Are You a Recovering Intellectual?

How much control do you have over how you feel in any given moment? This week, Michael shares how his answer to that question has evolved over the years and how much more freedom it's possible to experience around your emotions. In this episode: How a conversation about moods cam ...  Show more

What if there was a simple move you could make anytime you want to move in the direction of your dreams? Listen in as Michael shares lessons learned from one of his all time favorite books! In this episode: The book Michael loved enough to buy the publishing rights to Why the fir ...  Show more

Why do smart people fall for dumb ideas? In this episode, Ryan explains how ego and overconfidence can trip up even the smartest minds and how Stoicism can help you avoid the same trap.📖 Preorder the final book in Ryan Holiday's The Stoic Virtues Series: "Wisdom Takes Work": htt ...  Show more

From the time we are schoolchildren, we are ranked and sorted based on how smart we are. But what if our assumptions about intelligence limit our potential? This week, psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman proposes a more expansive notion of what it means to be "smart."

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Would you kill one person to save the lives of five others? Why do you find yourself on the horns of a dilemma when someone offers you a chocolate cake? How can you believe different things at once? Find out what's running under the hood in this first episode of a three-parter ab ...  Show more