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Our ten most popular episodes of 2021
.... and one lesson I learned from each
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"Most of the disorder and dysfunction in the world is caused by a lack of impulse control." – Andrew Huberman
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Naval Ravikant (
@naval
) goes deep on:
• reading
• happiness
• decision making
• habits and identity
• mental models
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"I create rules that the best version of myself wants, and then I just follow the rules."
Some rules we've heard others use:
– I only drink on weekends
– I only have dessert on bank holidays
– I go to the gym every day
– I read for an hour before bed
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An emotional outburst can ruin your reputation or relationship with someone in seconds.
The cause of those outbursts is failed emotional regulation: you're feeling something and don't know what to do with those emotions, so you explode.
Here's a better way:
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All episodes of The Knowledge Project organized by main theme.
• Business/Leadership
• Decision Making
• Health
• Investing
• Learning/Thinking
• Parenting
• Relationships
Including my personal favorites.
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This episode on semi conductors goes deep on:
* Why TSMC dominates
* Why China can't just steal the tech
* Why USA dominates design and inputs and
* Why Taiwan is so important
We guarantee you'll learn a ton.
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One of the first things Frank Slootman does when getting involved in a new company is locate cultural issues. He likes to know what's working and what's broken.
One of the biggest identifiers is bad behavior because it's a choice, not a skill set.
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The skills needed to get rich are drastically different from those needed to stay rich. Few understand this phenomenon more than Morgan Housel (
@morganhousel
).
In this episode, we discuss money, happiness, personal finance, reading, writing, and more.
Listen and learn.
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A lot of people struggle with this.
Here are three great lines to say to someone who is venting or explaining a problem to you.
These lines will open up the conversation and make the other person feel validated, seen, and heard.
Instead of offering solutions, say this:
Took me a long time to realize solutions aren't always what people want. Sometimes they just want someone to empathize with them.
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Morgan Housel (
@morganhousel
) goes deep on:
• The method Morgan uses to keep biases in check
• When to change your mind
• The process to generate fresh ideas even when he feels like he’s exhausted them all
• The critical way to filter information
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Patterns of Successful Decision Makers
"Make reversible decisions quickly and irreversible ones deliberately, and I still return to that on a weekly basis. If it’s a reversible decision we’ll probably learn a lot more by doing it."
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David Segal's recipe for beating depression: stick to your habits and do the hard things even when you don't feel like doing them.
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Last year
@TKPPodcast
was at 10.2 million downloads at the end of October.
One year later 19.5 million downloads. This month we will cross 20 million.
Thank you for your support.
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My conversation with Daniel Kahneman.
We go deep on:
* Cognitive biases
* Rules to improve decision making
* What really makes us happy
Listen and Learn
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Chamath Palihapitiya (
@chamath
) like you've never seen him before.
We go deep on:
• Freedom vs. Happiness
• Attaining Financial Freedom
• Bitcoin
• Capital Allocation
• Best public Co. CEOs
• Observing Reality
Now with timestamps.
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Naval's advice to his younger self: "Do everything you're going to do, but with less emotion, and especially less anger."
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Common question: “Why are your episodes so long? Can’t you cut them to 20m?”
Answer: “We could. But if you have an amazing guest talking about a timeless idea in detail and nuance, why would you want to.”
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Three powerful questions you can ask your kids about video games:
1. What does it take to be good at this game?
2. What have you gotten better at?
3. What's the hardest thing you've accomplished?
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Depending on who you ask, the "traditional" diet and health advice might be wrong.
Sunscreen?
Organic food?
Grass-fed beef?
What's the right answer, and what should you put in your body to feel your best?
That's what Dr. Rhonda Patrick reveals on today's episode. Listen now.
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Matt Mullenweg
@photomatt
Be present.
"You can live with someone every day and not develop your relationship, and you can see someone a few times a year and develop an incredibly deep relationship."
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Building a billion-dollar company once is impressive. Doing it twice is crazy. Doing it five times is insane.
At some point, you have to ask...what's the secret?
In this conversation with Brad Jacobs, we did just that—and he revealed them all.
Listen and learn now.
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Shreyas Doshi (
@shreyas
) has worked as a product manager at Stripe, Twitter, Yahoo, and Google.
Today, he's on the show to discuss the secrets of building great teams and better products.
We talk about the levels of product, Stripe, learning, writing, success, and more.
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If you want less drama, misunderstandings, and confusion in your life...make clear agreements and keep them.
You can listen to more of this idea on our latest podcast episode with Jim Dethmer.
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Adam Grant
@AdamMGrant
If you want to voice your opinion, you should be willing to change your opinion.
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"People can take hard feedback from people that they know are in their corner." – Dr. Julie Gurner
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Jim Collins
@level5leaders
Transactions might make you rich but only relationships will make you wealthy.
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This is what a podcast conversation should be.
We go deep on:
* Where creativity comes from
* Direct and associative memory
* Using rules to make decisions
* Positioning over predicting
You're going to love it.
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A special episode that looks back on some of the best conversations of the year.
Featuring
@KatColeATL
@chrisbosh
@AdamMGrant
@avantgame
@ThisIsSethsBlog
@angeladuckw
@Dr_ThomasZ
Jim Collins and more.
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"We need to stop rewarding good outcomes with bad processes, because thats just luck."
– Adam Grant
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A deep truth from Jack Kornfield (156) on the impact of tone in a conversation. As the adage does, "It's not what you say, it's how you say it."
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Some practical insights:
1. Don't over-focus on emotions — Kids get sad, they get mad, they get angry. These are all normal things.
2. Give your child independence and put them in community. Let them get groceries on their own or have them book their own appointments.
Over the last decade, therapy has become the default solution to solving every problem for kids.
Parents getting divorced? See a therapist.
Lose a loved one? See a therapist.
Middle school crush dump you? Therapist.
Someone said something mean? Therapist.
But instead of
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“You have to cut out all of the distractions or the process won’t work.”
In this fascinating interview, Robert Greene discusses the 48 laws of power, mastery, seduction, and the laws of human nature.
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Blake Eastman is a psychologist and expert at reading other people's non-verbal cues. In this episode, he teaches you exactly what he knows (and explains how it can go terribly wrong...)
'The Non-Verbal Expert: These Behaviors Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Someone'
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The most in-depth interview that
@BillAckman
has ever done.
We go deep on:
• Overcoming failure
• The biggest trade of all time (100x in 2 weeks)
• Lessons learned from others
• His sleep, exercise, and nutrition habits
• Dealing with haters
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The Psychology of Advertising with
@rorysutherland
We go deep on:
• how to persuade
• airport security
• how to master storytelling
• what London doorman can teach you about business
• how to mess with self-driving cars
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A conversation about money, wealth, personal finances, risk, and happiness with Morgan Housel comes out on May 28.
Members have access to the ads-free version and exclusive, hand-edited transcripts now.
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Psychologist and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman reveals the actions we can take to overcome the biases that cripple our decision-making, damper our thinking, and limit our effectiveness. Listen and Learn from the master.
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"Ego is about who is right. Truth is about what's right."
– Mike Maples Jr.
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"We need to stop rewarding good outcomes with bad processes, because that's just luck."
– Adam Grant
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Don't believe the imaginary rules you learned growing up. Rarely are they true.
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Josh Kaufman
@joshkaufman
One secret to getting better at almost anything is to make the invisible visible.
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Todd Simkin
@toddsimkin
Create automatic rules for your best self that put you on the path to success.
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The language you use creates a story in your head. That story shapes your experience.
What you see and how you interpret the world are all rooted in the stories and language you tell yourself. Those stories can either help strengthen your relationship, or help dismiss it.
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Amazing conversation with
@WalterIsaacson
We go deep on:
* The curious obsessions of Steve Jobs
* How to develop a beautiful mind
* Intellectual honesty
* Avoiding complacency
Listen and Learn
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Sendhil Mullainathan
@m_sendhil
Money visible. Time is not. You need to make time visible to make better decisions.
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@elonmusk
This conversation with Daniel Kahneman on cognitive biases and even better thinking is worth listening to.
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The Interview with
@pmarca
is out!
We cover a ton of new ground with him, including:
• Power structures
• The art of solving unsolvable problems
• Learning history to see the future
• The one book he re-reads over and over again
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Increase your ability to focus with this simple exercise via Andrew Huberman (133).
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"Happiness is a default state." – Naval Ravikant
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New Podcast with
@RyanHoliday
We go deep on:
• Reading to gain insights you can use
• The power of journaling and self-reflection
• The four virtues of Stoicism
• Calming your mind
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We go deep with
@WalterIsaacson
on:
• Hidden insights from Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, Ben Franklin, and Jennifer Doudna
• Cultivating curiosity to see things others miss
• How he writes and why he prints everything on paper
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If you want to be a good leader, start by taking care of your people and not your career.
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"How successful you are is really a function of how you deal with failure."
– Bill Ackman
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Anyone can give you the tools to become great, but no one can give you the mindset.
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Don't compete with other people. Be so unique that you have no competitors.
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"Our brain is basically layers and layers of processing that throw out most of it and map it to a sort of toy
universe inside our head."
@vgr
on TKP
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"Failure is the playground of success."
This is the story about how the "winningest" coach in college sports led his team to victory despite fears, challenges, upsets, and diversity of opinion.
Search "The Knowledge Project" on YouTube or your favorite podcast player to listen.
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What's healthier: wild-caught or farm-raised salmon?
Dr. Rhonda Patrick (
@foundmyfitness
) explains the difference in Omega-3 content and other nutrients and why you might want to avoid one over the other when possible:
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Barbara Oakley, the creator of Learning to Learn, an online course with millions of enrolled students, shares the science of learning quickly, overcoming procrastination, and getting better at practically anything.
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It’s not what you get from a relationship but what you give to it that matters.
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The Art of Changing Minds with
@juliagalef
We go deep on:
• Filtering the information tsunami
• The role intuition plays in our decision-making process
• The two-step process to changing minds
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Instilling high standards in your team through fear or intimidation is a recipe for disaster.
Instead, you want to inspire people. You want to make them feel as if you, their boss or leader, sees greatness in them and that it's your job to help bring that out of them.
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Brad Jacobs' classical music training taught him an invaluable business lesson: how to improvise.
Here's why that's important—and why refusing to improvise is "a bad way of thinking."
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What makes a visionary CEO?
"An 'A' CEO is an executive who sees change coming, six, nine, 12 months ahead of everybody else and has the ability to change course in the face of opposition from everybody else who is happy with the status quo."
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A recipe guaranteed to cause misery: making your happiness and value as a human being dependent on what you do (or don't) achieve.
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Your focus becomes your future. If you water anger, anger will grow. If you water joy, joy will become abundant.
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Today on the podcast, acclaimed executive Frank Slootman unpacks how he operates a large company and what metrics and behaviors he focuses on (and ignores) for his employees to become top performers.
Listen here:
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Atul Gawande
@Atul_Gawande
: Perpetual Progress
"Even if we were to come to a complete understanding of all the laws of the universe, we won’t be able to understand all of the interconnections and all of the particularities and how they all interconnect."
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Our conversation with Neil Pasricha is available now.
Listen now to learn
• How simple acts of gratitude can change how you feel
• Routines to defeat anxiety
• Routine for effective productivity
And so much more.
🔗
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A great mark of maturity and integrity is whether or not you can learn from those who think differently than you.
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“If you’re worried about the future of work and not sure what to do to get ready for it, you could do a lot worse than to play some challenging video games.”
The full episode with
@avantgame
is full of counter-intuitive wisdom. Listen here:
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"We need to stop rewarding good outcomes with bad processes, because that's just luck." – Adam Grant
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If you work on everything, you'll work on nothing. "We have to choose. Not choosing is the worst thing you can do because now you're compromising everything."
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My conversation with
@Sanjay__Bakshi
We go deep on:
• The value of an anti-library
• A multi-disciplinary approach to learning
• A trick to keep an open mind
• How to filter information
• The most valuable mental models in investing
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"The social benefits of going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained." – Shane Parrish
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My conversation with Jim Collins.
We go deep on:
* The two ways to live your life
* Creating a personal board of directors
* Dealing with ambiguity
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Chamath Palihapitiya
@chamath
sits down with
@ShaneAParrish
to chat about observing the present, thinking in first principles, successful investing, the best public company CEO’s and so much more.
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You know people don’t listen to the show when they leave reviews like this. 😂🤦♂️
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Embrace reality and let it challenge you to be the best version of yourself.
Learn more on our latest episode with Ravi Gupta.
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"Outside of losing life and losing love there is nothing worse than losing trust." – Kat Cole 117
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"Feedback is a gift, but most people don't know how to unwrap it."
– Angela Duckworth
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If you don't have a deadline, it's just a dream.
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Warren Buffett said: “The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard."
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David Segal (
@tea_maverick
) got into the tea business because of Warren Buffett. "Tea is a Buffett business," he told himself.
Throughout the years, he's studied more and more of Buffett's philosophy on life and business and is struck most by two things:
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"The tools and means to learn are infinite, it's the desire to learn that's scarce."
– Naval
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"Outside of losing life and losing love there is nothing worse than losing trust."
– Kat Cole
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Those you spend time around influence what you desire.
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