If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them.

Of course, it's easier to copy a model than to make something new. Doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to N, improving something that's already familiar. BUT every time we make something new, we go from 0 to 1. The act of creation is singular, and the result is something fresh.

Zero to One is about how to create companies that build new things.

It draws on everything Peter has learned as a cofounder of Pay Pal, and an investor in hundreds of startups including Facebook and SpaceX. Whilst there are patterns, there are no formulas for success. The paradox of teaching entrepreneurship is that such a formula cannot exist, because every innovation is unique and new, no authority can prescribe in concrete terms how to innovate.

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Homo Deus Jul 27, 2019

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Homo Deus - by Yuval Noah Harari

'A brief history of tomorrow'

For thousands of years the top of our list of concerns were famine, plague and war. While this haven't been completely solved, we're pretty close and they have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges.

Having secured unprecedented levels of prosperity, health and harmony, and given our past record and current values, YNH predicts that humanity's next targets are likely to be: Immortality, Happiness and Divinity.

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Antifragile Jul 20, 2019

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Antifragile - by Nassim Taleb

'Things that gain from disorder'

Wind extinguishes a candle but energises fire. Likewise with randomness/uncertainty/chaos, you want to be able to use them, not to hide from them. You want to be the fire and wish for the wind.

Most people think the opposite of fragile is robust, resilient or solid. But the resilient and robust are items that neither break nor improve. The opposite of fragility should be negative fragility - there is not yet a word for it, so Taleb terms it 'Antifragility'.

The central theme of the book is antifragility, which Nassim defines as:

“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. Yet, in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile. Let us call it antifragile. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”

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Quiet Jul 14, 2019

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Quiet - by Susan Cain

'The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking'

The world today seems to value confident, outgoing, bubbly personalities who are comfortable in all social settings and aren't afraid to speak up. But Cain reveals that those with the loudest voice don't necessarily have the best ideas. This book is both a call to organisations to foster the power of introverts, as well as an appeal to introverts to best step outside of their comfort zones and play the role required of them.

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Oh, The Places You'll Go! Jul 07, 2019

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Oh, The Places You'll Go! - by Dr Seuss (Theodor Geisel)

This may look like a kids book (and it is) but we've dug out some serious life lessons that link up with a whole bunch of other ideas we've read in other 'real' books. This one is a must-read, it'll take you less than 10 minutes.

We pulled out our top 5 lessons, and we'd love to hear yours too - email us any time at podcast@whatyouwilllearn.com to tell us what you thought.

Check out website with our ratings for every book: www.whatyouwilllearn.com

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Freakonomics Jun 30, 2019

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Freakonomics - by Stephen J Dubner & Steven Levitt

'The hidden side of everything'

Economics ultimately boils down to the study of incentives. Incentives are all around us, whether natural or manufactured (like by a parent, teacher, boss, politician or economist). In this episode, we talk about 4 major areas of economics, using a few stories and studies from the book to flesh out the concepts:

- Moral incentives VS Economic incentives

- Information Asymmetry

- Correlation VS Causation

- Risk Assessment

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Best of Season 3 Jun 03, 2019

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Thanks for listening to Season 3 of What You Will Learn!

In this episode, we’ll recap our favourite lessons from our favourite books of Season 3.

We’ll be back in July for regular 'juggernaut month'.

If you want to hear some WYWL in the break, we've curated our best content into a top 10 episodes, both interviews or book reviews. If you want the list, head to: www.whatyouwilllearn.com/best

Or get a book from our Top 50: www.whatyouwilllearn.com/top50

AJ's Top 10:

10. Originals - by Adam Grant

9. Life 3.0 - by Max Tegmark

8. This I"s Marketing - by Seth Godin

7. Atomic Habits - by James Clear

6. The Intelligent Investor - by Benjamin Graham

5. The 5 Love Languages - by Gary Chapman

4. Factfulness - by Hans, Ola & Ana Rosling

3. The Lessons of History - by Will & Ariel Durant

2. The Most Important Thing - by Howard Marks

1. The Easy Way to Control Alcohol - by Allen Carr

AA's Top 10:

10. Keep Going - by Austin Kleon

9. The Four Agreements - by Don Miguel Ruiz

8. Digital Minimalism - by Cal Newport

7. The Four Tendencies - by Gretchen Rubin

6. This Is Marketing - by Seth Godin

5. Factfulness - by Hans, Ola & Ana Rosling

4. Atomic Habits - by James Clear

3. The Definitive Book of Body Language - by Allan & Barbara Pease

2. The Easy Way to Control Alcohol - by Allen Carr

1. Originals - by Adam Grant

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Q&A #2 - May 2019 May 28, 2019

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In this episode, we’re answering your questions! Listeners sent in the questions they’ve always wanted to ask us. We spoke about our process, a book WE might want to write, our learning journeys, knowing when to quit your side hustle, and being consistent with our reading and podcasting.

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Keep Going May 19, 2019

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Keep Going - by Austin Kleon

'10 ways to stay creative in good times and bad'

Austin Kleon wrote Steal Like An Artist (about injecting more creativity into your work), then Show Your Work (about sharing that creativity with the world and getting discovered), now Keep Going (about continuing to be creative, even when it feels like it's a never ending battle).

In this book, we learn about how to wake up every day and be creative, how to stay buoyant and move on to the next project regardless of success or failure, and how to find new creative ideas even while procrastinating.

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200th EPISODE! May 17, 2019

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Since starting the show almost exactly 3 years, we've done 199 episodes. Today is Number 200!

In June 2016, we literally hit 'record' on the laptop, talked crap for 20 minutes, then published it. As more and more people started listening, we gradually increased the time and effort we invested into the show.

In this episode, we recap some short snippets from 20 of our favourite guest interviews that we've conducted with international best-selling authors over the years (in chronological order):

1. Matthew Michalewicz [starts from the 5min 15sec mark]

2. Timber Hawkeye [9:50]

3. JP Sears [14:28]

4. Seth Godin [18:33]

5. Frans Johansson [25:10]

6. Naomi Simson [30:27]

7. Dan Ariely [33:00]

8. Dan Pink [37:40]

9. Dan Heath [42:43]

10. Annie Duke [46:50]

11. Kevin Kelly [51:52]

12. Peter Singer [57:15]

13. Tom Peters [1:01:44]

14. Rachel Botsman [1:08:44]

15. Robert Cialdini [1:11:39]

16. Mia Freedman [1:15:55]

17. Dr Karl [1:20:29]

18. Cal Newport [1:25:25]

19. Gretchen Rubin [1:29:44]

20. Robert Greene [1:31:22]

Thanks to everyone who's listened and supported us through this journey. We've loved the last 200 episodes, and we're looking forward to the next 200 and beyond!

We want to hear from you - who do you want on the show next? https://whatyouwilllearn.com/survey/

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