Growth
Habits, health, relationships, learning and living a life of joy, fulfillment and purpose.
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Robert Greene on the Sublime: Why Everything Is Amazing and No One Is Happy
Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, tells My First Million why modern life feels flat and how his new book on the sublime aims to…
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Chamath Palihapitiya and Rick Rubin: Poker, Intuition and the Ego Problem
Chamath Palihapitiya tells Rick Rubin how poker taught him to take big bets and absorb losses, and admits that ego and insecurity drove his worst financial mistakes. The…
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Robert Greene on The Law of the Sublime: Slowness, Love and Awe
Robert Greene explains how to access the sublime in everyday life: through attention, slowness, love, the senses and a sense of something larger than yourself. He made the…
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Hector Serrano on Paid UGC: How Wispr Flow Runs 500 Creator Ads a Month
Hector Serrano, head of content at Wispr Flow, explains how a 50-creator paid UGC program produces 500 to 600 ads a month for the AI dictation startup. Serrano…
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Shaan Puri’s 9 Harsh Truths: Courage, Obsession and the Cost of Greatness
Entrepreneur and podcaster Shaan Puri tells Chris Williamson why greatness is overrated, why advice is really a request for permission, and why most people should move to the…
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Ray Dalio and Toto Wolff: Pain, Pressure and the Principles of Winning
Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio and Mercedes F1 team principal Toto Wolff compare how they handle pressure, losing and leadership, and why both credit painful failures for their success.…
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Ryan Serhant: How a Billion-Dollar Broker Sells Without Selling
Real estate broker Ryan Serhant tells Shane Parrish how he sells without selling, follows up with prospects for years, and treats each day as a bank of 1,000…
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Bryan Johnson on The Axios Show: Why He Calls Himself a Performance Artist
Bryan Johnson tells Axios reporter Madison Mills that he is a performance artist, that people really want him to die, and that he plans to cure his incurable…
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Ben Affleck on GQ: Grief, Selling His AI Startup to Netflix, Animals
Ben Affleck tells GQ’s Zach Baron how losing both parents in 2026, selling his AI company to Netflix and directing Animals changed what he is willing to care…
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Short Videos Impair Memory and Reduce Brain Synchrony, fMRI Study Finds: Why TikTok-Style Learning Leads to Faster Forgetting Than Long Videos
A new study published in Communications Psychology, a Nature Portfolio journal, tests a question most of us have quietly wondered about while scrolling: can you actually learn anything…
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Why Trees Fell Over in Biosphere 2: How Wind, Stress Wood, and Thigmomorphogenesis Build Tree Strength and Human Resilience
In the early 1990s, scientists running one of the most ambitious ecological experiments ever attempted noticed something strange. Inside Biosphere 2, a giant sealed glass structure in the…
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Married Couples on X Spill Their Real Secrets to Staying Together
TL;DR One X post asking long-married couples for their best advice blew up to 7,400+ replies. The clear winners: remove divorce as an option, put God first, forgive…