Hidden Brain

You Are Not Ordinary

Most of us intuitively understand that extreme talent is rare. But psychologist Adam Galinsky says we fail to appreciate just how rare — and how different our lives might have been had we been born at a different time, or in a different place, or to different parents. We dramatically underestimate the role of circumstance in shaping who we are and what we achieve.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Kareem Amin - The Unusual Approach to Company Building - [Invest Like the Best, EP.478]

Most people think that the way you build a company is you hire great people and then you tell them what to do. But the most successful companies I've seen are ones where you hire great people and then you create the conditions for them to tell you what to do.

Mixed Signals

Flynn McGarry On Growing Up As A Food Prodigy

Being a child prodigy, uh, as it has been mentioned, and I'm kind of glad that's stopped being the number one thing that's been said. But it's funny because being a child that does a lot in food um, is very different than being a child that does a lot in music or art. Um, because there are literal age restrictions on your potential to succeed.