Scott H Young Podcast
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(Ep 67) - How to worry less what other people think of you
How to worry less what other people think of you
(Ep 65) - Why is taking action hard
Why is taking action hard?
(Ep 66) - The 5 habits to fall asleep on time every night
The 5 habits to fall asleep on time every night.
(Ep 64) - Unraveling the enigma of reason
Unraveling the enigma of reason.
(Ep 63) - The complete guide to memory
The complete guide to memory.
(Ep 62) - Ultralearning Environments: Why where you learn determines how much you learn
A post about Ultralearning Environments.
(Ep 61) - How do you make a good analogy
How do you make a good analogy?
(Ep 60) - Why care about learning
Why care about learning?
(Ep 59) - Neuroscience of anxiety
Neuroscience of anxiety.
(Ep 58) - The obvious way to improve your career
The obvious way to improve your career.
(Ep 57) - Some things that have helped me worry less
Some things that have helped me worry less.
(Ep 56) - What's the point of productivity
What's the point of productivity
(Ep 55) - Why is it so hard to create permanent habits
Why is it so hard to create permanent habits
(Ep 54) - Why waking up at 5am won't make you rich
Why waking up at 5am won't make you rich.
(Ep 53) - A subtle mistake people make when trying to grow their careers
A subtle mistake people make when trying to grow their careers
(Ep 52) - The hidden language of top performers
The hidden language of top performers.
(Ep 51) - Should you target the minimum?
Should you target the minimum when learning a new skill?
(Ep 50) - How to learn a language in record time
How to learn a new language in record time.
(Ep 49) - How to stop feeling like an imposter
How to stop feeling like an imposter
(Ep 48) - Are you stepping over $100 bills lying on the sidewalk?
Are you stepping over $100 bills lying on the sidewalk?
(Ep 47) - Are you living life or just planning your biography?
The problem is that our experiential happiness is only loosely correlated with how happy we feel when thinking broadly about our lives. Listen to find out how we can resolve this dilemma.
(Ep 46) - Is reading making you stupid?
Is reading making you stupid?
(Ep 45) - The critical 7 rules to understand people
7 critical rules for understanding people!
(Ep 44) - How important is growth?
How important is growth?
(Ep 43) - Can life have too much meaning?
Can life have too much meaning?
(Ep 42) - Twenty-five useful thinking tools
25 Thinking Tools
(Ep 41) - There is no “real” you
There is no real you.
(Ep 40) - Update on My 10-Year Plans at Becoming Exceptional
My update on my 10-year plan of becoming exceptional.
(Ep 39) - Explore or exploit: The hidden decision that guides your life
(Ep 39) - Explore or exploit: The hidden decision that guides your life by Scott H Young
(Ep 38) - Book recommendation: Indistractable
Book recommendation for Indistractable.
(Ep 37) - The complete guide to self control
The complete guide to self-control.
(Ep 36) - How to think about your life's work
How to think about your life's work.
(Ep 35) - If you want to be an author don't start writing (and other strangely useful career advice)
If you want to be an author, don't start writing.
(Ep 34) - “I already know what to do, I just don’t do it.” I disagree.
I know it already and I disagree.
(Ep 33) - The hardest part about learning hard things
My thoughts about the hardest part of learning hard things.
(Ep 32) - Do you even want success (the perils of achievement bias)
Scott shares his thoughts about the perils of achievement bias.
(Ep 31) - How should I get better at writing?
Scott shares his insights about how you can get better at writing.
(Ep 30) - Book Recommendation: The Hungry Brain
In this episode, we are going over the hungry brain book from Stephan Guyenet.
(Ep 23) - Five scientific steps to ace your next exam
The ideas in this video are just some of what I teach in my 6-week course, Rapid Learner: https://www.rapid-learner-course.com/
(Ep 22) - Do you have habits or just commitments?
A habit is something you do nearly automatically, given a certain situation. Many of your habits might not be so automatic. Here's what to do about it.
(Ep 29) - Who has time for hobbies?
Should you schedule time for your hobbies? How to prevent digital distractions from eating up your time and what to do instead.
(Ep 28) - Why memorize?
Why bother trying to remember things when everything is just a quick Google search away? Here's the real reason you need it inside your brain.
(Ep 27) - Life’s wicked problems (and how to get past them)
In 1967, C. West Churchman defined "wicked problems". Here's why they are prevalent in life, and how to get past their inescapable difficulties.
(Ep 26) - Useful Career Tool: Look for partial mentors
We all want that one key person to look up to. Unfortunately, such people are hard to find (and often have less time). Here's what you should do instead.
(Ep 25) - Bored with your job? The recipe for enjoying your work
Work is often boring or frustrating (sometimes both)! Applying principles from a Hungarian psychologist, you can make work a lot more enjoyable.
(Ep 24) - Is ambition a good thing? Thoughts on striving without selfishness
Is ambition a good thing? Something you should cultivate or abandon? Ambition has allowed for some very positive things, but it also has a hidden dark side.
(Ep 23) - Impossible Standards: The 3-step process to reach new heights in your work and life
Hard goals create rapid growth. Pick standards you can't currently reach, without rejecting or lowering them to meet your current abilities.
(Ep 22) - Should you target the minimum?
Nearly any advice you get on improving anything implicitly fits into one of three types: minimum, average or maximum. Which you should aim at?
(Ep 21) - Should you follow less news?
Would your life be better if you read less news? Should you be reading more olds instead: books and ideas that will last for more than a moment?
(Ep 20) - Should you strive to desire more or less
Should you set goals, cultivate ambition and strive for greater and better things? Or should you diminish your needs and be more accepting of life?