100 Books A Year With Keven Wang: Recent Episodes

Keven Wang

My name is Keven Wang. Join my journey to dissect and talk about 100 books a year. Follow my 200 books a year reading challenge on Goodreads: goodreads.com/Kevenwang

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How should we think about life and death according to the stoics?

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How should we deal with adversity according to the stoics?

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Stoics argue what should be our place in nature?

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How do the stoics think about “emotions”?

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Welcome to our new series: Lessons in Stoicism. Let start off by talking about what the stoics believe we can control

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Finally finished the book “Power vs. Force” by David Hawkins. Lots of recommendations over the years. Here are some of my thoughts on it.

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Reflecting on my first experience with “commonplace notebook”

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New series coming. Stay tuned

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Here is the series finale, hope you enjoyed it -Kiev

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Let’s dive in a bit more on cardio exercises

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We’ll cover exercise philosophies and high level strength training principals.

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We will cover fasting, macro nutrients groups etc

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What are the 3 questions we need to ask ourselves about nutrition?

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What are the differences between strategy and tactics in the realm of longevity.

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Finally finished the book 2 months later. Series will continue -Kev

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What is medicine 3.0 ?

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Welcome back to a brand new series on Peter Attia’s new book.

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Thank you for your continuous support. New series is coming soon

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We are back from our break

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I am hitting the “pause” button for this podcast

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We tend to view “regrets” as negative experiences in our lives. Maybe it is time for a change. To have regrets is what make us human.

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Where should we start in terms of building the first “atomic” group

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What is the cold start problem? Laying down a foundation for a new series.

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Why we are constantly finding an escape for our mind?

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Question: I am full of hate, would you please teach me how to love?

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Let us all ask ourselves this question?

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What is intelligence? Do we dare to give it a definition?

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The problem of freedom, we are not talking about democracy here. But in the context of personal growth.

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Let us talk about the function of education. It is for us to live freely, is to have no fears

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Let us wrap everything together and end this series! How can we distinguish between financial economy and real economy

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What is money? How does the system work? How can we understand financial policies?

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What does it mean for a country to have a reserve currency?

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We need to understand the relationship between money, credit and debt.

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Conceptually, let us map out the index here.

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What are the characteristics for an empire on decline?

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What are the early warning signs for countries on the top?

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What are the characteristics for empires on the rise?

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Let us kick start this series, I cannot wait. Please reference these 8 determinants, we will visit them later on. 1. Education 2. Competitiveness 3. Innovation and technology 4. Economic output 5. Share of world trade 6. Military strength 7. Financial center strength 8. Reserve currency status

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How does Howard Marks approach the issues of “selling” in investing .

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Lover of fate

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Why we tend to project our emotions upon people. We radically accept them as facts

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Let us talk about leadership image.

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Let us talk about how Einstein approached job selection.

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When we encounter boredom in life, it should serve as a trigger for new challenges

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It is easy to focus on the process when we are doing work with tangible outcomes. We should be more mindful when we are doing our jobs with intangible outcomes ex:knowledge work. Respect the process

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Top 10 Books of the Year(in no particular order) 1. Principles for the Changing World Order ->Ray Dalio 2. Will -> Will Smith 3.Think Again-> Adam Grant 4.The Education of a Value Investor ->Guy Spiers 5. Richer Wiser and Healthier ->William Green 6.The Price of Tomorrow ->Jeff Booth 7.Noise -> Daniel Kaahneman 8.Be 2.0 Jim Collins 9.Lyndon Johnson Trilogy -> Robert Caro 10. Working Backwards : Colin Bryan

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Continuing our discussion on apprenticeship. You should only have one goal in pursuit of mastery

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We always approach finding mentor in the mindset of what can they do for me? Have we thought about what can we do for them?

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Listen to that inner force.

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Don’t subscribe to the outward illusion, focus on internal growth.

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Let us talk about the second daily law. How should we navigate our big decisions in life, where to work? What jobs i should take? The answer: combine your fascinations.

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The FIRST Daily Laws. We tend to panic when things don’t work out. We fumble and change everything. STOP and master the small things.

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This book should be the first book for anyone want to get into Robert Greene’s body of work!

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I am listening to Will Smith’s autobiography

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Let us talk about the components of Consumerist Capitalism?

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Let us talk about the mistakes in the first 25 years of Berkshire from 1965 to 1990

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Let us talk about year 1965. When Buffett took over, what was his thinking setting up the foundation for Insurance, Newspaper and Banking

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People always reference the concept of a “cigar butt” company in value investing. Let us piece back the “cigar butt” puzzle for Berkshire before 1964

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Let us cover Hathaway side of the business, right until Buffett take over

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Let us dive into the founding history of BH

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Let us talk about Winston’s relationship with his son Randolph

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Let us talk about Winston Churchill’s relationship with his father Lord Randolph. How did it impact his relationship with his own son

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Author Spotlight. I read his “1917: Lenin and Wilson” “Gandhi and Churchill”. Highly recommend Arthur’s book

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Is investment success our real goal?

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Is it because of ego? Or something else ?

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Counter intuitive? We will find out

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Let us talk about a strange habit

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This might the Longest podcast title

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Let us talk about the order we should observe info

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Why Guy thinks talking to management before an investment is a bad idea.

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Let us talk about his second investment habit. Highlighting the author’s will to eliminate any form of influences from his thinking

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Let us talk about a few Guy Spier investment habits. #1, stop checking the stock prices

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This is not about value investing, it is about compounding good will

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Is sweating a form of detox?

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Let us talk about a few interesting facts about sweat

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Last episode on this series.

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There is no free lunch… What could be some of the trade offs in our power quests .

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Let us talk about some personal qualities that build power. Helping us succeed

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The third and last common pitfalls in our quest for power

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Be aware of the leadership literature. Maintain a cautious attitude when you are reading leadership books

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This is the first obstacle in our power quest

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What makes someone want power?

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What would be the easiest way to distinguish cultural differences?

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Let us talk about 12 steps we can learn to reach mental immunity

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Are beliefs purely voluntary ?? What are the factors we need to consider when we are “assigning” trust?

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How do we combat bad ideas without compromising our own mental immunity ?

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Let us talk about some specific mentally disruptive ideas

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Let us talk about outside of critical thinking, what else can we do to understand “mental immunity”?

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Let us talk about understanding mental health from a immunological perspective

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Let us talk about rumination

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Let us talk about guilt.how we can perform emotional first aid

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Let us talk about loneliness, how should we apply emotional first aid

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Let us talk about how to do emotional first aid (EFA) after rejections

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There seems like we don’t have a framework for dealing with psychological wounds?

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Let us talk about the default network, will meditation help lowering the activities of the default network

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Let us talk about the relationship between meditation and attention

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Let us talk about finite games and infinite games. I challenge you to find real life examples

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Shall we write or make marks in our books?

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Let us talk about reading speed..I think most people can read a bit faster, and drop a book a bit quicker as well

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How can we categorize our reading levels? Not based on school grade,but based on understanding of the material

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Let us talk about active reading

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Social learning. What does it have to do with our cultural values?

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Let us talk about how our cultural roots helped in human evolution

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What about diet sugar, it does not constrain glucose or fructose?

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let us dive in a bit deeper into “protect the liver” and “feed the gut”

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Let us talk about whether we should trust our doctors with nutritional advice

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Let us do a brief episode on insulin and metabolical health

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Let us do an introduction to the book “metabolical” and set the stage about the current environment of nutrition

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Let us talk about the last agreement from the book

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The 4th agreement is kind of like an add-on. Make sure the first three agreements becomes habits

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Let us talk about the 3rd agreement: don’t make assumptions

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Let us talk about the second agreement. Don’t take anything personally. Because you cannot know what the other person is thinking exactly

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The first agreement, let us not assign our own perception to the symbol of truth. It is about alignment of the truth

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Let us talk about Joe Rogan’s favorite book. “The Fifth Agreement”

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Let us talk about social signaling in the context of charity donations

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What is something we are all doing, but unconsciously we are not drawing that much attention to it. In a form of virtue signaling.

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Let us talk about some of the billion dollar start up myths..

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Let us talk about Tesla’s origin story

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Let us wrap up this book, talk about different tail positions

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What can mouth shape tell us about our dogs’ mood and behaviors

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Let us do a quick fire podcast a four more dog verbal cues

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Let us talk about the difference between higher pitch growls and lower pitch growls

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Let us talk about different types of barks

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Let us talk about dog’s linguistic patterns

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Can macro environments predicts market outcomes?

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Let us finished our book discussion on the “fixer” manager. The micromanagers.

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Let us talk about the second management style; Modeled after Steve Jobs and Elon Musk

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The author talks about three kinds of management styles. Friend, Fixer and Fighter. Let us start with the “friendly” manager first

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The author argues we should be frugal when spending for our businesses. But there are a few exceptions

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Let us talk about corporate obesity. Why joining a big company cannot guarantee a big impact?

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Let us finish our “linchpin” discussion talking about emotional labor. How that is critical in someone becoming a “linchpin”

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Let us talk about ways the society trains us to become a cog in the machine. How we can play a different game?

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How to become a linchpin? An important player in an organization ?

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Octopuses are having a moment in our current culture. Let us talk about some of the most interesting research on octopuses as a specie.

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What are the most important questions to answer for young people?

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Let us talk about reading, and how to set up a solid reading foundation

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What is the definition of retirement?

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Let us talk about “leverages”. The key component for getting ahead in life according to Naval.

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Let us talk about the wisdom from Naval Ravakant. Get his book free navalmanck.com

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Let us talk about how Zappos maintain their culture through hiring and training.

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How does Zappos set up their customer oriented culture?

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Let us talk about process power, using the example of Toyota Production System

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The 6th power is cornered resources. It can be both physical or talent resources,

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Hi. Guys. Went to Portland. Got like 43 books from Powell’s books. We are back today !

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Let us talk about branding

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Let us talk about switching costs, and how great companies utilize it so much

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Let us talk about the third power, counter poisoning as a market leader or a newcomer

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Let us talk about network economics

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Probably easier to understand the first power. Scale Economics

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Let us kick start a series, talk about 7 power of business strategy

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Let us talk about “the comfort crisis”. What is the benefit for putting our body through short term stress?

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WE DID IT! Thanks for joining me on the journey. We are launching Season 2 TOMORROW

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Let us finish our discussion on “defensive investing”.

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Let us talk about Howard Marks’ idea of defensive investing

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Let us talk about the 5 investing principles of John Templeton

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How do we master art of receiving and giving feedbacks

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What is the difference between a manager and a leader?

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Let us talk about team collaboration from a manger’s perspective. How can we ensure goal alignment and secure enough motivation?

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What does it take to become a manager?

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Let us talk about what to do in a deflationary environment?

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What shall we do in a deflationary environment, how should we gain “real growth

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Let us start a new book, let us talk about deflationary environments driving by technology

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If you are in a position of power and influence ,if you decided to use metrics in your line of work? How should you set it up?

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What performance metrics is good for?

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Let us start a new series on the culture of metric fixation!

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We will wrap up the last three stages of failure for companies today and talk about what can we do to turn it around ?

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The second stage of decline. A lot of times, companies confuse big companies with great companies

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What is the initial stage of decline for most companies? In a way, maybe getting drunk on their “success”?

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Let us talk about the fall stages of decline from Jim Collins

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Let us talk about some specific way we can reduce noise in decision making. PS: sorry my pup was barking at the end of the episode

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How can AI improves noise reduction?

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How group think will amplify noise

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What is occasion noise? What is the primary driving factor of occasion noise?

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Let us give out two examples of noise. In the legal field and the insurance industry

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Let us dive into my FAVORITE book of the year. Danny’s take on bias and noise

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“You have to be somebody before you can be nobody”. Is that really true?

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Let us wrap up our discussion on dopamine and its relationship to adventure

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What role does dopamine play in love any relationship?

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What exactly is dopamine responsible for?

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Let us wrap up our discussion on Karma

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How does our body, mind and energy relate to karmic cycle?

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What is Karma from a yogi’s perspective?

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Let us talk about something concrete, how to improve your HRV with belly breathing techniques

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Let us talk about heart rate variability, why HRV is beneficial for us?

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Let us talk about ho mindfulness can be the solution to keep anxiety at bay

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Let us talk about anxiety. Brewer gave us a fresh perspective on anxiety, coping mechanism and mapping solutions ,

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Let us finish our discussion today on the 7 elements of leadership style:

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Let us talked about the 3rd and 4th leadership styles

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Let us go through all 7 elements of leadership styles. Let us start with Authenticity and decisiveness

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Let us talk about leadership in business. What are the basic components of leadership?

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Let us talk about the connection between Omega 3-6 Fatty Acids to mood

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Let us do a deep dive in to how foods control our moods

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How to manage short term , medium term and long term stress

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Let us talk about the most effective destressing techniques

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Let us talk about the biology of stress. What is result of a stress response physiologically?

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Let us talk about the fundamental parameters of physical injury recovery? Should we focus more on icing the injury to use heat therapy?

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Let us talk about pain, somatic nervous system and recovery process

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Let us dive into Heat Shock Protein. Why it is so beneficial?

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Get you and your loved ones sit in a sauna for 20 minutes a day. Here is why

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Last little bits on plasticity. How should we regulate our attention and what times in the days are best for creative work?

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Let us talk about babies and morality. Do babies get born as a “moral baby”?

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Let us take about developmental psychology, how our perceptions of babies’ development changed over time. Do babies understand causality?

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Let us talk about market timing from an institutional investor’s perspective

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Let us do a brief introduction on institutional investment returns.David believes it has three component: Asset Allocation, market timing and security selection

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Let us talk about the culture that OKR lives in. What kind of work culture should we embrace for OKR to maximize its effects?

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Let us do a deep dive on OKR goals

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Let us start a series on OKR (Objective & Key Results). I personally think it is superior compare to the KPI (Key Performance Indicators) system

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How should we get to plasticity after age 25? What are the mechanisms?

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Let us talk about a few factors influencing plasticity

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How can attention help with Neuroplasticity? Let us dive in

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Let us revisit Neuroplasticity as a series. What does NP do when we were between 0-25 years old. What does it do when we are 25 years old and beyond

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Let us finish off the CIO tool kit ,and I will share my biggest surprise reading this book,

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Let us dive into a few of these CIO tool kit, today let us talk about interviewing, conversation with a purpose

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What does it mean to be a capital allocators. How does word’s leading CIOs think about investing and marketing evaluations. Here is an introduction

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Let us do a deep dive in REM sleep.

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What is the characteristic of slow wave sleep and what are the functions of slow wave sleep

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Let us talk about Jetlag. How we can use circadian rhythm to adjust for Jetlag

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Let us dive into a couple studies, talking about career passions

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The Passion Hypothesis is flawed. Here is why

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This is the last episode for the Huberman series we will revisit it later, Today, we are gonna answer some lingering questions

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It is important to get sun exposure in the beginning of the day and end of he day.

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Let us talk about the three forms that drive our sleep cycles

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Let us do a brief introduction to our nervous system

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Let us do a brief introduction on a new BONUS series on this podcast called Huberman Lab

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Let me share some of my take away from the book. How to approach consistent artistic expression

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Is there any original thought left in the world? How should we approach the idea of copying ideas?

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Let us talk about hygiene, what is the differences between “clean” and “hygiene”

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Let us talk about the importance of microbes on our skin

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Let us talk about our skin. Why are we using all the products for cleaning and moisturizing

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Let us finish off our series on the four principles of preserving attention capital. Make sure that even though it might seem convenient to shoot them a message right away, but it bears long term costs as well

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Let us dive into two examples, comparing and contrasting productivity examples for manufacturers and knowledge worker

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Let us talk about the downsides of email (ex: the hyperactive hive mind)

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Let us dive into Carl Newport latest book. Let us discuss the premise of “a world without email.”

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Let us talk about the latest Marks Memo, about positioning for 2021

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Let us finish out AI discussion talking about the parameter of consciousness

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Let us talk about in my view, the biggest problem of AI development

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Let us talk about three possible situations where AI and humans coexists in the future.

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What are the three schools are thoughts on Artificial General Intelligence

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Let us talk about how to think about human progression from a computer scientist perspective. What exactly is life 3.0?

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Let us talk about three goals for sitting meditation

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Let us do a brief introduction into five varieties of zen. From a beginners’ level to a zen master.

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Let’s chat about humor principles, and we will finish off the series with a couple tricks

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Let us talk about the benefits of humor.

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Let us dive in deeper into those four humor styles

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Get your pens and calculators ready, let us find out what humor styles you have

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Let us talk about this humor thing. Is it innate to us? Is humor trainable?

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Let us talk about the brief history of mutual funds

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For this last episode let us chat about the six pagers meeting style at Amazon

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Let us finish our discussion on the recruiting process by Amazon

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Let us map out the recruiting process for Amazon, and to find out what exactly is bar raiser recruiting process

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Let us finish our discussion on Amazon’s annual planning process. Let us also explore how does their planning process relate to their compensation policies,

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Let us present the “pyramid” of Amazon management system

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Let us dive in to a series called Amazon Basics. Today, let us talk about the 14 basic amazon principles

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Let us wrap up out discussion today talks about the three factors in age of sovereignty and how to utilize self control to avoid violence.

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Let us talk about the logic of violence, from an evolutionary perspective.

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Pinker argues that the most important improvement in human history is the decline of violence. What are those inflection points?

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Let us talk about Robert Caro and his practice of interviewing and writing.

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Let us talk about how Ken lead Apple’s keyboard design?

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This is one of my action plans after reading “Think Again”. Is to do more of motivational interviews in real life and for work.

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Let us talk about the three common shortfalls of everyday thinking

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What does Munger think about goals?

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Munger on mental models. I think mental model needs to be reviewed and challenged

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Munger on long term planning

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From the views of Buffett and Munger, what can affect our decision making?

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What is the relationship between sleep and lucid dreaming. How can one fall asleep consciously

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Let us talk about the preparation and training for lucid dreaming.

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What exactly is lucid dreaming? And why we should do it?

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Let us wrap up our conversation on complaining. What are the long term effects of ineffective complaining?

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Let us talk about the functions and motivations of complaining

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How should we complain effectively? What are the roadblocks in terms of complaining?

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Let us talk about complaining

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Let us talk about “minimalism” for your brain

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Let us finish off the last two principles of Stupidity. And how that relates to power

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Let us do a deep dive on the GameStop Sage

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What are the basic laws of stupidity?

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Is it more than a personality trait?

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What does Miyamoto Musashi’s way of the warriors means in modern society?

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Let us talk about a specific examples of Gandhi, and how he dealt with his introvert tendencies

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What are the differences between an introvert and and an extrovert? From genes to brain sciences

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Experienced based spending model. Let us all die with zero!

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Let us complete the full engagement system today with mental and spiritual energy

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What are we missing ? When we talks about time management? The answer is nonlinear energy management

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Is there parallel between Nazi’s race laws to America’s Jim Crow?

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What is humanism according to Pinker

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How should we persevere human progress over time?

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How can we make sure we eat intuitively , and get away from diets

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Let us talk about how value and growth investing differ in terms of valuing the companies

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Let us talk about what can we do better at financial literacy

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What is the definition of a value investor

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How can we perceive life as two mountains. The first mountain reaches personal happiness, the second mountain led us to ego-less joy.

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From the perspective of Behavioral Economics. How should we think about money and purchasing power

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Lisa Randall compares a religious believes and a science believer

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In business, great companies all follow the “hedgehog” principle. What are they?

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From “Good to Great” . What is the difference between ruthless and rigorous culture?

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Let’s talk about opinions, how to be non-aggressive about it. What is the relationship between our ego and our opinions?

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Let’s talk about lonliness

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Let’s briefly explore the eight dharmas in Buddhism

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My friend joined me to talk about electric car, Tesla, and tech

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More on the perspectives of investment and speculation

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What will books be like in the future?

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Kevin Kelly outlines 7 stages of robots/AI replacing human jobs

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What are the differences between caste and class?

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What are the origins of caste in US and in India?

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What is the definition of “Caste”?

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Are you willing to be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big lake?

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What is the practice for content creators and knowledge workers?

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What is environmental alarmism? Why it has been taken too far?

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Who is John Bogle. What is common sense investing?

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Why attitudes and thinking big is important in this day and age

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What are the hidden forces in life that we tend to overlook? Let us start with an example of “Drunk Tank Pink”

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We talked a lot about talent density a while back. What about when the opposite happen?

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What are the secrets for trees!!!

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Keven reads “Half Life of Facts”. What are the limits on knowledge? How can we promote life-long learning?

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How can meditation make us happier? More than 10% happier?

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What impacts can exercise have on the brain?

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What are the hooks that we need to be aware of so that we can avoid jumping into the “emotional hot zone”.

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LET US TALK ABOUT THE LATEST BREAKTHROUGH IN AI!!!!

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What is emotional agility ?

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What are we programmed with in our lives? The fist step to happiness is realizing your attachments

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Another Anthony de Mello’s masterpiece

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Ohhh, the classic topic. What does Ben say differently in this book?

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How to resist the attention economy? What value we put on our attention?

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What are the environmental factors that affect both the brain development and Brain aging?

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Does gifting makes sense in an economic sense?

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Are markets really inert? Is everything for sale?

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What is the preferred diet and lifestyle that can prevent or reverse Alzheimer’s’?

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What is the latest research on preventing and reversing Alzheimer’s disease?

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We first touch on inflation and what would a world be like if we try to paid down our deficit?

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How does the US government regulates deficit? Do they really work?

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From government spending perspective, why is taxation important?

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What are the common misconception we have about deficits. How can we utilize deficit as a tool to improve our lives?

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Peter Thiel is well positioned to talk about the startup cultures. What is major take away from the 2000 dot com bubble?

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In a post-TV world, what is the best way to persuade marketing effects?

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How to find the “remarkable” in the ocean of “ordinary”? How to be the purple cow?

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What does it mean? What are the similarities between Buddhism and modern psychology

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What has it been like working from home for the last seven month? What would the future looks like for US companies and businesses

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I share why I have decided not to try out the carnivore diet?

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Let’s talk about the carnivore diet. Some biological evidence and also evolutionary proofs.

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What is the primary differences between introspection and insight? Why are introspection not helping us explore ourselves?

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What are the three common blindspots that we all should avoid in judging self-awareness

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On the topic of self awareness, I talked about the journal entry I did today “I matter ...”

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What are the ways we can do use to develop self awareness, how we can check if we are on the right path or not?

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Quick introduction to self-awareness, why it is important in business ventures and personal development

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What will it look like when we have national popular vote? How is that going to change our political participations and how we run campaigns?

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What is the best work-around for the electoral college?

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What are some of the leading views on the electoral college?

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From now until the Election Day, we will talk about the electoral college. Today , we start with the origin of electoral college

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How do we efficiently reduce or reverse global warming with drawing down the CO2 from the atmosphere to our ground. Plus a discussion of Netflix’s doc “Kiss The Ground”,

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What does Thomas think might happen to the job market when AI got more powerful?

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What can we take away the most from a rocket scientist’ s mindsets. From problem solving, motivation and applications.

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There are some ways we can utilize narcissistic tendencies. Although there is a big red flag we need to cover thought. Enjoy the show!

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How do narcissistic people behave in a relationship or in leadership position? What are the upsides and downsides?

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What are the criteria for NPD diagnosis? We dive in to them and talk about the case study for Donald Trump

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How should we study narcissism? What parameters should we set in the realm of evaluating people?

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We are the clinical definition for “Narcissim”. What is the difference between a narcissistic personality trait and narcissistic disorder

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Continue this conversation with Marks Memo. What actions have been done by the Fed’s and what are the long term implications

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Deep dive into latest Howard Marks’ memo. What has been the market behavior for the last two month? What does Feds lowering interests rates really mean?

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What are the primary function of taxation? How should we approach tax reform?

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From a political philosophy perspective, how should we put more thoughts into taxes and ownership?

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We wrap up the series with the last two principles for contagiousness . Practical values and stores

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What are the emotional and public factors in promoting “word of mouth” marketing

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What are the essential qualities of triggers. What types of triggers drive “word of mouth” the most

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What is social currency, in what ways we can engineer Social currency to products and ideas. We have a few examples .

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What are the main principles for spreading “word of mouth” marketing?

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What is the fundamental nature of “things gone viral”? How important is word of mouth marketing?

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What is the origin stories of medical s insurance?

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What is the difference between “rich” and “wealthy”? Why our society focus so much on presenting “richness” ?

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What are the importance mindsets that distinguish between “gathering wealth” and “staying wealthy”?

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How do we rethink the field of “finance’. What are some of the better approaches to money?

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Keven explains his October challenge. Why he is switching back from 2.6x speed to 1x speed when listening to podcast and audiobooks

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Keven talks about his challenge in the past month? What does he feel like when only reading paper books for a month?

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What are some of the cultural shortcuts can help us better convincing others?

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What are some of the indexes of culture we can use to tweak our communication styles.

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How do we adjust when we are working with high/low cultural context? What are the best way to manage a multi-national team?

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Keven talks about his latest 150 pages an hour challenge. Did he improve?

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What are the key characteristics of high or low context communication? What are some of the key countries on this cultural scale?

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What is culture map? What are the key differences between cultures are important to know for business or everyday life?

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What is our brain’s default network? What are the benefits of it ?

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What is the benefit of an idle brain?

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What does the keeper’s test mean within Netflix. How does Reed think of this “hot button issue”

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Why Netflix adopted dispersed decision making system. Why CEO is not doing their job right when they are the busiest in the company?

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Netflix is known for their radical transparency, and their feedback system. Here is the break down.

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Why Reed cares so much about talent in his organization. Is this the secret to Netflix’s success?

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What are some of the healthy mindsets toward stress? So we know we are on the right track?

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What is the relationship between a stressful life vs. meaningful life.

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What is actually more harmful? The actual stress ? Or the belief of stress?

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Does the Hot Hand really exists, from an evolutionary biology or behavioral economics perspective?

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In 1606, Shakespeare caught the hot hand. What were the hidden forces and circumstances that lead to his success?

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Does the hot hand really exist? Is there a pattern?

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Dog behaviors are totally ignored by dog owners. How Keven came to a realization with his dog Hank.

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What are the effects of digital reading? What does negative Neuroplasticity mean?

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How does deep reading help us in making sense of the world?

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From neuroscience’s perspective, what happens to our brain when we are trained to read?

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Russell thinks Math should be taught right. How to approach it then?

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What does Russell think is necessary to build a philosopher’ s mindset?

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What counts as “intellectual” training for Russell?

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What does it take to become a philosopher? What does Bertrand Russell think “rational conjecture”is especially important in the quest to become a philosopher

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Keven is going to take on a paper book challenge for the month of September. Does reading paper books results in more comprehension compared to kindle? We will find out.

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In this final episode of the Pixar series. We take a look at Disney’s contract with Pixar. And how important this Pixar journey is to Jobs return to Apple

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What about Pixar’s commercials and short films in the early 1990s. Can they generate revenue or Pixar?

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We dive into Pixar’s software Renderman. What kind of market it had during the early 1990s.

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Pixar’s origin story before the author Lawrence joined as CFO

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From tiger to the developmental path of musicians. What is the best way to figure out the path to success?

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Keven shares whether experience can always translate to skill.

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Keven shares insights from “The Art of Work”. How do we know we are doing what are we supposed to do? What does flow state means in a work setting?

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Keven shares insights from Charles Handy. We can actually categorize “personal time” as work

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Keven shares a new perspective on writing.

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Keven shares what are the most memorable insights from Bob Iger. How Iger led Disney to become a global superpower in media and content making.