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Reading Awareness by Anthony De Mello had a significant impact on how I see the world and the human experience. In today’s podcast, I dive into one piece of what I learned from it and what I think it means for us. I hope you find it valuable. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a reading of my latest quarterly review. It’s a much abbreviated version compared to previous quarters, which I spend time explaining up front in the episode. I hope you enjoy it and find the thoughts I share to be thought provoking and useful. As always, thanks for listening. Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a reading of my latest Substack post, which you can find at mbest.substack.com/p/preparation. I discuss many of the useful strategies to prepare for higher stakes situations, which I wish we learned when we were in school. I find myself thinking from time to time how much I could have gained from this knowledge had I been exposed to it earlier, which perhaps you will too after l...

Today’s podcast is an ambitious one. I’ve been thinking a lot about God and the impact of religion on our societies. In particular, I’ve been exploring how it influences us implicitly, even for those who are not religious. I dive into this today, and spend some time trying to articulate what religious people mean when they say God in a way that could be understood by those who are not believers. I...

Today’s podcast is a reply to a criticism Gabi had of a recent Substack of mine about rest. She thought I didn’t speak about art and ignored its presence in our lives, which I thought was a very valid criticism. So here we are, talking about her perspective, which stretches into conversations about work, intentionality, religion, The Good Place, striving toward good versus better, social media add...

Today’s podcast goes in a few different directions, while all revolving around one topic. The hero’s journey and the concept of the hero is spoken about so often, but what does it really mean and where does it come from? I share some answers to these questions and more in this episode. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today is my last day in the states after a month here. Coming off a few days with educators following the election result earlier in the week, I had some observations that I wanted to share. I discuss how we react when we are uncertain and upset, including our tendency to dig in and close off instead of open up during these times. I hope you find it insightful, especially during this time. Thanks...

Today’s podcast is a reading of my most recent Substack post, which you can find at mbest.substack.com/p/rest . I share my thoughts on rest, including how I define rest and what high quality rest looks like to me. I hope you find value in what I share here. Thanks for listening (and reading!). As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Love opens us up to so much. It opens us up to some of the best experiences in our emotional lives. It also opens us up to potential pain and hurt. It feels so good to receive love from others, and we often find ourselves giving love in order to receive it back. Today’s podcast is about the value of loving for loving’s sake, even if it exposes us to possible emotional pain as a consequence. But I...

Today’s podcast gets a little vulnerable. I share some details about my journey with humility and self-confidence in the workplace. I share some regrets I have and the realizations I’ve had over the last year. I hope my experience can bring some useful lessons to you. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast comes on the other side of a day’s worth of driving and sitting in the car, which is what I needed after many days of information coming in with few pauses to just sit with it all. Our current world is great at giving us overwhelming amounts of food for thought, and if we don’t give ourselves the space to digest it, the world won’t stop throwing more food down our throats. I hope y...

As my 27th year of life culminated, I experienced a rush of emotions due to some recent life experiences which are translating into some useful looking ahead toward the future. I share a bit about that here, which I hope you find insightful in some way. Thank you for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Returning to Utica and spending a week here has opened my eyes to some important differences between what I am now used to hearing in Rio and what I have frequently heard here. I spend some time reflecting about this, along with the ways in which we are the same, in this episode. I hope you find some value in it. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast articulates my current state after a few busy days without a mindfulness practice. Although 10 minutes seems so short, not having that time to meditate over the past week has clearly taken a toll on me. I describe those effects here and more, which I hope you find useful. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

After a long trip home and a lot of social time, I talk through the experiences I’ve had recently in today’s episode. It has left me with a lot to process, with a lot of points of reconnection. As always, I hope you enjoy it and find some value here. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is notably higher energy, as it gets into a topic I’ve come to really value. Continuity of mind is something so scarce in our current society. There are ubiquitous distractions, both inside and outside of work, for us to manage and combat in order to truly think. And to truly think about something for a period longer than ten minutes, that is a goldmine. I dig into my thoughts on t...

Today’s podcast covers the final leg of our European journey: a weekend stop in Sevilla. I had visited the city six years before, which allowed me to observe how I’ve changed since then. I also got to see how the energy and beauty of the city had been maintained so well, which made sharing it with my wife mean even more. Additionally, I got to see two great friends who I hadn’t seen in many years,...

Today’s podcast takes us to part three of my Europe trip in the southwest corner of the continent . I spent two days at Benfica’s health and performance conference, where I had a few observations about the field of elite sport, along with getting to see a close friend while exploring the city with my wife. It was a great experience in a vastly charming city with great food, which I share more abou...

Today’s podcast takes us to the second destination of my trip. This one was a mix of work and leisure, which left me with a lot of meaningful reflections and learnings. I share some of those learnings here, both on the work side and the personal side. I hope you enjoy it and find some value. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is the beginning of a short series I will do recapping each of the places I visited in Europe while Gabi and I were there for three weeks in August and September. Our first stop was Vienna, Austria, a very new place for both of us. We had a wonderful time there, which I take some time to describe and recount here. I hope you enjoy the episode and find some value. As always, thanks...

After getting back from a few weeks in Europe, I’ve gotten to sit with what happened and what I felt over that time. I traveled amidst some uncertainty related to my health, but was able to make it through the trip without any issues. The gratitude I’ve felt for both of these reasons and more has been immense, so I took some time to register it here. I hope you can relate to what I share here in s...

My 14th quarterly review is now complete, which you can find in its totality at mattbest.net/theplatform/quarter-two-2024 if you are a paid subscriber to The Platform. This quarter brought even more newness than last quarter, going from the high moments of peace and equanimity to low moments of pain crises and emergency surgery. In this ninth and final episode of my quarterly review, I talk about...

My 14th quarterly review is now complete, which you can find in its totality at mattbest.net/theplatform/quarter-two-2024 if you are a paid subscriber to The Platform. This quarter brought even more newness than last quarter, going from the high moments of peace and equanimity to low moments of pain crises and emergency surgery. In this eighth episode of my quarterly review, I talk about topics ra...

My 14th quarterly review is now complete, which you can find in its totality at mattbest.net/theplatform/quarter-two-2024 if you are a paid subscriber to The Platform. This quarter brought even more newness than last quarter, going from the high moments of peace and equanimity to low moments of pain crises and emergency surgery. In this seventh episode of my quarterly review, I talk about topics r...

My 14th quarterly review is now complete, which you can find in its totality at mattbest.net/theplatform/quarter-two-2024 if you are a paid subscriber to The Platform. This quarter brought even more newness than last quarter, going from the high moments of peace and equanimity to low moments of pain crises and emergency surgery. In this sixth episode of my quarterly review, I talk about topics ran...