TKP Insights: Philosophy

The Knowledge Project

Shane Parrish

Society & Culture, Business, Technology

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In the fourth installment in a series of episodes, The Knowledge Project curates essential segments from six guests revolving around one theme: philosophy. This episode will help you control your anger in heated circumstances, explain how what you focus on makes achieving goals easier, gives you a recipe to increase happiness through gratitude, walk you through the three layers of emotion according to the stoics, teach you the importance of focusing on directives, and will explain how happiness isn’t a rate, but a rate of change. The guests on this episode are author Ryan Holiday (Episode 128), Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University Emily Bacletis (Episode 154), author and happiness-expert Neil Pasricha (Episode 72), a Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University Nancy Sherman, (Episode 126), “philosopher-king” and author Derek Sivers (Episode 88), and professional heavy-weight boxer, philosopher, and poet Ed Latimore (Episode 22). -- Want even more? Members get early access, hand-edited transcripts, member-only episodes, and so much more. Learn more here: https://fs.blog/membership/ Every Sunday our Brain Food newsletter shares timeless insights and ideas that you can use at work and home. Add it to your inbox: https://fs.blog/newsletter/ Follow Shane on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/ShaneAParrish Our Sponsors: MetaLab: Helping the world’s top companies design, build, and ship amazing products and services. https://www.metalab.com Aeropress: Press your perfect cup, every time. https://aeropress.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Knowledge Project Podcast, I'm your host, Shane Parish.
0:20.1	The goal of this show is to master the best of what other people have already figured
0:24.0	out.
0:25.0	To do that, I sit down with people at the top of their game to uncover the useful lessons
0:29.0	that you can learn and apply in life and business.
0:32.9	If you're listening to this, you're missing out.
0:34.7	If you'd like special member-only episodes, access before anyone else, and edited transcripts,
0:40.7	and other member-only content, you can join at fs.blog slash membership.
0:45.3	Check out the show notes for a link.
0:47.9	Over the last five years, I've been lucky enough to speak with some of the most incredible
0:52.6	people in the world.
0:53.9	And when I listen to past episodes, one thing that stands out to me is how well the insights
0:59.7	from these conversations stand the test of time.
1:03.1	There is relevant and insightful today, as they were when they were originally recorded.
1:09.0	And in a world that encourages a treadmill of perishable information, it's worth revisiting
1:14.2	wisdom that doesn't expire.
1:16.7	So a few times a year, we'll go back to earlier episodes, some of which you may have missed,
1:21.9	some of which you may have forgotten, and pull out some gems around a single theme.
1:27.2	The theme for this episode is philosophy.
1:30.3	You'll hear Ryan Holiday explain how most mistakes are rooted in anger and learn stoic
1:35.6	practices to resist those temptations.
1:38.6	Then Emily Belchettis talks about the perception reality gap and how what you choose to see
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