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  • The Chimp Paradox by Dr Steven Peters

    Do you sabotage your own happiness and success? Are you struggling to make sense of yourself? Do your emotions sometimes dictate your life?

    The Chimp Paradox is an incredibly powerful mind management model that can help you become a happy, confident, healthier and more successful person. Prof Steve Peters explains the struggle that takes place within your mind and then shows how to apply this understanding to every area of your life so you can:- Recognise how your mind is working- Understand and manage your emotions and thoughts- Manage yourself and become the person you would like to beThe Chimp Mind Management Model is based on scientific facts and principles, which have been simplified into a workable model for easy use. It will help you to develop yourself and give you the skills, for example, to remove anxiety, have confidence and choose your emotions. The book will do this by giving you an understanding of the way in which your mind works and how you can manage it. It will also help you to identify what is holding you back or preventing you from having a happier and more successful life.

    9 hr 26 min
  • Maps of Meaning Part 1

    Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief is a 1999 book by Canadian clinical psychologist and psychology professor Jordan Peterson. The book describes a theory for how people construct meaning, in a way that is compatible with the modern scientific understanding of how the brain functions.

    1 hr
  • Kanye West Donda but it's just my voice

    The Donda Album but it's just my voice

    0:00:00 - Donda Chant
    0:00:52 - Jail
    0:05:49 - God Breathed
    0:11:23 - Off The Grid
    0:17:02 - Hurricane
    0:21:01 - Praise God
    0:24:47 - Jonah
    0:28:02 - Ok Ok
    0:31:24 - Junya
    0:33:52 - Believe What I Say
    0:37:55 - 24
    0:41:13 - Remote Control
    0:44:31 - Moon
    0:47:12 - Heaven and Hell
    0:49:37 - Donda
    0:51:45 - Keep My Spirit Alive
    0:55:26 - Jesus Lord
    1:04:21 - New Again
    1:07:24 - Tell The Vision
    1:09:08 - Lord I Need You
    1:11:50 - Pure Souls
    1:17:46 - Come to Life
    1:22:55 - No Child Left Behind
    1:25:54 - Jail pt 2
    1:30:51 - Ok Ok pt 2
    1:34:14 - Junya pt 2
    1:37:16 - Jesus Lord pt 2

    1 hr 49 min
  • All-In Summit: Alexandra Botez takes on the Besties in a 1v4 simultaneous chess match

    This talk was recorded live at the All-In Summit 2023 at Royce Hall on UCLA's campus in Los Angeles.

    (0:00) Besties welcome Alexandra Botez to All-In Summit ‘23!
    (1:35) Rules and ratings
    (5:46) Chess match
    (17:55) Results
    (21:00) Q&A with Alexandra
    (22:34) Conversations with fans and the creator economy
    (27:30) Expanding distribution
    (30:11) Live events
    (31:04) Poker
    (32:15) Growing up with chess
    (36:10) Chess scandals

    41 min
  • All-In Summit: "Luxury Beliefs are Status Symbols" with Rob Henderson

    This talk was recorded live at the All-In Summit 2023 at Royce Hall on UCLA's campus in Los Angeles.

    (0:00) Besties welcome Rob Henderson to All-In Summit ‘23!
    (1:45) Luxury beliefs are status symbols
    (3:25) Thorstein Veblen’s theory of the leisure class
    (6:18) Dueling
    (9:27) Defund the police
    (10:55) Torching your own social capital
    (11:52) The nuclear family
    (16:48) Q&A with the besties
    (18:44) Economic incentive to not get married
    (22:09) The Two-Parent Privilege
    (24:06) Cancel culture
    (27:57) Populist movements
    (29:50) Promiscuity

    33 min
  • All-In Summit: Jenny Just on Peak6, the female market correction, poker, and risk

    This talk was recorded live at the All-In Summit 2023 at Royce Hall on UCLA's campus in Los Angeles.

    (0:00) Besties welcome Jenny Just to All-In Summit ‘23!
    (2:20) APEX Fintech Solutions
    (4:48) PEAK6 returns and investment philosophy
    (07:36) Managing risk
    (09:22) The female market correction and Poker Power
    (14:22) Repetition of risk
    (18:15) Gender differences as third rail
    (20:40) Expected value and probability
    (24:17) Safe spaces, risk and loss

    30 min
  • All-In Summit: In conversation with Larry Summers

    This talk was recorded live at the All-In Summit 2023 at Royce Hall on UCLA's campus in Los Angeles.

    (0:00) Besties welcome Larry Summers to AIS!
    (2:14) Consumer spending, inflation, and the likelihood of a soft landing
    (7:24) What would Larry do as Federal Reserve Chair?
    (10:29) Inflation, interest rates, and political motivations
    (14:09) Regulation to create “frameworks in which freedom can flourish”
    (16:29) American resilience and self-denying prophets
    (20:46) Educational reform, self-esteem, and achievement
    (25:35) Affirmative action and legacy admissions
    (30:30) Free speech and academic freedom

    35 min

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