What You Will Learn

After first speaking with Neil Pasricha 12 months ago about his book The Happiness Equation, he's back to chat about his brand new book You Are Awesome. It's all about building resilience, shifting from fragile to antifragile, and thickening up your skin a little. Check out everything Neil is doing at his site: https://www.neil.blog/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Grit - by Angela Duckworth'Why passion and resilience are the keys to success' Angela Duckworth studied successful people and found that the mega-successful weren't the smartest, the fittest or the most talented, but the ones who had the most grit. Grit, this combination of passion and perseverance, turned out to be the strongest indicator and predicator of eventual success.The good news? Even if you score pretty poorly on the Grit Assessment (like we both did), you can grow your Grit. Through interest, purpose, practice and hope, you can actually improve your grit score and learn to achieve more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lurking behind the mystery of ancient ruins is the mystery with the nagging thought: might such a fate eventually befall our own wealthy society? Will tourists someday stare mystified at the New York skyscrapers, much as we stare at the jungle overgrown ruins of Maya cities? Perhaps we can still learn from the past, but only if we think carefully about its lessons. The book has a 5 point framework of possible contributing collapse to societies: 1 - Environmental damageCould be exceptional imprudence of the people and exceptional fragility in aspects of the environment, or both. 2 - Climate changeToday we refer to human induced. But in the past it was natural climate change, including the advance and retreat of continental ice sheets during ice ages from about 1400-1800 AD, or the global cooling from the enormous volcanic eruption of Indonesia's Mt Tambora on 1815 3 - Hostile neighboursRelationships might be intermittently or chronically hostile. A society may be able to hold off its enemies as long as it is strong, only to succumb in a moment of weakness. The proximate cause is the conquest, but the ultimate cause that leads to the collapse is the temporary weakening 4 - Decreasing support by friendly neighboursEither depend on imports of essential trade goods . If your partner comes weak for any reason, then they no longer can supply the essential goods 5 - The response of the societyDifferent societies respond differently to similar problems. Deforestation for example has arose in many cultures - some went down, some developed sustainable management practices In this episode we'll explore the collapse of Easter Island, the Great Maya Civilisation and The Vikings, and the risk of collapse of modern-day Australia and China through the 5 point framework. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

MJ DeMarco, author of the breakthrough books "The Millionaire Fastlane" and "Unscripted," shares his transformative insights on entrepreneurship and breaking free from societal norms. He discusses the pivotal 'F-This Event' that launched his journey and the importance of leveraging traditional jobs as stepping stones. The conversation challenges the rat race mentality, debunks entrepreneurial myths, and highlights the critical role of communication in business success. DeMarco also reflects on ethics in entrepreneurship and the opportunities within the plant-based industry.

Unscripted - by MJ DeMarco'Life Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship' Has life regressed into paying bills and living for a weekend?You weren't born to slave 9 - 5, Monday through Friday, paying the bills and then die. When life's final moment arrives, what will your spirit sing? Regret and remorse? Or peace and happiness?UNSCRIPTED: is your pen to rewrite a future that's already been written, don't wait for life's twilight to dream about time machines, it exists in the moment. The opportunity to resurrect your dreams and change history awaits. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Daily life is full of negotiations that can drive you crazy.Over breakfast you get into an argument with your spouse about buying a new car, your spouse thinks it's time but you say "we can't afford that right now"You arrive at work for a meeting with your boss, you present her with a carefully prepared proposal for a new project, but she interrupts within the first minute and says "we already tried that and it didn't work.During lunch you try to return a defective toaster you bought last week, but the store person refuses to refund or exchange the toaster because you don't have the receipt and that's "Store Policy"This book will show you how to "get past no" via a 5 step process:Step 1: Don't React (Go to the Balcony) Step 2: Disarm Them (step to their side)Step 3: Change the Game (don't reject... reframe)Step 4: Build he Golden Bridge (make it easy to say yes)Step 5: Don't Escalate - Use Power to Educate (make it hard to say no) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - by Scott Adams Scott Adams is the creator of the 'Dilbert' cartoon series. Before this world-wide phenomenon though, Adams is happy to admit the looong list of things he tried (and failed at) before eventually achieving success. Each failed attempt gave him a lesson, something he could take with him and apply to the next thing he tried. Even as Dilbert was growing in success, he still worked full time for 10 years, drawing Dilbert at 5am before work.This book provides some important ideas and approaches for achieving (eventual) success. In this episode, we'll talk about: the downside of passion, goals VS systems, managing your attitude and energy, prioritising and making decisions, and 'skill stacking'.    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Everything is F*cked - by Mark Manson'A book about hope'  In the infinite expanse of space/time, the universe does not care whether your mother's hip replacement goes well, or your kids attend college, or your boss thinks you make a great spreadsheetYou care, and you desperately convince yourself that because you care, it all must have some great cosmic meaning behind it. You care because deep down, you need to feel that sense of importance in order to avoid the uncomfortable truth, to avoid the incomprehensibility of your existence, to avoid being crushed by the weight of your own material insignificance, and you like everyone - project an imagined sense of importance onto the world around you because it gives you hope.You might say: "I believe we're all here for a reason, and nothing is a coincidence, and everyone matters because all our actions affect SOMEBODY, and even if we can help one person, then it was all worth it"This is hope. That's a story made up in your mind that your brain spins to convince you that it's worth waking up in the morning. SOMETHING needs to matter because without something mattering, then there's no reason to go on living.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Meditations - by Marcus Aurelius Originally written as a diary almost 2000 years ago, the struggles people faced then are almost identical to the ones we are facing today. This is one of the core books on stoic philosophy.We recap some of the vital passages of the book and pull out the key themes: differentiating between the things you can control and the things you can't, responsibility and taking ownership, being indifferent toward things like death and change, and living in the present instead of the past or the future.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Talking to Strangers - by Malcolm Gladwell'What we should know about the people we don't know' We think we can understand people. We think that by meeting someone, shaking their hand, looking into their eyes, we can get a grasp on who they are, how they feel, and what their motives or intentions are. We think that a little bit of personal knowledge gives us a big insight into their character - a job interviews shows us if they'll be a good employee, a first date can indicate the likelihood of compatibility.We're wrong. Strangers are complex. In Malcolm Gladwell's brand new book, he highlights just a few of the things that make strangers particularly hard to understand: Truth Default Theory, Transparency, Coupling. Check out our website, where we both rate every book out of 10: www.whatyouwilllearn.com  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.