The daily practice that could rewire your brain | Timm Chiusano
Emotional intelligence coach Timm Chiusano shares how noticing a manhole cover on one of the worst days of his career led him to realize he is 'addicted to appreciation.' He explains what appreciation is, how it differs from gratitude, and how consistently noticing and valuing everyday things and people has transformed his life and work. He offers simple practices for cultivating appreciation and argues it can make us happier, more present, and better able to connect and create change together.
TIP763: Investing Lessons for My 18-Year-Old Self w/ Clay Finck
Host Clay Finck delivers a solo episode structured as a letter to his 18-year-old self, sharing 12 key lessons from his investing journey, including starting early, using index funds, focusing on great businesses, and managing emotions. He explains why beating the market is difficult but possible, how patience and time horizons create an edge, and why moats, management quality, and megatrends matter more than simple valuation metrics like P/E. The episode also covers investor psychology, avoiding unnecessary complexity, building a peer network, and developing an independent, process-driven investment philosophy that fits one's personality and goals.
Love 2.0: How to Move On
Host Shankar Vedantam speaks with psychologist Antonio Pascual Leone about why breakups are so difficult, the emotional mistakes people commonly make when relationships end, and practical therapeutic tools such as structured grief lists, narrative reframing, letter writing, and empty-chair dialogues to help people process loss and create their own sense of closure. In the second half, cognitive scientist Phil Fernback discusses the illusion of knowledge-why we routinely overestimate how much we understand, how this affects domains like politics, medicine, and everyday decision-making, and how to cultivate greater intellectual humility and curiosity in conversations with others.
TED Talks Daily Book Club: Why change is so scary - and how to unlock its potential | Maya Shankar (re-release)
Host Elise Hu introduces a live virtual book club around Oliver Berkman's book "Meditations for Mortals" and frames a replay of cognitive scientist Maya Shankar's 2023 TED talk about navigating unexpected change. In her talk, Shankar shares her own story of losing her dream of becoming a concert violinist, along with the experiences of others, to illustrate how change can be frightening because of uncertainty and loss but can also expand our capabilities, values, and identities. She offers three guiding questions to reframe disruptive events and describes how she is using them in her own current struggle with pregnancy losses and uncertainty about becoming a mother.
#830: Nick Kokonas and Richard Thaler, Nobel Prize Laureate - Realistic Economics, Avoiding The Winner's Curse, Using Temptation Bundling, and Going Against the Establishment
Tim Ferriss, Richard H. Thaler, and Nick Kokonas discuss how traditional economics models people as perfectly rational, selfish agents and why that vision breaks down when confronted with real human behavior. Thaler traces the origins of behavioral economics through stories and experiments on loss aversion, fairness, mental accounting, and self-control, showing how these insights improve predictions and policy in areas like retirement savings, pricing, and investing. They also explore the winner's curse in auctions and sports drafts, the power of nudges and temptation bundling, and Thaler's collaborations with Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, including a candid conversation about Kahneman's decision to end his life through assisted dying.
TIP757: Richer, Wiser, Happier Q3 2025 w/ Stig Brodersen & William Green
Host Stig Brodersen and co-host William Green have a wide-ranging quarterly Richer, Wiser, Happier discussion on universal truths, money and happiness, and the role of books and teachers in living well. They explore epistemic humility, cultural and psychological differences in values, and how these insights apply to investing decisions. They also examine research on income and happiness, how wealth can and cannot improve life, and share their own reading habits and spiritual influences that shape their thinking about how to live.