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Smart People Podcast

Best Of – Episode 1

Smart People Podcast

Smart People Industries

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6736 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2013

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week we bring you a special "best of psychology and human behavior" episode.  Travel back to the beginning of Smart People Podcast with us and enjoy some of the best clips regarding psychology, the human brain, the decision making process, passion and more.  This is a can't miss episode packed full of great information with none of the fluff. Here is a brief overview of what this episode entails, what order it's in, who are guests are, and where you can find the whole episode.  Enjoy! Part 1 - Clips from Episode 58 with Jesse Prinz.  Jesse gets us started by telling us how awesome and unique humans are! Part 2 - Clips from Episode 51 with Srini Pillay.  Srini gives some of the best advice I've EVER heard about how to live an exceptional life.  He also dives into what passion is and how to utilize it properly.  Don't miss this! Part 3 - Quick clip from Episode 13 with Kathryn Schulz.  Kathryn explains why we need to make mistakes and learn from them. Part 4 - Clips from Episode 41 with David McRaney.  Listen and then go pick up his book if you like psychology! Part 5 - Clips from Episode 83 with Venkatesh Rao.  What can robots teach us about how we make decisions? Part 6 - Clips from Episode 43 with Barry Schwartz.  Are you a maximizer or a satisficer? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:33.5

by smart people that is an awesome question this one goes down probably on one of my top five.

0:39.9

Hey, I like nutrition.

0:41.4

I like to eat food.

0:42.7

This is the coolest thing ever.

0:43.7

We're going to do this forever.

0:45.0

I wish I paid more attention in that class.

0:48.2

You know, I'm going to be honest.

0:49.3

I don't understand that.

0:50.4

As a man, I don't get it.

0:54.0

Welcome to smart peoplepod dot com hey everybody welcome to

0:58.6

another episode of smart people podcast i am chris stemp and alongside me i have john rojas happy

1:05.1

holiday season as we mentioned in our last episode we want to do something special for this week. So we're going

1:11.3

to be bringing you guys throughout the week a best of series. So we're going to go back from

1:16.9

the start of the show. We've been combing through our archives, digging up some of the coolest

1:22.3

quotes, moments, speakers we've had. And today we're doing best of psychology. So we're going to be talking about

1:29.7

decision making, passion, how the brain works, neuroscience. We're bringing to you six different

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