Nervous Habits with Ricky Rosen: Recent Episodes
Ricky Rosen
Join neurotic hyper-caffeinated host Ricky Rosen on a harrowing, spastic journey through the pitfalls of society.
If you've ever been at the check-out aisle of the supermarket when you remembered that you left the bathroom light on, this show is absolutely for you.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by his law school classmates Austin Lowe and Ezra Louvis to recap their law school experiences on the eve of their graduation.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by journalist Florence Williams. Florence and I explore issues including…
—How a molecular analysis of your blood sample can show whether you have the cells of a lonely person…
—The ways in which heartbreak impacts the immune system, and whether you can literally die from a broken heart…
—Roughly how much time it takes for one’s emotional and physical health to return to baseline after a break-up…
—Why you should consider sending artifacts from your exes to the Museum of Broken Relationships, and finally…
—Why rebounding after a relationship might actually be good for your health.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, Founder and CEO of Amazon Jeffrey Bezos, and political commentator Ben Shapiro - all voiced by the immensely talented comedian and impressionist Austin Nasso.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Author and Journalist Mark Schatzker. Mark and I explore issues including…
—Why the rate in obesity in Northern Italy is more than five times lower than in America, despite the fact that Northern Italians indulge in pastas, fried cheeses, fatty meats, and rich desserts…
—Why every diet only works for a set amount of time, then our body reverts to a set point…
—Why satiation, the feeling of being full, only happens if food is swallowed, and if food is spat out, your hunger persists…
—How artificial sweeteners, vitamins, and fat replacers in our processed foods are a major contributing factor to the obesity epidemic in America, and finally…
—Whether seeing the amount of calories next to a menu item actually lowers the amount that people eat.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by longtime friend and aerospace engineer Stefanos Axios. Stefanos and I explore issues including…
—The likelihood that an asteroid like the one featured in Don’t Look Up will collide with the earth in our lifetimes, and what could be done in that scenario to prevent an extinction event...
—How exactly you would die from an asteroid collision, and finally…
—Why Don’t Look Up is arguably the most powerful allegory for climate change depicted in any movie.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by journalist Wendy Syfret. Wendy and I explore issues including…
—How a belief in nihilism can free you from many of the struggles in your daily life…
—Why the humor of Gen Z is so “dark and weird”…
—How the hopelessness of the climate change crisis, the corrosive divide in our politics, and the never-ending pandemic are making young people consider becoming nihilists…
—Whether it is possible for people who believe in nihilism to fall in love, and finally…
—Why you don’t have to surrender your belief in God to be a nihilist.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by author, founder, and executive chairman of ClassPass, Payal Kadakia, to explore issues including:
—The importance of not compartmentalizing your identities and being able to be your full self at work,
—How someone stuck at a dead-end job might be able to discover what lights them up,
—How Payal turned an idea formulated on a red-eye flight into a billion dollar business, and finally…
—How you can stand out in a sea of millions of LinkedIn requests and networking emails to find a mentor and grow your network.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by orthopedic surgeon, Dr. David Hanscom. Dr. Hanscom and I explore issues including…
—The dangers of sitting for too long…
—Why the best solution for chronic pain isn’t medication or treatment but is instead just time…
—The business of medicine, and how the modern medical field incentivizes practitioners to be dishonest with patients, and finally…
—Why social isolation is so hazardous to your health.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by professor of history, and professor of education, Dr. Jonathan Zimmerman. Dr. Zimmerman and I explore issues including…
—The limitations on speech in totalitarian regimes around the world,
—How to balance the necessity for free speech with the importance of limiting the spread of misinformation online,
—Whether the government has a duty to regulate social media platforms, and finally…
—Why the “fake news” problem on the Internet is not so much a free speech problem as it is an educational problem.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by researcher and the author of All the Time in the World, Lisa Broderick, to explore issues including….
—The most commonly studied brainwave frequencies and how they alter our perception of time…
—How we can slow down time using chronostasis…
—The role of selective attention in how we experience time, and finally…
—Why people in life-threatening emergencies experience the slowing down of time.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, Dr. Anna Lembke. Dr. Lembke and I explore issues including…
—Why moderate exposure to pain can inadvertently lead to pleasure…
—How electroconvulsive shock therapy works to “reset” the brain…
—How euphoric recall reinforces chemical dependency, and finally…
—Why it might be better to tolerate pain or discomfort rather than popping a pill.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by journalist and author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power, Max Chafkin, to explore issues including….
—Some of the most powerful criticisms of billionaire investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, and why exactly he is such a polarizing figure,
—Peter Thiel’s rivalry with Elon Musk and his mentorship of Mark Zuckerberg,
—Peter Thiel’s behind-the-scenes machinations in the 2016 presidential election and his financial support of a half-dozen Senatorial campaigns, and finally…
—How Peter Thiel’s anti-establishment mindset has shaped the culture of Silicon Valley over the last two and a half decades.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by the Best-Selling Author of “The Molecule of More” and Professor and Vice Chair for clinical affairs in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University, Dr. Daniel Lieberman to explore issues including….
—How dopamine explains why we only want things until we get them, and then we don’t want them anymore…
—Why the key to happiness involves a transition from future-oriented dopamine to present-oriented neurotransmitters like serotonin…
—How to tell if someone has a dopaminergic (dopamine-driven) personality…
—Why we tend to go through life always at the same base level of happiness, and finally…
—How to manipulate the dopamine circuits in your brain to solve your problems through dream incubation.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Futurist and author of the book, The Future of You, Tracey Follows to explore issues including…
—Why in the future, you might be paying for your goods at the supermarket, not with a credit card or cell phone, but by using your face to make transactions,
—How people might be able to ‘thought control’ machines in the future,
—How, by preserving and uploading your mind files, it might be possible to create a digital version - or cyber double - of yourself, and finally,
—How some companies are collecting users’ data so that AI can enable them to continue to have text or voice conversations with their loved ones after they die.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by futurologist Dr. Ian Pearson to forecast what the world will look like in 2050, including:
—Digital life extension;
—The toilets of the future;
—The prospect that sex with robots might occur more often than sex between humans;
—Hypersonic travel;
—3-D printed fast food; and finally
—A digital afterlife.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author Luke Burgis to explore issues including…
—Why exactly we want the things that we want,
—What’s so special about mirror neurons,
—How babies learn to imitate within minutes of birth,
—Why fulfillment stories are an effective way to overcome your mimetic impulses, and finally…
—Why you should pick one desire to suffer over, and let go of lesser desires.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, and author of Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX, Eric Berger to explore issues including…
—How Elon Musk demands the impossible from his employees - and more often than not gets it,
—The specific challenges associated with creating a commercially developed, privately funded rocket,
—SpaceX’s early struggles with competing with industry titans like Boeing and Lockheed, and launching the Falcon 1, and finally…
—The likelihood that SpaceX will get us to Mars within our lifetime.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author, Researcher, Behavior Scientist and Founder of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab Dr. BJ Fogg to explore issues including:
—The evolutionary advantage to habits, and whether other animals exhibit them,
—How habits make multi-tasking (or task-switching) possible,
—The incentive shift from extrinsically motivated behavior to intrinsically motivated behavior,
—The tiny habits recipe to adopting new behaviors, and finally…
—How Dr. Fogg is using the principles of behavior design on projects ranging from screen-time reduction to climate action.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author and Dating Expert Jon Birger to explore issues including…
—Why you should think of dating apps more like visiting the eBay marketplace than actually looking for a life partner…
—Why offline relationships are shown to be three or four times longer lasting than online relationships…
—How the disproportionately high number of female, relative to male, college graduates affects the dating culture…
—Why the workplace is the best place to meet someone, and what is responsible for the decline in workplace relationships over the last decade, and finally…
—The suitor’s advantage - why whichever party makes the first move is most likely to achieve the best outcome.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Professor of Neuroscience Dr. Austin Lim to explore issues including…
—Why psychedelics like LSD, DMT and magic mushrooms are classified as Schedule I controlled substances…
—What sort of impact these drugs have on the neurotransmitters in your brain in both the short and long-term…
—Why the placebo effect is so prevalent in the treatment of depression and anxiety, and finally…
—How likely it will be that these drugs might be used in the future, in lieu of antidepressants, to treat mental health disorders.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Professor in American Politics, and chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, William Howell. Professor Howell and Ricky explore issues including:
—How the historical rankings of the American presidents will change in the coming years as society’s values shift over time…
—Whether there is a correlation between a president’s approval ratings and their historical rankings…
—Whether any presidents might be added or removed from Mount Rushmore in the next few decades, and finally…
—What will ultimately be the defining legacy of the Trump presidency, and how the Republican Party can move forward in the next four years.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Director of the Netflix Documentary “A Life On Our Planet,” and Executive Producer of the Netflix Documentary Series “Our Planet,” Dr. Keith Scholey to explore issues including:
—Why biodiversity in our wildlife isn’t just nice to have - it is critical to the continuation of the human race;
—Why the ocean is a key ally in our battle against global warming;
—Why, if we continue on the path that we are on, it will lead to a crisis in global food production, parts of the earth being rendered uninhabitable, and eventually another mass extinction event for most animal species;
—Why the crashing insect populations all around us poses a threat to our food supply; and
—What all of us can do TODAY to prevent this terrifying future from becoming a reality.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by astrophysicist and Professor of Science at Harvard University Avi Loeb to explore issues including:
—How confident we can be that there is extraterrestrial life somewhere in our galaxy,
—What exactly scientists are looking for when they look for life beyond earth,
—Why the scientific community has been reluctant to invest in the search for extraterrestrial life, and finally…
—The likelihood that the earth will ever be drawn into a black hole.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by American chess grandmaster and U.S. Olympic Gold Medallist Sam Shankland to explore issues including:
—The onerous process of becoming a grandmaster in chess, and why SO few chess players ever earn the title of grandmasters,
—Just how realistic the Netflix series, the Queens Gambit, was at portraying chess,
—Why some chess games can last up to 7 hours,
—Whether or not humans will ever be able to compete with computers at chess, and finally…
—Why people who have never played chess before should still care about chess.
Check out the full video on the official Nervous Habits Podcast Youtube channel!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKl2NHIDUNo&feature=youtu.be
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author, and Podcaster, Kendra Adachi to explore issues including:
—Why we should remove the stigma from being “lazy”,
—Why you should pick and choose one or two things to be a genius at, and be comfortable being lazy about everything else…
—How to use the "Lazy Genius" principles to survive the carousel of crises of 2020.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Author, and Meditation and Mindfulness Expert, Aimee Morgan to explore issues including:
—How you can train your mind and body into being responsive instead of reactive...
—The importance of meta-attention in mindfulness (paying attention to what you’re paying attention to)...
—Some alternatives to meditation for people who can’t seem to turn off their stream of consciousness, and finally…
—Why you should consider a half-day or a full-day of complete silence.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
—In general, why you should be wary of using search engines on the mainstream web...
—How to access the hidden part of the internet that makes up 95 to 96 percent of the total internet landscape, and is not accessible by search engines, and finally…
—How you can actually harness the anonymous power of the dark web for good (and not to engage in illicit or nefarious activities).
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Certified Health and Life Coach and C.E.O. of LivingHealthyList.com, Denise Stegall, to explore issues including:
—What is responsible for the explosion in demand for organic and locally grown foods in the last decade,
—The problem with eating fruits with pesticides on them,
—Why you should avoid eating meat that has been injected with antibiotics at all costs, and finally…
—The Dirty Dozen: the 12 fruits and vegetables that you should be buying organically.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Author and Time Management Expert Adrian Shepherd to explore issues including:
—How the approach to time management differs in the East vs. the West...
—The One Bite Time Management System, and how to eliminate procrastination by “eating that frog”...
—Why you should do your work in 90 minute sessions...
—The five practices that successful people use, and finally…
—Why saying no is the key to managing your time efficiently.
Hear from Travel Blogger, Author, and Ted Speaker, Jen Ruiz on how to travel around the world on a budget. Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and Jen explore issues including…
—Why you should resist the urge to plan every minute of your vacation when you travel,
—How it’s possible to travel around the world while still working full-time,
—Why traveling by yourself is almost always better than traveling with others, and finally…
—How you can find plane tickets for $16 and lodging for $9 when traveling around the world.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Author, Keynote Speaker, and Guinness World Record Solo Pilot Ryan Campbell to explore issues including:
—What the experience of flying around the world alone for 70 days was like for a 19 year old kid from Australia...
—All about Ryan’s experience as the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash...
—Having been diagnosed a complete paraplegic, how Ryan taught himself to walk again, and finally…
—Why starting with gratitude is the key to navigating change.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Sleep Expert, Mollie McGlocklin to explore issues including:
—All about “rebound sleep” and how the quality of your sleep is impacted by your sleep the night before...
—Why people who supposedly thrive on under 7 hours of sleep are still experiencing cognitive decline...
—Circadian rhythm entrainment, and how the smartphone is responsible for the prevalence of sleep deprivation in America...
—Why a consistent 7 day sleep schedule is always better than “catching up on the weekend”, and finally…
—Whether it’s healthy to wake up an alarm clock.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Millionaire Investor and Author Lloyd Edge to explore issues including:
—Why people should look to escape the “shackles” of the 9 to 5 job…
—How to develop a stable passive income stream…
—Why only 5 percent of people are able to unlock the passive income lifestyle…
—Why property is the least volatile investment you can make, and finally…
—Why you should always buy low and sell high on your investments.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Addiction Specialist, Clinician and Medical Director Dr. Vera Tarman to explore issues including:
—Why our addiction to food is the most critical addiction that hardly anybody talks about...
—How exactly the fast food industry targets ‘heavy users’ to perpetuate their addictions to processed food…
—Why you can never really scare a person out of an addiction…
—How to program your brain into only craving healthy food, and finally…
—Why “calorie-counting” is not the answer, and how you might end up dieting yourself into obesity.
Want to know how one of the fastest rising names in the stand-up comedy scene comes up with his material? Hear from stand-up comedian (Showtime Special: Stay at Home Son) and the host of the Youtube web series, Tacos Con Todo (First We Feast), Jesus Trejo, on his thoughts on the comedy landscape in 2020. Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and Jesus explore issues including:
—Why stand-up comedians are the modern-day philosophers…
—The process by which a stand-up comedian comes up with material…
—Why comedy has come to dominate American culture so much over the past few decades…
—What exactly people find funny, and finally…
—How comedy can possibly survive in the age of outrage culture.
Are you stuck in a rut with your romantic partner? Wondering why all you do is fight? Or do you find yourself in a never-ending cycle of toxic relationships? Hear from Relationship and Love Coach Marie Winter on how to identify conflicts and triggers in your relationships. Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and Relationship and Love Coach Marie Winter explore issues including:
—How to re-frame what you want to get out of dating online…
—How the repetition compulsion theory works and why we repeat the past to heal our pain…
—Why our attachment to our caretakers is the common thread throughout all of our romantic relationships…
—How our “Inner Child” decides for us what we seek in relationships…
—Why people struggle to reconcile emotionality with sex, and finally…
—Why you should never ‘play games’ or feign disinterest in the early stages of dating.
Want to get inside the mind of the one of the best freestyle rap artists in the world? Hear from multi-talented music artist, Harry Mack, on his inner monologues when he’s performing his widely acclaimed freestyle raps. Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and Harry explore issues including:
—How a world-talented freestyle rap artist stays motivated while honing his craft...
—Why during the extreme intensity of the Flow State, your body might literally feel like it’s disappearing from your consciousness…
—The 1% rule: how to get 1% better everyday for one year, and finally…
—Harry Mack performs a freestyle rap about growing up in the 1990’s.
Sick of heating up frozen dinners and ordering take-out? Hear from Food Network Chef on the essentials of learning to cook, and what you need to know about dining at restaurants. Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and Chef Plum explore issues including:
—The must have kitchen utensils for anyone who wants to learn how to cook...
—The ingredients that a TV chef uses in every one of his dishes...
—How to order off the menu of a restaurant that you’ve never been to before...
—Why you shouldn’t put too much stock into the cleanliness of the bathrooms at the restaurants you’re eating at, and finally…
—Why you should be wary of the fish buffet.
Do you find yourself working out several times a week and still barely seeing results? Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and Performance Coach Eric D’Agati discuss why your work-out plan isn’t working, and how to make it better. We explore issues including:
—How to stay fit during coronavirus with nothing besides your body weight...
—The problem with our over-reliance on machines at gyms...
—How the growth in virtual personal training threatens the fitness industry...
—The 80/20 rule to achieving our fitness goals...
—Why only 6 percent of baseball players make it to the big leagues, and...
—Why supplements very rarely actually make a difference.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and guest Author, Ted Speaker, and Mental Health Advocate, Michelle Dickinson, address issues including:
—Why people who have never experienced a mental health imbalance before are at particularly high risk during the COVID-19 pandemic…
—Why monitoring media consumption might be the best thing you can do to improve your emotional wellness during quarantine…
—The importance of designating space in your home - and your schedule - for work and for leisure, and finally…
—Why many people might be experiencing the sensation of boredom for the very first time with the pandemic.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and his guest address those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
—Is it true that everything we use - from cell phones to microwaves to artificial sweeteners - can cause cancer?
—Is there a cure for cancer out there that the ‘Big Pharma’ companies don’t want you to know about?
—How does machine learning and AI figure into this? And finally…
—Has anyone tried giving cancer to the cancer?
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
—How the need to conform to others can compel you to give an answer that you clearly know to be wrong,
—Why hardly anyone gives money to homeless people on the subway,
—How a person’s clothing and appearance impacts the likelihood of intervention when he or she is the victim,
—How the death of one woman in the 1960’s led to the creation of the 911 emergency system, and finally...
—Why our jury system fails to produce justice so much of the time.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
—Is adherence to religion fundamentally incompatible with science? Or can you be a firm believer of both?
—Conventional wisdom might have you believe that religion has all but disappeared in the digital age - but has it?
—Why do people convert to or from certain religions? And finally…
—Is it possible to find meaning in life without belief in any religion at all?
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and his two guests address those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
—Why we as a society insist on paying lawyers so damn much,
—What law school will teach you about catching home run balls, avoiding banana peels, and consenting to being eat by cannibals,
—How law school is really not all that different from high school, and finally...
—Whether a law school education is worth the sticker price of $90,000 per year.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
—Our problem with overconsumption of media in 2020,
—Why the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates might have his head too buried in an iPhone to invent the next - well - iPhone,
—Why companies are spending more on innovation but getting fewer returns on their investments,
—Why patents are inadequate incentives for innovation, and finally...
—The most overrated films of our lifetime.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
—Why, contrary to what your friends may say, it is actually scientifically impossible to remember events from our infancy,
—Why your mind recalls specific experiences from throughout your life “randomly” over the course of your day,
—Why once you have learned something a certain way, it becomes almost impossible to unlearn it,
—Why it is not true that we only use ten percent of our brain capacity,
—How your constant reliance on Google is eroding your brain’s ability to retrieve old memories before the neuronal pathways decay,
—Why it is impossible to retrieve the same exact memory twice, and finally,
—Why we have a tendency to remember the past more positively than how it actually happened.
Where to Go to Get More Information:
- Are You Smart Enough to Work At Google? By William Poundstone
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
—Why it’s far more difficult to prove that you’re sane rather than insane…
—Just how effective psychiatrists are at identifying people with psychosis…
—The problem of subjectivity in sanity…
—Why the epidemic of gun-related deaths is an exclusively American problem…
—How all of us have become numb to the gun violence in our country, and finally…
—What we can do to curb gun violence in America.
Segments:
Sanity vs. Insanity: 7:10
Gun Violence in America: 27:46
Where to Go to Get More Information:
- The Rosenhan Experiments in Psychiatry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
- The Psychopath Test, by Jon Ronson
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/psychopath-test-ted-talk_b_2973423
- Ernest Hemingway Biography
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Hemingway
- Howard Hughes Biography
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Howard-Hughes
- Howard Hughes Psychosis
https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug05/hughes
- Timeline of Mass Shootings in America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States
- Gun Violence Statistics
https://www.businessinsider.com/mass-shooting-gun-statistics-2018-2
https://www.bradyunited.org/issue/types-of-gun-violence
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/21/us/school-shooting-us-versus-world-trnd/index.html
- Map of Mass Shootings in America
https://qz.com/1681082/the-292-mass-shootings-in-the-us-so-far-this-year-mapped/
- Gun Laws in the United States (State-By-State Comparison and Scorecard)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_by_state
https://lawcenter.giffords.org/scorecard/
- Universal Background Checks
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/04/mass-shootings-what-congress-doing-gun-control/1916451001/
- H.R.8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8
- H.R.1112 - Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2019
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1112/text
- Assault Weapons Ban
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/13/750656174/the-u-s-once-had-a-ban-on-assault-weapons-why-did-it-expire
- S.66 - Assault Weapons Ban of 2019
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/66
- Trump Administration Bans Bump Stocks in December 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/us/politics/trump-bump-stocks-ban.html
- The Role of Mental Health in Mass Shootings
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mental-illness-and-mass-murder-11564955203
- Red Flag Laws
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/01/red-flag-laws-temporarily-take-away-guns/3521491002/
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
—The logical probability that we are living in a Matrix-like simulation…
—Why, if we were living inside a simulation, we would remain blissfully unaware of this fact…
—Whether the simulation would be an “ancestor simulation” being run by future human civilizations or a simulation being run by alien life forms from the other side of the universe…
—Why it would be far easier to prove that we ARE living inside a simulation than that we are NOT living inside one, and finally…
—How we should live our lives if we are, in fact, living in a simulation.
Where To Go To Get More Information:
- Zhuangzi, “The Butterfly Dream” (Ancient Chinese Text)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1399947?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
- “The Matrix” (1999)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/
- “Brain In A Vat” Hypothesis
http://www.philosophy-index.com/putnam/brain-vat/
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“The Allegory of the Cave”, Featured in The Republic, by Plato
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The Simulation Hypothesis (and Nick Hostrum’s Reasoning), Explained
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation/
- Moore’s Law (Computing Power)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
- Elon Musk on the Simulation Hypothesis
https://www.space.com/41749-elon-musk-living-in-simulation-rogan-podcast.html
- Elon Musk on the Joe Rogan Experience (September 6, 2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by long-time friend and mechanical engineer, Stefanos Axios. They have a spirited and comprehensive discussion, spanning issues including:
--The jobs that automation will displace that humans currently have, and the jobs that will be created by the new technology…
--Why some jobs can never be able to be effectively carried out by robots…
--How the sex robot industry is shaking up the automation field…
--How the increasing amount of federal financial aid that is allotted to students has actually made college more expensive…
--Why a comprehensive student loan forgiveness plan would be an inadequate solution to a worsening problem, and finally…
--Why cryptocurrency has the potential to spread like wildfire in the coming decades.
Segments:
3:50 - Automation and the Future of the 9-5 Job
31:20 - The Cost of College
59:45 - Cryptocurrency
Where To Go To Get More Information:
-
The Four Hour Workweek, by Tim Ferris
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Wall-E (2008)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/
- People Protesting Self-Check-Out Lines
https://futurism.com/people-refusing-self-checkout-kill-jobs
- Live Video Streams of People Eating Meals in Korea
https://www.today.com/food/what-mukbang-inside-viral-korean-food-phenomenon-t123251
- Her (2013)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/
- Ex Machina (2014)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/
- Westworld (2016 - Present)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475784/
- Sex Robots Blamed for Birth Rate Crisis in Japan
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8286324/sex-robots-birth-rate-japan/
- Why College Is So Expensive In America
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/09/why-is-college-so-expensive-in-america/569884/
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-is-college-so-expensive-2018-4
- Cost of College Over Time
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/05/18/cost-of-college-the-year-you-were-born/39479153/
- Private College Tuitions, 2019
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities
- Middle Income Student Assistant Act
https://www.congress.gov/bill/95th-congress/house-bill/11274
- The Bennett Hypothesis
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/18/opinion/our-greedy-colleges.html
- Student Loan Debt Statistics
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/student-loan-statistics-2019-n997836
- Senator Bernie Sanders’ Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Plan
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/24/bernie-sanders-2020-student-loan-debt-forgiveness-plan-1296863
- Senator Elizabeth Warren’s Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Plan
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackfriedman/2019/06/17/elizabeth-warren-student-loan-debt-forgiveness/#62b763195e7b
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-student-debt.html
- Cryptocurrency
https://www.cnbc.com/cryptocurrency/
- Coinbase
https://www.coinbase.com/
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and sister & Clinical Psychology doctoral candidate Holly Rosen address a number of topics in the field of personality psychology including:
—Why most of us fall somewhere on the spectrum of Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
—The five components that are universally believed to form the building blocks of our personality…
—Whether our environment or genetics plays a more significant role in the development of our personality…
—How the Myers-Briggs Test treats personality as static …
—Why your Enneagram type might be different every time you take the test, and finally…
—How to know if you have a clinical personality disorder or if you’re just really paranoid.
Where To Go To Get More Information:
- APA Definition of Personality
https://www.apa.org/topics/personality/
- The Big Five Personality Dimensions (“OCEAN”)
https://www.verywellmind.com/the-big-five-personality-dimensions-2795422
- Nature vs. Nurture Debate in Personality Psychology
https://www.workstyle.io/how-personality-develops
- Rorschach Ink Test
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test
- The Myers Briggs Personality Test
https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/home.htm?bhcp=1
- The Enneagram Test and Enneagram Types
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneagram_of_Personality
https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/
- The Happiness U-Curve
https://bigthink.com/videos/the-u-curve-of-happiness-why-old-age-is-a-time-of-psychological-bliss
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/may/05/happiness-curve-life-gets-better-after-50-jonathan-rauch
- Personality Disorders
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201205/the-10-personality-disorders
- Rethinking Narcissism: The Bad -- and Surprising Good -- About Feeling Special, by Dr. Craig Malkin
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
—Why far fewer Americans identify as vegetarians compared to most other industrialized nations…
—From an evolutionary biology perspective, whether human beings were designed to eat other animals to begin with…
—The impact of Americans’ swelling appetite for meat on animal welfare and the environment…
—Whether diverse schools of philosophical thought might argue for or against the practice of eating meat…
—The conditions to which pigs, chickens, and cows are subjected in factory farms in America, and finally…
—What the growing demand for “meatless meat” and the expansion of companies like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meats tells us about the future of meat consumption in America.
Where To Go To Get More Information:
- Rates of Vegetarianism by Country
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country
- American Vegetarian Population
https://news.gallup.com/poll/238328/snapshot-few-americans-vegetarian-vegan.aspx
- Food, Inc. (2008)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/
- Impact of Meat-Eating on Water Supply
https://www.businessinsider.com/nestle-water-scarcity-meat-consumption-cable-2016-4
- Utilitarianism
https://www.iep.utm.edu/util-a-r/
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In Defense of Animals, by Peter Singer
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Risk of Heart Disease, Meat-Eaters vs. Vegetarians
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/255644.php
- Are Humans Supposed to Eat Meat?
https://www.peta.org/features/are-humans-supposed-to-eat-meat/
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Animal Liberation, by Peter Singer
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Reducing Animal Suffering
https://reducing-suffering.org/
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The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
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Mad Cow Disease
https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/1040/mad-cow-disease/about-mad-cow-disease
- Beyond Meats’ Market Cap
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/26/beyond-meats-13point4-billion-market-cap-is-beyond-ridiculous-investor.html
- Impossible Foods Sold in Stores
https://gizmodo.com/the-fda-has-finally-approved-the-impossible-burger-to-b-1836880448
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
—Why dining alone is the most uncomfortably thrilling experience you can have while traveling…
—How you can take advantage of favorable exchange rates to make your money go further while on vacation…
—Why it is better to travel to an international destination by yourself than with friends…
—How traveling to a foreign country broadens your perspective and teaches you to be grateful for your life at home, and finally…
—The ways in which life in Western Europe differs from the day to day in America.
Where to Go to Get More Information:
- Americans’ Cigarette Smoking Habits
https://www.heart.org/en/news/2018/08/29/smoking-in-america-why-more-americans-are-kicking-the-habit
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=5382924
- Countries with Favorable Exchange Rates for the American Dollar
https://www.smartertravel.com/9-countries-where-the-u-s-dollar-is-strongest-in-2019/
- The 4-Hour Workweek, by Tim Ferris
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
—Why in the last one to two years, young people have been increasingly more concerned about the amount of time they spend “screen-sucking”…
—The psychology behind why excessive social media use makes us anxious and depressed…
—How Facebook knowingly engineered moderate behavioral addictions into their platform, including the same strategy that casinos use to keep you playing their slot machines…
—Why turning off your notifications, deleting addictive apps, or even taking a digital sabbath will not remedy cell phone addiction…
—Why you should pledge to stop hitting the like button on social media, and finally…
—How to be more intentional with your phone use, and get back some of that autonomy that has been taken away from you.
Where to Go to Get More Information:
-
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in A Noisy World, by Cal Newport
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“Phantom Vibration Syndrome Among Cell Phone Users”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/phantom-vibration-syndrome-common-in-cellphone-users/
- Steve Jobs Introducing the Original iPhone: January 9, 2007 Keynote Address
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7qPAY9JqE4
- Tristan Harris, Facebook Whistleblower on How Technology Hijacks Our Brains
https://www.vox.com/technology/2018/2/19/17020310/tristan-harris-facebook-twitter-humane-tech-time
https://www.wired.com/story/our-minds-have-been-hijacked-by-our-phones-tristan-harris-wants-to-rescue-them/
- Jaron Lanier on Why You Should Delete Your Social Media Accounts
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/30/ten-arguments-deleting-your-social-media-accounts-right-now-jaron-lanier
- Sean Parker, Facebook’s Founding President on the Dangers of Facebook
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2017/11/09/facebooks-first-president-on-facebook-god-only-knows-what-its-doing-to-our-childrens-brains/
- Roger McNamee, Mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, on Why He Wished He Never Mentored Zuckerberg
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-mentored-mark-zuckerberg-heres-my-road-map-for-fixing-facebook/2018/01/14/0f976dea-f71b-11e7-b34a-b85626af34ef_story.html?utm_term=.75d18d2b8ca3
https://time.com/5505441/mark-zuckerberg-mentor-facebook-downfall/
- About the Light Phone
https://www.thelightphone.com/
In honor of Father's Day this past weekend, Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by his dad, Jay, the former radio broadcasting sensation, wrestling referee and a whole lot more. Ricky and Jay have an elaborate discussion, addressing issues including...
--The most glaring differences between growing up in the 1960s/70s and growing up today...
--How carrying around a flip phone and staying off of Google influences the way that my father views the world...
--Why starting his own exterminating company was more appealing to my dad than attending college...
--What life lessons my father has drawn from his work as an Animal Cruelty Prevention Officer...
--Why it is critical to experiment with various careers in your lifetime, and finally...
--Why human connections and maintaining a robust reputation are the keys to a secure and satisfying livelihood.
Where to Go to Get More Information:
- American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (A.S.P.C.A.)
https://www.aspca.org/
- Professional Wrestling in the 1970s and 1980s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling_in_the_United_States
- Premium Shopping Guide Magazine
https://www.facebook.com/squirepublishing/
http://kingsparkli.com/business-directory/3433/squire-publishing-corp-premium-shopping-guide/
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How To Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie
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"Extreme Couponing" with Jay Rosen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXR-BNxPano
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by long-time friend and aerospace engineer, Stefanos Axios. They have a spirited and comprehensive discussion, spanning issues including:
--Why life seems to go by more quickly as you get older...
--How "free radicals" and "anti-oxidants" can protect you from aging..
--Why we should stop treating people when they're sick and start treating them when they're healthy...
--How you can predict someone's age just by looking at their hand...
--Why we should continue investing trillions of dollars in exploring the observable universe...
--Whether we should be worried about Earth becoming uninhabitable within our lifetimes...
--What exactly is keeping us from sending people to colonize Mars today...
--What makes the United States Federal Reserve arguably the most powerful body in the world...
--Why Americans should care about our country's insurmountable national debt...
--Whether middle-class Americans should be concerned about a recession or depression in their lifetimes, and finally...
--How you are losing money by keeping all of your savings squared away in a bank account.
Segments:
Aging: 3:45
Space Exploration: 29:21
Money: 1:03:43
Where to Go to Get More Information:
- Life Expectancy Trends Over Time
https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy
- Leading Causes of Death in the U.S. in 2019
https://www.healthline.com/health/leading-causes-of-death
- Free Radicals and Anti-Oxidants
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249911/
- Resveratrol in Wine
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0540/525760cf05d3a245d0b8468fc49f8a3e7bce.pdf
- The Human Longevity Project (Peter Diamandis)
https://www.humanlongevity.com/
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Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari
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Nano-Tech in Our Bloodstreams
https://interestingengineering.com/nanobots-will-flowing-body-2030
- Intermittent Fasting and Aging
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321690.php
- NASA's Annual Budget
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA
- "The Uninhabitable Earth," by David Wallace Wells
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html?gtm=bottom
- Mars Colonization Timeline
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-mars-plan-timeline-2018-10
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Elon Musk: SpaceX, Tesla, and the Quest for A Fantastic Future, by Ashlee Vance
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About Mars One
https://www.mars-one.com/
- NASA Study Comparing Astronaut to His Twin on Earth (Mark and Scott Kelly)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/science/scott-mark-kelly-twins-space-nasa.html
- Hyperinflation in Germany, 1922-1923
https://mashable.com/2016/07/27/german-hyperinflation/
- Different Forms of Currency Worldwide (World Atlas)
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/how-many-currencies-are-in-the-world.html
- About The Federal Reserve
https://www.federalreserve.gov/
- U.S. National Debt in Real-Time
https://www.usdebtclock.org/
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
--How technology and blue light from cell phones have caused children's eyesight to worsen at younger ages...
--Why doctors do not hesitate to write patients a prescription - even when they feel perfectly fine....
--Which doctors you should prioritize visiting once (or more) throughout the year...
--Why rest is the most important component of an effective work-out plan, and finally...
--Why meal prepping is the answer to all your problems.
Segments:
Doctors' Visits: 11:21
Building A Work-Out Regimen: 36:33
Meal Prep: 1:04:30
Where to Go to Get More Information:
- Statistics on Physician Visits in America (Center for Disease Control)
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/physician-visits.htm
- Do You Really Need A Yearly Physical? (Harvard Medical)
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/a-checkup-for-the-checkup-do-you-really-need-a-yearly-physical-201510238473
- How Often Should You See Primary Care Doctor? (US News & Health)
https://health.usnews.com/health-news/patient-advice/articles/how-often-should-you-see-the-doctor
- Skin Cancer Prevention (American Association of Dermatology)
https://www.aad.org/media/stats/conditions/skin-cancer
- Skin Cancer Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment (MayoClinic)
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/skin-cancer/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20377608
- Importance of Dental Visits (American Dental Association)
https://www.mouthhealthy.org/en/top-reasons-to-visit-dentist
- Kids' Eyesight Getting Worse At Younger Ages (American Optometric Association)
https://www.aoa.org/newsroom/the-21st-century-child-increased-technology-use-may-lead-to-future-eye-health-and-vision-issues
https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2016/11/14/kids-eyesight-getting-worse-at-younger-ages-study.html
- Blue Light (American Optometric Association)
https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/should-you-be-worried-about-blue-light
- The Importance of Rest in Working Out
https://www.active.com/fitness/articles/the-importance-of-rest-in-a-workout-program
- Sample Work-Out Routines and Programs
https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/how-build-workout-routine/
https://www.muscleandstrength.com/workout-routines
https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/5-best-bodybuilding-programs-to-pack-on-serious-muscle.html
- How Long Will Leftovers Stay Good in the Fridge?
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/shared/PDF/Refrigeration_and_Food_Safety.pdf
- Learned / Conditioned Taste Aversion in Humans
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/taste-aversion
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
--Whether a society in which all relationships have known 'expiration dates' would be worthwhile...
--How one relationship expert can predict the divorce of any couple with 90% accuracy...
--Why knowing your love language can make a significant difference in your relationships...
--Why an earpiece that would allow you understand any spoken language isn't as promising as it sounds...
--How your personality changes when you speak in a foreign language through the principle of linguistic relativity...
--How learning a new language can help you cope with rejection and earn more money at your job, and finally...
--The 50 movies that you absolutely need to see before you die.
Segments:
Learning Languages: 2:41
The Keys to a Successful Relationship: 37:22
Must-Watch Movies: 1:19:19
Corrections & Clarifications from the Podcast:
-
I stated on the podcast that the film Taxi Driver was 90 minutes long; it is actually 1 hour and 54 minutes long.
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I stated on the podcast that Alfred Hitchcock's films were created in the 1960's and 1970's; they were actually predominantly released in the 1950's, with the exception of Psycho, which was released in the year 1960.
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I stated on the podcast that Birdman was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards; it actually won the Best Picture award in 2014.
Where to Go to Get More Information:
- DuoLingo - Learn A New Language
https://www.duolingo.com/
- Benefits of Learning a New Language
https://etoninstitute.com/blog/top-10-benefits-of-learning-a-foreign-language
- Linguistic Relativity
https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199738632.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199738632-e-38
- Ziah Fazah, World Record Holder for Language Ability
https://thelinguistblogger.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/the-many-languages-of-ziad-fazah/
- 500 Days of DuoLingo - What You Can (and Can't) Learn from a Language App
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/smarter-living/500-days-of-duolingo-what-you-can-and-cant-learn-from-a-language-app.html
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Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg
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Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
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The Five Love Languages
https://www.5lovelanguages.com/
- Netflix's Black Mirror, Season 4, Episode 4: "Hang the DJ"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5710978
- American Film Institute's 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time
https://www.afi.com/100Years/movies.aspx
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
--How one university's "Bias-Free Language Guide" took politically correct terminology too far...
--Why a comedian getting kicked off-stage at a university performance epitomizes the perils of 'call-out culture'...
--Why, though the overwhelming majority of people find fault with 'PC culture', it continues to infect American society...
--The multitude of unexpected ways that owning a pet can affect your health...
--How giving a senior a plant to take care of can actually extend his or her life...
--How the exotic pet trade is leading to the endangerment of some of your favorite pet species...
--Why you should be wary of the "natural flavors" hiding in all of the processed food in your pantry, and finally...
--Why eating genetically modified foods is not as scary as it sounds.
Where to Go to Get More Information:
- Pet Ownership Statistics Worldwide
https://www.petfoodindustry.com/articles/5845-infographic-most-of-world-owns-pets-dogs-are-tops
- Exotic Pets That Are Illegal to Keep
https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/exotic-pets-that-are-illegal-in-the-us.html/
- Parrot Intelligence
https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2018/07/12/what-makes-parrots-so-intelligent/#5ef28eb434e6
- "Perceived Control" Studies in Elders
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23723436
- Health Benefits of Owning Pets
https://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/health-benefits/index.html
- Code of Federal Regulations - Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrsearch.cfm?fr=501.22
- Research on Genetically Engineered Crops and Outcomes
https://www.nap.edu/read/23395/chapter/1
- Are Natural Flavors Really Natural?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/well/eat/are-natural-flavors-really-natural.html?login=smartlock&auth=login-smartlock
- American Attitudes on Political Correctness
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majorities-dislike-political-correctness/572581/
- University of New Hampshire's "Bias-Free Language Guide"
https://www.girardatlarge.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Bias-Free-Language-Guide-Inclusive-Excellence-073015.pd
- President Barack Obama Speaking on 'PC Culture'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVZVCbW63lc
- List of Disinvited Speakers at Colleges
https://www.businessinsider.com/list-of-disinvited-speakers-at-colleges-2016-7
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
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Nimesh Patel, Comedian, Kicked Off-Stage at Columbia University
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/opinion/columbia-nimesh-patel-comedian-kicked-offstage.html
- Bill Burr Speaking on PC Culture on the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJhl0tLxflc
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are (in this case, literally) keeping you awake at night, including:
--Why despite the fact that our bodies will decay and die, in our unconscious mind, we feel immortal...
--Whether children have an understanding of death, and whether animals ever contemplate their mortality...
--The psychological defense mechanism that we unknowingly use every single day in order to live our lives comfortably...
--How surrendering to the finality of your existence can help you achieve inner peace, and finally...
--What we can learn about how to live our lives today by the regrets people in hospice acknowledge on their deathbeds.
Where to Go to Get More Information:
-
"The Dead", by Palle Yourgrau
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The Denial of Death, by Ernest Becker
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck, by Mark Manson
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Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by long-time friend and Education Consultant, Adam Rabinowitz. They have a spirited discussion spanning education, politics, and philosophy, and tackle issues including:
--Why even though teachers in America experience the same amount of stress in a given day as an emergency room physician, their pay is still lower than sanitation workers, gas station attendants, and hundreds of other professions...
--What kids really should be learning in school instead of the basic core curriculum of English, Social Studies, Math, and Science...
--Why America needs more male teachers...
--Which of the four major theories about why we sleep is the most strongly supported...
--With all the conflicting information out there, how much sleep you really need each and every night...
--How electricity and cell phones disturb our bodies' circadian rhythms...
--How the Democratic candidates for president should approach the presidential election from a strategy perspective, and finally...
--Who the Trump team is most worried about amongst the Democrats in the 2020 election.
Where to Go to Get More Information:
- The Achievement Gap in Education
https://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/achievement-gap/index.html
- "Race to Nowhere" Documentary Film
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1437364/
- "Operation Varsity Blues" - 2019 College Admissions Scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_college_admissions_bribery_scandal
- Teacher's Salaries in America as of 2019
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/earnings-and-wages.htm
- The Brandeis Hoot: Delving Into Sleep: Time Well Spent? by Ricky Rosen
http://www.thebrandeishoot.com/articles/9430
- Sleep in Animals
https://www.sleep.org/articles/do-all-animals-sleep/
- Why Do Humans Need to Sleep? The Four Theories of Sleep
http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/matters/benefits-of-sleep/why-do-we-sleep
- "Low Sleepers" in History
https://www.businessinsider.com/successful-people-who-do-not-sleep-2017-7#twitter-cofounder-and-ceo-and-square-ceo-and-founder-jack-dorsey-sleeps-four-to-six-hours-a-night-1
- Genetic Mutation that Allows Some People to Sleep Less
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/genetic-mutation-sleep-less/
- 2020 Democratic Presidential Election Candidates
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/19/politics/cnn-poll-2020-harris-surge-deep-enthusiasm/index.html
- Senator Elizabeth Warren on Instagram Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lea6xV9sf0
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
--How the presence of a cell phone on a table -- even if it's flipped upside down -- can derail an otherwise amazing first date...
--How to steer clear of those 'medical-receptionist-intake-questions' on a first date, and use your conversation as a springboard to a genuine romantic connection...
--Why you should always screen someone before the first date, and how long the optimal first date should last...
--Whether intimacy between two strangers can be accelerated through the "36 Questions That Lead to Love" experiment...
--How Google, Facebook and Amazon exploit your privacy to build a personalized data profile and show you targeted advertisements, and...
--How to interpret what your dreams mean, and a foolproof way to remember all of your dreams.
Where to Go to Get More Information:
- The Presence of A Cell Phone Lowering the Quality of Conversation on A Date
https://psmag.com/social-justice/presence-smartphone-lowers-quality-person-conversations-85805
- The '36 Questions That Lead to Love' Experiment
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/fashion/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.html
- Technology and Privacy: Facebook and Google
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/all-the-data-facebook-google-has-on-you-privacy
- Why We Dream
https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/dreaming-overview
- The Id, the Ego and the Superego
https://www.simplypsychology.org/psyche.html
- Common Symbols in Dreams
https://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com/30-common-dream-symbols.html
- The Four Stages of Sleep
https://www.tuck.com/stages/
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
--Why the fear of missing out is such a powerful force in modern society and what factors make you most susceptible to "FOMO" and "FOBO"...
--How drinking several cups of coffee everyday can literally extend your life...
--Why most of America is disconnected from the political process, and why you should care more about what's happening in Washington D.C....
--How you can start holding your elected representatives accountable after Election Day...
--Why people today don't know how to make conversation, and finally...
--Why the 'art of small talk' is the most important skill you can possibly learn.
Corrections from the Podcast:
- On the podcast, I stated that the actor who portrayed the Blitz on How I Met Your Mother played Jack on Lost; he actually played the character, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, on Lost.
Where to Go to Get More Information:
- The Science of FOMO - Are You Missing Out?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ritual-and-the-brain/201804/the-science-fomo-and-what-we-re-really-missing-out
- Health Benefits of Coffee
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/top-13-evidence-based-health-benefits-of-coffee#section13
- Electoral Reform Ideas
http://time.com/4546243/elections-voting-ideas/
- John Stuart Mill's 'Marketplace of Ideas'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketplace_of_ideas
- The Fine Art of Small Talk: How to Start A Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave A Positive Impression! by Debra Fine
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and long-time friend & professional soccer player / electrical engineer Jeremy Pachter have a fast-paced and comprehensive discussion spanning psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, religion, biology, genetics, physics, and relativity. Ricky and Jeremy address a number of burning topics including:
--Whether there is such a thing as free will, and if we are genuinely in control of our actions...
--How you would define the concept of "time" to an alien...
--Whether there is any objective view on time or is it truly subjective...
--Why the present time does not really exist, and ways to combat the passage of time...
--Why we fear death, yet we do not fear our pre-natal non-existence, and finally...
--Whether the 9 to 5 work day is really the best life.
Where to Go to Get More Information:
- "Minority Report."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/
- "There's No Such Thing as Free Will." The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/
- "Do We Have Free Will?" Psychology Today.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/proceed-your-own-risk/201311/do-we-have-free-will
- Astrology and Zodiac Signs
https://www.astrology-zodiac-signs.com/
- "What Is Time? A Simple Explanation."
http://www.thephysicsmill.com/2013/03/03/what-is-time-a-simple-explanation/
- "The Einstein Twin Paradox."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox
- "String Theory: A beginner's guide."
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16950-string-theory-a-beginners-guide/
- "Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity."
https://www.space.com/36273-theory-special-relativity.html
- "Getting Started with Mindfulness."
https://www.mindful.org/meditation/mindfulness-getting-started/
- "Mindful Eating 101 - A Beginner's Guide."
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/mindful-eating-guide
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The 4-Hour Workweek, by Tim Ferris
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The Pathfinder: How to Choose Or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success, by Nicholas Lore
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"The Pareto Principle"
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/paretoprinciple.asp
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
--Why we put alcohol into our systems in spite of the overwhelmingly negative impacts that it has on our minds and bodies...
--How the "mirror neurons" in our brains figure into our societal addiction to drinking booze...
--How beauty acts as a form of currency in America...
--Why looking at your reflection less could lead to a more wholesome life...
--Where corn is hiding in everything that you eat, and finally...
--Why the government subsidizing corn is the reason why fast food is so cheap and health food is so expensive.
Where to Go to Get More Information:
- The Impact of Alcohol on the Mind and Body
https://www.alcohol.org/effects/
- Resources for Alcoholics and Problem-Drinkers
https://alcoholaddictioncenter.org/alcoholism-resources/
- All About Mirror Neurons
https://www.apa.org/monitor/oct05/mirror
- Alcohol - Weighing the Risks and Potential Benefits
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/alcohol/art-20044551
- Fairly Oddparents - "The Same Game"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0575708
- Beauty-Sick - How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beauty-sick
- The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and sister & Clinical Psychology doctoral candidate Holly Rosen do a deep (and intensely personal) dive into mental health disorders and their prevalence in America today. Ricky and Holly address a number of topics in the fields of psychology and neuroscience including:
--Why more than half of all mental illness in America today goes undiagnosed and untreated...
--The root cause behind the over-diagnosis of ADHD in children...
--Why modern-day psychology tends to confuse personality traits and psychopathological disorders...
--Whether medication or therapy is the more effective method to manage mental illness, and finally...
--How living with anxiety disorders might actually enhance your life.
Where to Go to Get More Information:
- Mental Health by the Numbers (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
https://www.nami.org/learn-more/mental-health-by-the-numbers
- DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition)
https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm
- Anxiety Disorders (National Institute of Mental Health)
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/anxiety-disorders/index.shtml
- "OCD" - Neil Hilborn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnKZ4pdSU-s
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
--Why habits are a necessary component of our lives, and a simple way for you to mend those nagging habits...
--How you can stop snacking in the middle of the day when you're not even hungry...
--Why eye contact is the key to making connections with others...
--How exactly you would go about starting a conversation with someone in public, and finally...
--Why the lack of fiber in our diets is the most serious nutritional deficiency in America that nobody is talking about, and how to get more fiber in your daily regimen.
Where to Go to Get More Information:
- For More on the Three-Step Habit Loop and How to Change Bad Habits
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- For More on the Comfort Challenges (Eye Contact; Smiling at Others)
The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris
- For More on Dietary Fiber
https://www.livescience.com/51998-dietary-fiber.html
- For more on the USDA's Dietary Guideline for Dinner Plates
https://www.choosemyplate.gov/
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and childhood friend & data scientist Angelo (AJ) Piazza have an intense, stimulating conversation spanning psychology, philosophy of mind, neuroscience, metaphysics, science & technology, and the very nature of existence. Ricky and AJ address a number of burning topics including:
--How exactly do you define consciousness...
--Is consciousness something that we are born with or do we develop it over time...
--Are there any animals that can be said to be truly conscious...
--How serious is the threat that artificial intelligence poses to human existence, and finally...
--How exactly can you make yourself 'lucid dream'?
Where to Go to Get More Information:
- Scientific American Article on Consciousness in Infantry
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-does-consciousness-arise/
- The depiction of consciousness on the HBO series, 'Westworld'
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475784/
- The Turing Test and the Foundation of Artificial Intelligence
https://www.turing.org.uk/scrapbook/test.html
- "What makes us different from AI?", as addressed in the film, 'Ex Machina'
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/
- Lucid Dreaming - Gateway to the Inner Self by Robert Waggoner
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
--Among the hundreds of thousands of people we interact with over the course of our lifetimes, how exactly we choose our lifelong friends...
--With the Oscars a few weeks away, what the best film of 2018 was...
--Why drinking even one additional glass of water a day can significantly improve your quality of life...
--Just how disgusting is a Coca Cola really, and finally...
--Why the top free agents in baseball are still unsigned with less than a month to go until Spring Training.
Where to Go to Get More Information:
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2019 Oscar Nominations
https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2019 -
Health Benefits of Drinking Enough Water
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/7-health-benefits-of-water -
What Happens To Your Body When You Drink Coca Cola
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/11772532/This-is-what-happens-to-your-body-when-you-drink-Coca-Cola.html -
Tap Water vs. Bottled Water - Which Is Safer?
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/tap-vs-bottled-water/faq-20058017 -
Bryce Harper and Manny Machado - Why Two of MLB's Best Players Don't Have Teams
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb/06/bryce-harper-manny-machado-free-agency
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
--Why having millions of options in the modern dating world might actually be a bad thing...
--Why you should be a "satisficer" rather than a "maximizer" in your love life...
--How lack of investment and the transactional nature of dating apps turns everybody in a flake...
--Why it's better to sprint in 2 minute intervals than jog for 30 minutes straight, and...
--Why Tom Brady belongs in the conversation with Michael Jordan, Babe Ruth, and Muhammad Ali, as being among the greatest athletes ever.
Corrections from the Podcast:
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In the episode, I attribute the source of the concept of "maximizing" and "satisficing" to Jonah Lehrer, but it was actually coined by Barry Schwartz in his book, The Paradox of Choice.
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The boxing movie for which Jake Gyllenhall got absolutely shredded was Southpaw (not the Fighter).
Where to Go to Get More Information:
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To learn more about consumerism and the economics of 21st century materialism, check out the book: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Noah Yuval Harari.
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To learn more about the concepts of maximizing and satisficing in decision-making, check out the book: The Paradox of Choice, by Barry Schwartz.
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For more on the sunk-cost fallacy - https://www.behavioraleconomics.com/resources/mini-encyclopedia-of-be/sunk-cost-fallacy/
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For more on the regret minimization framework - https://medium.com/@alyjuma/the-regret-minimization-framework-how-jeff-bezos-made-decisions-4d5a86deaf24
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For more on high-intensity interval training (H.I.I.T.) - https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/a-z/high-intensity-interval-training-hiit
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For more on aerobic / anaerobic respiration - https://livehealthy.chron.com/muscles-use-aerobic-anaerobic-respiration-5353.html
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For more on analyzing your heart rate during cardio and H.I.I.T. - https://www.verywellfit.com/heart-zone-training-3432619
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
--Why the key to living a happier life is to become Buddhist in our philosophies...
--How cell phones distract us from our most salient fear - and it's not the fear of death...
--Why kids today are just really awkward, and...
--Why Roger Clemens and Barry bonds, arguably the biggest cheaters in the history of sports, deserve a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen introduces the pod and addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including:
--Why you're not getting enough protein in your diet - and how to get more...
--What the government shut-down means for the ordinary American - and how much that fast food spread in the White House REALLY cost, and....
--Why I don't binge TV series - and how the best comedy on TV right now doesn't even have a script.