Episodes

Behavioral economics rejects the idea that all humans are perfectly rational and contends that we make repeated mistakes in decision-making. In an entertaining and funny read, Ariely discusses how we are fooled by decoys and ...

Annie Duke's new thought-provoking book Quit describes how quitting is a superpower - it gives us the ability to experiment and test out new ideas. The problem, however, is that many cognitive biases prevent us from quitting,...

Today's episode serves as a comprehensive guide to cognitive biases, reflecting on the 25 biases Charlie Munger highlighted in his famous Psychology of Human Misjudgment speech. We discuss in depth how these biases affect our...

Today we cover Atomic Habits by James Clear, a foundational book on habit science and behavior change. Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement, where if we can get 1% better each day then those marginal gains wil...

We start off with Dopamine Nation, an excellent book by Dr. Anna Lembke on the struggles of addiction and how the neurotransmitter dopamine plays a role in our body. We'll discuss the fundamental pleasure-pain seesaw, which i...