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"We were immature citizen-soldiers, terribly naive and gullible about what we would be confronted with in the air state of war over Europe and the profound effect information technology would accept upon every fiber of our being for the balance of our lives. We were all afraid, only it was across our power to quit. We volunteered for the service and, one time trained and overseas, felt we had no pick but to fulfill the mission assigned. My hope is that this volume honors the men with whom I served past telling the truth about what it took to climb into the common cold blue and fight for our lives over and over again."
And so writes the 100-twelvemonth-erstwhile Earth War 2 veteran John "Lucky" Luckadoo in the new book he co-authored with Kevin Maurer: Damn Lucky: One Man'southward Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History. Kevin is my guest today, and will share Lucky's story, and with it, the story of WWII's famous B-17 bomber.
During the war, airmen in the 100th Bomb Group could end their combat service and return habitation after flying 25 missions. Yet with a i in 10 chance of becoming a casualty, few were able to reach this milestone. Lucky was i of the, well, lucky few who did, and Kevin traces how he got there, from trying to bring together the Royal Canadian Air Force equally a teenager, to learning to fly the B-17 on the task, to his harrowing daylight bombing missions over Germany, to the life he made for himself after the war. Along the way, Kevin describes the savage conditions inside a B-17 and the bomber'south role in winning the state of war.
Resources Related to the PodcastThe Bomber Mafia by Malcolm GladwellMemphis BelleNorden bombsightVideo bout of B-17 G modelConnect with Kevin MaurerKevin's Website
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When information technology comes to making behavior change around diet and exercise, it'due south no secret that many people fail in their efforts. My guest would say that's because too often we simply concentrate on the things that drive us towards that change — whether willpower, or motivation, or the rewards that plow behaviors into habits — and that nosotros need to retrieve more than about the obstacles keeping us from making the decisions we desire.
Her proper name is Michelle Segar and she's a behavioral science researcher and wellness coach, equally well as the writer of The Joy Choice: How to Finally Achieve Lasting Changes in Eating and Practice. Today on the show, Michelle explains why practise and eating aren't conducive to becoming habits — at least of the automatic variety — and why it'due south more helpful to retrieve of these behaviors in terms of "life space" and "selection points." She makes the case for why we shouldn't just focus on what drives behaviors, but as well understand what disrupts them, and unpacks four of these disruptors: temptation, rebellion, accommodation, and perfection. Michelle then offers a iii-pace decision tool for dealing with these disruptors, and explains how to develop the flexibility to choose the perfect imperfect option that keeps you lot consistent and even celebrate and savor the decision to practise something instead of nothing.
Resources Related to the PodcastMichelle's previous advent on the show — Podcast #575: Counterintuitive Advice on Making Do a Sustainable HabitAoM Article: How I Finally Made Flossing a HabitAoM Podcast #782: Feet Is a Habit — Here's How to Break Information technology (With Judson Brewer)Kurt LewinFreakonomics episode that includes Daniel Kahneman referencing LewinGrounded cognitionAffective–Reflective Theory of concrete inactivity and exerciseConnect With Michelle SegarMichelle's Website
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In the placidity moments of our lives, we tin can all sense that our hearts long for something, though we often don't know what that something is. We seek an reply in our phones, and while they tin can provide some sense of extension and fulfillment — a feeling of magic — the employ of technology also comes with significant costs in individual evolution and interpersonal connection that we typically don't fully sympathise and consider.
My invitee today will unpack what it is nosotros actually yearn for, how engineering science, when misused, can direct united states away from the path to fulfilling those yearnings, and how nosotros tin discover true human being flourishing in a world in which then much works against it. His proper noun is Andy Crouch and he'southward the author of The Life We're Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological Globe. Today on the show we talk about the tradeoffs you make when you seek magic without mastery, and how nosotros can understand our desires better once we understand ourselves every bit heart, soul, mind, and force complexes who want to be loved and known. Nosotros discuss the difference betwixt interactions that are personal versus personalized, as well every bit the difference betwixt devices and instruments, and how to utilise your phone as the latter instead of the sometime. Nosotros end our conversation with why Andy thinks we demand to redesign the architecture of our relational lives and create something he calls "households."
Resources Related to the PodcastFaust past Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWendell BerryAoM article on Plato's idea of the tripartite nature of the soulAoM Podcast #723: Men Without ChestsAoM Article: The Tool Works on Both EndsAoM Commodity: Communities vs. Networks — To Which Do You lot Belong?Connect With Andy CrouchAndy'south WebsitePraxis Labs
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If you're someone who's a decade or ii out from your high school graduation, do you e'er observe yourself thinking that you're merely not as happy every bit you lot were back and then? Of course all the positive-thinking self-talk then kicks in and you lot think, "Well, maybe I actually wasn't that happy before. I practise similar my life better now. I similar the independence I have. Yeah, yeah, I really like being an developed." Yet, no matter the drinking glass-half-full glow y'all try to put on things, you can't milk shake the feeling that your happiness has declined over the years, that at thirty, you weren't as happy equally you were at xx, and that at 40, you weren't every bit happy as you were when you were 30.
Well, that feeling is more than a nostalgic hunch, and it's not unique to you. It's really been born out by hundreds of enquiry papers and studies and shown to be a almost-universal feel. My invitee today has authored many of those papers. His name is Dr. David Branchflower and he's a labor economist who not just studies the data around money and jobs, but likewise around human happiness. Today on the show David explains how happiness follows a U-shaped curve, and starts failing around historic period 18, and continues to fall into midlife, before picking back up again, and David shares the average age at which happiness hits its very lowest point. While it's not entirely articulate why the U-shape of happiness occurs, we talk nearly some possible reasons behind it. And while the U-shape is consequent across the world, it can exist lower or college, and then nosotros hash out how factors like gender, socio-economical and martial condition, and having children affect happiness, and whether it's possible to mitigate the dip.
While the fact that it won't be until your mid-60s that yous experience as happy as you lot were at age 18 might seem depressing, David argues that it'south comforting to know that the feelings of failing happiness you feel at you approach midlife are normal, and will not only pass one day, only offset moving in the other direction.
Resources Related to the Podcast"Is Happiness U-Shaped Everywhere?" — one of the main research papers on the happiness curve that David has authoredDavid's volume Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?Deaths of Despair and the Futurity of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus DeatonStudy on great apes having a midlife crisisAoM Serial: The Seasons of a Man's LifeAoM Podcast #776: How to Shift Out of the Midlife MalaiseAoM Article: The Economics of HappinessConnect With David BranchflowerDavid's Faculty Page at Dartmouth (includes links to his research)
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Johnny Cash, "The Man in Blackness," said he wore all blackness on behalf of the poor and hungry, the sometime who were neglected, "the "prisoner who has long paid for his offense," and those betrayed by drugs. Every bit a man who had grown upwardly dirt poor, struggled his whole life with addiction, was thrown in jail seven times, and found himself in the proverbial wilderness during a long stretch of his career, Greenbacks had a real heart for these kinds of folks; he was a man who had lived numerous ups and downs himself.
Marshall Terrill, co-author of Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon, volition accept us through these biographical peaks and valleys today. Nosotros talk about Cash's hardscrabble upbringing on a cotton wool subcontract, his unfulfilled desire to please his father, and how his ascension into stardom was accompanied by the arrival of a prepare of personal demons. We also talk over how, after condign the top entertainer in the globe, Greenbacks'due south career slid into two decades of music industry irrelevance, the large comeback he fabricated near the end of his life, and the organized religion that sustained him through all his struggles and triumphs.
Resources Related to the PodcastMarshall's previous appearance on the show: Episode #673 — The Complex Coolness of Steve McQueenCash songs mentioned in the testify:"Walk the Line""Boy Named Sue""One Piece at a Fourth dimension""Chicken in Blackness""Hurt""The Wanderer" (song Cash did with U2)Man in White — novel Greenbacks wrote about the Apostle PaulWalk the Line movieConnect With Marshall TerrillMarshall'southward Page at ASU
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You hear a lot well-nigh metabolism. Yous probably know information technology has something to do with weight loss. And even if you lot don't go in for those supposed hacks around speeding upward your metabolism, you likely figure you lot can at least increase it by exercising more.
This isn't really the case, and my guest will sort through this and other misconceptions around metabolism on today'southward show. His name is Dr. Herman Pontzer and he's a professor of evolutionary anthropology and the author of Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Lose Weight, and Stay Healthy. We brainstorm our chat with an overview of how metabolism powers everything your trunk does from thinking to moving to only existing, and how information technology uses the food you eat as the free energy needed to fuel these processes. We then get into Herman'southward field research which shows that increasing your concrete action doesn't actually increase the number of calories you fire, but why it'southward still hugely important to practise anyway. He likewise unpacks whether sure kinds of foods are ameliorate for your metabolism, offers his recommendations on how to use diet to lose weight, and answers the mutual question as to whether it'due south true that your metabolism goes down every bit you historic period.
Resource Related to the PodcastAoM Podcast #691: What Yous Can (Really) Acquire Almost Do from Your Human being AncestorsAoM Podcast #552: How to Optimize Your MetabolismAoM Podcast #475: How to Lose Weight, and Keep It Off ForeverAoM Podcast #636: Why You lot Overeat and What to Do Well-nigh ItNYT article on what happened to the metabolisms of Biggest Loser contestants afterward the showAoM Article: An Statement for Making Exercise (Not Nutrition) the Foundation of Weight ManagementConnect With Herman PontzerHerman on TwitterHerman's faculty folio and lab at Duke
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Why do corrupt people stop upward in power?
Past way of an respond, you probably think of that famous quote from Lord Acton, "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." But my guest today, Brian Klaas, would say that'southward simply one function of what leads to corrupt individuals and cultures, the other being that people who are already decadent are more probable to seek ability in the first place. Brian argues that if we ever hope to develop improve systems, from our national governments to our part hierarchies, we take to piece of work on both prongs of this dynamic, not only preventing people who gain power from going bad, but encouraging expert people to seek power as well.
Brian is the writer of Corruptible: Who Gets Ability and How It Changes United states, and today on the show, he and I discuss how people who possess the then-called "nighttime triad" of traits are more attracted to positions of power, how the framing effectually those positions can either amplify or alter this self-selection event, and what a tyrannical homeowners' clan president and a psychopathic school janitor bear witness us about these dynamics. Nosotros as well discuss why ability does indeed corrupt people and can in fact modify their very brain chemistry. Brian explains the importance of accountability in keeping a system make clean, and how you can serve in positions of power without becoming corrupted yourself.
Resources Related to the PodcastAoM Podcast #108: The Upside of Your Dark SideAoM Podcast #769: The New Science of NarcissismMichael Nader'south report on social condition in monkeysM.G. Marmot's Whitehall II written report on social status and mortalityAoM series on statusUltrasociety by Peter TurchinConnect With Brian KlassBrian's WebsiteBrian's podcast, Power Corrupts
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When neurologist and sleep specialist Dr. Chris Winter sees adult patients in his sleep clinic, they frequently come to him because of a struggle with insomnia, which, as he described in a previous advent on the AoM podcast, is caused by stressing too much about sleep, and so that going to bed becomes an anxious and fear-inducing routine that sabotages the natural needs and rhythms of the sleep cycle.
Chris would run across fewer adult patients like this if, when they were kids, their parents ready them up to have a healthy relationship with sleep.
How to establish that kind of good for you relationship is something Chris writes about in his latest book, The Rested Child, and is the topic of our conversation today. Chris will take usa through what parents should know about their kids' sleep from the womb through young adulthood, with tips on both how to meliorate your children's sleep, and how to avert messing information technology upwards, including his accept on co-sleeping, why he let his kids go to bed whenever they wanted, and why he discourages giving children melatonin to assistance them sleep.
Resource Related to the PodcastChris' last appearance on the show — episode #661: Get Better Sleep By Stressing Virtually It LessNational Sleep Foundation's graph and write-up of slumber duration recommendations across the lifespanConnect With Dr. Chris WinterChris on InstagramChris on Twitter
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Do you e'er feel like the time we live in feels flat, complacent, timid, conformist, populated past people who are focused on playing it safe and are inwardly empty?
A century and a one-half ago, the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard felt the same fashion near the menses in which he lived, and posited that there are 2 kinds of ages: the revolutionary, decisive, and passionate, and the sensible, rational, and cogitating.
Here to unpack Kierkegaard's ideas on these two kinds of ages is Jacob Howland, retired professor of philosophy and author of Kierkegaard and Socrates. Today on the testify, Jacob and I first discuss some background on Kierkegaard and his existential philosophy. We then get into the differences betwixt an age of passion and an age of reflection. We hash out how in a passionate age, an private stands every bit an individual, possesses an energy which focuses on truth and ideals, and has the backbone to take bold leaps of faith, while in a cogitating age, the individual is subsumed past the crowd, is agape of public opinion, and gets and then lost in analysis and brainchild that he never makes a decisive motion. All along the manner, we delve into how Kierkegaard's description of his age parallels our own, and Kierkegaard'due south evergreen call to be an individual, encompass risk, and own your opinions and actions.
Resources Related to the PodcastWorks by Kierkegaard mentioned in the show:Two Ages: A Literary ReviewEither/OrFear and TremblingThe Sickness Unto DeathPhilosophical FragmentsConcluding Unscientific Postscript on Philosophical FragmentsThomasine Christine Gyllembourg-EhrensvärdGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelOn the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life by Friedrich Nietzsche "Yes, Sabermetrics Ruined Baseball"AoM Article: Your Three Selves and How Not to Fall Into DespairAoM Commodity: An Intro to EnvyAoM Podcast #635: The Existentialist's Survival GuideConnect With Jacob HowlandJacob'southward Website
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A lot of people experience similar they've seen and done everything there is to come across and exercise in their local area. They're bored of their daily routine, and contemplate going off on some g adventure in a exotic locale.
My guest would say that you don't really take to wait until your next big trip nor go far afield to mix things up, and that adventure can exist found right where you are, in your ordinary routines, the everyday mural of your life, and fifty-fifty DIY projects, if y'all decide to approach them in a different manner.
His name is Beau Miles and he's an Australian filmmaker who documents his ain small-scale adventures on YouTube, as well equally the author of The Backyard Charlatan. Today on the show, Swain shares his experiments in proving anything can be infused with the claiming, intrigue, and fun which mark run a risk, if yous add in some intentional risk, difficulty, and uncomplicated what-the-heck quirkiness. He tells us virtually some of the close-to-home adventures he'southward executed, including walking and kayaking his ninety-kilometer commute to work, reconnecting an quondam, long closed-down rail line by running its often subconscious, overgrown path with a shovel in his hand, and making a paddle with scavenged wood. We then talk well-nigh how he created a gastronomical adventure for himself by eating his torso weight in beans, and fifty-fifty turned tackling his to-practise list into an adventure by pairing the crossing off of its entries with running a marathon in 24 hours. Along the mode, Beau shares how backyard adventures assist you better become to know your local expanse, how he deals with the police force who sometimes check in on what he's upwardly to, and how the next time you become some odd idea, you ought to just become for it, mate.
Resources Related to the PodcastBeau'southward films/adventures mentioned in the show:Walking to WorkPaddling to WorkJunk PaddleHuman BeanRun the LineMile an HourAoM Commodity: My eight-Week Microadventure ChallengeAoM Podcast #120: Microadventures With Alastair HumphreysAoM Podcast #560: The Magic of WalkingTortilla Flat by John SteinbeckConnect With Young man MilesBeau'south WebsiteBeau on YouTubeBeau on Instagram
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Trauma. Violence. Bullying. Addiction. The range of things that these words encompass has expanded over time, and while my guest today would say that changes in how language is used are natural and inevitable, he also argues that the way nosotros utilise words matters and has consequences, and that we demand to better grapple with what those consequences are.
His name is Dr. Nick Haslam and he's a professor of psychology at the University of Melbourne who has studied a phenomenon he calls "concept creep," which refers to the tendency of concepts having to practice with impairment — from trauma to depression — to broaden their meaning over fourth dimension. Nick describes how concept creep happens in ii ways — vertical and horizontal — and occurs both amid clinicians and the general public. He explains what he thinks is behind concept pitter-patter, and how the way we talk about impairment-related concepts changes how people experience themselves and life, bringing new kinds of identities and new kinds of people into being. Nick argues that while in that location are upsides to concept creep, information technology too carries potential dangers that can negatively impact our lives.
Resources Related to the PodcastNick's ResearchGate folio"Harm Inflation: Making Sense of Concept Creep""How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm" — Atlantic article virtually Nick'south workThe Loss of Sadness by Allan Horwitz and Jerome Wakefield"Making Up People" past Ian HackingConnect With Nick HaslamNick's Faculty Folio
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Running is a gloriously autonomous and accessible sport. All yous need is a pair of shoes and the volition to start moving your legs. It'southward so seemingly simple, that y'all may never think to effigy out how y'all might get better at it — you just follow what your peers may exist doing (who may not know anything more than y'all do), or pick up tips that percolate through social media (which may not exist accurate), or 100% wing information technology, just vaguely trying to get a little faster each time you lot run.
My guest says that, rather than taking a willy-nilly approach to your recreational running, you can profoundly improve your operation by learning from the professionals who actually run for a living.
His name is Matt Fitzgerald and he's a sports writer, a running coach, and the co-author of Run Similar a Pro (Even If You're Deadening): Elite Tools and Tips for Runners at Every Level. Today on the show Matt translates the best practices of elite runners into tactics the amateur tin incorporate into their training, beginning with why you need to follow a well-programmed running program, how to find the sweetness spot for your running volume — including why you lot really should concentrate more on the amount of fourth dimension yous run rather than the miles — and the number of hours Matt recommends trying to work upwardly to running each week if you'd similar to really run into what you tin practise equally a runner. Nosotros and then talk over the ratio of depression intensity to loftier intensity workouts you should be doing, the surprisingly pocket-sized emphasis pros put on running form, what the pros know most what works all-time for recovery, and the edge you tin can go through cross-training. We stop our conversation with the divergence in mindset that marks elite runners, including how they're probably meliorate quitters than you are.
Resources Related to the PodcastAoM Podcast #202: Matt'due south previous advent on the bear witness to talk about How Bad Exercise You Desire It?Ventilatory thresholdBen Rosario, co-author of Run Like a Pro (Even If Y'all're Deadening)AoM Podcast #266: The Myths and Truths of Altitude RunningAoM Podcast #382: How to Elevator More, Run Faster, and Endure LongerAoM Commodity: Beginner'south Guide to Long-Distance RunningAoM Commodity: Bulletproof Ways to Prevent Running InjuriesConnect With Matt FitzgeraldMatt's personal websiteMatt's concern website: 80/20 Endurance
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How did one of history's greatest writers — Ernest Hemingway — get going with his craft, develop his indelible fashion, and infuse his narratives with memorable life and compelling tension?
Today we delve into the answers to those questions with Hemingway scholar Mark Cirino, who is a professor of English, the editor and author of half a dozen books on Hemingway — including Ernest Hemingway: Thought in Action — and the host of the One True Podcast which covers all things related to Papa. Mark and I our brainstorm our chat with how Hemingway cut his teeth with writing as a announcer, how the "iceberg theory" underlay his approach to writing equally a novelist, and how his years in Paris — and the books, people, and art he encountered there — influenced his work and the trajectory of his career. We then hash out how his travel and recreational pastimes immune him to write with a vivid firsthand understanding of sure places and pursuits, what his writing routine was like, and how the characters in his novels explore the tension betwixt thought and activity. We end our conversation with Mark's recommendation for where to start reading Hemingway if you lot've never read him or haven't read him in a long time, and what Marking thinks was Hemingway's "one true sentence."
Resource Related to the PodcastHemingway works mentioned in the prove:"Big Two-Hearted River""Soldier's Dwelling house""Hills Like White Elephants""Killers""Indian Camp""The Snows of Kilimanjaro"In Our TimeDeath in the AfternoonA Moveable FeastThe Sunday Too RisesAcross the River and Into the TreesFor Whom the Bell TollsThe Quondam Man and the SeaA Cheerio to ArmsMen at War (edited by Hemingway)Shakespeare and Company lending cards for HemingwayErnest Hemingway: A Life Story by Carlos BakerHemingway'south Brain by Andrew FarahAoM Commodity: Why Ernest Hemingway Committed SuicideAoM Article: The Libraries of Famous Men — Ernest HemingwayAoM Article: Ernest Hemingway as a Case Study in Living a T-Shaped LifeConnect With Mark CirinoOne True PodcastOne Truthful Podcast on Twitter
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Equally the dying approach their death, upwardly to 88% of them experience certain bright, moving dreams — though "dreams" isn't even the best word for these experiences, as they tin happen to people when they're both awake and comatose, and are described by them as being "more real than real."
My guest today has studied these visions and dreams for many years and thinks they have of import insights into the nature of life and death. His name is Dr. Chrisopther Kerr, and he'due south a hospice medico and terminate-of-life researcher, every bit well equally the author of Death Is Simply a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End. We brainstorm our conversation with Dr. Kerr'due south efforts to study terminate-of-life experiences on an objective, scientific footing, and how his research into these visions and dreams doesn't attempt to notice their spiritual or paranormal origin, just simply seeks to catalog the phenomenon from a clinical perspective. We then discuss how long before death people begin having these dreams, the content of the dreams, and who shows upwards in them. Dr. Kerr describes how pre-decease visions and dreams are typically positive and comforting, and how even the rarer, disturbing variety can end up existence transformative. And he shares what these dreams do not merely for the dying, but for their caregivers besides.
Resources Related to the PodcastDr. Kerr'south Tedx TalkDeath Is Just a Dream PBS documentaryNetflix docuseries Surviving Death (Dr. Kerr is featured on the fifth episode)AoM Podcast #171: The Dying Experience — Myths and AnswersConnect With Dr. KerrDr. Kerr'southward Website
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Pizza. It'due south ubiquitous. It's a fixture at parties and part interruption rooms, and there's a skilful chance y'all social club information technology from your favorite place for dinner every unmarried week.
But there'south ane setting where pizza doesn't show up very oftentimes, and that's in your own oven, having been fabricated in your own kitchen. Only my invitee today, who'southward spent decades pursuing the perfect pizza, says you ought to be making your own pies more ofttimes and will teach you the secrets to getting restaurant-quality pizza at home. His proper name is Dan Richer, and he's the owner and chef of Razza in New Bailiwick of jersey, as well as the writer of The Joy of Pizza: Everything You Need to Know.
We begin our conversation with what makes pizza such an awesome, go-to, inexhaustibly delicious dish and how to overcome the obstacles that typically prevent people from creating pizzeria-level pizza at home. Dan then gives united states his recommendations on sauce, cheese, and toppings in lodge to create the perfect pizza pie, including his take on that almost burning of questions: does pineapple belong on a pizza?
Connect With Dan RicherJoy of Pizza WebsiteDan on InstagramWebsite for Dan's Razza eatery
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Editor'due south Note: This is a rebroadcast. It originally aired in September 2020.
From guiding the Allies to victory in Globe State of war II as supreme commander, to steering the transport of state for eight years as i of the country's least partisan and most popular presidents, few leaders in history take had to make as varied and consequential decisions equally Dwight D. Eisenhower.
My invitee today possesses insights into how he fabricated the many choices he was faced with in his armed forces and political careers that are gleaned not only from studying Ike's life, merely from personally knowing the man beneath the mantle. Her name is Susan Eisenhower and she's a writer, consultant, and policy strategist, one of Dwight'southward four grandchildren, and the author of the new book How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower'south Biggest Decisions. Susan and I begin our conversation with her relationship with Ike as both historic leader and ordinary granddad, and why she decided to write a book about his leadership style. We then swoop into the principles of his leadership, commencement with his decision to greenlight the D-Day invasion, what it reveals almost his iron-clad delivery to taking responsibility, and how that commitment immune him to be such an effective delegator. From there Susan explains how a love of studying history built-in in Ike'southward boyhood allowed him to have a large motion picture approach to strategy, how he used a desk-bound drawer to bargain with his lifelong struggle with anger, and how his belief in morale as an input rather than an output inspired him to always stay optimistic for the benefit of those he led. Nosotros then turn to how Eisenhower dealt with the discovery of concentration camps at the end of WWII and making peace with Germany later information technology. Nosotros and then talk about his nonpartisan governing mode every bit president which he chosen the "Middle Way" and which involved emphasizing cooperation, compromise, and unity, including members of both political parties in his cabinet, limiting his employ of the "bully pulpit" to sway public opinion, and striving not to plough policy issues into personality confrontations. We then discuss how this way influenced how he dealt with Joseph McCarthy and enforced the Brownish 5. Board of Education determination. At the stop of our conversation, Susan explains that while she doesn't look everyone to agree with the difficult decisions her grandpa made, she thinks there'due south something to be learned from how he managed to make them, and to make them without becoming difficult and contemptuous in the procedure.
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The personal uniform is a expect that you've settled on as your regular become-up. Today on the show I talk to two style writers, David Coggins and Michael Williams, about all things concerning this stylish-withal-bandwidth-saving approach to dressing. We discuss what a personal uniform is, how to develop one and why that evolution comes with age, and how to find inspiration for yours. We also talk about establishing the base pieces of your personal uniform, buying multiples of its cardinal components, and refining your look over time.
Resource Related to the PodcastPhoto of David and Michael at the MastersAoM Podcast #398: Should a Man Intendance Most How He Dresses?AoM article on tailoringAoM Article: 10 Things Your Father Should Accept Taught You About StyleAoM Commodity: 3 Steps to Edifice Your Private StyleSid MashburnDrake'sA guide to the Barbour coatCrockett & JonesThe chore coatUniqloDie, Workwear!Nick WoosterWilliam Brown ProjectDavid Coggins' previous appearances on the podcast:#282: How a Man Develops His Sense of Fashion#422: Men and Manners#706: The (Non-Cliche) Life Lessons of Fly FishingConnect With David and MichaelDavid's site The Contender and The Contender newsletterMichael's site A Continuous Lean and the ACL newsletterYou tin access their podcast, Key Division, by subscribing to either of their newsletters
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You may think of feet as a reaction, a feeling, or a disorder. My invitee today says that mayhap the all-time mode to call up about anxiety, especially if y'all desire to treat it effectively, is as a habit.
His name is Dr. Judson Brewer, and he's a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, and the writer of Unwinding Feet: New Scientific discipline Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fright to Heal Your Heed. Dr. Jud and I begin our conversation with what anxiety is, and how information technology gets continued into a habit loop that can atomic number 82 to other maladaptive behaviors similar drinking, overeating, and worrying. Dr. Jud then explains how to hack the anxiety habit loop by mapping information technology out, disenchanting your anxiety-driven behaviors, and giving your brain "a bigger, ameliorate offer" by getting curious about your anxiety. We also talk about why asking why you're anxious is not role of this process, and end our conversation with how this habit-based approach to behavior change tin too work for things like depression and acrimony.
Resources Related to the PodcastAoM Podcast #497: The Meaning, Manifestations, and Treatments for AnxietyAoM Podcast #614: Go Out of Your Mind and Into Your LifeAoM commodity, podcast, and video on hacking the habit loopAoM article on asking "what" instead of "why"Undoing Depression by Richard O'ConnorConnect With Dr. JudDr. Jud's Website
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The OODA Loop — the OODA stands for Detect, Orient, Make up one's mind, Act — is a strategic tool designed to help people make better decisions when facing any kind of competitor or opponent.
My invitee today says that when that opponent is a seasoned criminal, the Orient component of OODA — a person'southward mindset — is the most underestimated and critical part of the model to sympathize.
His name is Varg Freeborn and he's the author of Violence of Mind: Preparation and Grooming for Extreme Violence, and Across OODA: Developing the Orientation for Deception, Conflict, and Violence. We begin with how Varg'due south life story has uniquely positioned him to understand the dynamics of violence from the perspectives of both the perpetrators of crime, and the would-be preventers of that criminal offence. Varg shares how he went from being a convicted felon to a cocky-defense and firearms teacher who's worked with both civilians and law enforcement.
We then turn to why it'southward so important to sympathise the difference betwixt the orientation of an average person and the orientation of a trigger-happy criminal, and why, when the two collide, the latter has a real advantage over the former. We finish our conversation with what you can do in terms of mindset and grooming to close that gap, and be meliorate prepared to handle a violent see.
Resources Related to the PodcastAoM commodity on the OODA LoopAoM Podcast #198: Turning Yourself Into a Human WeaponAoM Podcast #334: When Violence Is the AnswerAoM Podcast #688: Protection for and From HumanityAoM Podcast #513: Exist Your Own BodyguardConnect With Varg FreebornVarg'due south Website
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Yous want to declutter. You want to downsize. You desire to live more than but. So what's been holding y'all back from getting closer to those ideals?
My guest today sorts through both the psychological and practical roadblocks that can get in the way of living more minimally, and more in the present. His name is Matt Paxton, and he'southward a downsizing and decluttering good, a featured cleaner on the television show Hoarders, the host of the Emmy-nominated show Legacy List With Matt Paxton which showcases people'south heirlooms and treasures, and the writer of Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff: Declutter, Downsize, and Motion Forwards with Your Life.
We begin our conversation with how Matt got into cleaning out houses and working with hoarders, and some of the worst cases of hoarding Matt's seen. Nosotros then get into both the mindset and brass tacks tips he's learned from the well-nigh extreme cases of clutter that can exist used by regular people who simply desire to peel down their stuff. Nosotros talk about why we can feel so attached to our possessions, and how to let them become, while still preserving your and your family's memories. Matt recommends how and where to get started with your decluttering, and offers tools, including creating a "maybe pile" and a "legacy listing," for deciding what to keep and what to chuck, whether you're dealing with large items similar furniture or minor stuff like documents and pictures. Matt explains what to practice with your stuff whether trashing, donating, upcycling, or selling, and how much you lot can reasonably expect to go when you do the latter (spoiler alert: it'south a lot less than you think). We end our conversation with how, afterward you've decluttered your identify, to keep it from getting clogged up again.
Oh, and we likewise talk over where to find hidden stashes of money when you're cleaning out the house of an older person who's died.
This is a actually fun and interesting conversation that definitely motivated me to clean out our firm.
Resources Related to the PodcastWebsite for My Legacy ListHoarders boob tube showMatt's TEDx talk on "The Unintended Event of Our Attachment to Personal Belongings"Podcast #699: The No-Nonsense Guide to Simplifying Every Aspect of Your LifeAoM commodity on declutteringPodcast #626: How to Declutter Your Work LifeConnect With Matt PaxtonMatt'south WebsiteListen to the Podcast! (And don't forget to leave u.s. a review!)
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