#119 – Terry Real: Breaking the cycle of shame, anger, and depression
“Family pathology rolls from generation to generation like a fire in the woods taking down everything in its path until one person, in one generation, has the courage to turn and face the flames. That person brings peace to his ancestors and spares the children that follow.” — Terry Real
#96 – David Epstein: How a range of experience leads to better performance in a highly specialized world
“Sometimes the things you can do to cause the most rapid appearance of short-term progress can undermine long-term development.” — David Epstein
#93 – AMA with Jason Fried: Work-life balance, avoiding burnout, defining success, company culture, and more
“Success is not defined by revenue targets or big numbers. It’s defined by, ‘Do I want to go to work tomorrow and do the same thing I did the day before? Am I enjoying this? Do I like the people I’m working with? Am I challenging myself intellectually and creatively?” Those are the things that matter.’” — Jason Fried
#90 – Ryan Holiday: Stillness, stoicism, and suffering less
“My goal in my life is to be great at what I do. . . but to have some semblance of a normal life, to not be so lopsided, to not be miserable, to actually like what I’m doing.” — Ryan Holiday
#86 – Damon Hill: Overcoming loss, achieving success, and finding one’s identity
“We have more potential than we are aware of and sometimes to release that potential we have to play tricks with our mind.”—Damon Hill
Qualy #69 – Advice to parents and kids for creating a sustainable environment that’s going to prevent them from running into metabolic problems
Today’s episode of The Qualys is from podcast #14 – Robert Lustig, M.D., M.S.L.: fructose, processed food, NAFLD, and changing…
#80 – Celebrity AMA with Apolo Ohno and Sasha Cohen: Fasting, rapamycin, performance vs. longevity, and more
“I am obsessed with knowing stuff. There’s just no denying it.” — Peter Attia
#79 – Ric Elias: Earning the gift of life
“This is how I would judge my life…’Did I earn my gift?’…We in our evolution can’t process death. Otherwise, we would have never left the cave. I left the cave. I was given the gift, and that gift is a responsibility.” — Ric Elias
#77 – AMA #2 with sleep expert, Matthew Walker, Ph.D.: short sleep mutants, optimal sleep environment, sleep apnea, & rapid fire questions
In this special episode, Matthew Walker returns for his second AMA episode where he provides his expert insight on numerous…
#72 – Dan Harris: 10% happier – meditation, kindness, and compassion
“Mindfulness is the ability to know what’s happening in your head at any given moment without getting carried away by it.” — Dan Harris