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Today’s episode is the second of a series covering my tenth quarterly review. start by discussing a friend’s tattoo about setting forth, then finish with some points on awe and gratitude. There is much more to come, so I hope you stick around for the coming episodes. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s episode marks the beginning of yet another quarterly review. This is now my tenth, which is cool to look back on. I start by discussing the value of having a clear sense of self to avoid the rat race, then I move to some points on maintaining a childlike capacity for fascination and managing a lack of control in life. There is much more to come, so I hope you stick around for the coming ep...

In today’s episode, I read a portion of a recent email I sent to a colleague in the field of sport science. It contains some big picture reflections on the field, which I think sum up nicely the way that I’m trying to approach this work and where I think we would benefit from going. I hope it’s a thought provoking listen for you. Thanks for tuning in. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

These last few days have been a blatant lesson of the impermanence of our experiences in life. They all come and go, often quicker than we can notice. This podcast is a meditation on that concept, which I hope brings you some useful reflection. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is one that still continues to shake me up and rattle me in my core, although I’ve made really meaningful progress on it over time. I discuss honesty and attempt to embody that honesty of which I speak with a personal story. I hope you find it to be a valuable reflection and that it guides you in some positive way. Thank you for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take ca...

I’m excited about what I’m bringing to you in this episode. It reminds me of some of my best content from 2018 and 2019 in which my reasoning and ideas were very clear and engaging, along with being related to the big questions and implications of self development. I hope you find this episode to be inspiring and meaningful to you. It means so much to me that you listened. As always, Much Love ❤️...

Today’s podcast is about a topic that is incredibly curious to me but to which I have no answers at the moment. Nevertheless, I wanted to share this fascination, as I think it’s really interesting to ponder and consider. I hope you enjoy it and find it to be a meaningful reflection. If you have any insights, I’d love to hear them! Send me an email at matt@mattbest.net. As always, Much Love ❤️ and...

We currently find ourselves in one of, if not the, most unpredictable times in human history. I have spent some time thinking about how education may need to change and where I think we need to go (and where I hope we’re going). I took some time to put my musings on the topic together here, which I hope you find interesting and perceive the interest I have in this topic in my voice. The importance...

Following last episode, I found myself thinking… so what can we do about this? Is there a way around this programming of laziness? As I reflected on this question, I connected some dots in my head and came up with an idea, which I bring to you today. I hope you enjoy it and find it to be valuable and easily applicable. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is the result of some thoughts which have appeared recurrently over the last few months. How does our instinct toward laziness for in with our modern reality? What is the optimal experience of the present for human beings? And how do these things relate? I share my ideas about this here. There is certainly a lot of room for further discussion, but believe this is a good start. Than...

In my first meditation session after returning to Rio following a week in Paris, I observed some strong feelings of shame. It was the first time I experienced something like this in a meditation session in a long time, so I wanted to spend some time talking about it here, as I think it can be quite useful for others to hear. I appreciate you listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a stream of consciousness reflection on my time at the Annual Convening of the European College of Sport Sciences in Paris over the last week. It opened my eyes to a lot of useful realizations, so I wanted to document and share them here. I hope you find some value out of it, too. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

In a spontaneous moment sitting in the Champs Du Mars under the Eiffel Tower, Gabi proposed a great question. What are your top seven wonders of the mind? I quickly thought, “Wow! What a question. We should record a podcast answering it.” So here we are. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

What do we want our final days to look like? What do we want to feel? How do we want to leave this life? These are some of the heaviest questions we can ask ourselves. There is a song that touches on the answers to these questions that I have really come to appreciate. It’s called No Hard Feelings by The Avett Brothers. I speak about the song and share some of the lyrics here. I hope you enjoy it...

Today’s podcast is about a song that I can’t stop coming back to since hearing it for the first time. The lyrics and production are simply masterful. I wanted to honor the craft and beauty of it by dedicating an episode to discuss the song and what I’ve taken away from it. I hope you enjoy and check it out, which you can find here: https://youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI. Thanks for listening. As always, Muc...

Believe it or not, we all think quite differently. Curiously enough, these different ways of thinking can be categorized into some common groups. One is visual thinking and the other is verbal thinking. Although it may seem somewhat obvious, our education systems have not picked up on this very well, leading to some significant divides with big implications. I discuss these ideas here, which I hop...

Last episode, I spent a lot of time talking about the details of my physical exercise routine. Today, I turn it around and focus on the details of the inputs. Specifically, I talk about sleep, hydration, digestion, and diet. I hope you find some value in what I share here. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Following the last general episode, I take a deep dive into my current 4-day exercise routine. It’s tough to get exactly everything into this that should be included, but I did my very best here. I hope you find a lot of value in this that you can use in your own routine or that the fundamentals of the routine are inspiring in some way. Thank you for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please t...

Today’s podcast is a general overview of what I’ve learned building muscle over the last 7 months or so. In November, I really decided to focus on getting strong. I share the reasons why in this episode, along with some general insights for what has worked for me to succeed in this journey so far. I hope you find them to be useful. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care...

Yesterday was Valentine’s Day in Brazil. Gabi and I find ourselves 4 years and 2 days into knowing each other. It’s a really curious moment we’re in. There’s lots to take care of and lots to manage logistically, which has been a bit overwhelming at times. Nevertheless, we squeezed in some time to enjoy and be present in each other’s company. This episode is a reflection on that balance. I hope you...

Today’s podcast is inspired by a text I received from a friend this week about my relationship, along with an experience I had today with my wife. It’s so fascinating to me how many of us easily limit ourselves to having mediocre relationships when we are the only things standing in the way of having a good one. I hope you find it to be a valuable reflection that is useful to you. Thanks for liste...

Thanks to a fantastic conversation with a good friend of mine from Mexico, I present to you a model for a great life. It’s simple, yet challenging. It’s not full of pleasure and amazement, but it is full of meaning, engagement, self-examination, and growth, which are all associated with deeper senses of well-being. I hope you find it to be useful. As always, thanks for listening. Much Love ❤️ and...

Today has brought a really important moment of awareness for me. My mom is was an amazing person to me, and with being so amazing came rewarding my need for attention and care whenever I was down or in pain. I’ve noticed that I’ve substituted this desire for attention from my mom in those moments to now putting it on Gabi, despite having plenty of experience dealing with pain and challenges by mys...

Jack Harlow’s new album “Jackman.” has a song on it that speaks to a really cool theme in the field of motivation. It’s something I’ve spoken about on the podcast before: the value of intrinsic motivation. The way he puts it in the song is really cool and relatable, so I wanted to share a bit about it here with you. I hope you enjoy it! Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take...

I’ve noticed how much easier it is to instinctively react to something with criticism in comparison to instinctively giving positive reinforcement for behaviors in others. This especially applies to people with whom we have more rocky and challenging relationships, along with people with whom we share a lot of intimacy (but less so in that case, in my experience). I share more about this reflectio...