What You Will Learn

Skin In The Game is about the distortions of symmetry and reciprocity in life. If you have the rewards, you must also get some of the risks and not let others pay the price of your mistakes. In Skin In The Game, Nassim Nicholas Taleb explains how the willingness of accepting one’s own risks is an important quality of heroes, saints and successful people in all walks of life. Utilising examples from Hammurabi to Seneca and Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump, Taleb shows us that having skin in the game is the backbone of risk management. No muscles without strength. No friendship without trust. No Teaching without experience. No life without effort. Skin in the game applies to all aspects of our lives because it helps us to learn and understand the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Screw It, Let’s Do It, the Virgin Group founder Richard Branson shares all the important lessons, good advice and inspirational adages that have helped him along the road to success. An ultimate lesson that Branson learned is the following motto: ‘If you want something, just do it.’ From starting a student magazine to forming a chain of record stores and launching an airline, Branson managed to establish the Virgin Group that we all know today. The Virgin Group is one of the world’s most valuable brands, spreading across several industry sectors like travel, telecommunications, health, banking, music and leisure. Branson never went into business to make money. Whenever anyone asks Branson how they can make money, he always tells them the same thing: ‘There is no secret, and there are no rules to follow in business. You just have to work hard. Believe that you can do it and have fun!’ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Debbie Milman is a writer, designer, educator, artist, brand consultant and host of the podcast Design Matters. She is one of the OG's of podcasting, going at it for over 15 years. She has been named as one of the most influential graphic designers working today. Her book Design Matters contains interviews and essays from her long journey in design, interviewing and podcasting.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Hold Me Tight, Dr. Sue Johnson presents the concept of Emotionally Focused Therapy–which helps reestablish safe emotional connection and preserve the attachment bond in relationships. Love has always been a mystical elusive emotion for many of us. It should come as no surprise that people recently surveyed in Western societies rate a satisfying love relationship as their number one goal. Thankfully, within the past few decades, an exciting understanding of love is emerging. In this book, Johnson focuses on pivotal moments in a relationship. She uses touch points such as “Recognising the Demon dialogue” or “Revisiting a Rockey Moment” for 7 healing conversations. Through stories from Dr. Johnson's practice, illuminating advice, and practical exercises, you will learn how to nurture, protect, and grow your relationship, ensuring a lifetime of love. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is a big difference between EXTENDING LIFE and PROLONGING VITALITY. We're capable of both - but "extending life" - simply keeping people alive - decades after their lives have become defined by pain, disease, frailty and immobility is no virtue"Prolonged vitality" meaning not just more years of life, but more active, healthy and happy ones is coming and its coming sooner than most people expect. By the time people who are born today have reached middle age, these changes should be here. And in the next century, a person who is 122 might say they've lived a full but not a particularly long life. 120 years might not be an outlier but an expectationSo much so we don't call it longevity. We simply call it life. What's the upward limit? There isn't one. There is no biological law that says we must age. Prolonged healthy lifespans are in sight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Everyone is probably familiar with some job at your workplace which is the butt of the jokes: the jobs with a fancy title (and probably the juicy pay packet) but they seem to do nothing. They don’t seem like they don't really play any vital role. The more you think about it, the more you'll realise that this list is seemingly endless…So the Author started thinking, are these jobs REALLY useless? And if they are, are the people those those jobs just blissfully ignorant, or do they know that their job is bullshit too?There are plenty of jobs we can label “bullshit” - jobs that don’t actually contribute anything of positive value to society, jobs where people just show up and put in their time but aren’t actually doing things that make the world a better place. Listening to this episode, you’ll hear stories about all kinds of bullshit jobs. They’re funny to laugh at, but if you take a long hard look in the mirror, you might find elements of bullshit in your job too… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Procrastination. It is a problem that we all have in some areas of our lives. Be it balancing the budget, filling a legal brief, or painting the spare bedroom - anything we have delayed in favour of more pressing or pleasurable pursuits. We all have tasks and goals we attempt to delay - or totally escape. Procrastinators still get most of these tasks and projects completed on time and in good order... but the pressure and the stress they accumulate along the journey causes unnecessary anxiety and diminishes the quality of the end result.This book offers a solution - a cure for procrastination. Whether you are a professional, an entrepreneur, a middle manager, a writer, or a student who wants to overcome problems with procrastination (or if you simply want to become more efficient in completing complex and challenging tasks) - we hope this episode will help you get results. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway - by Susan JeffersFear seems to be epidemic in our society. We fear beginnings, We fear endings. We fear changing, we fear staying stuck. We fear success, we fear failure. We fear living, we fear dying. What is it for you? Fear of public speaking? Fear of asserting yourself? Fear of making decisions? Fear of intimacy? Fear of changing jobs? Fear of being alone? Fear of aging? Fear of driving? Fear of losing a loved one? Fear of ending a relationship?It turns out that while all of these fears seem completely different, they actually all boil down to one root cause. In this episode, we dissect fear, we strip it back to is most basic component, then provide ways to overcome that fear and move forward with your life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In The Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money. Financial success is a soft skill where how you behave is more important than what you know. A genius who loses control of their emotions can be a financial disaster. Ordinary folks with no financial education can be wealthy if they have a handful of behavioural skills that have nothing to do with formal measures of intelligence.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our annual tradition, recapping our favourite 10 books we've read in the second half of 2021. We share our faves, the best snippet from each, and try to remain coherent as we proceed with our own end-of-year celebrations (these can tend to get a little sloppy towards the end...) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.