For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast.Subscribe to Fred's  Substack at https://fredpinto.substack.com/ and get a copy of the PDF with the studies referenced in this episode. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack.

Ido Portal, a world-renowned expert on human movement, discusses the significance of movement and stillness, personal growth through challenging societal norms, breaking free from societal expectations, the halo effect in psychology, the power of playful learning, and the transformative power of walking.

Dr. Richard Weikart is an award-winning historian and emeritus professor of history at Cal State University Stanislaus, a Fellow at the Discovery Institute, and the author of several thought-provoking books, including From Darwin to Hitler, and The Death of Humanity. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack.

Dustin “The Diamond” Poirier is a decorated UFC fighter, and the co-founder of The Good Fight Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to helping underserved communities.For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack.

Is well-being best achieved in accepting what is, or in passionately engaging in what is yet to be? Technology lawyer and writer Fred Pinto links counterintuitive findings from philosophy, wisdom studies, and psychology to tease out the idea that finding ourselves comes as a result of losing our firmly held ideas of ourselves first. In a modern world that encourages self-obsession, this talk is for everyone who wants to achieve more authentic forms of acceptance and transcendence.  This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack.

Robert Greene is the multiple-time #1 NYT best-selling author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, The Art of Seduction, The 50th Law (with 50 Cent), The Laws of Human Nature, and The Daily Laws.For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack.

The Hon. Justice Michael P. Donnelly is the 160th justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. He’s the recipient of multiple awards, including the Public Service Award from the Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys, and served as chair of the Ohio Supreme Court’s Commission on Professionalism. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack.

Ryan Holiday is a multiple-time NYT #1 bestselling author, whose books include Trust me, I’m Lying, The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Discipline is Destiny. He is the host of the Daily Stoic Podcast, and the owner of The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack.

Dr. Daniel J. Levitin is a cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, musician, and the author of multiple NYT best-selling books, including This is your Brain on Music, A Field Guide to Lies, and Successful Aging. Levitin has published more than 300 articles, in journals including Science, Nature, PNAS, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal.  His TED talk How To Be Calm When You Know You’ll Be Stressed is one of the most viewed ever, at over 20 million views. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack.

Why Purpose is Personal is a TEDx talk I gave at the TEDxYouth @ Sunset Beach event in Vancouver on September 9th 2022. The core question I wanted to answer was: why is the advice of gurus and experts often so unsatisfying when it comes to finding true purpose in life? This quest took me to the emerging science of meaning and purpose, which invites us to take a radical leap forward to a truly “n of one” approach to our lives. In other words, meaning isn’t general, or theoretical: it’s personal. You can access a PDF with the sources and references I refer to in this talk by subscribing to my Substack (https://fredpinto.substack.com/about) here (https://fredpinto.com/sources-references-why-purpose-is-personal-tedx-talk/). For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack.