In this episode, we explore the question: how do we optimize the human experience and create balance in our lives? We discussed topics such as success, passions, struggles, being in the present, and creating better life experiences overall.

Ryan is a current undergraduate student at Babson College and owner of Grow Your Ohana: a social media marketing agency that helps businesses involved in revolutionizing Hawaii's local economy. Ryan loves learning, creating, and training, and spends his time doing things like coding, reading, writing, swimming, and thinking. Learn more about Ryan here: ryancombes.com 

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Timestamps/Chapters  

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0:00: How to Optimise the Human Experience? 

5:56: Principle 1: Iterate your Definition of Success 

19:08: Principle 2: Surrender to the Now 

40:23: Principle 3: Be Respectfully Curious and Question your Motives 

1:08:15: Principle 4: Embrace Humility 

1:27:11: What does Ryan's Utopia look like? 

Books/People Mentioned  

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Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson 

Derek Sivers: Derek Sivers is an American writer, musician, programmer, and entrepreneur, best known for being the founder and former president of CD Baby, an online CD store for independent musicians. 

Scott Adams: Scott Raymond Adams is an American artist and creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, and business. His Dilbert series came to national prominence through the downsizing period in 1990s America and was then distributed worldwide. 

Tim Ferriss: Timothy Ferriss is an American entrepreneur, investor, author, and lifestyle guru. 

Range by David Epstein 

Immanuel Kant: Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential figures in modern Western philosophy. 

The Kingdom of Ends: The Kingdom of Ends is a thought experiment centered on the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Kant introduced the concept in his Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals. The thought experiment proposes a world in which all human beings are treated as ends, not as mere means to an end for other people. 

Man Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl 

War of Art by Steven Pressfield 

Elizabeth Lesser: Elizabeth Lesser is the co-founder and senior adviser of Omega Institute, the largest adult education center in the United States focusing on health, wellness, spirituality and creativity.