How To Take Charge Of Your Life's Direction - Tim Urban - #558

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11/28/22

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Tim Urban is one of the internet's most popular writers and the founder of Wait But Why.

When we look to our past, many of us believe that we could have behaved differently, perhaps that we should have behaved differently. Yet when we look to the future we believe that our path is locked in and genuine change is difficult, this couldn't be more backward and Tim explains it in a number of obvious, face-palm-inducing ways.

Expect to learn what Tim thinks about Elon's takeover of Twitter, why leisure time when you're not supposed to be having leisure time is a curse, why you should absolutely not marry the wrong person, Tim's best advice for dealing with procrastination, how he copes with criticism from strangers and peers, how to avoid dwelling on decisions you didn't make and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:19) How Sword-fights Are Legal in Texas (05:11) Life is Too Short to Waste Time (12:44) Mistaking the Comfortable for the Enjoyable (17:49) How to Not Dwell on Painful Regrets (25:24) Elon Musk’s Takeover of Twitter (35:37) Maintaining Motivation in a Big Project (47:14) The Struggle to Choose a Partner (53:00) How to Deal with Criticism (1:01:55) Where to Find Tim

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How Billionaires Are Preparing For Doomsday - Douglas Rushkoff - #557

November 26, 2022

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62m

Douglas Rushkoff is a media theorist, futurist, writer and documentarian.

The world's richest people are preparing for the end. They're buying up farming land and below-ground bunkers in New Zealand. What catastrophe is it that they think is about to happen? And what happens if technology creates a techno-hell instead of a techno-utopia?

Expect to learn what happens when you're invited to brief billionaires on the future downfall of the earth, whether having your own sovereign nation at sea is a realistic idea, whether it's possible to live in an underground missile silo with an indoor infinity pool, what mindset is driving this techno-paranoia and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:56) How Billionaires Are Preparing Now for Doomsday (08:26) What Introduced Douglas to this Subject? (16:31) The Possibilities of Seasteading (26:33) Society’s Knee-jerk Reaction of Totalitarianism (31:46) The Parts of Preparation that Billionaires Struggle with (37:59) Desire for a Better, More Enjoyable Future (51:28) How Individuals & Society Can Improve (1:01:07) Where to Find Douglas

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What Use Is The Female Orgasm? - David Puts - #559

December 1, 2022

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78m

David Puts is a Professor of Anthropology at Penn State whose research focuses on the evolution and development of human sexuality and sex differences.

Apparently women orgasm. Why they do it however, has been a mystery for a long time. They don't need to in order to get pregnant. And sometimes they don't do it at all, for ages. So what use is the female orgasm, and what predicts the sort of partner who'll make it happen?

Expect to learn if the female orgasm is just a gatekeeper for oxytocin, whether more dominant male faces predicted earlier orgasm, why men competed for women through contests rather than sexual selection, how male-male aggression, not female selection drove the evolved differences between men and women, whether you can tell a person's personality from their voice pitch and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:46) Why Does the Female Orgasm Exist? (07:26) The Purpose of Released Hormones after Sex (16:53) Is Too Much Dominance Bad? (22:19) How Sexual Selection Occurs in Humans (28:36) Unique Traits of Male Development (37:55) Are Male Traits Only Developed for Survival? (43:28) How Does Male-Male Aggression Attract Females? (54:47) Is there a Difference Between Male & Female Mental Capabilities? (1:04:26) Telling Someone’s Personality From Their Voice (1:18:06) Where to Find David

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