How Elite Performers Build Toughness - Steve Magness - #517

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08/25/22

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Steve Magness is a world-renowned expert on performance, an author and a consultant on mental skills development for professional sports teams.

All elite performers have the rage to master their chosen pursuit. But the difference between the ones who continue to succeed and those who fall away is their toughness and durability. Thankfully, Steve has spent his career deconstructing the mental habits of the world's best athletes and executives.

Expect to learn how to accept your achievements without believing your limitations, why Steve blew the whistle on Nike Oregon Project's unethical practises, why your emotions are messengers not masters, how obsession can be both a tragedy and a gift, the difference between responding and reacting to difficulties and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (01:56) The Nike Whistleblower (11:33) Becoming Elite at a Young Age (19:23) How Advantageous Is Obsession? (28:43) Self-Awareness of Elite Performers (35:39) Fascinating Studies in Steve’s Book (49:21) The Importance of Picking One Thing (1:01:02) Where to Find Steve

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16 Surprising Psychology Truths - Gurwinder Bhogal - #516

August 22, 2022

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107m

Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.

Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written yet another megathread exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media. It's one of the best things I've read this year, so I just had to bring him on.

Expect to learn how bad things can sometimes feel better than good things, why people die on the hill of opinions they've only just begun believing, why intelligence plus ideology is a nightmare, how comedy can be a troll's last line of defence, the biggest lesson I learned from Joe Rogan, why regret minimisation should be a priority, why authoritarians lose sight of rationality and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (01:20) Bespoke Bullshit (06:35) Ideology Makes Wise People Stupid (10:46) The Fading Affect Bias (16:58) Naval’s Razor (21:42) Poe’s Law (26:48) Chris’s Biggest Insight from Joe Rogan (33:54) The Nova Effect & Modern Complacency (53:16) Apatheia (1:04:23) Regret Minimisation (1:12:36) Howard Hughes Syndrome (1:22:33) Deferred Happiness Syndrome (1:27:37) Does Beauty Cause Prejudices? (1:35:43) Alder’s Razor (1:45:56) Where to Find Gurwinder

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What Will Alien Life Look Like? - Lee Cronin - #518

August 27, 2022

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54m

Lee Cronin is the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, Head of the Cronin Group Lab and CEO of Chemify.

The job of deciding what life is, how it originates and the different forms it could take might sound like a task for UFO theorists but it's actually in the realm of chemists like Lee. This means that some of the biggest questions humanity has rest on his lab's shoulders.

Expect to learn why Lee believes that there is life everywhere in the universe, his theory on the origin of life here on earth, why we haven't seen any aliens yet, whether Robin Hanson's Great Filter hypothesis is true, what common traits all types of life will have, the most exotic types of life forms Lee has imagined and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:53) The Universe’s Memory (04:31) Transitioning to Being Alive (12:52) Defining Life (20:52) The Energy of the Universe (28:45) Where did Life Originate? (35:20) Other Forms of Exotic Life (40:37) The Great Filter Hypothesis (49:38) Do Viruses Exist on Other Planets? (53:43) Where to Find Lee

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The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠

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