The Perfect Summary Podcast
Every summary, narrated: the GIST of great conversations and books in minutes, so you can decide if you want the REST.
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Cognitive scientist Joscha Bach argues we live inside a dream our brains generate, and explores free will, suffering, GPT-3, ideology and love.
UFC middleweight Joe Pyfer tells Joe Rogan about his punch record, an abusive childhood, a career-threatening arm injury and fighting Jack Hermansson.
Old friends Jim Breuer and Joe Rogan riff on manipulative elites, 9/11 unity, farmers, monkey attacks, cars, 1960s music and psychedelic therapy.
Andrew Huberman's light episodes describe melatonin as the body's seasonal calendar, his episode on time perception calls circannual entrainment a calendar written in melatonin, his office-hours answers link seasons, melatonin, serotonin and mood, and Samer Hattar takes up night waking, melatonin and seasons with him. Seeing melatonin as a signal of the time of year, not just a sleep switch, helps explain why mood shifts with the seasons.
Roboticist Rodney Brooks and Lex Fridman debate AI hype, self-driving cars, whether computation is the right metaphor, and lessons from iRobot and Rethink.
Olympic judo silver medalist Travis Stevens walks Lex Fridman through throws, weight cuts, injuries, a 2012 heartbreak and his 2016 comeback.
Retired Navy SEAL Jocko Willink talks war's bonds and costs, leadership case studies of tech CEOs, humility, his 4 a.m. routine and jiu-jitsu.
Neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins explains how 150,000 cortical columns vote to build our model of the world, and why he thinks intelligent machines won't turn on us.
Mel Robbins redefines confidence as the willingness to try, busts three myths and shares five research-based tools to build it as a skill.
Breathing expert Patrick McKeown coaches Mel Robbins through nose breathing, breath holds and slow exhales to cut stress and improve sleep.
Psychotherapist Amy Morin and Simon Sinek treat mental strength as a daily practice and share small, practical moves for bad days.
Emory professor Marina Cooley explains how to get noticed at work and beyond: sticky ideas, sharing wins without cringe, and meeting prep that pays off.
Rob Lowe and Simon Sinek on risk-taking, surviving public humiliation, refusing to self-edit, and finding humor in life's hardest parts.
Arthur Brooks and Simon Sinek on the 80/20/0 gut check, careers as spirals, the arrival fallacy, and why AI may erode the struggle that builds wisdom.
Simon Sinek and Oprah on finding your why, real optimism vs. positivity, the 'great rebalancing' of work, and the friend test for purpose.
UFC light heavyweight Khalil Rountree Jr. tells Joe Rogan about his DHEA suspension, Thai training, weight cutting and his dream fight with Alex Pereira.
Mel Robbins, her daughter Kendall and producer Amy explain how to pick a North Star and close the distance with emulate, assimilate, innovate.
OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba on GPT-3, Codex and Copilot, the Rubik's cube robot hand, consciousness as compression, meditation and love.
Cyc founder Douglas Lenat explains how his team spent decades hand-encoding common sense so AI can reason, explain itself and stop making absurd mistakes.
Myron Golden on wealth as a matter of belief and identity, selling without chasing, faith, loss and raising capable kids.
Functional medicine doctor Mark Hyman explains how a 10-day food reset, better sleep, key supplements and connection help the body heal itself.
Steven Bartlett shares how he makes decisions: question the story, use the 51% rule, move fast on reversible choices and reason from first principles.
Tom Green tells Joe Rogan about life on his Canadian farm, a mule that reads his mind, a near-catastrophic burn in Costa Rica, and why he left Hollywood.
Grimes talks with Lex Fridman about music production, becoming a mother, optimistic futures, AI, consciousness and why we are now Homo techno.
Ben Askren talks Jake Paul, Jordan Burroughs, his loss to Masvidal, how he built his funk wrestling, coaching, and why he loves Bitcoin.
Mel Robbins walks through six findings on who we spend time with across life, and how to be intentional with family, friends, partners, kids and yourself.
Neuralink's first human patient explains how he moves a cursor with his thoughts, what went wrong, and why he chose to go first.
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon explains 5G, how Snapdragon packs a computer into a phone, the chip shortage, and Qualcomm's push into cars and PCs.
The Holistic Psychologist's guide to why willpower fails, how childhood wires our automatic patterns, and the daily mind-and-body practices that let you choose who you become.
John Piper's case for Christian Hedonism: that chasing your deepest joy in God is not selfish but the very thing that honors Him most.