A Psychologist's Tips To Find Meaning - Dr Clay Routledge - #366

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09/02/21

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Dr Clay Routledge is a Professor of Management at North Dakota State University and an author.

How to find meaning in life is a question that's been grappled with for thousands of years. As an Existential Psychologist, Clay uses modern methods to answer these ancient questions and provides an awesome overview of our current understanding of what meaning is, why it's important and how to attain it.

Expect to learn why nature would design a creature that requires meaning to feel fulfilled, the most robust ways to add meaning to your life, why religion might have answered a lot of the questions we're now asking, Clay's views on the importance of nostalgia and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:38) Existential Psychology (04:47) What is Meaning? (17:43) The Importance of Purpose (28:48) Predictors of Meaning (36:17) Is There Meaning in Isolation? (42:30) Guaranteed Ways to Add Meaning (52:31) Insufficiency of Empiricism (59:35) Are Humans Inherently Spiritual? (1:13:36) Where to Find Dr Clay Routledge

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How To Properly Manage Your Time - Oliver Burkeman - #365

August 30, 2021

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Oliver Burkeman is a journalist and an author.

Time is something we all wish we had more of and tons of productivity gurus have proposed strategies to stop it from slipping through our fingers. After years of investigating and reporting on cutting-edge productivity for The Guardian, Oliver has arrived at a slightly different worldview of time and how we should manage it.

Expect to learn why becoming more efficient often just leads to you getting more useless work done, the fundamental problems which all time management strategies fail to address, how deciding what you're going to fail at is a superpower, the danger of seeing your leisure time as an arena for self-improvement and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:29) Unique Challenges of Time (09:34) The Dangers of Over-productivity (19:24) Solving the Efficiency Trap (26:18) What to Say ‘No’ To (38:07) Letting Go of To-Do List Anxiety (46:39) Forsaking Present for Future (56:03) Productivity as Denial of Mortality (1:01:33) Seeing Life as a Gift

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September 4, 2021

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Dr. Dan Engle is an MD, the Founder and Medical Director of Kuya Institute for Transformational Medicine and an author.

For the last 50 years, MDMA has been illegal whilst psychological trauma and depression has mostly been treated by trying to negate their symptoms through medication. After decades of research and lobbying, we are finally on the verge of being able to treat the root causes of psychological pain, by using the very same drug which has been around since 1912.

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