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173. Present Moment Awareness: Why Being Here Changes Everything

Ask me a question or let me know what you think! How often are you actually present for your own life? Research suggests that nearly half of our waking hours are spent thinking about something other than what we are doing. Our minds wander into the past, the future, imagined conversations, worries,…

Constraints Free You

We think of constraints as an added challenge. They tie us down. We don't have enough time, money, energy, emotional bandwidth - you name it. They box us in. So Kim wanted to do a shortisode about how, sometimes, they liberate us. In this shortisode, Kim and Pancho explore why constraints can creat…

Episode 147: The Decision You Keep Putting Off

There is a decision you keep almost making, then setting back down. Weeks pass. Maybe months. It stays stuck because a low, steady fear tells you that any choice could be the wrong one, and that you would never recover from picking badly. This one is for the woman who freezes in front of a decision…

How Do I Actually Enjoy My Life Instead of Just Getting Through It?

How do you actually enjoy your life instead of just getting through it? Not with a better life. Enjoyment is a skill called savoring, and you can rebuild it today. Overview: Your life is good on paper, yet most days feel like something you manage rather than live. Brett Ingram explains why: the f…

569. Do You Need Closure?

In a special episode of No Stupid Questions, Angela Duckworth and Mike Maughan talk about unfinished tasks, recurring arguments, and Irish goodbyes.  SOURCES: Roy Baumeister, social psychologist and visiting scholar at Harvard University. Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard Universi…

The Truth About Your Personality - Dr Benjamin Hardy - #185

Dr Benjamin Hardy is an organisational psychologist and an author. Do you believe that your personality is permanent? Innate & inbuilt? Dr Hardy disagrees. Expect to learn why Myers-Briggs & other personality tests are destructive & as inaccurate as horoscopes, how to reframe your past narratives…

ReThinking: We’re wrong about what makes us happy with Dan Gilbert

What do you think will make you happy next year? According to Dan Gilbert’s research, your guess is probably wrong. Dan is a Harvard psychologist, bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness, and popular TED talker, and he and Adam discuss why it’s so difficult to make accurate predictions about o…

Aggressive Nostalgia

October 15, 2026 Aggressive Nostalgia “Schools are getting worse and worse; young people today can barely read and write! In the old days, education standards were higher, kids were less self-centered, and people were more moral.” Except…social scientists have shown that none of t…

Eric Weiner presents The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley

#ads Stream any unabridged audiobook of your choice with premium access by starting your trial on:https://booksreader.space/ak-4712/Title: The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley Author: Eric Weiner Narrator: Eric Weiner Format…

Measuring Gains Every 90 Days To Boost Confidence & Gratitude - Dr. Benjamin Hardy (ep. 1006)

Welcome back, Gratitude Seekers! In today’s episode we sit down with Dr. Benjamin Hardy, best‑selling author of Personality Isn’t Permanent and the mind behind the viral article “Gratitude: How to Change Negative Beliefs, Be Happy, and Become Successful.” Together we unpack the Gap‑and‑Gain theory—…