Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby

By Dr. Daniel CrosbyBusiness Entrepreneurship Education Self-Improvement Investing

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Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby episodes

June 19, 2025Dr. Daniel Crosby - Embrace Uncertainty
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What is “The Story of the Chinese Farmer” by Alan Watts and what can it teach us about embracing uncertainty?
Why are humans so hardwired to fear uncertainty and how can we override this natural tendency and embrace it?
Why do some psychologists believe that ambiguity aversion is the one fear to rule them all?
How can uncertainty stimulate heightened learning?
What did the poet Rainer Maria Rilke have to say about embracing uncertainty?
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June 12, 2025Dr. Daniel Crosby - Let Purpose Come to You
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What is the “drown proofing” technique, often taught to Navy Seals, and what is a takeaway from it that can be applied in our daily lives?
What is Alan Watts' “backward law,” or “the law of reversed effect?”
What is the psychological phenomenon of pareidolia and what can it teach us about our collective search for meaning?
What are some philosophical examples of how meaning often ensues in our lives?
What can we learn from Vietnam’s “Great Hanoi Rat Massacre?”
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June 05, 2025Dr. Daniel Crosby - The Life-Changing Power of “No”
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What can Queen Elizabeth I, of England, teach us about the power of saying “no?”
Why is saying “no” just as important, if not more important, than saying “yes” in our journey towards a purposeful life?
What can be our guidepost when deciding when to say “yes” and when to say “no?”
How does living a purposeful life improve decision-making behavior going forward?
What 3-step process does Oliver Burkeman lay out for saying “yes” to our highest purpose and saying “no” to things that do not serve it?
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May 29, 2025Dr. Daniel Crosby - Learn to Love Your Limits
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What is facticity and how can we turn these “limitations” into strengths?
What are some historical examples of people who used their limitations to do, or create, something remarkable?
What is Sheena Iyengar’s “jam study” and what are its implications for decision making and behavioral science?
Why are constraints such an important element of creativity?
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10 min
May 15, 2025Dr. Daniel Crosby - How Death Can Save Your Life
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What is the idea of Lindy’s Law, also known as The Lindy Effect? What is statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s unique take on this?
How has an acceptance of our finitude been expressed, and even celebrated, by cultures all over the world?
What is the Zen Buddhist concept of “Satori” and what can we learn from it?
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May 08, 2025Dr. Daniel Crosby - Suffering and Purpose
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What were some of the catalysts for The Great Chinese Famine and what does this teach us about unintended consequences?
What did Nietzsche have to say about the important role suffering plays in our lives and personal growth?
What is congenital analgesia and what does it teach us about the protective role of pain?
Why do some scientists believe depression plays an important evolutionary role and what role might it play?
What is post-traumatic growth?
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May 01, 2025Dr. Daniel Crosby - The Depth of Your Pain Maps the Height of Your Joy
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What can Miss Havisham, the Charles Dickens’ character, teach us about the dangers of fleeing our pain?
How is Miss Havisham, on some fundamental level, a potent metaphor for our own lives?
What does Dr. Crosby mean by “emotional graying” and why are its effects so insidious?
What did author Khalil Gibran have to say about why running from pain can also mean running from joy?
Why do vulnerability and greatness often go hand-in-hand?
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April 24, 2025Dr. Daniel Crosby - Embracing Anxiety
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Why should we take heed of our internal anxiety that expresses that something is not quite right in our lives?
Why do Existential Philosophers think of anxiety as a potential catalyst for personal growth rather than a hindrance?
How can passion help us give our anxiety form and function?
How did the philosopher Heidegger think about anxiety’s role in our lives?
How does Albert Camus relate anxiety to one’s sense of the weariness of life?
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Compliance Code: 0983-U-25093
10 min
April 17, 2025Dr. Daniel Crosby - The Size of Your Fear is the Size of Your Opportunity
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What is Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth, or Hero’s Journey, and how does Lord of the Rings exemplify this?
How might a “call to adventure” crop up in our own lives and why is it so important to answer them some of the time?
Why can striving and searching for a more meaningful life be so painful? How is this pain directly proportional to our potential?
Why did Kierkegaard mean by the quote: “anxiety is freedom’s possibility?”
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10 min
April 10, 2025Dr. Daniel Crosby - The Danger of Playing it Safe
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What is the status quo bias and why might it have been relevant to the Challenger space shuttle explosion?
Why did Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winning physicist, state that “the first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool?” How is running from freedom, via conscientiousness, an embodiment of Feynman’s sentiment?
What did Alfred Adler, Austrian Psychotherapist, say about our safeguarding tendencies and the harm they can do?
How can safeguarding tendencies morph into inferiority complexes?
How do we sometimes posit cowardice as moral uprightness in our lives?
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About Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby

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The Standard Deviations podcast is a weekly production that looks at money, mind and meaning, all through a psychological lens. Each week, psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Daniel Crosby interviews a fascinating new guest, experts in everything from finance to literature to wellness. Each guest provides listeners with three concrete ways to apply what was learned that week, ensuring that weekly listening becomes part of a path to a richer life. Episodes are brief, research-based, and designed to fit perfectly within your commute time. So, tune in for practical news that will help you make more, think more and be more.