Cloud Streaks

This podcast is about how social distancing has reduced the amount of 'nothing time' you have with others and as such the amount of friendliness built. Mentioning Patrick Lencioni and five dysfunctions of a team. Contact us at [email protected]

The seed article: - Coronavirus Responses Highlight How Humans Have Evolved to Dismiss Facts That Don’t Fit Their Worldview - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coronavirus-responses-highlight-how-humans-have-evolved-to-dismiss-facts-that-dont-fit-their-worldview/ Matt Taibbi and his book Hate Inc's 10 rules: 1. THERE ARE ONLY TWO IDEAS 2. THE TWO IDEAS ARE IN PERMANENT CONFLICT 3. HATE PEOPLE, NOT INSTITUTIONS 4. EVERYTHING IS SOMEONE ELSE’S FAULT 5. NOTHING IS EVERYONE’S FAULT 6. ROOT, DON’T THINK 7. NO SWITCHING TEAMS 8. THE OTHER SIDE IS LITERALLY HITLER 9. IN THE FIGHT AGAINST HITLER, EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED 10. FEEL SUPERIOR F. Scott Fitzgerald "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." Contact us at [email protected]

Model summary: Level 1 (Pre-Conventional) - 1. Obedience and punishment orientation (How can I avoid punishment?) - 2. Self-interest orientation (What's in it for me?) (Paying for a benefit) Level 2 (Conventional) - 3. Interpersonal accord and conformity (Social norms)(The good boy/girl attitude) - 4. Authority and social-order maintaining orientation (Law and order morality) Level 3 (Post-Conventional) - 5. Social contract orientation - 6. Universal ethical principles (Principled conscience) If you want more detail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg%27s_stages_of_moral_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_dilemma Contact us at [email protected] https://ethics.org.au/ethics-explainer-deontology/

We discuss https://waitbutwhy.com/2020/01/sick-giant.html This series is epic, currently James and I think we'll discuss every chapter as a podcast episode. Tim Urban is awesome. We are big big fans. We'd like to chat with you Tim! Contact us at [email protected]

We discuss https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/12/political-disney-world.html This series is epic, currently James and I think we'll discuss every chapter as a podcast episode. - "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou - David McCandless & Stefanie Posavec. https://infobeautiful4.s3.amazonaws.com/2009/10/2552_IIB_Left_v_Right_World.png Tim Urban is awesome. We are big big fans. We'd like to chat with you Tim! Contact us at [email protected]

We discuss https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/10/idea-labs-echo-chambers.html This series is epic, currently James and I think we'll discuss every chapter as a podcast episode. - Adam Robinson and The Knowledge Project - Winning at the great game: https://fs.blog/knowledge-project/adam-robinson-pt1/ - The obstacle is the way - Ryan Holiday - Show me a good loser and i’ll show you a loser. - Jordan Peterson "Treat yourself as you treat your pets." Tim Urban is awesome. We are big big fans. We'd like to chat with you Tim! Contact us at [email protected]

We discuss https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/american-brain.html This series is epic, currently James and I think we'll discuss every chapter as a podcast episode. Tim Urban is awesome. We are big big fans. We'd like to chat with you Tim! Contact us at [email protected]

We discuss https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/american-brain.html This series is epic, currently James and I think we'll discuss every chapter as a podcast episode. Tim Urban is awesome. We are big big fans. We'd like to chat with you Tim! Notes from episode: - Facts vs ideas. For facts there is a right or wrong. For ideas there isn't a right or wrong, there is only your current best view. - “I don’t like that man, I must get to know him better.” Lincoln - “If you want to convince someone appeal to emotion, not ration.” - “Everyone is the hero of their own story.” John Barth - “Changing your mind is a super power.” Ray Dalio - We here to help each other, not to annoy each other. No one is trying to annoy the other person. - “I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.” — Charlie Munger - "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion." Edmund Burke Contact us at [email protected]

We discuss https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/mute-button.html This series is epic, currently James and I think we'll discuss every chapter as a podcast episode. Tim Urban is awesome. We are big big fans. We'd like to chat with you Tim! Contact us at [email protected]

We discuss https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/enlightenment-kids.html This series is epic, currently James and I think we'll discuss every chapter as a podcast episode. Tim Urban is awesome. We are big big fans. We'd like to chat with you Tim! Contact us at [email protected]

We discuss https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/stories.html This series is epic, currently James and I think we'll discuss every chapter as a podcast episode. Tim Urban is awesome. We are big big fans. We'd like to chat with you Tim! Contact us at [email protected]

We discuss https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/giants.html This series is epic, currently James and I think we'll discuss every chapter as a podcast episode. Tim Urban is awesome. We are big big fans. We'd like to chat with you Tim! Contact us at [email protected]

We discuss https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/fire-light.html This series is epic, currently James and I think we'll discuss every chapter as a podcast episode. Tim Urban is awesome. We are big big fans. Contact us at [email protected]

Where does passion come from? You can create, grow and sustain passion! https://www.cloudstreaks.com/blog/2019/8/10/where-does-passion-come-from-you-can-create-grow-and-sustain-passion Making sense with Sam Harris - #91 - THE BIOLOGY OF GOOD AND EVIL https://samharris.org/podcasts/the-biology-of-good-and-evil/ Our Yearning for Immortality: Alan Lightman on one of the most Profound Contradictions of Human Existence https://fs.blog/2016/01/alan-lightman-accidental-universe/ Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI

Duncan's blog: https://www.cloudstreaks.com/blog/2019/6/23/emotional-health-is-experiencing-the-full-spectrum-of-emotions-in-a-healthy-way-not-only-feeling-positive-emotions School of life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Su5VtKeXU8&feature=em-uploademail “Sad people know what they are sad about, depressed people don’t.” Alain De Botton Contact us at [email protected]

https://blog.stephsmith.io/how-to-be-great/ https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/08/04/charlie-munger-the-power-of-not-making-stupid-decisions.html - Perhaps “great’, is just “good”, but repeatable. - Charlie Munger: “"It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent." - Reading, thinking, writing, talking & building. - ”We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle - Napoleon Hill which says, “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way”. I would actually argue the quote should be, “If you cannot do great things, do small things a great number of times”. - Albert Einstein is said to have called "the power of compound interest the most powerful force in the universe." -C. S. Lewis - "Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance." Contact us at [email protected]

The world happiness report link: http://worldhappiness.report/ https://s3.amazonaws.com/happiness-report/2019/WHR19.pdf The key variables in the happiness number: 1. GDP per capita 2. Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE). Healthy life expectancies at birth are based on the data extracted from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Health Observatory data repository 3. Social support (or having someone to count on in times of trouble) is the national average of the binary responses (either 0 or 1) to the GWP question “If you were in trouble, do you have relatives or friends you can count on to help you whenever you need them, or not?” 4. Freedom to make life choices is the national average of responses to the GWP question “Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with your freedom to choose what you do with your life?” 5. Generosity is the residual of regressing national average of response to the GWP question “Have you donated money to a charity in the past month?” on GDP per capita. 6. Corruption Perception: The measure is the national average of the survey responses to two questions in the GWP: “Is corruption widespread throughout the government or not” and “Is corruption widespread within businesses or not?” The overall perception is just the average of the two 0-or-1 responses. In case the perception of government corruption is missing, we use the perception of business corruption as the overall perception. The corruption perception at the national level is just the average response of the overall perception at the individual level. 7. Positive affect is defined as the average of three positive affect measures in GWP: happiness, laugh and enjoyment in the Gallup World Poll waves 3-7. These measures are the responses to the following three questions, respectively: “Did you experience the following feelings during A LOT OF THE DAY yesterday? How about Happiness?”, “Did you smile or laugh a lot yesterday?”, and “Did you experience the following feelings during A LOT OF THE DAY yesterday? How about Enjoyment?” Waves 3-7 cover years 2008 to 2012 and a small number of countries in 2013. For waves 1-2 and those from wave 8 on, positive affect is defined as the average of laugh and enjoyment only, due to the limited availability of happiness. 8. Negative affect is defined as the average of three negative affect measures in GWP. They are worry, sadness and anger, respectively the responses to “Did you experience the following feelings during A LOT OF THE DAY yesterday? How about Worry?”, “Did you experience the following feelings during A LOT OF THE DAY yesterday? How about Sadness?”, and “Did you experience the following feelings during A LOT OF THE DAY yesterday? How about Anger?” “Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile." —Robert F. Kennedy. Contact us at [email protected]

Substance dependencies chart: https://images.app.goo.gl/TuXbREvttnqnzbiz6 https://medium.com/s/story/if-connection-is-our-core-human-need-then-why-are-we-so-bad-at-it-a904ae486a48 https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_you_know_about_addiction_is_wrong?referrer=playlist-new_thoughts_on_addiction#t-26178 "Everything you know about addiction is wrong." "What really causes addiction -- to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved ones struggle to manage their addictions. He started to wonder why we treat addicts the way we do -- and if there might be a better way. As he shares in this deeply personal talk, his questions took him around the world, and unearthed some surprising and hopeful ways of thinking about an age-old problem." “Civilisation began the first time a person cast an angry word instead of a rock.” "we should do one thing a day that scares us." "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." "Women are like teabags. You don't know how strong they are until you put them in hot water. (don’t go there!)" "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

“Civilisation began the first time a person cast an angry word instead of a rock.” - The Pollyannish Assumption: https://stratechery.com/2017/the-pollyannish-assumption/ - "The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws which respect an establishment of religion, prohibit the free exercise of religion, or abridge the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights." "Categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment include obscenity (as determined by the Miller test), fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct,[10] speech that incites imminent lawless action, and regulation of commercial speech such as advertising.[11][12] Within these limited areas, other limitations on free speech balance rights to free speech and other rights, such as rights for authors over their works (copyright), protection from imminent or potential violence against particular persons, restrictions on the use of untruths to harm others (slander), and communications while a person is in prison. When a speech restriction is challenged in court, it is presumed invalid and the government bears the burden of convincing the court that the restriction is constitutional.[13]" - "Freedom of speech and expression, therefore, may not be recognized as being absolute, and common limitations or boundaries to freedom of speech relate to libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, sedition, incitement, fighting words, classified information, copyright violation, trade secrets, food labeling, non-disclosure agreements, the right to privacy, the right to be forgotten, public security, and perjury. Justifications for such include the harm principle, proposed by John Stuart Mill in On Liberty, which suggests that: "the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others."[3]" - Facebook community guidelines: https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/credible_violence - YouTube guidelines: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2801939?hl=en Contact us at [email protected]

Article link: https://www.theschooloflife.com/thebookoflife/emotional-identity/ The questions are: - Self-Love -- If people knew who I really was deep down, they’d be shocked. -- It can be embarrassing to ask where the bathroom is. -- I relationships, it can feel pretty disturbing when someone you like starts to like you back. -- I sometimes feel a bit disgusting. -- When people like you, a lot of it comes down to what you’ve managed to achieve. - Candour -- People tend to think too much. -- I’m not a jealous person -- I’m basically very sane. -- I don’t mind feedback in theory, but most of what I’ve received has been really quite off the mark. -- There’s far too much ‘psychobabble’ around these days. - Communication -- People you’re close to should be naturally good at understanding how you feel in a lot of areas. -- When I feel misunderstood, I need to be alone. -- I’m not a good teacher. -- I sulk every now and then. -- People rarely ‘get it’ when you’re trying to explain. - Trust -- It’s not going to all be OK in the end. -- I worry about my health. -- Civilization is pretty fragile. -- When someone is late, I sometimes wonder if they might have died. -- If you don’t watch them closely, people will try to swindle you. Quotes: - “I’m not proud of everything i’ve done, but i’m proud of who i am today.” - "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." Eleanor Roosevelt - “Compare yourself not to others but to who you were yesterday.” Jordan Peterson. - “Don’t promise when you are happy, don’t reply when you are angry, don’t decide when you are sad.” Decisions = logic + emotion. If are you outside 1 standard deviation and can delay making a decision then delay :)! Mentioning: - The 'Dear HBR' podcast. - Aristotle’s golden mean/ - Nelson Mandela's bio 'A long road to freedom.' - The book 'Don’t sweat the small things.' - Helpfully uncooperative. - Happily irritable - All models are wrong. Some are helpful. Contact us at [email protected]

The big 5 are: Openness. Conscientiousness. Extraversion. Agreeableness. Neuroticism. Mentioning: - The 'Dear HBR' podcast. - Aristotle’s golden mean/ - Nelson Mandela's bio 'A long road to freedom.' - The book 'Don’t sweat the small things.' - Helpfully uncooperative. - Happily irritable - All models are wrong. Some are help. Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by Philosophize This! by Stephen West and specifically the following episodes on The Frankfurt School: Episode 109 – The Frankfurt School pt. 1 – Introduction Episode 109 – The Frankfurt School pt. 2 – The Enlightenment Episode 110 – The Frankfurt School pt. 3 – The Culture Industry Episode 111 – The Frankfurt School pt. 4 – Eros Episode #112 – The Frankfurt School pt. 5 – Civilization Episode #113 – The Frankfurt School pt. 6 – Art As A Tool For Liberation Episode #114 – The Frankfurt School pt. 7 – The Great Refusal Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by Philosophize This! by Stephen West and specifically the following episodes on The Frankfurt School: Episode 109 – The Frankfurt School pt. 1 – Introduction Episode 109 – The Frankfurt School pt. 2 – The Enlightenment Episode 110 – The Frankfurt School pt. 3 – The Culture Industry Episode 111 – The Frankfurt School pt. 4 – Eros Episode #112 – The Frankfurt School pt. 5 – Civilization Episode #113 – The Frankfurt School pt. 6 – Art As A Tool For Liberation Episode #114 – The Frankfurt School pt. 7 – The Great Refusal Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by the "Robert Kegan's 'In Over Our Heads' ". Here is a summary of Kegan's framework: - Stage 1 — Impulsive mind (early childhood) - Stage 2 — Imperial mind (adolescence, 6% of adult population) - Stage 3 — Socialized mind (58% of the adult population) - Stage 4 — Self-Authoring mind (35% of the adult population) - Stage 5 — Self-Transforming mind (1% of the adult population) The framework made by Duncan: - L1: I'm not aware of of the rules & principles of the stories that permeate the society I live in - L2: I am aware are of the socio cultural story and passively or actively live by the principles - L3: I have pushed back on some parts of the standard story. Ie I am starting to decide what works for me - L4: I am aware of multiple stories (ie multiple different doctrines, not just the main prevalent one of the society I live in today) and I pick and choose the parts from multiple doctrines that work for me - L5: I create my own values. Ie I am not just taking from existing doctrines, I’m creating my own values to augment existing values I have actively chosen - L6: I help others move up L1-L5. Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by Tim Minchin's 9 Lessons For Life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoEezZD71sc&t=701s https://medium.com/speak-louder/9-lessons-on-life-from-tim-minchin-822ab14d92df Key quotes: - 1. You don’t have to dream - 2. Don’t seek happiness - 3. Remember, it’s all luck - 4. Exercise - 5. Be Hard on Your Opinions - 6. Be a teacher - 7. Define yourself by what you love - 8. Respect People With Less Power Than You - 9. Don’t Rush Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by Zat Rana's "The Simple Art of Not Being Miserable" https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-simple-art-of-not-being-miserable-b374f42bc318 Key quotes: - “When they are hungry, they fast. When they are unoccupied, they meditate.” - “When someone seeks,” said Siddhartha, “then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.” - “Almost everything that motivates you to take action starts with a question, whether you realize it or not. The simple reason is that before you desire an answer, you have to first define what you are looking for.” - “If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so… The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.” - “Humans are biologically programmed to desire things. It’s encoded in the survival machine that we refer to as our body. This process of desiring, however, leads to a narrow zone of fixation that stops us from experiencing reality in a way that is conducive to avoiding misery.” We also touch on: - “If you want a happy wife get someone with low expectations.” Warren Buffett. - "Happiness = Reality - Expectations" WaitButWhy Tim Urban - “Every year should be the best year of your life.” - “We can try to benefit from all our experiences. If they don’t make us happier they can at least make us wiser.” - "The obstacle is the way." Ryan Holiday Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by the "Jordan Peterson: Integrating Your Shadow Self (Jung)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDQ8DiP_Y_A One of the main research pieces the blog mentions is "Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function" We also touch on: - “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” Karl Jung - "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" Mark Manson. https://www.harpercollins.ca/9780062457714/the-subtle-art-of-not-giving-a-fck/ - ‘You have no right to be annoyed at someone if you haven’t talked to them about the thing that is annoying you.’ Duncan Anderson - Arianna Huffington: "For machines downtime is a bug, for human's it's a feature." - Danny Kahneman - Positive Sentiment Override Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by the "Thinking about poverty and thinking" by Ollie Lovell. http://www.ollielovell.com/pedagogy/thinking-poverty-thinking/ One of the main research pieces the blog mentions is "Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function" https://clime.newark.rutgers.edu/sites/CLiME/files/mani_science_976.full_.pdf We also touch on: - The Obstacle Is The Way: Ryan Holiday - Martin Seligman: Post Traumatic Growth - Viktor Frankl: Man’s search for meaning. - Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Stephen Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Scarcity vs Abundance mindset: Scarcity, Mullainathan & Eldar (2013) - Arianna Huffington: "For machines downtime is a bug, for human's it's a feature." - Dr. Hans Selye - The biology of stress Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by the "6 core Human Needs" by Tony Robbins. https://www.habitsforwellbeing.com/6-core-human-needs-by-anthony-robbins/ The 6 needs are: - Certainty - Variety - Significance - Love and connection - Growth - Contribution We also touch on: - "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service to others." Winston Churchill. - Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by the podcast "Philosophize This" - Stephen West. http://philosophizethis.org/ Specifically discussing the Hellenistic Age and the four schools of: Epicurianism, Stoicism, Cynicism & Skepticism. We also touch on: - "Pain + Reflection = Progress" - Ray Dalio - Stoicism: Base happiness on things you can control and not on things you can’t. - “Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of harming another; you end up getting burned.” Buddha - The Public Philosopher by Michael Sandel. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nmlh2/episodes/downloads - The school of life by Alain de Botton. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7IcJI8PUf5Z3zKxnZvTBog Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by an artile from The New Yorker "Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds" - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds Key parts from the article for discussion: "Contrary to conventional wisdom we are not entirely rational beings, or, that we do not base our reasonings entirely on facts. Instead, according to researchers our decisions / beliefs are driven more a social construct in that our we geared toward collaborative rather than logical thinking." We also touch on: - “The ability to change your mind is a superpower.” Ray dalio - “If you want to be right all the time, go be an accountant. The rest of us — paleontologists, internet dating specialists, serial entrepreneurs (read: homeless millennials), policymakers, and scholars of Japanese religions — will just have to get used to being wrong. There’s a strange paradox about wrongness: We go about our lives feeling like we’re right, but — in reality — we spend most of our lives being wrong.” Charles Chu - “Here’s the gist: because so many scientific theories from bygone eras have turned out to be wrong, we must assume that most of today’s theories will eventually prove incorrect as well.” Karyoln Schulz - “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.” Abraham Lincoln. - “The composition of this book has been for the author a long struggle of escape, and so must the reading of it be for most readers if the author's assault upon them is to he successful,-a struggle of escape from habitual modes of thought and expression. The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.” Keynes. - “When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do, Sir?” John Maynard Keynes - “The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.” — Mortimer Adler - “I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do.” Charlie Munger. - “We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire.” Charlie Munger. Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by a book titled Insight by Tasha Eurich. https://www.insight-book.com/AboutTasha.aspx Key parts from the book for discussion: “95% of people think they are self aware but studies show that 10-15% people actually are.” What Are Your Values? Understanding our values—that is, the principles that guide how we want to live our lives— is the first pillar of insight. Values help us define the person we want to be, as well as set the stage for the other six pillars. Here are a few questions to help you better understand yours: [DA: I think we go through and answer these questions one after the other] 1. What values were you raised with? Does your current belief system reflect those values, or do you see the world differently than you were brought up to see it? 2. What were the most important events or experiences of your childhood and young adulthood? How did they shape your view of the world? 3. At work and in life, whom do you most respect and what do you respect about them? 4. Whom do you least respect and what makes you feel this way? 5. Who is the best (and the worst) boss you’ve ever had, and what did she or he do to earn that moniker? Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by a talk Alain de Botton gave on Romanticism. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPOuIyEJnbE In the ensuing discussion we also touched on: - Monogamy, explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCGyLjBjuGI - ‘Romantic realism’: the seven rules to help you avoid divorce: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jan/10/romantic-realism-the-seven-rules-to-help-you-avoid-divorce - Owen Benjamin "why women are crazy and men are stupid": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQoQKnE6Yhs - How to pick a life partner - Wait But Why: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/02/pick-life-partner.html - The Five Love Languages - Book by Gary Chapman: http://www.5lovelanguages.com/ Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by Social and emotional learning (SEL) which is the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions. https://casel.org/what-is-sel/ In the ensuing discussion we also touched on: - Steven Pinker - Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073TJBYTB/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 - INSIGHT by Tasha Eurich. https://www.insight-book.com/ - Farnam Street - Decision Journal. https://fs.blog/2014/02/decision-journal/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by an NPR artcile - Americans Are A Lonely Lot, And Young People Bear The Heaviest Burden. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/05/01/606588504/americans-are-a-lonely-lot-and-young-people-bear-the-heaviest-burden In the ensuring discussion we also touched on: - Brene Brown - Daring Greatly: https://www.amazon.com.au/Daring-Greatly-Brene-Brown/dp/1592408419 - Susan Pinker - The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier and Happier: https://www.amazon.com/Village-Effect-Face-Face-Healthier/dp/0307359549 - Kim Scott - Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity: https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Candor-Kick-Ass-Without-Humanity/dp/1427283125 Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by All In The Mind - ABC Radio National « » Placebo power. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/placebo-power/9613346 In the ensuring discussion we also touched on: - Is there scientific proof we can heal ourselves? | Lissa Rankin, MD. TED Talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWQfe__fNbs&feature=youtu.be - The power of believing that you can improve | Carol Dweck. Growth Mindset. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X0mgOOSpLU - Meditation App Headspace: https://www.headspace.com/headspace-meditation-app - Meditation App Smiling Mind: https://www.smilingmind.com.au/smiling-mind-app/ - "Intelligent individuals learn from everything and everyone; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers." — Socrates Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by The Mission's 'The Founders Of The World’s Five Largest Companies All Follow The 5-Hour Rule' - https://medium.com/the-mission/the-founders-of-the-worlds-five-largest-companies-all-follow-the-5-hour-rule-and-they-re-9ca82e93f3fc Quotes we like: - "First, the definitions. I define a voracious learner as someone who follows the 5-hour rule — dedicating at least five hours per week to deliberate learning. I define a polymath as someone who becomes competent in at least three diverse domains and integrates them into a skill set that puts them in the top 1% of their field. " - "When you become a voracious learner, you compound the value of everything you’ve learned in the past. When you become a polymath, you develop the ability to combine skills, and you develop a unique skill set, which helps you develop a competitive advantage." - “ When you become a voracious learner, you compound the value of everything you’ve learned in the past. When you become a polymath, you develop the ability to combine skills, and you develop a unique skill set, which helps you develop a competitive advantage” - “At the highest levels, learning isn’t something you do to prepare for your work. Learning is the most important work. It is the core competency to build. It’s the thing you never delegate. And it’s one of the ultimate drivers of long-term performance and success.” In the ensuring discussion we also touched on: - Amazon: CEO Jeff Bezos' 2018 shareholder letter - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/18/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-2018-shareholder-letter.html - Dreyfus model of skill acquisition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition - Abstract: The Art of Design | Netflix - https://www.netflix.com/title/80057883 - Narro: text to audio - https://www.narro.co/ - Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3228917-outliers - Forget The 10,000-Hour Rule; Edison, Bezos, & Zuckerberg Follow The 10,000-Experiment Rule - https://medium.com/@michaeldsimmons/forget-about-the-10-000-hour-rule-7b7a39343523 - Ray dalio "We tolerate mistakes. We don’t tolerate not learning from mistakes." https://www.principles.com/ - "The new basic principle is that in order to learn to avoid making mistakes, we must learn from our mistakes. To cover up mistakes is, therefore, the greatest intellectual sin." — Karl Popper - Bill Bryson: A Short History of Nearly Everything - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Everything - The Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38210.The_Art_of_Happiness - The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil - https://www.amazon.com/Singularity-Near-Humans-Transcend-Biology/dp/0143037889 - Shoe Dog: Phil Knight - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0176M1A44/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by Wait But Why's 'How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)' - https://waitbutwhy.com/2018/04/picking-career.html Tim Urban In the ensuring discussion we also touched on: - 80,000 Hours 'Career Guide: Part 1: We reviewed over 60 studies about what makes for a dream job. Here’s what we found.' https://80000hours.org/career-guide/job-satisfaction/ - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3XTzVzaHQEd30rQbuvCtTQ - Masters of Scale hosted by LinkedIn Co-Founder and Greylock Partner Reid Hoffman. https://mastersofscale.com/ - Neil deGrasse Tyson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson - The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Book by Patrick Lencioni: https://www.tablegroup.com/books/dysfunctions - Maslow's hierarchy of needs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs - Flow (psychology)Csíkszentmihályi : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology) Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by 'The First Seven Years Are Key to a Successful Life' by The World Bank - http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2014/06/05/the-first-seven-years-are-key-to-a-successful-life Fav quotes: - Scientific evidence suggests that the first 1,000 days are the most important in a child’s life. Providing quality services and reaching out to parents with tailored support during this critical period pays off with increased cognitive skills, significantly improved education outcomes, and better starts to life. - “The first years are the most important in life of every child as they set the basis for overall success in life. They are also very important for every society as this is the best chance to influence future prosperity, inclusiveness and social stability. Early childhood development is considered to be the most powerful tool to address inequities, a chance to provide opportunities to all children to develop their full potential. Every child is needed, and every child has the right to get a good start“, In the insuring discussion we also touched on: - 'Zone of proximal development': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proximal_development - Neil deGrasse Tyson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson - Stoicism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism - International Baccalaureate Junior Curriculum: http://www.ibo.org/programmes/primary-years-programme/curriculum/ - 'Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon? Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World': https://www.amazon.com/Whos-Afraid-Big-Bad-Dragon/dp/1501200976 - Neuroplasticity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity - Maslow's hierarchy of needs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs - Growth Mindset by Carol Dweck: https://www.mindsetworks.com/science/ - Flow (psychology)Csíkszentmihályi : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology) - Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Book by Angela Duckworth: https://www.amazon.com.au/Grit-Angela-Duckworth/dp/1501111108 Contact us at [email protected]

Subscribe to podcast here: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/cloud-streaks/id1363413519 This chat was inspired by 'The Most Important Thing In A Relationship' by Kris Gage - https://medium.com/@krisgage/the-most-important-thing-in-a-relationship-fde6e9087d6f Fav quotes: - 'Emotional stability and emotional self-sufficiency.' - We look for happiness from others, but this is an unreliable source of happiness… And here’s the thing: it’s not their job to fill our emotional needs.” In the insuring discussion we also touched on: - 'The Only 3 Things I Need In A Partner' by Kris Gage: https://medium.com/@krisgage/the-only-3-things-i-need-in-a-partner-602f1bc765f0 - Stoicism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism - Mark Mason 'ubtle Art of Not Giving a F*Ck': https://www.amazon.com.au/Subtle-Art-Not-Giving-Ck/dp/0062457713 - 'The Five Love Languages' by Gary Chapman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Love_Languages - "If you can't handle me at my worst, then you don't deserve me at my best" Marilyn Monroe - Concentrated vs diffuse thinking: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn Contact us at [email protected]

This chat was inspired by 'Pale Blue Dot' - https://www.designluck.com/pale-blue-dot/ In the insuring discussion we also touched on: - Carl Sagan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan - Hedonism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonism - Agency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(philosophy) - Albert Einstein: "A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness." - Sam Harris: https://samharris.org/ - Consequentialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism - Peter Singer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer - Elon Musk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk - Aristotle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle - Nihilism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism Contact us at [email protected]

This conversation is based on: Darius Foroux - The 21 Most Important Questions Of Your Life http://dariusforoux.com/21-questions/ And references the following: - Pixar's Inside Out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Out_(2015_film) -John Gottman - Relationship Expert: https://www.gottman.com/about/john-julie-gottman/ - The Science of Happiness - Berkley: https://ggsc.berkeley.edu/what_we_do/event/the_science_of_happiness - Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman: https://mastersofscale.com/ - Abstract on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80057883 - Ray Dalio - Principles: https://www.principles.com/ -Michael Simmons - Why Successful People Spend 10 Hours A Week On “Compound Time”: https://medium.com/the-mission/why-successful-people-spend-10-hours-a-week-on-compound-time-79d64d8132a8 Please contact us at [email protected]

This conversation references the following articles and talks: - Will the Future Be Human? - Yuval Noah Harari at the WEF Annual Meeting 2018 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npfShBTNp3Q - Cambridge Analytica Uncovered: Secret filming reveals election tricks -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ - Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future -https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html - The Singularity Is Near - https://www.amazon.com.au/Singularity-Near-Ray-Kurzweil/dp/0143037889 Please let us know any feedback by commenting or contacting at [email protected]