Are You a Recovering Intellectual?

Have you ever wondered why our stickiest moods and problems seem to resolve themselves the minute we stop trying to fix them? Join Michael as he shares one of his favorite metaphors for our innate mental health, resilience, and wellbeing! 

Today's exploration of the learned, habitual nature of fear will give you a new way of understanding and being with what for so many of us can be a crippling emotion. Warning - you might just find yourself falling a teeny, tiny bit in love with it even as you find it easier and e ... Show More

If you'd like to have the experience of presence and aliveness "on demand", the two simple questions in this week's episode will help you access and return to the deeper dimension of life any time you choose! 

Ever met someone who thinks they’re the smartest person in the room? Darren tells a timeless lesson about why we should be cautious of those who overestimate their own intelligence. Stop wasting time listening to people who don’t even realize how little they know. Instead, seek o ... Show More

Emotional intelligence is understanding your inner world in great detail—seeing how experiences have shaped you as a person. But how do we increase this kind of awareness? In this episode, learn how to cultivate emotional IQ and strengthen your relationship with yourself and othe ... Show More

give yourself credit for being intelligent, even if it isn't conventional.sending you all lots of love and peaaaaaaace!https://linktr.ee/thezurkieshow 

Tenelle Porter’s job is to study humility. Specifically, intellectual humility, the idea that we might be wrong or mistaken about some of our beliefs. Tenelle talks with Chris about why she thinks intellectual humility is so important, how to cultivate it, and why it’s the missin ... Show More

Can intellectual humility be measured? What influences it and affects it, limits it and enhances it? What even is it, scientifically speaking? We explore all of this and then play an episode of How to Be A Better Human featuring psychologist Tenelle Porter telling comedian Chris ... Show More

The better the daily decisions the more superior your daily results. The fine art of brilliant choice-making isn’t spoken of nor deconstructed so often yet it’s a skill absolutely worth mastering. The people, places and pursuits that fuel your joy are not mere accidents. By this ... Show More

Hey guys, Nico and Derek here! On today’s episode of BeerSos, we are joined by Salesh! Salesh gives us high school senior–level questions, and we compete to see who’s smarter than your average high school senior.We hope you enjoy it!Support the show 

‘In the awakening of intelligence is the beginning of total happy security of human beings. Nowhere else will you have security except in that.’ This episode on Awakening has four sections. The first extract (2:19) is from the second question and answer meeting in Saanen 1981, an ... Show More

Sam Harris discusses the breakdown of trust in institutions, the nature of intellectual authority, the danger of bad incentives, the epidemic of conspiracy thinking and misinformation, Trump and Elon, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you ... Show More