You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson

Willpower. It's huge. The Willpower Instinct by award-winning Stanford Professor Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., is a GREAT book based on "The Science of Willpower" class Kelly teaches through Stanford Univer...

8 Nov 201536min

If you've ever had stress in your life (hah!) and wondered how to deal with it more optimally, I think you'll love this. McGonigal tells us that how we THINK about stress plays a huge role in its affe...

7 Nov 201537min

Dilbert creator Scott Adams is a funny guy. He's also a wise human robot. In this chat, we explore some of my favorite Big Ideas from his great (!) book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win ...

6 Nov 201553min

Shane Snow is a journalist and entrepreneur who takes us on a fascinating tour of “How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success.” The book is packed with stories capturing the ascent of every...

4 Nov 201517min

Dr. Daniel Amen MD is one of the world's leading psychiatrists. He's a clinical neuroscientist (love that phrase!) who has performed 115,000+ SPECT scans on his patients's brains. (That's a lot.) This...

3 Nov 201546min

As millions of people would agree, Malcolm Gladwell is an extraordinarily (!) captive writer. This is another one of Gladwell's gems—packed with riveting stories that challenge our notion of what it m...

2 Nov 201516min

David Emerald's wonderfully wise fable rocks. In this Note, we'll take a quick look at one of my favorite books as we explore the importance of stepping out of DDT (the Dreaded Drama Triangle) and ste...

1 Nov 201535min

Leonardo da Vinci. Charles Darwin. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Martha Graham. The Wright Brothers. Jane Goodall. Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Edison. Zora Neale Hurston. What do they all have in common? Mas...

31 Okt 201542min