Monocle Moments

About the Episode:

Let’s say you are fat. Is that your fault? Can you really do anything about it? Can we predict that you’re gonna be fat when you’re gonna grow up? Or is that just because of how your parents raised you? This is just one of the many interesting topics that Professor Robert Plomin and I will get into today. Now Professor Plomin is a psychologist and geneticist best known for his work in twin studies and behavior genetics. He is ranked among the 100 most eminent psychologists in the history of science. Just let that sink in. Apart from his incredibly impressive scientific career, Robert also wrote a book with which he hopes to reach beyond the scientific community called “Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are”. And I found out about all this by listening to a podcast he did with Sam Harris, after which I started wondering what the point even was of making the monocle moments podcast. We will talk about this. Other topics include whether or not parenting matters, the impact this may have on medical insurance, but mostly how the discoveries could make people’s lives better. Although Robert’s message is purely about his research, and he does not get into emotion all too much, I think you’ll enjoy Robert’s soft spokenness and honesty in this conversation.

Shownotes:

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Find out about your own DNA:

Sam Harris Podcast with Robert Plomin:

Intelligence Squared Debate:

Ananda works in the beauty industry, worked as a model and now she wrote the book “Poems of Recovery”. In this vulnerable conversation, we discuss her eating disorder, how she learned to open up about it, and what the recovery process looked like. We further get into dating while having an eating disorder. Lastly, we talk a bit about motorbikes because of our shared love for them. I hope you enjoy!

Ananda’s Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/anandaaaa/

Get Ananda's book on Amazon:

https://amzn.to/2WUJplG

Get Ananda’s Book on Boekscout:

https://www.boekscout.nl/shop2/boek.php?bid=10708

Get Ananda's Book on Bol.com:

https://www.bol.com/nl/p/poems-of-recovery/9300000006065197/?bltgh=pyrL-7NaIawXfk2inFRNQQ.1_4.5.ProductImage

Amazon Link:

If your country is not in the list, just email [email protected]

Marissa Klouwer - Helped Ananda a lot during recovery:

https://www.instagram.com/marissaklouwer/

Current Sports Coach

https://www.instagram.com/iamtaylorellis/

Chris Beljaars is the founder and CEO of Underdogs, where they teach ‘Underdogs’ to code and then they hire them for projects. Underdogs include prisoners, refugees and people with Autism.

Chris also happens to be the master of storytelling and in this conversation we talk about how he got to underdogs, how he selects prisoners for the programme and how he rejects them if he has to. Furthermore, we talk a fair share about prejudice. Are people born a criminal? Lastly, we discuss how Chris went from Nerd to Super Social Nerd.

I hope you enjoy!

Shownotes:

Website:

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Lazarus Reflect discussed:

In my discussion with Ninarosa, we talk about what it's like to be a Digital Nomad. Ninarosa has her own business for building strategic websites since 2016. Furthermore, she's has been all over the world, while still making money with her business and working hard from all those locations.

I hope you all enjoy!

James Orrigo is a Social Entrepreneur & Motivational Entertainer who uses original music to entertain & personal stories to inspire. When he was in high school, he suffered from a severe brain injury. During his recovery, he discovered a passion for using music to help others, especially his mother battling terminal cancer. His life is a testament to the power of overcoming adversity, never giving up, & living purposefully through service to others. His innovative programs are preserving legacies & stress the importance of living a meaningful life. Orrigo has worked with top companies including Children's Cancer Research Fund, Google, FastCap, Toontastic, Foundation Medicine and more.

James and I talk more in depth about these experiences and we uncover how he deals with the grief, how he brings happiness, ways that other people can do this too and much more.

Enjoy!

Dr. Mark Goulston is the best selling author of seven books including “Just Listen,” which became the top book on listening in the world, is one of the world’s pre-eminent experts on empathic listening and speaks globally on that topic. He is an executive coach, advisor and confidante to CEOs from entrepreneurs to the Fortune 500 and helps them become more impactful by increasing their non-technical skills to match their technical skills. He has been a UCLA professor of psychiatry for more than twenty years, trained FBI and police hostage negotiators and been one of the country’s leading experts on suicide prevention co-creating and moderating the multi-honored documentary, Stay Alive: An Intimate Conversation About Suicide Prevention. He hosts the all 5/5 reviewed podcast, My Wakeup Call, where he interviews influencers like Lauren, Larry King, Ken Blanchard, Norman Lear and many others about wakeup calls that changed their lives. Find out more about him at: markgoulston.com.

Enjoy!

Kevin Langeree is one of the world’s best Kitesurfers, professional YouTuber and Entrepreneur.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wCe1DT6Ww4

Since 2020, his new kite brand ReedinKites is in full production and you can now get their products. Make sure to check out:

https://www.reedinkites.com/

In this conversation we talk about what it looks like to prepare for a competition, to follow you passion, nature vs nurture in kiting, the struggles of being a pro athlete, entrepreneur and content creator at the same time, and much more.

Enjoy!

Whatsup.Tony is a growing content maker on Instagram (25k Followers) and Facebook. He currently works for Nas Daily during the week and creates his own videos during the weekend. In his videos, his signature is it’s focus on compassionate videos, smiles and relatable life lessons. In this episode we get into how he got to where he is today, how he met Nas.Daily and the difficulties in becoming a full-time content creator.

Enjoy!

https://www.instagram.com/whatsup.tony/

On Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/Whatsuptonyofficial

NasDaily

www.NasDaily.com

https://www.facebook.com/nasdaily/

Loic is a data scientist and probably one of the most rational people I know. It seems like he has pondered on every topic in existence and has smart things to say about them. He is really good at learning and teaching.

In this episode we get into learning and teaching, coding, riddles, mathematics and financial independence. At the end I ask some difficult questions from the book of questions which gets us into some interesting discussions.

SnowNotes:

Why we sleep

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501144324/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1501144324&linkCode=as2&tag=monocle03-20&linkId=5960b2fb80a38d287f52a96270d36b3a

Kurtzgezagt

https://www.youtube.com/user/Kurzgesagt

Article about what we called "The Boundry of Knowledge":

https://ardalis.com/the-more-you-know-the-more-you-realize-you-dont-know

Video explaining the picture of a black hole:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_GVbuddri8

Code for the toilet paper numbers (requires jupyter notebook for graph):

https://github.com/loicrw/Random-problems/blob/master/Random%20Problems/Toilet%20Paper%20Numbers.ipynb

Math olympiad that talks about invariants and how difficult it is to gauge question difficulty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M64HUIJFTZM

Video about why your friends have more friends than you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEjhO65FYks

Rotterdam ai bootcamp link:

https://lovelacecamp.ai

About going back to your "base happiness":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill

The Egg short story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI

Let's plant 1,000,000 trees!

https://teamtrees.org/

Loic's LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lo%C3%AFc-rold%C3%A1n-waals-60b51383/