Why Too Much Is Too Much And How We Benefit From Limited Options w/ Investigative Reporter David Epstein

Why Too Much Is Too Much And How We Benefit From Limited Options w/ Investigative Reporter David Epstein

From the restaurant menu that has 10 pages of entre options, to trying to pick out a new set of ear buds on Amazon, to telling kids they can be “anything they want.” The anxiety around our seemingly unlimited world continues to increase. Tactically I think we must become more discerning. But conceptually I think it helps to understand that too many options are unhelpful, and why. So when a new book titled, INSIDE THE BOX: How Constraints Make Us Better, came across my desk, I interested myself. The book is authored by David Epstein who is already the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Range and The Sports Gene, and has worked as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated. The tagline for Range is Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. I like David’s questioning and relevantly contrarian approach and was eager to sit down and talk with him about how constraints make us better. David claims that total freedom is the enemy of creativity, and constraint its companion. He says, “Contrary to popular belief, the brain is not designed for thinking. It’s designed to save you from having to think.” And thus all the thinking that too many options gives us has a cost. I ultimately interested myself in going forth with decisions by first, vetting them not for what is possible, but what is most probable. And shifting my mindset from wanting no limits, to understanding that less options is actually helpful for my mindset, and my life. Sign up for your $1/month trial period at shopify.com/kevin Go to shipstation.com and use code KEVIN to start your free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Revealing A Cultural Myth of Performance We Limit Ourselves With  w/ Perfectionism Expert Thomas Curran

Revealing A Cultural Myth of Performance We Limit Ourselves With w/ Perfectionism Expert Thomas Curran

One of our primary cultural badges is being “busy”. We adopted the idea that busyness equals importance and status. I feel in the same way we’ve adopted a badge of perfectionism. This is now a wildly ...

25 Syys 1h 9min

Using Our Imagination To Help Ourselves Instead Of Just Constantly Scaring Ourselves w/ Imagination Psychologist Cassandra Vieten

Using Our Imagination To Help Ourselves Instead Of Just Constantly Scaring Ourselves w/ Imagination Psychologist Cassandra Vieten

When a new book on imagination was sent to me for review, I initially began thinking how we have culturally seemed to decrease in being imaginative. We seem more black and white and limited than ever,...

21 Syys 1h 7min

A Fit Body From A Fit Mindset w/ Fitness Expert Don Saladino

A Fit Body From A Fit Mindset w/ Fitness Expert Don Saladino

Don Saladino is a famous fitness expert, in part due to being the trainer for celebrities, such as Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Emily Blunt, Sebastian Stan, Anne Hathaway, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Hugh Ja...

18 Syys 1h 23min

How Often Are We Fighting For Our Honor — Not About The Issue? w/ Relationship Coach Kim Polinder

How Often Are We Fighting For Our Honor — Not About The Issue? w/ Relationship Coach Kim Polinder

If we look at any disagreement, whether you call it a fight or a conflict, we can ask, “What is at stake.” Sometimes there may be a real danger or consequence involved. However. What we find in therap...

14 Syys 1h 6min

Do You Rely On Yourself Too Much Or Not Enough w/ Renowned Mindvalley Coach Ajit Nawalkha

Do You Rely On Yourself Too Much Or Not Enough w/ Renowned Mindvalley Coach Ajit Nawalkha

Of all the people we look to for guidance, expertise, counsel, and help, where do we figure into the equation? Are we a self we also rely on for guidance? This could sound like an elementary concept, ...

11 Syys 1h 20min

How To Handle Climate Anxiety & Find Harmony In This World w/ Climate Activist Katharine K. Wilkinson

How To Handle Climate Anxiety & Find Harmony In This World w/ Climate Activist Katharine K. Wilkinson

My focus here is as I say in the intro, how we make meaning in our lives. How we experience life. There are many great shows that deal with the specific issues we face out in life, as I tend to the is...

7 Syys 1h 11min

We Do It All - Until We Can’t w/ Burnout Expert Neha Sangwan

We Do It All - Until We Can’t w/ Burnout Expert Neha Sangwan

I once argued with the leader of a soul care institute who said you can’t live in the white water all the time, and that you must have some time of calm waters in order to live sustainably. I told him...

4 Syys 1h 27min

Why You Are Often Better To Overshare Than Undershare w/ Harvard Biz Professor Leslie John

Why You Are Often Better To Overshare Than Undershare w/ Harvard Biz Professor Leslie John

I’m going to assume you are aware that we are at a time when, even though we are often in communication with more people than ever, quantity wise, we are statistically connecting with fewer people tha...

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