Episode 32 – The Ultimate Strategy
Have you ever had to compete against someone way out of your league? What strategy should you employ when you are in way over your head?
Episode 31 – Beware the Evils of a To-Do List
I love to write things down. Especially things that I want to remember, but don’t want to deal with at the moment. I feel especially proud of myself when I make lists. But how many of us feel good about those same lists when we see them again later in the day or revisit them the next day?
Episode 30 – One Sure Way to Make Yourself Happier
Research has shown that most self-help techniques may temporarily boost your happiness but most people soon return to what for them is a certain consistent base level of happiness. But there is one technique that research has shown dramatically and consistently raises people’s reported base level happiness.
Low Prep Game-Based Learning Solutions
This week my interview with Board Gaming and Education was published! Dustin and I talk about low prep game-based learning solutions. For those of you interested in this subject I have some helpful follow up URLs provided below.
Episode 29 – The Best YouTube Channels
I love learning. I find it both meaningful and fun, which is a magical combination. This is also why I love teaching and why I love school. But somehow schools have managed to take the fun out of learning. While I love a great class, I no longer believe the best learning is taking place in schools. The best learning is taking place on YouTube.
Episode 28 – What happens after you die?
What do you think life after death looks like? Is it so different from the life we are living now, is it the end, or just another beginning? Today let’s talk about life after life.
Episode 27 – Dear Future Me
Want a clever way to time travel and cheat death? Play your favorite music from when you were a teenager and take a look at some old photos or journal entries. Write an email or letter to your future self and write your own eulogy to be read at your funeral. But if you are going to go on this adventure, there is one critical ingredient you will need...
Episode 26 – How to Get Critical Work Done: The Eisenhower Decision Matrix
Transcript: We would all love to be people who really get big things done. But so much of our day is spent procrastinating and avoiding the work we really need…
Episode 25 – When Is it Right to Be Angry?
Even Jesus the Messiah of Christianity and the ultimate archetype of all that is good got angry and publicly denounced the religious leaders of his time period. Obviously those benefiting from the status quo are not going to agree with these revolutionary thinkers and will find such self-righteousness to be condescending. So who can judge between these opposing factions?
Episode 24 – Ideologies & Morality
In the last lesson we spoke about the two leading political ideologies, liberalism and conservatism, and how they might be related to differences in common personality traits. Today let’s talk about how we talk about politics.