Learn To Embrace Discomfort - Michael Easter - #438

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02/21/22

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Michael Easter is a contributing editor at Men's Health magazine, columnist for Outside magazine and Professor at the University of Nevada.

The world is pretty comfortable right now. Between air conditioning, Amazon Prime, Deliveroo, Netflix, Google Maps, soft beds and automatic cars, you can get through big stretches of life without encountering any real discomfort. Michael has spent years researching why discomfort is so important to our health and fulfilment, and how to reintroduce it to your life.

Expect to learn why rites of passage no longer happening in modern life is a huge loss, how Michael survived an entire month in the Alaskan Arctic, how an annual challenge with a 50% chance of failure can change your life, what nosey airport security staff can teach us about human nature, why boredom is good for you, how to overcome trauma and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (01:16) Michael’s Arctic Experience (07:56) Differences Between Elected & Unelected Discomfort (16:29) Problems Expand to Fill the Room Assigned for Them (28:32) Rites of Passage in Cultures (40:14) The Doctor Who Fixed the Patriots (50:10) Curing the Discomfort of Boredom (1:02:55) How to Begin Mastering Discomfort (1:05:32) Where to Find Michael

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How To Overcome Regret - Daniel H. Pink - #437

February 19, 2022

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Daniel Pink is a psychologist, speaker and an author.

Regret is the most common negative emotion humans talk about. It's even the second most common overall emotion which we talk about after love. And yet our relationship with it is pretty terrible. Having no regrets is not only a bad tattoo from the 90's but also a philosophy that robs of us valuable insights from life.

Expect to learn the most common types of regrets people have in life, whether action or inaction is the cause of most suffering, how Daniel suggests we can grow past our regrets, why never looking backward is limiting our growth, how people believe in both free will and things happening for a reason and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:22) Modern Society’s Issue with Regret (06:55) The Opposite of Regret (15:36) Painful Inaction & Moral Regret (25:14) Dealing with Negative Emotions (37:59) Connection Regrets (43:00) Agency (50:40) Value of an Enemy (55:47) Where to Find Daniel

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Positive Evolutionary Psychology - Glenn Geher - #439

February 24, 2022

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71m

Glenn Geher is Professor of Psychology and Founding Director of Evolutionary Studies at the State University of New York and an author.

Ancestral lifestyles are a big trend at the moment. Taking influence from our paleolithic past to inform how we eat, train and move in the modern world. But taking an ancestral approach to our psychological wellbeing is much rarer and this is Glenn's work - what can insights about our past teach us about how to enjoy the present.

Expect to learn why depression and anxiety might actually be useful, why understanding the reason for emotions reduces their power over you, why it's miraculous that the education system has worked at all, why men are twice as likely to die in early adulthood than women, the danger of technology through an evolutionary lens and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (02:51) Evolutionary Psychology vs Positive Psychology (14:56) Risk-taking Men (24:23) Harlow's monkey experiments (28:32) Our Psychologically Unhealthy Society (37:53) Education from an Evolutionary Perspective (43:48) Kindness in Evolution (48:51) What Causes Anxiety & Depression? (56:03) Feelings & Emotions of Our Ancestors (1:04:16) Reinventing the Happy Life (1:11:16) Where to Find Glenn

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