The Alchemist's Library
The Alchemists Library is dedicated to the exploration of becoming one's best self. With the goal of achieving a clear mind, fit body, and a house full of love. Episodes centered around: Health, Wealth, and Wisdom. The ancient practice of alchemy was about turning lead to gold but the secret was that it was never about physical gold. The real art was in turning the self from lead to gold.
The Alchemist's Library
The Importance of Nuance, Bias, and Becoming with David McRaney
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Ryan Ayala
David McRaney is a psychologist, journalist, and author. In this episode David and I discuss:
- The biases that plague our thinking
- The importance of nuance
- Psilocybin and the default mode network of the brain
- Sam Harris
- Free Will
- First Principal Thinking
- The Placebo Effect
- The Fear of Social Death
- Being yourself vs fitting in
- Stoicism
- The backfire effect
- How asking for favors makes people like you more
- Mood following action
- Becoming
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