Startup Rebels

Life is a series of decisions and the quality of your life is directly proportional to the quality of those decisions. Improving your decision making ability is one of the most powerful levers you can pull to improve your life. Learn how by studying the work of Annie Duke, a psychologist who took a hiatus from her PhD program to become a professional poker player. She won $4M before returning to research the science of decision making.

Overcoming anger can be transformative from a leadership, decision making, and personal standpoint. We've all known leaders who fly off the handle. Does this increase or decrease your respect for them? When you're enraged do you make better or worse decisions?

Today we're going to combine practical advice from stoicism and buddhism with some modern psychology to provide an antidote for anger. This episode is loosely structured around Plutarch's essay "On the Avoidance of Anger". 

Stop forgetting crucial info and start building compound interest on your knowledge.

Most people put in endless hours of work recording information that they never find or use again. 

But high performers build a digital second brain that lets them magnify their creative power and knowledge.

Learn how in this episode of Startup Rebels!

Do you find yourself overwhelmed? Do you constantly have an endless list of tasks taking over your life? Is your company or product being blown up by endless feature requests that seemingly pull in opposite directions?

This is the podcast episode for you. Learn about the power of focus, how to say no and set boundaries, and the tough inner game of cutting out the superfluous from your life.

Learn to be an essentialist with Ayon and Vince Shields.

 

 

Any situation where two or more people are trying to accomplish something together is a leadership situation.

Whether you're trying to IPO or planning a family road trip, influencing, coaching, facilitating, managing, and leading others will a defining challenge for you.

Today we're talking about leadership techniques forged in the crucible of battle by the  commander of the most decorated Navy SEAL unit of the Iraq War. We're reading Jocko Willink's Leadership, Strategy, and Tactics Field Manual.

His advice will surprise you. In fact, it just be the opposite of what you expect.

 

Is this the last episode of Reading Rebellion or is this just the beginning?

 

Join us to find out what the next phase of our podcast will bring you.

 

Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history—300 versus gathering millions. A suicide mission that inspired resistance to the Persian Empire.   What can the Spartans teach us about fear, courage, loyalty, leadership, and human nature? Find out on this episode of Reading Rebellion feat. Vince Shields, killer jiujitsu competitor and instructor.

 

How do you know that all your experience isn't simulated by scientists in a lab? That you aren't just a brain floating in a vat somewhere?

What does it mean to know anything at all? Today we'll explore some key epistemological arguments related to skepticism of the external world.

If you've ever heard the phrase "my truth" and cringed, then this is the episode for you.

 

Today we’re finishing our discussion on Bernard Crick’s “In Defence of Politics”. This is the second part of conversation about this book, so we recommend going back and listening to last week’s episode to get the full context of what we’re talking about.

 

We love hearing from you! Share your thoughts about this episode with us at contact(at)rdmr.io, or @rdmr_io on Twitter. 

 

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This week we discuss Bernard Crick’s famous “In Defence of Politics” and use it to present a rebuttal to Bryan Caplan’s critique of our political system. We cover half of the book in this episode, and we’ll cover the second half of the book next week.

 

We love hearing from you! Share your thoughts about this episode with us at contact(at)rdmr.io, or @rdmr_io on Twitter. 

 

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