Episodes

How to get the most out of your mind, learn faster and raise your productivity, by having more fun

The evolutionary psychology of communication that controls your life and mindsets today and why

Overcome the quiet ways we waste our potential and build a mindset for performance and success

Make complex ideas feel simple using psychology - Richard Feynmann's technique to master any topic

Build emotional maturity and the real skills for long term success in dating for life.

The psychology of non-player characters and why they are much more common than you think

Understand what is really in control of your life and how to lay claim to your own decisions and reactions

Stop auditing your friends and start bringing out the best qualities in yourself

Stop playing by the rules society wrote for you and learn to do the things that work for you

Get in control of your life and use your time to build a life of purpose and direction

Time isn’t the problem. The story told about time is. Some ideas from Oliver Burkman's book 400 weeks

Huberman's 5 rules for a better life - nail the fundamentals to set yourself up for success

How to nurture the best in people with consistency and be remembered for what matters. This is going to be a different episode about a cake my nan used to make. But isn't just a story about cake. It's about the difference bet...

Learn to stop deferring your dreams to someday and start living a full life today

How to master cognitive flexibility by understanding the biases that keep you stuck. In WWI, generals sent horses against machine guns. Cognitive Rigidity mean they couldn't reimagine the battlefield. In this episode, I break...

How the mind blinds us to reality by showing us what we want to believe. We don't see with our eyes; we see with our stories. In 1951, psychologists proved that fans from opposing teams physically saw different fouls during t...

How to make smarter decisions that improve your life by understanding your mind and hidden psychology

The Psychology of money and why we struggle to think rationally or build a healthy mindset towards it

How ego and cognitive biases control our decisions and how to fight back

Further Reading: ⁠ Thinking Fast and Slow ⁠ - Daniel Kahneman ⁠ Predictably Irrational ⁠ - Dan Ariely CHAPTERS 00:00 Understanding Cognitive Biases, comedy and systems of thinking 03:58 Deep Dive into System One and System Tw...

Understand what you really want to do vs what you want to have done and get real with yourself

Inner peace vs retail rage - How do shops design our experience to remove our decisions from us and get us to FOMO into all sorts of weird situations?

Most problems in the world aren't random accidents, they're built into the systems we live in. When we look closer we find systems all around us drive the currents that change the world. Systems Thinking is a key idea in scie...

Existential psychology meets buddhism and stoicism in Bill Perkins book 'Die With Zero' as we get a masterclass on how to really live whilst we are alive