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291 - Tough - Terry Crews (rebroadcast)
Terry Crews, actor, athlete, artist, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho, star of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, host of America’s Got Talent - that Terry Crews joins us to discuss his new book, Tough. In the book, Terry shares the raw stor
290 - The Intention Action Gap - Britt Frank
In this episode, we sit down with therapist Britt Frank to discuss the intention action gap, the psychological term for the chasm between what you very much intend to do and what you tend to do instead. It turns out, there's a well-research
289 - Hack Your Bureaucracy - Marina Nitze (rebroadcast)
Marina Nitze is a professional fixer of broken systems – a hacker, not of computers and technology, but of the social phenomena that tend to emerge when people get together and form organizations, institutions, services, businesses, and gov
288 - Fluke - Brian Klaas
In this episode we sit down with Brian Klaas, author of Fluke, to get into the existential lessons and grander meaning for a life well-lived once one finally accepts the power and influence of randomness, chaos, and chance. In addition, we
287 - The Complexity of Genius - David Krakauer and Dean Simonton
In this episode, we are exploring the complexity of the concept of "genius" with two experts on the topic. First you’ll hear from David Krakauer, the president of The Santa Fe Institute, a research institution in New Mexico dedicated to the
286 - Notes on Complexity - Neil Theise
In this episode we sit down with professor Neil Theise, the author of Notes on Complexity, to get an introduction to complexity theory, the science of how complex systems behave – from cells to human beings, ecosystems, the known universe,
285 - What Do You Mean? - Celeste Kidd (rebroadcast)
Is a hotdog a sandwich? Well, that depends on your definition of a sandwich (and a hotdog), and according to the most recent research in cognitive science, the odds that your concept of a sandwich is the same as another person's concept are
284 - Awe - Dacher Keltner (rebroadcast)
In this episode we sit down with psychologist Dacher Keltner, one of the world’s leading experts on the science of emotion, the man Pixar hired to help them write Inside Out. In his new book – Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How
283 - Cultures of Growth - Mary C. Murphy
In this episode we welcome psychologist Mary C. Murphy, author of Cultures of Growth, who tells us how to create institutions, businesses, and other groups of humans that can better support collaboration, innovation, performance, and wellbe
282 - They Thought We Were Ridiculous - Andy Luttrell
In 1974, two psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, as the New Yorker once put it, "changed the way we think about the way we think." The prevailing wisdom, before their landmark research went viral (in the way things went viral i
281 - More Chat, Less Bot - Jeremy Utley, Kian Gohar, Henrik Werdelin
Jeremy Utley, Kian Gohar, and Henrik Werdelin sit down to discuss the surprising results of a new study into what happens when groups of people work together to brainstorm solutions to problems with the help of ChatGPT. Based on their resea
280 - Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg
Our guest in this episode is Charles Duhigg, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer for the New Yorker Magazine who is also the New York Times Bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. His new book is Super
YANSS 279 - Pluralistic Ignorance (rebroadcast)
There are several ways to define pluralistic ignorance, and that’s because it’s kind of a brain twister when you try to put it into words. On certain issues, most people people believe that most people believe what, in truth, few people bel
278 - An Admirable Point - Florence Hazrat
On this episode we learn about the history of the exclamation point, the question mark, and the semicolon (among many other aspects of language) with Florence Hazrat, a scholar of punctuation, who, to my great surprise, informed me that whi
277 - Visual Thinking - Temple Grandin (rebroadcast)
Temple Grandin didn’t develop speech until much later than most children, and she might have led a much different life if it hadn’t been for people who worked very hard to open up a space for her to thrive. In this episode we discuss all th
276 - How to Stand up to a Bully - Andrea Chalupa
In this episode David McRaney is interviewed by Andrea Chalupa about the psychological research covered in How Minds Change that could help if you expect to spend time with a family member this holiday who can't wait to pull you into an arg
275 - Blight - Emily Monosson
How likely is the fungal infection in The Last of Us? The one that takes over human brains and brings humanity to the brink of extinction, could something like that really happen? In this episode we sit down with Emily Monosson, an expert o
274 - Cascades - Greg Satell
In this episode we sit down with Greg Satell, a communication expert whose book, Cascades (https://gregsatell.com/cascades/), details how rapid, widespread change can sweep across groups of people big and small, and how understanding the ps
273 - The Conspiracy Test - Jesse Richardson
In this episode Jesse Richardson tells us all about ConspiracyTest.org (https://theconspiracytest.org), a new project designed to be a weird, fun, and cleverly educational way to explore just how skeptical you are (and could be) about a var
272 - Quit! - Annie Duke (rebroadcast)
I recently sat down for a live event and Q&A with the great Annie Duke to discuss her new book, Quit: The power of knowing when to walk away. This episode is the audio from that event. Quit is all about how to develop a very particular skil
271 - Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff (rebroadcast)
In this episode we sit down with Douglas Rushkoff (https://rushkoff.com/), a media scholar, journalist, and professor of digital economics who has a new fire in his belly when it comes to the world of billionaire preppers, which comes acros
270 - Defining Genius
In this show you'll hear the first episode of a documentary series I made for Himalaya, an audio service devoted to inspirational and educational content that asked me if I had any ideas for a book that I had yet to pursue, and sure enough,
269 - Deconstructing How Minds Change - Michael Taft
In celebration of How Minds Change, my new book, turning one-year-old, in this episode Michael Taft interviews David McRaney about how minds do and do not change, the process behind writing a book about that, and what he has learned since w
268 - The Status Game - Will Storr (rebroadcast)
In this episode we welcome back author Will Storr whose new book, The Status Game, feels like required reading for anyone confused, curious, or worried about how politics, cults, conspiracy theories communities, social media, religious fund
267 - Do Your Own Research - Sedona Chinn
Sedona Chinn, who studies how people make sense of competing scientific, environmental, and health-related claims, joins us to discuss her latest research into doing your own research. In her latest paper she found that the more a person va
266 - Project Alpha - Brian Brushwood
We sit down with Brian Brushwood to discuss how he put together this most recent season of The World's Greatest Con, his podcast about incredible scams. This season is all about how two teenagers pulled off an incredible hoax called Project
265 - Chess Queens - Jennifer Shahade (rebroadcast)
In this episode we sit down with Jennifer Shahade, a two-time U.S. Women’s Chess Champion, author, speaker, and professional poker player whose new book, Chess Queens, is the true story of the greatest female players of all time interwoven
264 - Nobody's Fool - Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris
In an era in which we have more information available to us than ever before, when claims of “fake news” might themselves be, in fact, fake news, Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, authors of The Invisible Gorilla, are back to offer us
263 - The Truth Wins - Tom Stafford (rebroadcast)
Deliberation. Debate. Conversation. Though it can feel like that’s what we are doing online as we trade arguments back and forth, most of the places where we currently gather make it much easier to produce arguments in isolation rather than
262 - If It Sounds Like a Quack - Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
At the peak of COVID-19, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling set out to write a book about the widespread pushback against masks and vaccines as away to discuss the rise of the medical freedom movement in America. But after meeting a series of people
