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Living well can seem elusive. We strive for a life of joy and meaning, but it can feel like we are navigating the world blindfolded with a hand tied behind our back.
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Will R Young: Wealth, Wisdom, Virtue and the Pursuit of Less - Roundtable (opens the original)
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This roundtable explores my podcast interview with Will Young, a financial adviser who blends Stoic philosophy, behavioural psychology and surfing insights into his approach to wealth management (and to his life in general). Topics discussed include: Will's technique of loosening his clients’ epistemic rigidity and emotion-based investing beliefs by exploring their reasoning process rather than attacking their conclusions; cognitive biases like the availability heuristic, the illusory truth effe
Will R Young: Wealth, Wisdom, Virtue and the Pursuit of Less (opens the original)
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My guest on the podcast is Will R. Young, a certified financial adviser, who, somewhat unusually, combines behavioral psychology, Stoicism, and financial analysis with insights from surfing. So, he’s a financial adviser with a difference. In addition, Will has achieved exceptional results in the Good Judgment Project from the University of Pennsylvania - outperforming leading economists and Wall Street firms, in forecasting financial markets. This free-ranging conversation explored how Stoic phi
Music, Creativity, & Mental Health: Garrett Kato (opens the original)
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In this episode I talk with indie folk singer-songwriter and producer Garrett Kato about his path into music - from a nudge by a high school drama teacher to using guitar as a coping mechanism after a breakup, and eventually to build a career with over 200 million streams. We discussed the mental health toll of the modern music industry, including how artists now feel trapped by opaque social media algorithms. We explored the psychological benefits of creative "flow" states (meditative, ego-diss
Kati Morton: Why Do I Keep Doing This? - Roundtable (opens the original)
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We discuss psychologist Kati Morton’s book: Why Do I Do This – Unlearn the Habits Keeping You Stuck and Unhappy. In a vibrant discussion, topics explored included: How repeated behaviours carve deep mental "ruts" that feel effortless to follow and require real effort and discomfort to change; 2. The need for control expressed in people-pleasing, perfectionism, and impression management, as futile attempts to control how others perceive us; Anxiety, the ego, and the necessity of "feeling your way
Kati Morton: Why Do I Keep Doing This? (opens the original)
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This podcast is a discussion of psychologist Kati Morton's book: Why Do I keep Doing This? Kati is a clinical psychologist, author, public speaker and has a large online following. The book is largely about people who suffer with an obsessive need to control: whether that is to control their own thoughts, feelings and behaviors, and/or also other peoples' attitides and behaviors towards them. They are people pleasers, perfectionists, self-deprecators, and so on. But the book has relevance to a w
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