Nick Maggiulli, data scientist turned financial writer and COO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, joins me to discuss his latest book,The Wealth Ladder, which presents a six-level framework for building and managing wealth. Warning: this episode will upend what you think you know about money. We explore why atypical results require…
“Most people journal as if it’s a diary, and there’s a distinction between the two…” Lawrence Yeo explains... 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #Shorts #Podcast #Journal #Productivity #diary
"Mastery really is [...] you're just trying to improve yourself. Comparisons are not made with other people, but only with prior versions of yourself." ~ Lawrence Yeo on chasing mastery vs chasing status. 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #Shorts #Podcast #Mastery #Status
"Curiosity is ultimately being grateful that you don't know everything. It's this gratitude for uncertainty." ~ Lawrence Yeo 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #Shorts #Podcast #Curiosity #Gratitude #Uncertainty
"We envy the people that have the greatest potential to be close to us." ~ Lawrence Yeo 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #Shorts #Podcast #Envy #Ambition
Lawrence Yeo — writer, illustrator and author of “The Inner Compass” — joins the show to discuss the power of intuition in an uncertain world. We explore why embracing uncertainty leads to greater curiosity, how social conditioning pulls us away from our true north, why doing things for their own…
"The Foul Four are imposing rules that children cannot opt out of. That is key. They're not rules like you opt into the rules of football, baseball, or playing cards with your friends. There are rules to all of those games. But you opt in voluntarily and you opt out…
"I think one of the jarring things is people immediately jump to what is a false dichotomy between total control and neglect. So they immediately assume that what we're talking about is neglect. And that's simply not true. The point is, you can satisfy children's preferences, foster their interests, foster…
"School is this Persona for the adults. I think kids get very, very good at learning to please other people. And, it's baked into the school experience. It's baked into the rules. The relationship with a rule-giver, a rule-enforcer, is a reason to appease and to please and to doubt…
"I think we have childhood inverted, right? You, you don't get the freedom to explore your own interests and ideas until after childhood, when you have dependence and you have responsibilities. You have, you know, you're expected to be on a career track, right? You're in your 20s. You're supposed…
What if everything we think we know about raising children is not just wrong, but actively harmful? Aaron Stupple and Logan Chipkin, authors of "The Sovereign Child," join Infinite Loops to make a case so compelling and radical that it challenges the very foundation of modern parenting and education. From…
"About a year ago, I stumbled into this Twitter subculture of people that were obsessed with [a] style of advanced meditation that engenders strange, intensely altered states in your mind that are comparable to psychedelics..." ~ Nadia Asparouhova on the power of Jhana meditation Full video: https://youtu.be/NNT2oDu9wAw
"If everyone's just keeping their ideas to themselves in group chats... how do we continue to contribute to the civil public discourse and ensure that good ideas are making their way back out?" ~ Nadia Asparouhova explains the perils of Antimemes...
"No one can come up with the perfect content moderation policy that solves all problems..." So how do we inoculate ourselves against mind-viruses and bad ideas? Nadia Asparouhova explores this issue... #vaccine #meme #Virus #internet #culture
"Today we have ... lots of different super memes that people can sort of pledge their allegiance to... And so you have lots of these different competing talent ecosystems and competitions for mindshare." ~ Nadia Asparouhova on the emergence of Supermemes... #supermemes #memes #ecosystems #media #culture #war
Nadia Asparouhova, author of "Antimemetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading," joins me for a fascinating exploration of why some ideas go viral while others—often the most important ones—resist transmission entirely. We dive into antimemes, Curtis Yarvin's journey from being canceled to becoming mainstream, St. Paul as history's ultimate memetic engineer,…
Being on the street doesn’t make you dangerous. But how society treats you might. Israel Balogun shares why the real crime isn’t homelessness, it’s stigma. And what happens when kids are finally given the space to define themselves. Full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovN_HXjraYU #infiniteloops #infinitel88ps #infiniteloopsepisode #fullvideo #onthestreet #balogun #criminaljustice #kids…
People with disabilities are often expected to perform for acceptance. In this episode, we talk about why people with disabilities shouldn’t need to convince the world they’re capable. They just need tools, space, and the right to build. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovN_HXjraYU #peoplewithdisability #peoplewithdisabilities #episode #makers #right #disabilities #infiniteloops #infinitel88ps #infiniteloopsepisode
Imagine skipping breakfast because your school didn’t build an accessible bathroom. That was daily life for one student in a wheelchair. Just for the right to learn. Exploring the quiet cruelty of exclusion and the power of showing up anyway. Full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovN_HXjraYU #infiniteloops #infinitel88ps #infiniteloopsepisode #showingup #showupanyway
Akhin means a feraless warrior. In this episode, we hear how a local dialect became the backbone of a program that sees the value in what the streets taught- grit, courage, and inner fire. Full video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovN_HXjraYU #infiniteloops #infinitel88ps #infiniteloopsepisode #streets #grit #value #warrior
I’m joined today by two remarkable men I met through the O’Shaughnessy Fellowships and Grants program. Israel Balogun was homeless and illiterate until the age of 22. Now, he leads a Nigerian youth rehabilitation nonprofit for street kids and is building a self-sustaining village for 200 out-of-school children with the…
"...the act of meditating on some of these [japanese koans] actually can help to liberate us from this very rigid linear way that we tend to approach information." Dr. Diane on mind-expanding concepts... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx5q0P548IU
"The first thing is for people to believe it's possible. And then the second thing is to learn how to shift your awareness to gain mastery over where you put your awareness." Dr. Diane on the power of focus...
Do we even have a definition of consciousness? Dr. Diane explores a new way to understand this problem... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx5q0P548IU