A quick strategy to cure confusion and be more decisive. This simple brain hack can radically simplify our situation when we feel confused and help us make hard decisions and take action.
We can all become confused with the pile-up of priorities and our different obligations. The worst thing is no decision yet we can sit in confusion unable to move on. In many cases there is a simple way to cure confusion and make stuff happen.
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Chapters
00:00 - You don't have time to be confused
01:41 - Identify the truth of the matter
02:39 - Buridians Donkey
04:08 - My booking dilemmas to NASA launch failures
 
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Amazon is more than just an e-commerce juggernaut but a builder of entire ecosystems such as the cloud computing industry (AWS), the e-publishing industry (Kindle) and the world of home devices that talk to each other and you (Alexa).
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Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.

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Chapters
00:00 The Power of Mental Models
02:52 #1 Thinking in Primitives
03:48 Story - How AWS began
06:27 #2 Customer-Centric Obsession
08:08 Story - Why they built Amazon Prime
10:06 #3 Long Term Thinking
11:22 Story - Launching the Kindle and e-publishing industry
14:05 Willingness to be Misunderstood
14:45 #4 Team - Single Threaded Leadership
15:53 #5 Team - Employ and Empower Builders
16:59 Culture - Meetings are for Decisions
17:58 #6 High-Velocity Decision making - Reversible vs Irreversible Decisions
20:32 #7 Regret Minimization Framework
22:09 Disagree and Commit
23:19 #8 Embrace Failure
24:01 Total Fails - Amazon Fire Phone, Amazon Wallet, Amazon Destinations, Amazon Restaurants
26:19 Importance of Timing and Competition
28:33 #9 Day 1 Thinking
31:15 Useful Bonus points
31:23 Flywheel effect
31:51 Word of Mouth Marketing 
32:48 Opposing Belief - Ignoring vs Crushing Competition
34:56 #10 Opposing Belief - Stubborn and Flexible
35:32 Applied to Growth Mindset thinking
39:30 Wrap up
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10 Greatest Mental Models of Jeff Bezos

Manipulation tactics that work - Irrational behaviours that don't - Prediction Fallacies we fall for.
In this episode, we dive further into our series on cognitive biases and how they cloud our judgement.
Studying applied psychology we can learn how we get manipulated by companies and start to protect ourselves from our own irrationality.
Take homes:

How to protect ourselves against pricing tactics

Reduce irrational decisions

Build awareness of truth

Reduce unpleasant surprises

Make better investments


If you enjoy this episode it's part of a series on cognitive biases worth checking out:


Ego Blindspots: 9 Cognitive Biases to Avoid - [May 7th]

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Discussed links

Trump given 1% chance of Nominate - 2015 report

Forbes - Any Monkey Can Beat the Market


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Chapters
00:00 SECTION - Framing effects
00:01 #1 Anchoring Bias
02:54 The Opposite Strategy
04:59 #2 Framing Effect
08:06 #3 Decoy Effect
10:45 SECTION - Irrational 
10:47 #4 Gambler's Fallacy
16:45 #5 Sunk Cost Fallacy
19:21 SECTION - Bad Prediction Flaws
19:55 #6 Overconfidence Bias
21:30 #7 Information Bias
25:34 Send Off
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Money Traps: 7 Manipulation Tactics Aimed at Your Wallet - [Cognitive Biases pt.2]

Unusual yet important questions you should ask yourself.
We steal some of the best questions and ideas from different domains that you can try applying to your own life.

What is a life worth living

Healthy vs toxic aspirations

How to abandon what doesn't serve you

The illusion of self-importance


Our guest today is Jodi Wellman the author of "You Only Die Once" and a source of positive ideas from her work in Applied Positive Psychology.
Jodi has a morbid fascination with positive ideas from existential psychology to help brighten your day.
As they say "Get busy living, or get busy dying".

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Jodi Wellman

Book - You Only Die Once


Website - Four Thousand Mondays


Quiz - How dead or alive are you?


Insta - @FourThousandMondays



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Chapters
00:00 Importance of good questions
01:40 Net-promoter score - Would you recommend your life?
07:24 Abandoning What No Longer Serves You
10:33 Consistent Reminders and Psychological Tricks
14:26 Overcoming the Illusion of Personal Specialness
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Unusual Questions to Build Insight w/ Jodi Wellman

How your brain creates movement and why it's interesting.
We learn about the movement control centre of the brain, how it is a leading indicator for brain and cognitive health in general and how to optimise it.
Important topics

How does the motor cortex work exactly

How to improve reflexes

Repair damage and rewire brain circuits

How alcohol and cannabis affect the brain


If you like understanding yourself or you want to become a pro athlete or musician the episode is a great place to geek out.

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Growth Mindset pod
Sam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.
Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.

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Mail - GrowthMindsetPodcast(at)gmail.com

Insta - SamJam.zen



Chapters
00:00 Why the motor cortex makes you cool
02:25 How the Motor Cortex was discovered
04:09 The areas and functions of the motor cortex
07:02 Mentality and Physicaly Link
08:45 Motor Function Impairment and Physical Rehab
11:36 Why you might be a bit Uncoordinated
13:54 Developmental Variation and mindset
14:52 How alcohol and Marijuana impact brain Health and Coordination
17:38 Reflexes and professional training
20:41 Why 10,000 hours makes sense
22:06 Reactions that don't require your brain
24:33 How physical movement affects mental thought
26:43 Wrap up
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Zen and the Art of Motor Cortex Maintenance

The pillars of a happy life lead to increased satisfaction instead of having opposing priorities fight it out.
By treating work and life as opposing forces we inevitably end up tipping the scales the wrong way. We can't always subscribe time evenly and things get out of whack.
We find there is a much better way by examining the term itself 'Work-life balance".
This episode will not only help you find better harmony with your different life projects but also help your awareness and mindsets to the choices you make.

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Infinite Play - Nat Eliason
This episode was inspired an article from Nat Eliason and his brilliant newsletter Infinite Play - I highly recommend subscribing.

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Sam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.
Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.

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Chapters
00:00 Importance vs Dangers of "balancing"
01:56 The number of heartbeats in your life
03:00 Why is finding Balance so complicated
03:50 The importance of words and language
06:50 When balance creates problems
07:50 The pillars of a happy life
09:00 Our obsession with good and bad instead of priorities
11:14 Seeking long-term enjoyment
13:10 Creating satisfaction whilst minimising sacrifice
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