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Intimate, distraction-free, long-form interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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How your cognitive biases lead to terrible investing behaviors
“Let me walk you through the biggest traps that you should be aware of that are a danger to your financial wellbeing.”
59mins
"One of the largest mitigating factors against getting traumatized is who is there for you at that particular time."
1hr 2mins
“There's research showing that people who are curious, who ask questions, are not just happier, they're not just more successful, they also live longer.”
1hr 37mins
“A lot of the trends in the economy, in family life have just been much harder for working class men.”
1hr 13mins
“Nothing about human behavior makes sense except in the light of culture and in anthropology, and we need to understand the cultural component to our behaviors as well.”
1hr 26mins
“I like to say that physics is hard because physics is easy, by which I mean we actually think about physics as students.”
1hr 24mins
“There's a very pervasive belief that human nature is fundamentally selfish, but I know for a fact that that can't be true in part because my life was saved by a stranger a long time ago when I was 19.”
39mins
"One of the ways you can see the Roman Empire is it's the worldwide web of its day."
1hr 8mins
“An equation, perhaps no more than one inch long, that would allow us to, quote, 'Read the mind of God.'”
1hr 1mins
“We can make ourselves more likely to be happy by building a life that includes the conditions that make for happiness.”
1hr 3mins
“The public really doesn't realize that they are much closer to CIA spies than they think they are.”
1hr 18mins
“Could black holes be the key to a quantum theory of gravity, a deeper theory of how reality, of how space and time works?”
1hr 25mins
"Virtually everything we're taught about sexuality for the first two decades of our lives is wrong."
1hr 40mins
“Fraud never sleeps. It's really a global problem. Fraud is a trillion dollar problem, about $5 trillion today, with that number increasingly rising annually.”
Why do we fall in love with one person over another? The late biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher unpacks the evolutionary roots of romantic love, sex, and attachment. Using research […]
43mins
"If we're related to every living thing on the planet, do we not have a special responsibility for every living thing on this planet? They are really all our relatives."
1hr 11mins
“It's a remarkable series of events that were required for us to be here, and that so many things could have happened in a different way that we wouldn't be here at all, both individually, and as a species.”
1hr 16mins
“We know that as little as 10 minutes of walking can improve your mood, getting that bubble bath with the dopamine, serotonin, endorphins going. Anybody can do that.”
1hr 19mins
“We don't have enough knowledge to precisely calculate what is going to happen, and so we assign probabilities to it, which reflects our ignorance of the situation.”
1hr 55mins
“It’s not about being perfect. It’s about reducing suffering where we can, and right now, we’re choosing not to.”
1hr 17mins
"The disease is the fact that liberalism, which used to be an ideology of building, has become an ideology of blocking."