Growth Mindset Podcast

Embrace your curiosity and discover your potential

About the show

A growth mindset is the belief that you can do anything if you work for it.

Your host Sam Harris finds remarkable individuals doing extraordinary things and breaks the processes down to show how anyone can achieve anything.

Sam has launched several businesses, travelled the world, and nearly died a few times, all in the spirit of curiosity and adventure. Some highlights include touring North Korea to hitch-hiking across Kazakhstan. He brings his insatiable appetite for learning to the podcast and challenges his guests with unusual questions to bring listeners unique insights.

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Episodes

  • 32 - The Top LifeHack to Learn this Year - Sam Harris

    August 27th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  13 mins 44 secs
    creativity, free thought, future thoughts, growth mindset, life hack, subconscious, teaching a growth mindset

    Sam shares how touch typing is a universal life hack that will benefit you the rest of your life.

    Listen to the episode to find out the details and allow me a chance to convince you and hopefully slightly change your life for the better.

  • 31 - Intro to Vipassana - What happens in 10 days of pure silent meditation

    August 13th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  15 mins 11 secs
    buddhist world, life lessons, mindsets for success, perspective, silent retreat, vipassana meditation

    Felix Chandler is a digital nomad, entrepreneur and chess teacher. He also teaches yoga and practices massage therapy.

    We delve into his background and the things he went through to achieve his current state of general enlightened happiness.

    Funny stories about starting a nomad business and some of the best examples of how to apply the 80:20 rule in places you wouldn’t think possible to really achieve the life you want.

  • 30 - My Conversation with a Hitman - Sam Harris

    August 6th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  33 mins 41 secs
    hitman, how to think about money, india, life, life lessons, travel

    This is the conversation I had with a hitman living in India about his life. We discuss the story of how he came to be a hitman and what his life is really like.

    It is certainly very different to what you see in the movies and be prepared for some big insights.

  • 29 - Stealing Bitcoins and Hacking World Banks - Anonymous

    July 30th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 6 mins
    bitcoin, dark web, hackers, make more money, risks, security, world banks

    We dive into the world of the dark web to talk to a hacker about his life and the incredible stories within.

    This is an eye-opening episode into the vulnerabilities and security risks we leave ourselves open to, especially with all the issues around data these days.

  • 28 - North Korea - Life as a North Korea Tour Guide - [Recorded in the DPRK]

    July 23rd, 2018  |  Season 1  |  47 mins 56 secs
    dark tourism, fake news, kim jong-un, life lessons, north korea, tourism industry

    Sam visited North Korea over Easter 2018 and this podcast is an interview with his tour guide Ben Johnson.

    We discuss the country and the surprises it has in store for the people that visit.

  • 27 - The Hottest Tech Innovation of the Year - Tom Carter - Ultrahaptics - [Repeat]

    July 16th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  55 mins 26 secs
    future technology, hottest tech, innovation of the year, life lessons

    Tom Carter is the Founder and CTO at Ultrahaptics. A leading technology company making mind-blowing technology that lets users feel the sensation of touch in mid-air.

    On the podcast, he shares some amazing insights into what he has learned along the way.

    It's an incredible story direct from the front line and I’m sure something all listeners will want to follow updates as their tech gets into the hands of consumers over the coming years.

  • 26 - What on Earth is a Rainbow Gathering and Why You Need to Go

    July 9th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  49 mins 54 secs
    appreciate things, hippies, inhibitions, life lessons, natural fun, no alcohol no drugs no technology, rainbow gatherings

    We invite Felix Chandler back to the mic to talk about our experiences at Rainbow gatherings and what people need to know about them.

    We try and cover all the things someone who has never been asked and should know before arriving and the effect they had on us including all the challenges it threw at us and our favourite experiences and take-homes.

  • 25 - Is There Any Point To Anything? - Growth Mindset Podcast - Rob Price

    July 2nd, 2018  |  Season 1  |  55 mins 46 secs
    ai, jordan peterson, life lessons, mindsets for success, teaching a growth mindset

    Rob Price, an English teacher, author and philosopher working in Thailand and soon moving to China.

    He has really interesting views on the world and in my own view is like a younger, more English version of Jordan Peterson.

    On the podcast, we discuss a variety of things from the topics of teaching and being useful to the world and travelling. To such things as Nuclear Winters, AI taking over the world, human beings taking over the galaxies, what is the point of living and why no one will read in the future.

  • 24 - The Vegans are Taking Over - Ben Marshall

    June 25th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  41 mins 52 secs
    become an influencer, fitness, health, life lessons, lifestyle, self-improvement, vegan

    Ben Marshall is a model, body-builder and vegan working in film and media.

    Of course, we discuss a lot about health, fitness and diet, Ben also has a lot of stories to tell from aggressive time management to obsessive teeth brushing.

  • 23 - Intense Health - Stronger, Fitter, Faster with HIT - Marcelo Mesquita

    June 11th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  46 mins 2 secs
    body building, fitness, hit, life lessons, martial arts, science, self-improvement

    Marcelo Mesquita is the Founder and CEO of Intense Health, a radical new fitness chain delivering strength and fitness results with only 20-minute workouts.

    We discuss the science behind the HIT movement and Marcelo's path to starting the business, from opening his first gym at 16 to competing in martial arts and body-building.

  • 22 - Learned Helplessness and Learned Optimism - Unleash Awesomeness

    June 4th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  37 mins 18 secs
    finding answers, life lessons, mindsets for success, positive thinking, self-improvement, smart goals

    We all experience learned helplessness in our lives much to our own detriment. Yet most people don't even know what it is. Sam breaks down what the effect is, from how it was discovered to what you can do about it.

    This episode helps us learn more traits to boost our growth mindset with the goal of making you a more positive and strategic thinker able to look at the bigger picture and less caught up in the problems life throws at us.

  • 21 - The Simple Art of Happiness - Bob Asim

    May 21st, 2018  |  Season 1  |  54 mins 48 secs
    entrepreneur, generosity, happy, health, health industry, life lessons, mindsets for success, self-improvement

    Bob Asim is a Malaysian professional who has worked at various large medical organisations.

    Bob is one of the kindest and happiest people I have ever met and just has some amazing philosophies on life that have really stuck with me and I hope will help you as well.

  • 20 - Growth Hacking, Life Hacking and Superpowers - Sherman Lee - Rocco AI

    April 27th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  49 mins 38 secs
    ai, bots, business, crypto-currencies, writing

    Sherman Lee is an inspiring entrepreneur who knows how to have fun doing it.

    He has extensive experience in social media, bots, growth hacking, crypto-currencies and Machine Learning, of which he has businesses involved in all of these things.

    We discuss key insights on how to growth hack your business as well as developing your own personal skills and function as a human being.

  • 19 - We Built a Trading Platform - Adam Dodds & Viktor Nebehaj - Freetrade.io

    April 26th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  46 mins 33 secs
    crowdfunding, freetrade, investors, money

    Freetrade is a revolutionary trading platform for UK investors to make trades for free.

    Adam Dodds, CEO and co-founder of Freetrade shares his experience in starting the platform and key issues and features of the platform.

    Viktor Nebehaj is the Head of Growth and goes much deeper into crowdfunding strategies, investing strategies and tools to make you a better human.

  • 18 - Sentient - The Worlds Leading Distributed AI Platform - Antoine-Blondeau

    April 19th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  59 mins 28 secs
    ai, future tech, modern solutions, sentient technologies, siri

    Antoine created the technology behind Siri which he sold to Apple.

    We cover some awesome topics about the future and the past, dealing with problems at a personnel level to threats facing the whole of humanity.

    Some huge idea’s that made my head spin at the time and lead to me conducting some very rapid reading up on latest tech idea's.

  • 17 - Dream it, do it - Katherina-Olivia Lacey

    March 20th, 2018  |  Season 1  |  29 mins 35 secs
    become an influencer, logistics, mentorship, self-improvement, venture partner

    Katherina-Olivia is a young start-up founder who runs a logistics business based out of Singapore.

    Originally from Bolivia, Katherina has a diverse life history with a number of lessons and stories along the way, including quitting her job to start a business with her new life partner.