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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...

Today’s podcast is a bit of a tour of the mind. We start with how we don’t choose our thoughts, then get into how we can start to choose what goes into our minds to form our thoughts, and then finish with whether we’re even making those choices in the first place when we do. It’s a fun journey that I hope you enjoy taking with me. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Gabi returns to discuss all the things we’re currently working through together. We talk about the residency process in Brazil, the many twists and turns involved in buying and/or renting, and much more. It hasn’t been easy, but we’re working together and we’re making progress. I hope you enjoy this look into some of the details we’re managing. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and ple...

This is one of the realest podcasts I’ve recorded in a while… perhaps ever. This evening wasn’t the best, and it led me to a lot of meaningfully reflections about myself. Who I am, how I show up, how I am influenced by my social environment, how I struggle to transcend, how easily I am irritated and thrown off by some things… it’s a lot to cover, but I do my best to share it all and make sense of...

This weekend, I spent Mother’s Day here in Brazil with some of Gabi’s mom’s family. One of those people was her aunt Niza, who is a tremendously special person. I really appreciate the way she shows up in the world and who she is, so I wanted to make some space to talk about her here on the podcast. Despite my coughing, I hope you enjoy this one and resonate with the message. Thanks for listening....

Last Monday, I was out for a run and ended up crossing paths with another runner who was going in the same direction I was at around the same pace. As I passed, I congratulated him on his good pace. He thanked me and we kept going. As we continued at around the same speed, I turned to him and started making conversation about running. We ended up running together for about an hour, sharing convers...

Today’s podcast is the seventh and final episode in a series of readings of the newest article on my blog (mattbest.net/theplatform/quarter-one-2023), which is my reflection on the first quarter of 2023. I speak about the value of getting out of your physical bubble every once in a while to some ruminations on ChatGPT. I hope you find it to be a valuable set of learnings and that the series was en...

Today’s podcast is the sixth in a series of readings of the newest article on my blog (mattbest.net/theplatform/quarter-one-2023), which is my reflection on the first quarter of 2023. In this episode, I speak about the need to beware the fantasization of people and experiences to my hesitation with speaking to strangers. I hope you find it to be a valuable set of learnings and tune in for the fina...

Today’s podcast is the fifth in a series of readings of the newest article on my blog (mattbest.net/theplatform/quarter-one-2023), which is my reflection on the first quarter of 2023. In this episode, I speak about making decisions based on values instead of social expectations to the value of having a deep belief in the best version of yourself. I hope you find it to be a valuable set of learning...