At its core, fear is designed to keep us alive and healthy. You can break fear down into two basic categories, instinctual and learned. I want to focus on this second type, learned fears, because what is learned can be unlearned.In this episode, we'll look at public speaking as an example of a step-by-step approach to slapping fear in the face. And how this enables you to live a life by design.Let's dig in.

How often do you hear the phrase "hustle and grind"? Or something like that. Motivational speaking has become so normalized that we see it everywhere. But how helpful are these ideas without context? Motivation is fleeting, especially without a reason to get up and get things done. In this episode, we discuss all this, what matters more, and The Mandalorian. Let's dig in.

Seneca: The Shortness of Life

Why speakers bomb

Impact Theory

It's tax time! Which means the entire nation is freaking out all at once.

This is an excellent chance to discuss how our mindset influences our choices. From being stuck in traffic to beating ourselves over not making better financial decisions, we spend a lot of time telling ourselves we suck.

Not only is that not fun, but it also has a massive effect on how we make decisions.

Our thoughts become our reality.

Let's dig in.

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Fear of Uncertainty

Thinking Creates Your Reality

Henry Ford

Seneca

This is a challenging subject, but it still dominates the news cycle, and for good reason. The straightforward approach to this is to debate the pros and cons.But that's why we're still wasting time while people die. Many of them are children.At the heart of ShortForm are these questions: What are we doing? And why are we doing it? Those two questions apply to the current situation.Let's dig in.Pro and Con: Gun controlABC News: Deaths by guns

Ok, sports fans, let's talk some Keanu Reeves. More to the point, we're going to look at the John Wick movies and what we can learn from the world they've created therein. There are three specific lessons we're going to look at and how they can help create a life of intention. A quick preview, of the many lies on social media, one of the most prominent is that you deserve the most amazing life. The real-world truth is no, you don’t. What you do have is the authority over how you respond to life and what you do with it. Let's dig in.

Let’s talk about the most valuable commodity you have. It’s not money, looks, or fame. It is your time. Nothing else exists with such finite boundaries as our time on this planet.In this unfiltered episode of ShortForm: Afterdark, we look at 3 three specific traps to our focus and how they steal time.Let's dig in.FOMO: A brief overviewIs advertising manipulative?How microwaves work

Finding Flow, and not the waitress that works at your local diner. But instead, the emotional state that happens when your skill set is just shy of the challenge presented to you, but you achieve a sense of total immersion in the work.

"...it is the ideal state where the person can find themselves enjoying their work, feeling productive, totally immersed in what they are doing, and performing at their best." - Forbes.

Sound fun?

Let's dig in.

Steven Kotler explains Flow

APA Psych Net: Challenge/skill balance

Mind Tools: The Flow Model

Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi