The Quest for Character
What Socrates’s greatest failure reveals about an ancient question: Can we teach our leaders to be better people? In this episode, I speak with Massimo for the second time about his newest book, The Quest for Character. We aim to answer the question, is good character something that can be taught? A discussion about many things Stoicism and how we can all aim to live a better life.
Book links by Massimo below.
How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy
The Stoic Guide to a Happy Life: 53 Brief Lessons for Living
Go For Stupid!
What would you achieve if you weren’t afraid of being laughed at?
In the age of “gotcha” culture, people are terrified to do anything that might be laughed at. Steve Sims is the exact opposite. In my conversation with Steve, I discuss his newest book Go For Stupid: The Art of Achieving Ridiculous Goals. Steve talks about how to ignore what everyone else thinks and go for big, stupid, ridiculous goals. An inspiring conversation. I hope you enjoy!
FocusCalm
Max Newlon is the president of BrainCo, a company that brings cutting-edge science, engineering, and algorithm development to address real-world challenges. In this episode, we discuss FocusCalm which is a neurofeedback wearable that has been designed to enhance performance and control your mindset. Cool new tech and will likely get better and better. Enjoy!
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Ageless
Ageing—not cancer or heart disease—is the world’s leading cause of death and suffering. In spite of this, we accept the ageing process as inevitable. We come to terms with the fact that our bodies and minds will begin to deteriorate and our risk of disease will rise as we get older. Ageing is so deeply ingrained in the human experience that we never stop to ask: is it necessary? A fascinating conversation with Andrew about his new book and work on ageing.
The Enlightenment Project
On a quest to move towards greater awareness, peace, joy, and love Jonathan has interviewed now over 100 of the world’s greatest spiritual leaders, from the late Mother Teresa and Ram Dass, to the Dalai Lama and Deepak Chopra. What he’s learnt along the way is quite amazing. In his new book, The Enlightenment Project, and in this interview, Jonathan shares some of the leading methods and philosophies that can help all find lasting inner peace. A few entertaining stories were shared along the way too.
Lifestyle Satisfaction
Have you ever found life has just gotten away from you? Walking a path that perhaps just doesn’t feel right. I believe most of us find ourselves here at some point in life. Instead of us choosing life, life has been chosen for us. Instead of a human being, we are just humans doing. On the hamster wheel of life, it feels like the impossible to change. However, what if there was another option, a path in life that felt more fulfilling and aligned with who we truly are? In this episode with Rebecca, that’s exactly the conversation we had.
Brain Immunology
An insightful conversation with John Lukens discussing brain immunology. John explains how the interactions between the immune and nervous systems will lead to an improved understanding of complex neurological disorders in humans. The more we understand the better we may live.
The Promotability Index
A conversation with Amii about the nature of the workplace including how to improve trust, enhance communication, advance your career and become a better leader. We discuss Amii’s Promotability guidebook and how through better self-awareness we can more purposefully navigate our careers and life.
Chess 4 Life
An incredible conversation today with Elliott Neff about Chess. You may think of chess as just a game but as I’ve learnt today, it’s much more! Through Elliott’s journey in playing chess and becoming a Chess Master, he went on to develop a program to help children excel in life. Elliott and the team and Chess4Life have developed programs to help make a positive impact on the lives of 1 million kids each week. Elliott shares the educational mindset and life skills that chess can teach. Amazing!
Pick up a copy of Elliots book, A Pawns Journey, using this link.
Wanting, The Power of Memetic Desire.
Humans don’t desire anything independently. Human desire is mimetic – we imitate what other people want. This affects the way we choose partners, friends, careers, clothes and travel destinations. Mimetic desire is responsible for the formation of our very identities. This is a great conversation with Luke about how we can best understand our desires, simply by asking Why, and some guidance on how we can free ourselves from chasing unfulfilling desires.
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