What You Will Learn

Ryan Holiday joins us on the show to talk about all things books. We've covered five of his books on the podcast before (Perennial Seller, The Obstacle Is The Way, Ego Is The Enemy, Stillness Is The Key, Courage Is Calling) so we were able to dig a little deeper into his writing and his career. Check out more Ryan Holiday here: https://ryanholiday.net/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo...

There is nothing we prize more than courage. But courage is not a precious stone like a diamond that takes a billion years to create, nor oil that must be drawn from deep underground. Courage is something much simpler. It’s renewable. It’s everywhere. It's something that we are capable of at a moment's notice. There are unlimited, even daily opportunities for it everywhere. And yet it remains so r...

Robert Greene is back! Not every day you get to speak to your favourite author. Robert Greene is author of books we've already reviewed on the podcast, including The Laws of Human Nature, Mastery, 48 Laws of Power, 33 Strategies of War (plus we'll do Seduction one day too). His new book, The Daily Laws is like a 'greatest hits' album, giving you a powerful punch for each day of the year. In this e...

The Effective Executive - by Peter Drucker 'The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done'   Written in 1967, the principles in this book still hold strong today. Simple ideas presented in this book can have a substantial impact on your effectiveness, like focusing on results and contribution, managing your time before managing your tasks, and focusing on opportunities rather than pro...

Whether we like it or not, the process of innovation is dictated by random combinations of different concepts. Individuals and teams who often break new ground know this and therefore maximise their chances of finding intersectional ideas. They do it by introducing diversity into their occupations, teams, and encounters. Frans Johansson has named this concept ‘The Medici Effect’ after the Medicis,...

In Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker explains the impact of Enlightenment values – reason, science, and humanism – on the world. These values were instrumental in moving society forward, and Pinker worries that they are under threat. Humans have achieved a whole bunch of cool shit over the ages. Unfortunately, we take it for granted. Progress has a very funny way of erasing its tracks as we move fo...

Humour, Seriously - by Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas Why Humour Is A Superpower At Work And In Life (And How Anyone Can Harness It... Even You) Everyone loves a laugh. We like to watch funny movies, listen to entertaining podcasts, go to comedy festivals to watch stand up or improv. But that's all in our personal lives... surely in our professional lives there's less room for jokes? Surely t...

What an honour to be able to speak with Steven Pressfield. He's the author of three awesome books that we've covered on the podcast previously: The War of Art, Turning Pro, and Do The Work. Plus he's the author of MANY more books, both fiction and non-fiction, and was the screenwriter for a bunch of Hollywood movies. Find more about him and his work at: https://stevenpressfield.com/ Hosted on Acas...

Do The Work - by Steven Pressfield This book (and this podcast episode) is designed to coach you through a project from conception to finished product. Be that a book, a ballet, a new business venture, a philanthropic enterprise, we’re going to see it from the perspective of The Resistance (that evil counterproductive force that Pressfield made famous in his other books that we’ve previously cover...

‘I like to think that if I lost all my money and you dropped me on a random street in any English speaking country, I'd be wealthy again within 5-10 years. Because it's just a skill I've developed and anyone can develop.’ — Naval Ravikant  Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor who has captivated the world with his principles for building wealth and creating long-term ha...

Mo Gawdat is the author of the book Solve For Happy, plus the brand new book Scary Smart.  His first book, Solve For Happy, was all about an engineering applying a logical, mathematical lens to finding happiness. After an enormously successful career at IBM, Microsoft and Google, he looked in the mirror and realised that he wasn’t happy. A personal tragedy led to him looking for an equation f...

Karma is the natural basis of all existence. Karma is about becoming the source of one's own creation. It makes each one of us squarely responsible for our own destinies and above all, the nature of our experience in life. It doesn't allow us to blame our parents, teachers, our countries, our politicians, our gods, or our fates. Are you ready to hear about a dimension that is so empowering that it...

Your Music and People is a philosophy of building recognisable work by being creative, considerate, resourceful and connected. Derived from his experience as a founder of CD Baby, an online distributor of digital music, Derek Sivers shares the guideline to build your career as an artist from a business perspective. Even though the context of Your Music and People mainly focuses on the music indust...

Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of Hint Water. She used to drink 10 cans of diet soda a day, and found herself 45 pounds overweight with terrible acne and no energy. Making one change in her diet - swapping diet soda for flavoured water - she was able to turn her health. Then, after some experiments at her kitchen table, she "accidentally" founded a 9-figure brand. In this episode, we speak abo...

The Drama of the Gifted Child explores how repressed emotions from our childhood can impact our mental wellbeing in the future. We can’t change our past, but we can change ourselves. We can gain our lost integrity by looking more closely at the knowledge inside our bodies and bringing them closer to our awareness. Most people continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, fearing and avo...

Dan Ariely found that not only are we IRRATIONAL (pick the wrong things that don't give us maximum benefit), we're also PREDICTABLY irrational (we make the same mistakes for the same reasons all the time). The Upside of Irrationality looks at how these irrationalities impact us at home and at work.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Success and failures in life are often determined by our ability to manage conflicts. When conflict arises, what is your response? If we aren’t dealing with conflict rationally, it could very well make the situation worse.  When you are forced to fight, you can aim for the ‘Strategic Warrior’ ideal. Consider your long-term goals, and then choose your fights wisely. This is for those who want...

Success and failures in life are often determined by our ability to manage conflicts. When conflict arises, what is your response? If we aren’t dealing with conflict rationally, it could very well make the situation worse.  When you are forced to fight, you can aim for the ‘Strategic Warrior’ ideal. Consider your long-term goals, and then choose your fights wisely. This is for those who want...

Success and failures in life are often determined by our ability to manage conflicts. When conflict arises, what is your response? If we aren’t dealing with conflict rationally, it could very well make the situation worse.  When you are forced to fight, you can aim for the ‘Strategic Warrior’ ideal. Consider your long-term goals, and then choose your fights wisely. This is for those who want...

There are two numbers you need to know about climate change: The first is 51 billion and the second is 0.  51 billion is how many tons of greenhouse gases the world typically adds into the atmosphere every year. Although the figure goes up or down year to year, this is where we are today. Zero, is what we need to aim for. To stop warming and avoid the worst effects of climate change.  It...

Think Again by Adam Grant - The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know This book is an invitation to let go of knowledge and opinions that are no longer serving you well and to anchor your sense of self in flexibility rather than consistency. If you can master the art of rethinking, you'll be better positioned for success at work and happiness in life. Thinking again can help you generate new soluti...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is the self-told story of a middle-aged man and his son, Chris, who go on a motorcycling trip accompanied by an adult couple. The man describes what it is like to hear the wind moving across the plains, to see birds rise up from marshes next to the road, to ride through a ferocious storm, and to breath the fresh air of a mountain above the tree line. ...

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell is about understanding the notion of virality. What exactly triggers the emergence of fashion trends, the ebb and flow of crime waves, or the phenomena of “word of mouth”? Gladwell suggests that the best way to understand any of these is to think of them as epidemics. Ideas, products, messages and behaviours spread just like viruses do. The tipping point is th...

In 1998, when Oprah was doing an interview for the movie Beloved, a film critic from the Chicago Sun Times asked her a question, “Tell me… What do you know for sure?” It was such an expected and powerful question that she was at loss for words. But it prompted Oprah to spend months, years, and decades thinking about the possible answers. “What do I know for sure?” became a central question in her...

We had the honour of speaking with Daniel Kahneman, author of 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' and 'Noise'. Danny Kahneman won with 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for "having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty”. His first book, 'Thinking, Fast And Slow', showed us two modes of thinking: S...