Are You a Recovering Intellectual?

How much control do you have over how you feel in any given moment? This week, Michael shares how his answer to that question has evolved over the years and how much more freedom it's possible to experience around your emotions. In this episode: How a conversation about moods cam ... Show More

What if there was a simple move you could make anytime you want to move in the direction of your dreams? Listen in as Michael shares lessons learned from one of his all time favorite books! In this episode: The book Michael loved enough to buy the publishing rights to Why the fir ... Show More

How big a problem are your problems? Listen in as Michael shares how a simple shift in perception can change everything. In this episode: The source of ALL problems Why reframing isn't the same as insight Dropping your story without pretending things are "fine" __________________ ... Show More

Why do smart people fall for dumb ideas? In this episode, Ryan explains how ego and overconfidence can trip up even the smartest minds and how Stoicism can help you avoid the same trap.📖 Preorder the final book in Ryan Holiday's The Stoic Virtues Series: "Wisdom Takes Work": htt ... Show More

<p>From the time we are schoolchildren, we are ranked and sorted based on how smart we are. But what if our assumptions about intelligence limit our potential? This week, psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman proposes a more expansive notion of what it means to be "smart."</p><p><i>If ... Show More

Would you kill one person to save the lives of five others? Why do you find yourself on the horns of a dilemma when someone offers you a chocolate cake? How can you believe different things at once? Find out what's running under the hood in this first episode of a three-parter ab ... Show More

<p>Mae West said, “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.” That might be true for some things – health, happiness, golden retrievers, maybe.</p><p>But in so many cases the thing that helps you can be taken to a dangerous level. And since it’s a “good thing,” not an obvious th ... Show More

How would you explain the difference between intelligence and wisdom? Which brings better life success? The story of Chesley Sullenberger and how he landed his airplane on the Hudson River. Why men are overrepresented in the top and bottom of the IQ bell curve. Can one's IQ be ch ... Show More

<p>What does it mean to be intelligent? Immediately we may think of figures like Albert Einstein and those who possess a genius-level IQ. People who have committed much to memory and have brains like computers.<br/><br/>Yet today, this traditional understanding of intelligence ha ... Show More

This episode is about Wisdom.