Wear Sunscreen - Baz Luhrmann

“In life you have a choice: Bitter or Better? Choose better, forget bitter.” 

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." 

In this episode, we discuss how, if there is such a thing as the life that you are "meant to live," how we would go about discovering and living that life. 

Over the past century, the average human lifespan has doubled. That astonishing statistic is the subject of a new book and PBS series by acclaimed science writer Steven Johnson called “Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer.” In this episode, he tells Rufus about the renega ...  Show more

Get the commercial-free Daily Boost now! Over the years, I’ve learned that success in any area of life is more about failure than winning. Getting what is essential to you in life is always on the other side of the lessons taught by failing. That’s why I like to fail often and d ...  Show more

Guest Oliver Burkeman states in his new book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, that “outrageous brevity is life’s defining problem.” At age 80, you’ll have had a paltry 4,000 weeks. Such brevity is breathtaking, so we create defenses against the reali ...