034 - The Coach Up: Why "Live Your Best Life Now" is Bad Advice
On the fifth episode of FAREWELL, Kate Bowler joined the show to talk about the ways in which the cult of wellness is failing us—namely, by making unrealistic promises about how limitless we are. We r...
29 Apr 20248min
033 - How to Change Your Behavior and Make Better Decisions (with Katy Milkman)
We humans have a tendency to get in our own way. When it comes to starting new habits, changing our behavior, or making big decisions, we create all kinds of complications for ourselves. Fortunately, ...
25 Apr 202437min
032 - The Coach Up: Use this Pyramid to Organize Your Life
Brad has been a performance coach for some time now, working with executives, physicians, founder, attorneys. Today, we're going to get a little insight into what that work looks like. Brad shares on...
22 Apr 20249min
031 - Let's Make Work — and Technology — Less Insane (with Cal Newport)
For the last couple decades, Cal Newport has been thinking about how to do quality work productively, effectively, and sustainably. His latest book Slow Productivity, a New York Times bestseller, pres...
18 Apr 20241h 10min
030 - The Coach Up: 3 Mantras for Work, Anxiety, and Exercise
Mantras are a good tool to have in your toolkit when life inevitably gets frustrating and difficult (to wit: in their FAREWELL interviews, ultrarunner Courtney Dauwalter and triathlete Chelsea Sodaro ...
15 Apr 20247min
029 - How to Lose Well & Age Gracefully
This week, NCAA March Madness wrapped up, and two teams were crowned National Champions—which means 134 other teams lost. This is the hard reality of any type of competition: the vast majority of peop...
11 Apr 20241h 5min
028 - The Coach Up: The 4 Levels of Competence
Any time we are developing a new skill, hobby, craft, or practice, we have to go through various stages of development—these are called the four levels of competence. At the first level, you're learni...
8 Apr 202415min
027 - The Case for Less Technology & More Boredom (with Manoush Zomorodi)
Good news, bad news. The good news: in our modern world of endless entertainment, we have essentially solved the problem of boredom. The bad news: turns out boredom wasn't a problem, but a skill. The ...
4 Apr 202448min
