A Navy SEAL's Case for Being Humble and Obsessed | Eric Frohardt

Michael speaks with Eric Frohardt about his twelve years on SEAL Team 6 as a sniper and assaulter—and what you can learn from it. They discuss: - How to stay calm under pressure (lessons from sniper training) - Why farm kids outlast the fittest gym athletes in SEAL training - Mindset lessons fro…

A Harvard Psychologist's Case Against Following the Rules | Ellen Langer

We treat aging, fatigue, and even disease as things that just happen to us. Ellen Langer, the first woman tenured in Harvard's psychology department, has spent five decades showing that our way of thinking has a massive say in all of it. Michael sits down with Langer, author of The Mindful Body, t…

You're Living Through the Fastest Revolution in History | Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen has spent decades studying what makes people, societies, and economies thrive. He thinks we’re living through the fastest technological revolution humans have ever faced—yet most of us are still planning our lives as if nothing is changing. Michael sat down with Tyler to find out how to…

What AI Is Actually Doing to Your Workday | Cal Newport

Modern work has a giant problem: It keeps us stressed enough to be miserable, but never stressed enough to quit. Cal Newport, a computer scientist at Georgetown University, says that's not an accident: When work switched from factories and farms to offices, we never figured out how to measure the p…

Lessons From the Most Dangerous Job: Hotshot Firefighting with River Selby

Hotshot firefighting is one of the most physically demanding and dangerous jobs in the United States. River Selby spent seven years as a wildland firefighter, four of them on elite hotshot crews, the teams that jump into the worst blazes in the country.  Michael sits down with Selby, author of Hot…

The Fastest Way to Help Animals Isn't Going Vegan | Dan Shannon, Humane League CEO

There are billions of animals living inside America's factory farms right now. Most live terrible, painful lives. Dan Shannon runs the Humane League, one of the largest and most effective animal welfare organizations in the world.  Most organizations like his push people to go vegan—but Dan says t…

Dr. Lucy McBride: Why Doctors Miss What's Actually Making You Sick

Americans spend more on healthcare than any other wealthy nation and have the worst outcomes to show for it. Dr. Lucy McBride, a Harvard-trained physician who has practiced for more than two decades, says the problem is baked into the system.  The modern medical system is built to manage disease a…

The Man Who Proved the Blue Zones Are Fake | Saul Newman

Everybody wants to live longer, and for two decades the Blue Zones, places with the highest percentage of people 100+ years old, have promised to show us how with nine tidy behaviors we can all copy. According to Saul Newman, a demographer at the University of Oxford, almost none of it holds up. M…

Art Is the Missing Pillar of Your Health

Art is not a luxury. According to Daisy Fancourt, one of the world's foremost researchers on arts and health, it is a missing pillar of health, right next to sleep, diet, and exercise. People who regularly engage with the arts have about half the risk of developing depression over the next ten year…

Muscle, Not Weight, Predicts How Long You'll Live | How Medicine Gets Weight Loss Wrong with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

Most of us assume America's biggest health problem is obesity. Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, a physician for 20 years and the founder of Muscle-Centric Medicine, argues we have spent 50 years fighting the wrong problem. We are not over fat, we are under-muscled, and obesity is a symptom of unhealthy skeletal…