Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of Self-Improvement
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Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of Self-Improvement
Most self-help advice is guesswork dressed up as wisdom. We dig into psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral science to find what actually changes lives. WHY LISTEN? Over 8 million downloads because we answer the questions that matter: How do I build mental strength? What creates lasting motivati...
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Overlooked Rules on Being a Useful Human - Essential Behavioural Psychology
You've read the productivity books. You've optimised your mornings. But what if the whole thing is backwards?
Self-improvement content is...
Lessons on Starting Before You Feel Ready w/ Graham Hobson (Founder Photobox + Moonpig)
Most startups don’t fail from lack of ideas. They fail because people quit too early—or play it too safe.
Graham Hobson built a €100M bus...
How to Spend Money to Buy Happiness: The psychology of what actually works
Money is not the goal. It’s a tool. Most people were never taught how to use it.
Core:We inherit scripts about money. Save more. Earn mor...
The Psychology of Slowing Down Time - How to live a full life
Ever look up and realise a whole month has vanished? This episode is about why that happens — and how to get more life out of the same amount of time....
How to Create Your Own Opportunities and Stop Waiting for Your One Big Chance
If you’ve been treating your next decision like THE decision, well... A lot of anxiety comes from believing your future hinges on getting the next mov...
Three Psychology Experiments That Changed How I Live
Most self-improvement assumes the problem lives inside you. But what if you've been looking in the wrong place?
There's something worth s...
Why "Bad" Emotions Are an Illusion: Dr Stephen Porges on Free Will and the Psychology of Pain
Free will might be smaller than you hoped, but more useful than you imagined.
This conversation with Stephen Porges is about the quiet sh...
How to Finally Commit to One Thing When Everything Feels Important
The better you get at seeing opportunity, the worse you get at finishing anything.
It turns out the same brain wiring that makes curious,...
How to Be Genuinely Interesting - Without performing, pretending, or people-pleasing
There's a story we tell ourselves about interesting people. That they were born that way. That charisma is a trait, not a choice. That fitting in is s...
Your Nervous System Has Been Running Your Life - How to finally take control with Stephen Porges (Inventor of Polyvagal Theory)
How the science of the vagus nerve explains anxiety, ambition, burnout, and the art of becoming who you actually are.
Humans, might be th...
The Illusion of Panic: How to Master Your Nervous System When It Invents Danger
A Deep Dive into the Vagus Nerve, Neuroception, and Overcoming Burnout
Ever walked into a room and instantly felt like something was comp...
The Psychology of Risk: How Near Death Experiences Help you Quit a Good Life to Pursue a Great One - w. Talia Lazarus
We are all waiting for permission that is never going to come. We cling to the illusion of a safe life, pretending that incremental improvements are t...
The Comfort Zone Trap - How Failure Builds Courage, Confidence, and an Interesting Life
Human beings have an issue. We want adventure, growth, and transformation, provided they arrive gently, avoid inconvenience, and never make us look fo...
Chemistry Isn’t Compatibility: How to Choose Better Partners in Love and Work - w/ Matt Higgins
The psychology of healthy relationships: hidden rules behind better marriages, better teams, and better choices.
In this episode, I sit d...
The Psychology of What Matters: How to Stop Wasting Time
A psychological guide to choosing priorities, resisting urgency, and spending time well.
Time is the universe’s most brilliant and inesca...
The Neuroscience of Growth Mindset: How to rewire your brain
The human brain is a wonderfully absurd little organ. It powers civilization, invents jazz, and still somehow convinces you that being bad at somethin...
Are You Thinking Your Thoughts, Or Are They Thinking You?
You like to think of yourself as someone who thinks for themselves. But what if the ideas running through your head aren't really yours — what if they...
The Psychology of Never Feeling Good Enough (Even When You Clearly Are)
Hedonic adaption busily sweeps our wins under the rug like they are a nuisance. We look at how to fight back against your own psychology.
...
7 Weird Life-Changing Skills that are Strange to Work On
Nobody tells you that curiosity is a skill. Or that humor can be built. Or that the way you think is quietly deciding everything.
Most of...
Why Having a Backup Plan Is Making You Fail - Burn the boats with Matt Higgins
In 1519, Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico and promptly set fire to his own fleet. By any conventional measure of military logistics, this seems profound...
Why You Have Great Ideas but Never Actually Do Anything With Them
We are spectacularly good at having ideas and remarkably reluctant to do anything with them.
It turns out that the distance between "I've...
You Didn't Choose Your Attachment Style, but Here's How You Can Change It - With Jessica Baum
Most people think their relationship problems are about the other person. They're not — they're about an 18-month-old version of you who learned the o...
From Reactance to Resilience: How to manage psychological triggers and create freedom
Most anger isn’t about the thing. It’s about what the thing means: “Someone just messed with my control.”
When your expectations get vio...
How To Train Your Mind: The surprising benefits of play
Turns out you don't learn faster when you're stressed, you learn faster when you're happy! So let's talk about treating your brain like a friend, not...
The Weird Psychology of Communication, Self-control, and Gossip: What evolution teaches us about communicating your needs clearly
In the noble quest to understand our minds, today we take a new angle. We track how grunts turned into gossip, myths, and the weird human habit of bl...
Hidden Potential: The Psychology of self-sabotage and changing what's possible - Heather Moyse (2x Olympic Gold)
We all love the idea of “potential” until it quietly turns into pressure, guilt, and a weird fear of actually trying.
Heather Moyse didn’...
The Feynmann Technique: The 4 Steps to Learn and Master Anything
Most people “learn” by hoarding facts, which doesn't mean you understand them. Then you forget them all anyway...
In this episode, learni...
How to Stop Wasting Time with the Wrong People - Emotional maturity with Jonathan Aslay
Most people treat dating like a lottery; swipe, hope, repeat.
Jonathan Aslay lost $2 million, his marriage, and his son. What saved him w...
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Surrounded by Conformists: How to spot the 5 types of NPC and think your own thoughts - [Psychology of non-player characters]
The algorithm doesn't want you to think; it wants you to react. It wants you to be a character in its story, following a predictable path of outrage a...
How To Build Free Will
Free will sounds easy until you look closely. Then it turns out to be smaller, stranger, and far more difficult than advertised.
We take a cheer...
5 Surprising Truths About Independence and Being Yourself: What really impacts who you are
The idea that you are a blend of the 5 people you spend time with has a dangerous side. In fact, it's not exactly true.
In this episode,...
Life's Infinite Games: How to play by your own rules
What if the game you're playing isn't yours?
Every moment of your life, something is at stake. Ignore your partner, they feel less loved....
4 Steps to Become Remarkable: A guide to overhaul your life
Get in control of your life and use your time to build a life of purpose.
We have been sold a myth of heroic solutions. Where a single da...
Working with Time Instead of Against It - How to enjoy this year and every year of your life
You have roughly 4,000 weeks. Somehow, nobody mentioned this at school.
This episode takes a cheerful scalpel to modern time-panic—the ki...
5 Rules for Mental Health and Clarity - Andrew Huberman's simple formula for success
Every advanced master nails the fundamentals first. To perform at your best these are the 5 most basic and essential practices you need to return to t...
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Leaving a Legacy: What do we actually get remembered for - Lessons on family and life - [Storied Recipe]
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 ca...
The Regret Minimization Framework: How to make life decisions
A boat is safe in the harbor. But that is not what boats are built for.
We tend to view our lives as a single, continuous narrative. But...
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Cognitive Rigidity: 5 Lessons to build a flexible mind - [Cognitive Biases #6]
How to master cognitive flexibility by understanding the biases that keep you stuck.
In WWI, generals sent horses against machine guns. C...
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The Illusion of Control: 7 Ways we lie to ourselves that even defeated Napoleon - [Cognitive Biases #5]
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, p...
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Why You Make Bad Decisions: Confirmation Bias and the 7 Sins of Lazy Thinking [Cognitive Biases #4]
How to make smarter decisions that improve your life by understanding your mind and it's hidden psychology.
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