Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Self-Improvement and Behavior Change (with James Norris)

Jun 26, 2021

01:20:45

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

How to Live Your Best Life for an Optimal Life

4min

How to Help a Human Flounder

3min

How to Help a Human Flutter

4min

The Importance of Sense Making

3min

The 39 Life Taxonomy

2min

How to Be a Virtuous Person

3min

The Importance of Prioritization

2min

How to Find Low Hanging Fruit

5min

10.

The Power of Habit Formation

3min

11.

How to Be a Better Dodgeball Player

2min

12.

The Importance of Aging

2min

13.

How to Predict Your Success

5min

14.

How to Use Medaffinil Effectively

3min

15.

How to Calculate Your Risk of Dying

2min

16.

The Risk of Dying Doing What We Love

3min

17.

How to Optimize Your Immune System

3min

18.

The Benefits of Mid-Athinal

4min

19.

How Clear Thinking Can Help You Achieve Your Goals

3min

20.

How to Accelerate Your Impact

2min

21.

How to Change Human Behavior

2min

22.

How to Be More Efficient and Avoid Problems You Had

4min

23.

How to Make Your Thing the Best in the World

3min

24.

How to Be the Best in the World at Something

5min

25.

The Importance of Incentive Design

2min

26.

How to Form a Habit

2min

27.

How to Make Habits Work for You

5min

Read the full transcript here.

How can you live your best life? What's a good definition of "wisdom"? What are some possible taxonomies of life outcomes? What are some low-hanging fruit in the realm of self-improvement? What are some useful behavior change frameworks and techniques?

All his life, James Norris has been searching for the best ways to change himself and change the world. He started as an entrepreneur at age 6 and since has co-founded or helped build 9 businesses and 16 organizations, including the premier conference for the effective altruism movement, the world's first global lifehacking event series, Southeast Asia's first social innovation hackathon series, and a university for today's Leonardo da Vincis. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin as a triple major / quadruple minor. Find more about him at jamesnorris.org and upgradable.org.

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