#210 Best of 2024: The Blueprint for a Transformative New Year

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

The Knowledge Project closes 2024 with a look back at some of the best conversations of the year. Featuring interviews from some of our most downloaded episodes ever, this collection of conversations offers a variety of insights into finances and investing, improving your communication, marketing and positioning, business frameworks, health and nutrition, and how to beat death.

This conversation features segments from finance expert and writer Morgan Housel, non-verbal psychologist Blake Eastman, marketing and positioning expert April Dunford, blueberry billionaire John Bragg, parenting extraordinaire Becky Kennedy, a billion dollar CEO Brad Jacobs, nutrition guru Rhonda Patrick, and the guy who is beating death, Bryan Johnson.

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00:00 - Intro 02:12 - Transform your finances (Morgan Housel) 12:10 - Transform your communication (Blake Eastman) 22:04 - Transform how you sell yourself (April Dunford) 33:01 - Transform your business philosophy (John Bragg) 44:31 - Transform your emotions and attitude (Becky Kennedy) 57:45 - Transform your business tactics (Brad Jacobs) 01:07:28 - Transform your nutrition (Dr. Rhonda Patrick) 01:18:06 - Transform your lifespan (Bryan Johnson)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Knowledge Project, a podcast about mastering the best of what other people have already figured out so you can apply their insights to your life. I'm your host, Shane Parrish.
0:26.3	The final episode of the Knowledge Project for 2024 is a collection of the best insights from
0:32.9	the show this year. We've had some of our most popular episodes ever come out this year, and I'm excited
0:38.6	to share some of the best ideas and our favorite moments in one episode. These insights will set
0:46.2	you up for an incredible new year. Thank you for listening and learning with us. Together,
0:50.7	we're going to make 2025 even better. We have a lot in store for the podcast this
0:55.6	year. Until then, happy holidays to you and yours. There are too many podcasts and not enough time.
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1:55.2	Let's start with our most popular episode of the year featuring personal finance expert
2:00.2	Morgan Housel. The skills it
2:02.8	takes to get rich are different from the skills it takes to stay rich. If you understand this
2:09.0	phenomenon more than Morgan. In America, we spend something like a hundred billion dollars a
2:13.8	year on lottery tickets. A hundred billion dollars. It's massive that people spend on lottery
2:18.8	tickets. And if you dig into who's buying it, it's almost exclusively poor people. They buy the vast
2:25.3	majority of lottery tickets. And the poorer you are, the more lottery tickets you buy. And these are
2:30.8	some people for whom they literally can't buy food or they might be homeless.
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