Are You a Recovering Intellectual?

This week's episode explores the felt sense of "I can" - not as an affirmation or a technique, but as a genuine state of knowing that lets you brings more of yourself to whatever it is that you're doing. By the time you've finished listening, you'll be able to trace where that fe ... Show More

Do you want to know what it feels like to be a millionaire? Would you like to? This week, Michael revisits one of his most-loved exercises from Supercoach, and shares a new layer of insight that landed for him over ten years after first teaching it. In this episode: The two-step ... Show More

Three small, ordinary words are quietly making your life harder than it needs to be. You use them every day. And once you see what they're actually doing, you can't unsee it. This week, Michael unpacks the three words, not as a linguistic trick but as a window into where we send ... 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. 

We humans are smart, to be sure, but if we’re so smart then how come we can’t figure how we got so smart in the first place? Think about that! We sure did and we go over some theories in this super interesting episode.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.