Life Workshop
At the Life Workshop, we explore and spark curiosity around the topics that shape our everyday lives. We believe in the power of the 80/20 principle—focusing on the 20% of effort that delivers 80% of the results—so you can achieve more with less.
Episodes
28 episodes
S3E9 Call to Prayers
People often appreciate different music, dance, and food, but not different ideologies.I did not leave Iran to come to Iran.As civilized people, we solve our differences by trying to understand each other, not bombs, like Pete H...
S3E8 Social Democracy
I believe a country should be run more like a company. In a company, the CEO is chosen by a board of directors who understand the job, know the candidates, and have a process for evaluating them.A leader's most important quality should ...
S3E7 Political Democracy
The pilot flying your plane is not chosen by a vote from the passengers. So why should the leader of a country be chosen by everyone living in it?Would you rather have a small number of well-informed votes or a large number of uninforme...
S3E6 Entertainment and Excitement
Entertainment is when you're fully focused on what's happening right now. You're not thinking about the past, the future, or everything going on around you. This is often called being in a state of flow.Excitement is a form of entertain...
S3E5 Social Media Addiction
If you just go through life “going with the flow,” you might end up somewhere you never even wanted to be. It’s better to live intentionally — make your own big decisions, and save the “go with the flow” mindset for smaller things.What ...
S3E4 Why am I suing my bank
We all make mistakes. The real question is what we choose to do afterward. Will we use those mistakes as opportunities to grow, or will we try to defend our wrongdoing?To judge a process, look at the outcome. Don’t let people distract o...
S3E3 The Advice you give to your younger self
If you don't choose your path, someone else will.Change happens gradually, outcomes are exponential
S3E2 Masks We Wear
"Is it that we 'act' like different people depending on where we are, or is it just different sides of our personality coming out?"
S3E1 Rules of Engagement
This video provides the rules of engagement to be a guest speaker on the Life Workshop Podcast Channel.
S1E19 Value Systems: Part 4
Small changes that we make in our value system now, may not look like that much to begin with, can have exponential effect in the long run.Q: What do you value? saving money or spending it, do you wanna look scary or friendly, what is m...
S1E18 Value Systems: Part 3
Although the saying, "if it's not broken, why should you fix it?" can be correct often, reviewing it is not such a bad thing. Often we are OK with the poor results of our habits but question the better results of a change.Q: Wh...
S1E17 Value Systems: Part 2
In order to have a good life we should have our values in the right order. For me the most important thing is to be happy and have a good life in general. The chain that makes a happy life has different links to it, e.g. health, mo...
S1E16 Value Systems: Part 1
One becomes famous because they are liked by the public, its not always because they are correct, smart, helpful, reasonable and so on. This is why I say you can judge the value system of a society by seeing who is on top.A country beco...
S1E15 Would you help me clean up?
People have different standards, let them decide what they need help with and how. After all, try to help people the way they want to be helped not the way you want to help. Often is better to take other's request/comments at face ...
S1E14 Inclusion: It's Just Us
We teach our children stranger danger, Bad idea. Strangers are only strangers until you get to know them.When we say we like someone, it does not equate to us trusting them, and vice versa disliking someone does not equate to not ...
S1E13 Discrimination: Solution
You can get some attention/look when you look different than the norm in the society. And that will be fixed as people get used to it by seeing more of itDon't trust the first impression, Don't trust your intuition, be objectiv...
S1E12 Discrimination or Vetting?
It is important to know if it is discrimination, vetting, or that there has been no discrimination at all and instead it was our own perception that made this judgement. Sometimes we make wrong conclusions and try to fix a problem that doesn't ...
S1E11 The Power of Asking Questions
It is not a bad idea to question any basic principle as what and why we do something time to time. After all circumstances change. And sometime we are simply living the life we were taught and the life we want.When asking a genuine question...
S1E10 Relationships
When starting a relationship, it is important to be as honest as possible with yourself and the other party regarding your expectations of the relationship. Even if this is the case, over time we genuinely change our expectations. Since over ye...
S1E9 Making Friends
We all need friends, so it is very important to know how to pick good friends and how to be one.The following are a few of the red flags to watch out for when looking for a good friend: Wishing others ill, jealousy, negativity, not been abl...
S1E8 Would You Trim my Back?
There are times which we give a good connotation to a bad behaviour or alternatively, a bad connotation to a good behaviour. So when somebody makes a comment, you have to ask them, "is this a good thing or a bad thing?"...
S1E7 Friendship
Mo claims that loneliness or, having no friends, is the major cause of death, more than smoking, alcoholism, poor diet and so on.To battle loneliness, one needs friends. Friends are those who are not your enemy, they celebrate your succ...
S1E6 Handling Mistakes
Failure is not falling down/making mistakes, failure is not getting back up afterwards.We all make mistakes, the difference is how we handle them.Once you make a mistake, first realize the extent of it, then move on and focus on solving...