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The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Feb 6, 2024 • 1h 54min

#187 Dr. Becky Kennedy: The One Thing You Can Say That Changes Everything

Dr. Becky Kennedy, clinical psychologist and bestselling author, shares insights on parenting. Topics include setting boundaries, understanding teenagers, regulating emotions, repairing relationships, and dealing with screen addiction. Practical advice on effective communication, prioritizing safety, and modeling authority is also discussed.
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Jan 23, 2024 • 2h 6min

#186 Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best

Tom Gayner, a leader in investment strategies and friend and disciple of Charlie Munger, shares important life lessons from Munger, the value of evaluating opportunity costs, and the importance of playing a long-term game. They discuss debt philosophy, disagree on reading fiction, and the superiority of simplicity in management. They also touch on biographies that impacted their lives. Gayner is CEO of Markel Group and Director of The Coca‑Cola Company.
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Jan 9, 2024 • 1h 40min

#185 Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone

Blake Eastman, dedicated to psychology and nonverbal behavior, discusses topics such as reading nonverbal cues, power structures in the workplace, identifying incompetence and deception, using AI to predict human behavior, selecting coaches, navigating the education system, and the power of asking better questions.
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Dec 26, 2023 • 1h 32min

#184 Best of 2023: Conversations of the Year

A collection of the best insights from the year, covering topics such as the power of intention, setting deliberate intentions, exploring integrity and aliveness, the emotional aftermath of losing a loved one, embracing reality and taking action, shifting from a victim mindset to survivorship, knowing when to walk away and when to push, and guests expressing gratitude and admiration for the host.
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Dec 12, 2023 • 1h 12min

#183 Paul Assaiante: Learning to Face Your Fears

Retired men's squash coach, Paul Assaiante, discusses overcoming fear and anxiety, the importance of practice, and what's keeping you from reaching your goals. He shares personal stories and valuable lessons on facing fears, taking risks, playing to your strengths, leadership, empathy, addressing learned behaviors, building mental resilience, communicating in coaching and learning, creating positive human interactions, and reflections on relationships and personal growth.
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Nov 28, 2023 • 1h 40min

#182 Todd Herman: Unleashing Your Secret Identity

This podcast explores how adopting different identities can boost performance. They discuss peak performance, patience, fear, and imposter syndrome. They also share insights from working with Kobe Bryant. The importance of environment and the role of mentors are emphasized. The chapter touches on the origins and impact of imposter syndrome, striving for excellence, and defining success. The speaker discusses the evolution of the show and strategies to combat complacency. They conclude with an exploration of assuming different identities and the benefits of the alter ego effect.
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Nov 14, 2023 • 52min

#181 Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 2): Failure and Success

Dr. Gio Valiante, performance psychologist, discusses failure and success. They talk about shifting from ego to mastery orientation, common misperceptions of success and failure, learning to cut losses, and importance of humor and mindset in overcoming failure. They also explore recognizing opportunities, defining success, and finding joy in life.
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Nov 7, 2023 • 1h 12min

#180 TKP Insights: Learning and Thinking

The podcast discusses topics such as creating an environment conducive to clear thinking, the difference between the two main modes of thinking, online experimentation to develop good judgment, eliminating blind spots in thought processes, factors affecting clear thinking, belief formation and the degradation of public discourse, the role of memory in learning, effective studying techniques and test preparation, acquiring skills and developing judgment, thinking like a scientist, and exploring group identities and the desire to belong and stand out.
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Oct 31, 2023 • 51min

#179 Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 1): Discipline and Resilience

Dr. Gio Valiante, a celebrated performance psychologist, discusses topics like developing discipline and resilience in work and life, the five ways to gain an advantage and compete, the power of blending vocation and avocation, the common factors in environments that foster talent, and the importance of resilience in achieving success.
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Oct 17, 2023 • 1h 30min

#178 Jerry Colonna: The CEO Whisperer

Jerry Colonna, a premier executive coach, discusses resilience, self-esteem, anxiety, motivation, and rituals for fulfillment. They delve into the cost of external expectations, power of positive and negative thoughts, impact of having a 'chip on your shoulder,' and the benefits of journaling and processing emotions. They also discuss developing resilience, understanding nonviolent communication, and defining success beyond material possessions.

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