The Prof G Pod

What the Founders Feared Most Is Happening Now

You can also argue it's a real excuse to say, "I don't actually have to learn anything. I don't have to go to college. I don't have to learn to be a negotiator. I don't have to work my way up. I can just say that God favors me and therefore I can do it all without putting in any hard work, which is really antithetical to what America has stood for until pretty recently."

TBPN

Leopold is Back! Big Tech Earnings, Beautiful Debt, Defense Tech Deep Dive

But our fund must always be structured such that we can take a loss and fight another day.

TED Radio Hour

Addiction, motherhood and Jesus with writer Anne Lamott

My father got sick with a metastasized melanoma in his brain when I was 23, and he was still the center of our family. My brothers and I just adored him. He was like our higher power.

Book of the Day

Novels by Ben Reeves and Matt Haig look at life through the eyes of death (literally)

I really believe that just thinking about death that little bit more, especially for a story where we're safe, um it can just enrich every single day because you know in the back of your mind that's coming.

Fresh Air

Actor Jon Bernthal on grit, dedication & the teacher who saved him

I feel like our grit and our dedication is the one thing that we have control of in this world.

Fresh Air

Best Of: Broadway legend André De Shields / Apache Chef Nephi Craig

I believed from my very first conscious thought that my destiny would rise up and meet me

Fresh Air

Broadway legend André De Shields doesn't walk, he floats

I believed from my very first conscious thought that my destiny would rise up and meet me.

Fresh Air

Broadway legend André De Shields doesn't walk, he floats

I've got a doctor. His name is Dr. Footlights. Her name. Her name is Dr. Footlights. And when I stand on that stage, and when those lights come up, and when the audience greets me, the pain disappears.

Fresh Air

Harriet Clark spent 37 years visiting her mom in prison

for most of my life, you know, my mother had to make prison a place I wanted to come to. You know, our visits had to be enjoyable. And so in that sense, too, it was very rare that we were sitting there getting into the nitty gritty of her crime, especially when I was young. You know, fundamentally, she was trying to play with me and have fun with me and let me feel close to her.

EconTalk

Dwayne Betts on the Iliad

What happens when a poet who survived prison sits down with the world's oldest war story--and reads it in three sleepless, wandering days?

Fresh Air

Best Of: ‘The Invite’ screenwriters / Guitarist Lenny Kaye

We are never above a laugh. There's nothing that's grave enough for us not to laugh about because that's how we process our pain. It's like we laugh through death and sickness and sadness.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

John Kim - How to Raise a Few Billion Dollars - [Invest Like the Best, EP.482]

The biggest thing I learned from all of those experiences is that confidence really comes from preparation. Most people that I've seen fail in fundraising try to shortcut the preparation phase and just rely on the charisma and the story. The story's important, but you have to be prepared for anybody to punch holes in that story.

The New York Times

Why This 91-Year-Old Is Hiking 2,190 Miles. Again.

If you want to keep going and living a good life, just keep setting yourself a new goal.

Hidden Brain

Changing Our Mental Maps

These maps act like an autopilot system, allowing us to navigate our lives more efficiently. But sometimes, they can lead us astray, leaving us stuck on a path of negativity and unhappiness.

Fresh Air

'The Invite' screenwriters Rashida Jones & Will McCormack

I think that being an adult is sort of like reconciling who you are with who you want to be. And it's great to have dreams, and sometimes dreams don't come true, but that doesn't mean you can't have another. That doesn't mean—life goes on, right?

Hidden Brain

Waking Up Your Spiritual Brain: Part 2

moments of connection, spiritual practices, and even periods of suffering can sometimes open the door to deeper meaning and growth

Throughline

American history through song | Throughline

I think we can read in the song this sense of encountering the lowest point of devastation and still having a sense of the divine and possibility and maybe why the song has a particular power in the US context. this place that's made of dreams and also their deferrals.

Hidden Brain

Waking Up Your Spiritual Brain: Part 2

moments of connection, spiritual practices, and even periods of suffering can sometimes open the door to deeper meaning and growth.

Wait Wait Don't Tell Me

Celebrating the 4th with nothing but bangers!

A guy came up to the mic right over there and he said, 'My wife left me because she said I wasn't you.' ... But the gentleman stopped and then he said, 'And I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.' And he literally dropped the mic and I thought that kind of covers the whole gamut.

Daily Stoic

How The Stoics Sparked The American Revolution

Gouverneur Morris would say that underneath Washington's calm demeanor was in fact incredible passions, and that his first and perhaps his greatest victory was not on the battlefield, but over these very passions.

Daily Stoic

How The Stoics Sparked The American Revolution

Stoicism is not something you are, it's something you do, right? It's a practice. John Adams would say that Washington had a great self-command, but that required a great amount of work.

Hidden Brain

Waking Up Your Spiritual Brain: Part 1

People who have more of these experiences tend to be happier and healthier. They feel a stronger sense of connection to others. They find it easier to cope with adversity. And yet our culture often treats these experiences as suspect — as signs of irrationality or self-deception.

Hidden Brain

Waking Up Your Spiritual Brain: Part 1

People who have more spiritual experiences also tend to have better mental health. They have lower rates of depression and anxiety. They're less likely to die by suicide. They're less likely to abuse substances. They show greater well-being and life satisfaction.

Fresh Air

Steven Spielberg

I think that when I saw that movie for the first time, and I had a Lionel electric train set, and by actually crashing the train into things and watching the train derail and watching the passenger cars and a couple of boxcars and a caboose pile up, I was able to, I think intuitively, wrest back control of my fear. And I really think it helped assuage the fear. It helped me get in total control over it. So I was the one causing something that was going to maybe have a chance to scare other people but no longer myself.

Hidden Brain

Waking Up Your Spiritual Brain: Part 1

People who have more spiritual experiences feel a greater sense of meaning and purpose in their lives. They feel less fear about death. They tend to be more altruistic. They show greater resilience in the face of stress and trauma.

Book of the Day

In 'Names Have Been Changed,' a criminal on the run confesses her story on a podcast

The more time passes, the more she really just wants someone to kind of acknowledge her real name. I think in one of the first few things she tells us in the book is, "I just wish someone would call me by my real name." It's been about 10 years that she's been on the run. And so, it's almost like she's lost sight of herself in that process of hurtling forward, you know, around the globe.

Daily Stoic

How to Feel Everything Without Losing Control With Dr. Becky Kennedy

A lot of us were either raised to try to kick them out of the car, right? Like you're so annoying. my car would be a lot more peaceful if you were just out. But you can't kick feelings out of the car. It's just a biological impossibility. Or what happens cuz we either try so hard to do that and we fail is then the feelings in the back seat take over the driver's seat.

Hidden Brain

Waking Up Your Spiritual Brain: Part 1

People who have frequent spiritual experiences are better able to cope with stress and trauma. They also report higher levels of well-being, greater generosity, and a stronger sense of purpose and meaning in their lives.

TED Radio Hour

Sports psychology for everyday life

The more open you can be to be completely devastated by something, the more possibility opens up to you. And I think that that's true in life, I think that's true in love, I know that that's true in sport.

Hidden Brain

Waking Up Your Spiritual Brain: Part 1

People who have a lot of awe in their lives tend to feel that they are part of something larger than themselves. And when you feel that you're part of something larger than yourself, the petty concerns, the minor humiliations, the day to day frustrations — they recede into the background.

Hidden Brain

Waking Up Your Spiritual Brain: Part 1

People who have a lot of awe in their lives tend to feel that they are part of something larger than themselves. And when you feel like you're part of something larger than yourself, your own personal problems and worries seem smaller and more manageable.

Daily Stoic

Why You Have To Stand Up To Tyrants

You're going to have moments where comfort collides with your conscience where it collides with your career where there is corruption and temptation and it's probably safer and better to do what everyone else is doing. For Helvidius, philosophy was armor. It was preparation for this moment.

Fresh Air

Best Of: Laverne Cox /Comic Ali Siddiq

I saw the switch flip in their eyes. I saw that flicker of threat. The way their stances shifted into those of aggression that made the hairs on my arms stand on end. They were disgusted by me. I was no longer a friend. A peer. Someone to play with. I was an easy target. I was prey.

TED Radio Hour

Sports psychology for everyday life

the more open you can be to be completely devastated by something, the more possibility opens up to you. And I think that that's true in life. I think that's true in love. I know that that's true in sport. The more you open yourself up to devastation, the more possibility will be open to you.

Hidden Brain

A Secret Source of Connection

Most of us think of emotional support as something we offer through words — by listening carefully, saying the right things, or sharing a person's burden. But researcher Michael Poulin has found that giving help to others, not receiving it, is what buffers people against the harmful effects of stress. In study after study, he found that people who helped others were less likely to die than those who didn't, even after accounting for their overall health.

TED

Why I Love My Bad Days | Alexi Pappas | TED

The rule of thirds is that when you're chasing a dream or doing anything hard, you're supposed to feel good a third of the time, OK a third of the time and crappy a third of the time. If you're within this ratio, then the bad days aren't bad. They just mean you're chasing a dream.

Throughline

Prosperity gospel and the American dream | Throughline

So much of our lives is shaped by the idea, the belief, that all you have to do to succeed is believe harder. And if you fall on hard times, well, better try harder. It's all on you after all.

Fresh Air

Laverne Cox

I want to protect that little child. I'm just so, I'm so angry. And I think like, yeah, I don't know if I can be able to read excerpts from this book again. We'll see. I'm just I'm so pissed. I'm so angry. And I'm so hurt.

Fresh Air

Laverne Cox

I saw the switch flip in their eyes. I saw that flicker of threat. The way their stances shifted into those of aggression that made the hairs on my arms stand on end. They were disgusted by me. I was no longer a friend, a peer, someone to play with. I was an easy target. I was prey.

TED Radio Hour

Sports psychology for everyday life

the more open you can be to be completely devastated by something, the more possibility opens up to you. And I think that that's true in life. I think that's true in love. I know that that's true in sport.

TED

How to Invite Creativity into Your Life | Rose B. Simpson, Debbie Millman | TED

As long as I don't need it, it doesn't rule me, doesn't own me. And so if I maintain my relationship with the natural world, my food sources, etc., then I am actively engaging in the relationships that I'm making.

TED

Reimagining Traditional Architecture for Modern Needs | Riyad Joucka | TED

What disappears isn't just people and buildings, it's memory, belonging, culture. I'm not here with a simple fix. What I'm saying is we must rebuild, but we need to rebuild with identity in mind.

Daily Stoic

14 Stoic Lessons Marcus Aurelius Learned From His Father

Let the boy be human for once. Says empire doesn't take away natural feeling. And so here is a moment of grace.

TED Radio Hour

Sports psychology for everyday life

I try to tell my kid, the more open you can be to be completely devastated by something, the more possibility opens up to you. And I think that that's true in life. I think that's true in love. I know that that's true in sport. The more you open yourself up to devastation, the more possibility will be open to you.

Throughline

Captain America and the nation's conscience | Throughline

You are never going to be Superman unless you suddenly find a lot of money from somewhere. You are never going to be Batman. But, there's always that chance, isn't there, that you could one day be Captain America.

Daily Stoic

A Stoic Masterclass for Ambitious People With Codie Sanchez

It's not a principle until it costs you something. We become less just as humans every time we remove ourselves a little bit further from the hand on the fire.

The Daily

Steven Spielberg on the Real Life Evidence That Inspired 'Disclosure Day'

The thing that we need to preserve in our society more than anything else, which is something which I believe is as fragile as democracy, is empathy.