Gabriel Weinberg (@yegg) is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, founder of privacy-protecting search engine DuckDuckGo, and coauthor of Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models. What We Discuss with Gabriel Weinberg: What are mental models, and how can they be applied to make your life run more efficiently and effectively? How mental models used […]
Psychology
Jordan Harbinger podcast interviews that get heady. Conversations about cognition, psychology, and the human mind.
210: Howie Mandel | A Conversation About Mental Health, Talent, and Perseverance
Howie Mandel (@howiemandel) is a comedian, actor, host of Deal or No Deal, judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, and coauthor of Here’s the Deal: Don’t Touch Me. [Featured photo by Ryan Hartford of Ecliptic Media] What We Discuss with Howie Mandel: Why Howie believes it’s important for us to be open about our struggles […]
202: Shane Snow | Cognitive Self-Defense Against Intellectual Dishonesty
Shane Snow (@shanesnow) is an award-winning entrepreneur and journalist, author of Dream Teams and Smartcuts, and the blogger who wrote How to Debate and Make Progress by Curbing Intellectual Dishonesty. What We Discuss with Shane Snow: What is intellectual dishonesty, how does it undermine meaningful debate, and what can we do to recognize it in […]
192: Rick Hanson | The Science of Hardwiring Happiness and Resilience
Rick Hanson (@drrhanson) is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, co-host of The Being Well Podcast, author of Hardwiring Happiness, and co-author of Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness. What We Discuss with Rick Hanson: While you can’t count on others or […]
186: David Smalley | Why You Should Challenge Your Beliefs
David Smalley (@davidcsmalley) is an actor, comedian, and host of the Dogma Debate podcast, in which he — as an atheist — regularly discusses religion and politics with preachers, pastors, comedians, and people who hold different world views. What We Discuss with David Smalley: How David Smalley went from spiritual believer to secular atheist. Why […]
177: Beau Lotto | Why You See Differently When You Deviate
Beau Lotto (@beaulotto) is a world-renowned neuroscientist who specializes in the biology and psychology of perception. He is the author of Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently. What We Discuss with Beau Lotto: Why our brains evolved to experience the world differently from reality. What Beau means when he says: “Choose your delusion or it […]