Education, Parenting & Personal Growth
593: Steven Pinker | Why Rationality Seems Scarce
Steven Pinker (@sapinker) is a psychology professor at Harvard, one of the world’s leading authorities on language and the mind, and an author of several bestsellers. His latest is Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters. What We Discuss with Steven Pinker: Why, by most metrics, older generations are mistaken when […]
VIEW EPISODE591: Chase Jarvis & Jordan Harbinger | Your Network Insurance Policy
Jordan digs into what it takes to push past the mental boundaries that keep you from realizing your full potential — with Chase Jarvis (@chasejarvis) of The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show. What Jordan and Chase Discuss: Handling debt after graduation. Zooming out on the timeline of your career and understanding why patience is key in the […]
VIEW EPISODE590: Andy Norman | The Search for a Better Way to Think
Andy Norman (@drandyno) directs the Humanism Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University, is the founder of CIRCE, and is the award-winning author of Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think. What We Discuss with Andy Norman: Like our bodies, our minds and cultures have immune systems, and they can […]
VIEW EPISODE589: Persevering Past Paranoid Parental Persecution | Feedback Friday
You dared to set a boundary with your parents: you would only communicate with them if they were respectful to you and your family. This means zero tolerance for name-calling, swearing, threatening, or yelling at you or your husband whenever there’s a disagreement. Now they’ve leveled false accusations against your husband for being abusive, going […]
VIEW EPISODE585: Timothy Snyder | Twentieth-Century Lessons on Tyranny
Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and author of Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning and On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. [Note: This is a previously broadcast episode from the vault that we felt deserved a fresh listen!] What We Discuss with Timothy Snyder: Democracy has to […]
VIEW EPISODE583: Mentor-Mentee Fantasy Can Only End In Misery | Feedback Friday
Happily married for 20-something years, you’ve started to fixate on what it might be like to be married to someone you’ve been mentoring, instead. And even though you know this mentor-mentee fantasy could only end in misery, you’re having a hard time putting it to rest. What can you do? We’ll tackle this and more […]
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