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
"They couldn't even do basic arithmetic. And yet at the same time, they could generate prime numbers in six digits." Dr. Diane recounts a case of Oliver Sacks that got her interested in studying savants... Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx5q0P548IU
Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell, neuropsychiatrist and author of "The ESP Enigma," joins me for a mind-bending exploration of consciousness, savant abilities, and the limitations of materialist science. Trained at Johns Hopkins under a neurologist-turned-psychiatrist, Diane has spent decades investigating phenomena that challenge our fundamental assumptions about how the brain works.…
"Our brains have been hardwired over a long period of time to assume scarcity. We operate as though the world is zero-sum because that is the way the world was for a very long time..." ~ Todd Rose 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #Shorts #Podcast #Scarcity #Abundance
Shared values are the strongest predictor of social trust... but self-silencing keeps them hidden. Todd Rose explains... 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #Shorts #Podcast
"All it takes is one other person in the room. One other person." "You become that extra confederate, the person that actually allows space for someone to be able to speak up, and you'll start a chain reaction." ~ Todd Rose 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #Shorts…
"People that self-silence have lower levels of perceived self-worth, have diminished life satisfaction [...] And what I think is even worse is as it ladders up to the interpersonal and then the social, it leads to declining levels of social trust.” ~Todd Rose 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our…
Todd Rose, co-founder and CEO of Populace, and author of books including "Collective Illusions" and "The End of Average," joins the show to discuss the science behind collective illusions and how they impact our society. We explore why so many Americans self-silence, the dangers of conformity, and how one person…
"But those kinds of trades - doesn't matter if you go on to become president of the United States - those trades are useful learning." Chuck Beames on the power of building from your hands... Full vid: https://youtu.be/JgoONOkXHT4
What are the rules of engagement in an autonomous world? Chuck Beames explains 👇 Full vid: https://youtu.be/JgoONOkXHT4
"Cybersecurity is the soft underbelly of the Space Force." ~ Chuck Beames encourages new military grads to learn new tools and apply a military mindset to networks and satellites Full vid: https://youtu.be/JgoONOkXHT4
"So, the race now goes from the first space race, which was about national pride... to now it's an economic one. It's about who is going to win economically. And also ... who's going to define the [new] rules of the road." ~ Chuck Beames on New Space #spacerace #newspace
Aerospace investor and York Space Systems chairman Chuck Beames joins me for a fascinating discussion on the commercial space revolution and the future of satellite security. A retired Air Force colonel with over 20 years experience as a space and intelligence officer, Chuck brings unparalleled expertise to our conversation about…
"I'm going to be honest, I think that bourgeois comfort is highly conducive to literary art." ~ A. Natasha Joukovsky 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #Shorts #Podcast #Art #Writing
"Success generally rests on disarming the very cognitive defense mechanisms designed to protect one's fragile psyche..." ~ A. Natasha Joukovsky on making art that speaks the truth. 🎙️ Watch the full episode on our channel #Shorts #Podcast #Art
"When I went then to boarding school in Connecticut, different world. The delta between the amount of effort and the effort to SHIELD effort is part of what you are literally learning there because it is such a class signifier [...] Manufactured nonchalance is how you show that you are…
“You have people working to pretend they are at leisure […] You are optimizing for your digital avatar that doesn't actually exist at the expense of your one wild and precious life.” ~ A. Natasha Joukovsky on why influencers work hard to look like they’re hardly working… 🎙️ Watch the…
Strategy consultant turned writer Natasha Joukovsky joins me to discuss why bourgeois comfort is more conducive to writing than you think, why choice-plots make for better fiction, the eyerolling prevalence of manufactured nonchalance, our shared distaste for Atlantis Bahamas, and MUCH more! I hope you enjoy this conversation as much…
You’ve mastered the hammer. But growth starts when you try a new tool. ~ Tiago Forte explains why doubling down on strengths can lead to diminishing and even negative returns. Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oW99rO_GQI
AI doesn’t care how big your team is. A 5-person company can now do what used to take 500 because the same tools are in everyone’s hands. ~ Tiago Forte on why AI is the great equalizer. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oW99rO_GQI