Michael Feldstein is the founder of Jaspr, an air education company featuring the Jaspr air scrubber.

Expect to learn how the air in your home could be affecting your sleep and brain function, the everyday household products that might be making your air worse, why a home that smells clean might be anything but, what most people misunderstand about air purifiers, the simplest ways to improve your air quality for free, and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) How Michael Got Into the Air Quality Business

(07:04) The Hidden Dangers of Poor Air Quality

(09:51) What Bad Air Is Doing to Your Health

(17:35) What’s Really Polluting the Air in Your Home?

(22:11) Where Does Your Indoor Air Actually Come From?

(23:47) Why Air Quality Matters More Than You Think

(31:54) Where Has the Cleanest and Most Polluted Air?

(37:18) Are These Products Damaging Your Air Quality?

(44:36) Are Scented Candles Bad for Your Health?

(46:37) Who Is Most Vulnerable to Air Pollution?

(48:52) How to Improve Your Home’s Air Quality for Free

(50:38) Is AC Actually Doing Anything?

(55:59) The Biggest Warning Signs of Poor Air Quality

(58:57) How to Test the Air Quality in Your Home

(01:03:35) The Science Behind Jaspr Air Scrubbers

(01:10:09) Where Should You Place Your Air Purifier?

(01:16:18) Find Out More About Jaspr

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Dr David Geary is an evolutionary psychologist, cognitive scientist, professor at the University of Missouri, and author.

Expect to learn the disturbing reasons why humans are so intelligent, why men are obsessed with status, money, and power, the biggest differences between male and female competition, why human progress comes at the cost of bloody battles and war, why violence is an inevitability of man, and much more…

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Timestamps:

(00:00) What Makes the Human Mind So Unique?

(08:58) Where Did All the Men Go 7,000 Years Ago?

(16:45) How Evolution Shaped Male and Female Reproductive Competition

(18:47) Is Male Ambition Driven by Reproductive Competition?

(21:11) Why Men and Women Compete Differently

(26:31) Did War Help Build Civilisation?

(29:38) How Civility Keeps Humanity From Chaos

(31:42) Why Humans Evolved to Imagine the Future

(37:40) Does Thinking About the Future Make Us Miserable?

(40:37) What Makes Human Babies So Unusual?

(43:49) The Modern Behaviours Only Evolution Can Explain

(49:05) Why Humans Crave Control

(53:20) Will We Ever Be Satisfied With the Control We Have?

(59:21) Would Modern Success Attributes Make Us Successful in the Past?

(01:06:05) The Most Important Principle for a Better Life

(01:08:21) Where to Find David

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#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠

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Joe Hudson is a coach, entrepreneur and a podcast host.

Expect to learn how important it is to develop the skill of decision-making, why intelligent people often struggle the most with making decisions, how to spot the biggest indicators you are about to make a terrible decision, the things that separate someone who makes decisions quickly from someone who agonises over everything, how to distinguish genuine intuition from fear masquerading as intuition, and much more…

Learn more about Joe and his upcoming course on decision-making: https://s.artofaccomplishment.com/MWdecisions

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Timestamps:

(00:00) How Your Decisions Shape Your Life

(02:27) Can You Train Yourself to Be More Decisive?

(03:34) Why Some People Struggle to Make Decisions

(04:30) Emotion vs Information: What Drives Our Decisions?

(11:03) The Secret to Making Great Decisions

(16:52) How Fear Holds Us Back

(25:43) Why You Should Trust Your Brain’s GPS

(29:27) Is Courage the Key to Better Decisions?

(32:36) The Hidden Trap of Audience Capture

(39:31) Why Your Principles Matter More Than You Think

(44:04) The Emotions That Control Your Decisions

(53:27) How to Make Conscious Choices

(01:03:43) How to Face the Biggest Decision of Your Life

(01:09:44) Why Change Feels So Scary

(01:12:47) What Actually Makes a Decision Bad?

(01:18:16) Is Seeking Reassurance a Form of Self-Abandonment?

(01:20:46) Is Decisiveness Just Confidence in Uncertainty?

(01:24:48) Does Regret Paralyse Our Ability to Make Decisions?

(01:28:30) What Are the Costs of Indecision?

(01:29:47) How to Take Back Control of Your Choices

(01:37:05) How to Distinguish Real Intuition From False Instincts

(01:38:06) Joe’s Recent Retreat

(01:41:50) Where to Find Joe

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#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠

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James Smith is a podcaster, author, personal trainer, and co-founder of the world's greatest clean energy drink, Neutonic.

Expect to learn why solving your problems never leaves you with fewer of them, why more money buys less happiness than you’d expect, how James got arrested at 13 for shooting a stranger, why it's important to gamify your life, and much more…

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Why You’ll Never Have Fewer Problems (5:34) You Can’t Speed-Run Hedonism (8:00) The Danger Of Waiting To Have Kids (12:41) Why You Still Feel Like A Teenager (14:12) Crazy Experiences In Asia (24:25) Manipulative But Loving Dating Advice (30:21) Getting Kicked Out Of School (34:31) When James Shot Someone In The Face (44:36) Mumps, Parties & Dropping Out Of Uni (51:16) Early Outcomes Don’t Predict Your Future (58:28) Why You Can’t Speed-Run Success (1:07:52) Your Worth Is Not About Performance (1:12:37) The 3 Paths For People Who Still Aren’t Happy (1:14:10) Why Life Needs To Be Gamified

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#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠

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Rob Kurzban is a psychologist and an author.

Expect to learn why we should view emotions through the lens of evolution, the hidden reason why humans aren’t filled with existential anxiety at all times, what happens to your brain when you don’t express gratitude often, the secret message depression might be trying to communicate to your subconscious, what the most difficult emotions to explain are, and much more…

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Timestamps:

(00:00) How Evolution Explains Our Emotions

(01:21) Why Do Humans Need Emotions at All?

(03:44) How Emotions Measure and Motivate

(08:09) The Hidden Intelligence of Body Maintenance

(11:17) Why Humans Are So Good at Pooping

(13:24) How the Body Uses Nausea as a Tactical Response

(17:31) The Evolutionary Reason We Fear Small Spaces

(21:21) Why You’re Not Attracted to Your Siblings

(30:59) The Most Surprising Thing About Anxiety

(35:46) How Much Anxiety Is Actually Normal?

(39:37) Why Everyone Feels Overstimulated

(40:44) Can Panic Actually Be Useful?

(42:53) Are Aesthetic Pleasures Different From Sensory Pleasures?

(45:10) Why Humans Love Grooming Each Other

(51:57) Where Does Our Spice Tolerance End?

(55:40) What Is Fun and Excitement?

(58:01) Is Music Just Sexual Signalling?

(01:03:35) How Hunger Can Work Against Us

(01:09:44) Which Emotions Are Uniquely Human?

(01:18:01) Nature vs Culture: Where Do Emotions Come From?

(01:20:22) Why Jealousy Is So Unflattering

(01:26:58) Is Evolutionary Psychology Accurate?

(01:33:54) Is Empathy Really Investment Advice?

(01:37:19) Why Gratitude Is More Powerful Than You Think

(01:49:22) Does Clinical Psychology Actually Work?

(01:50:55) What Depression Does to Your Behaviour

(01:57:06) Contempt vs Resentment: What’s the Difference?

(02:00:13) What Embarrassment Does to Your Body

(02:05:22) Why Do We Feel Shame and Guilt?

(02:09:28) The Personal Relationship to the Mind and Attention

(02:11:45) The Emotions Robert Has Changed His Mind About

(02:14:04) The Hardest Human Emotion to Explain

(02:15:21) Which Emotion Causes the Most Damage Today?

(02:20:57) How to Use Your Emotions to Improve Your Life

(02:27:20) Where to Find Robert

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In this episode, we explore:

• The strange crypto honey traps that people are falling for.
• The rise of South Korea's fake shopping dopamine websites
• How to develop good taste in a world of slop.
• and much more…

Guests

• Jack Butcher is an entrepreneur, designer, and digital artist.
• Shaan Puri is an entrepreneur, former CEO, podcaster and an angel investor.
• George Mack is a writer, marketer and entrepreneur.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Why Britain Is Android and America Is iOS

(02:11) Is Jean Phil an AI Crypto Scam?

(12:32) Can You Really Trust Prediction Markets?

(18:50) What Power Laws Make All Other Laws Irrelevant?

(28:52) Why Competition Only Exists When You Believe You Can Win

(36:46) Are Dopamine Websites Just Shopping Porn?

(39:54) Why TV Shows Have to Keep Repeating the Plot

(41:13) Why Detailed Movie Commentary Is So Popular

(45:34) Could You Win Scrabble in a Language You Don’t Speak?

(48:03) Do All Chickens Come From Just Two Types?

(50:18) Is the Story Behind Art Better Than the Art Itself?

(56:50) The Marketing Genius of Grey Goose

(01:00:35) Can We Define ‘Taste’ and ‘Slop’?

(01:06:36) Can AI Ever Be High Effort?

(01:14:20) Is Everything Porn or a Casino?

(01:20:02) Should Kids Be Allowed to Use Devices?

(01:31:28) Are Brain Gyms on the Horizon?

(01:34:03) Will Stupidity Become a Status Symbol?

(01:36:13) Is the Moderate Left Becoming Less Cringe?

(01:41:44) Are Heaven and Hell Like We Imagine?

(01:47:59) Why Leaving Big Tips Is Worth It

(01:54:09) How AI Can Be More Helpful Than We Think

(02:00:07) The Secret to a Great Product-Market Fit

(02:07:31) Where to Find the Guys

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#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠

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Dr. Martin Seligman is a psychologist, professor at the University of Pennsylvania, pioneer of positive psychology, and author.

Expect to learn why some people experience exactly the same adversity and come out more resilient; which traits matter the most in life: efficacy, optimism, or imagination; what people 2,000 years from now possess psychologically that we don’t possess today; if you can be highly competent but still have very little agency, what actually makes life worth living and much more…

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Has Martin Always Been a Scientific Rebel?

(03:07) Why Martin Chose Mastery and Agency

(09:24) The Epiphany That Changed Martin’s Career

(17:50) Can You Train Your Brain to Be Optimistic?

(27:50) Optimism vs Agency: What’s the Difference?

(29:16) Is Agency the Biggest Predictor of Success?

(32:04) How Our Understanding of Agency Has Evolved

(38:55) How to Inject Agency Into Your Life

(42:22) Is AI the Key to Unlocking Human Creativity?

(54:41) Does Our Environment Shape Our Understanding of Agency?

(57:08) Were Humans Conscious 3000 Years Ago?

(01:02:04) Why Agency Is Double-Edged

(01:04:39) Are Optimists More Successful?

(01:13:48) What Actually Makes a Good Life?

(01:15:04) Martin’s Most Underrated Work

(01:18:48) Why Being Boring Is a Choice

(01:19:34) Where to Find Martin

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Episodes You Might Enjoy:

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#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠

#700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: ⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠

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Daniel Cox is a researcher, pollster and Director of the Survey Center on American Life.

Expect to learn why men and women understand each other less than they used to, why young women feel less safe despite so much progress, what parents should do differently if they want their children to eventually have successful relationships, what young men incorrectly believe about women because of the internet, why political compatibility became romantic compatibility and much more…

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Do Men and Women Understand Each Other?

(05:53) What the Man vs Bear Debate Really Revealed

(08:48) Why Do Women Feel So Unsafe?

(14:23) Does the Internet Bring Out the Worst in Us?

(17:45) What Men Get Wrong About Women

(27:07) How Financial Independence Changed Relationships

(30:38) Are Smaller Families Making Us Less Community-Minded?

(42:07) Is AI Making Us More Antisocial?

(46:35) Why Are More People Staying Single?

(56:30) Why Men and Women See Cheating Differently

(01:05:03) Is Modern Education Failing Boys?

(01:12:26) What Are Young Men Supposed to Aspire To?

(01:15:54) Is Monk Mode Helping or Hurting Men?

(01:22:12) How Loneliness Differs Between Men and Women

(01:26:34) Are Women Better at Emotional Support?

(01:32:35) How Politics Is Driving Men and Women Apart

(01:46:37) Can We Reverse the Rise of Uncoupling?

(01:53:51) Where to Find Daniel

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#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠

#700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: ⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠

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The Fat Electrician (aka Nic Palmer) is a military veteran, comedian and YouTuber.

Expect to learn why we don’t promote war heroes anymore and what most heroes have in common, behind the stories of Logan Westin, Pappy Gun, and other not well-known heroes of past wars, what the most hardcore animals in military history were, whether it is possible to have war heroes anymore, and much more…

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Timestamps:

(00:00) What Does the Fat Electrician Actually Do?

(01:50) Where Have America’s War Heroes Gone?

(09:46) What Do History’s Greatest Heroes Have in Common?

(13:57) The Forgotten Heroism of Logan Weston

(33:49) How Logan Weston Became a Green Beret

(37:07) Does Modern Warfare Have Room for Heroes?

(41:39) Why Did WWII Veterans Stay Silent?

(53:12) The Rebellious Pappy Gunn

(01:07:52) Why WWII Heroes Were Built Different

(01:10:48) Why Britain Refuses to Embrace Air Conditioning

(01:18:20) Britain’s Craziest Military Inventions

(01:22:48) Did the Allies Try to Feminise Hitler?

(01:28:06) The Most Hardcore Animals Ever Used in Warfare

(01:39:12) Why the Battle of Trenton Changed America

(01:44:25) What Everyone Gets Wrong About Bravery

(01:47:42) Why America Really Wants Greenland

(01:51:32) The Forgotten Jobs That Win Wars

(01:55:55) The Incredible Story of Sniper Ed Eaton

(02:11:32) Is It Intimidating to Cover Someone Who’s Still Alive?

(02:18:42) Why the Fat Electrician Is Writing Kids’ Books

(02:26:38) The Journey Behind Neutonic

(02:34:49) The Genius of Lunchables

(02:46:43) Where to Find the Fat Electrician

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Episodes You Might Enjoy:

#577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: ⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠

#712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠

#700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: ⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠

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David Deutsch is a British physicist, a pioneering researcher in quantum computation, and author.

Expect to learn how David has changed his views on the limits of human potential in recent years, why people should have an optimistic view of the world, which current problem most people are unnecessarily pessimistic about right now, what the largest issues are in modern education, why AGI will not pose a great threat to humans, what makes for a good life and much more…

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Timestamps:

(00:00) How Is Knowledge Created?

(04:19) Do We Misunderstand Being Wrong?

(10:01) Why We Should Never Aspire to Be Certain

(21:29) Will We Ever Solve the Fermi Paradox?

(23:53) Is Optimism the Most Rational Worldview?

(28:41) Why Does Pessimism Masquerade as Sophistication?

(31:42) Should We Be Afraid of AI?

(37:27) Why LLMs Can’t Take Over the World

(44:08) What Is Creativity?

(48:05) Is Our Education System Built on a Mistake?

(53:35) How Should We Reinvent Education?

(55:27) Can Too Much Discipline Hold You Back?

(01:03:24) The Philosophy Behind a Good Life

(01:09:16) What Is David Working On?

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Shaan Puri is an entrepreneur, former CEO, podcaster, and angel investor.

Expect to learn why the economy is basically run on insecure people, why it's better to ask for forgiveness rather than permission, what’s holding most young people back from achieving more, why you should follow your obsessions, the importance of leaving your hometown at some point in your life, why greatness is the most overrated trait we tend to admire, and much more…

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Timestamps:
(00:00) How the Economy Targets Vulnerability

(05:42) Why You Should Adopt the ABZ Method

(12:06) Is Asking for Advice Just Asking for Permission?

(20:26) The Battle Between Courage and Fear

(24:17) Is Your Environment Holding You Back?

(33:15) Why You Should Listen to Your Obsessions

(42:21) Don’t Keep Your “Iron John” in the Cage

(55:51) How to Go From Good Boy to Great King

(59:21) Why Finding Success Creates More Work

(01:12:26) The Hidden Cost of Greatness

(01:24:25) The Ultimate Test of a Successful Relationship

(01:36:49) What’s Next for Shaan?

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