The Aaron Olson Podcast

The ideas presented in this book are based on the ancient wisdom of Stoicism and the more contemporary Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). By putting the advice into practice, you will be able to more easily overcome adversity and better control your emotions.

When we experience intense emotions such as anger, depression, or anxiety, we assume that something outside of ourselves caused our feelings. But, according to REBT, it is our underlying beliefs about our circumstances that control our emotions. By changing our underlying beliefs, we can change how we feel.

According to Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), we make an error when interpreting our emotions. When we experience intense emotions such as anger, depression, or anxiety, we assume that something outside of ourselves caused our feelings. But, according to REBT, it is our underlying beliefs about our circumstances that control our emotions. By changing our underlying beliefs, we can change how we feel. The therapy presented in this book is based on the ancient wisdom of Stoicism and the more contemporary Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT).

By putting the advice into practice, you may be able to get better control of your emotions. By following a simple, common-sense approach to confronting your unwanted beliefs, which influence your emotions, you may begin to get a hold of the underlying cause of your unwanted feelings. At its core, REBT is the idea we make ourselves miserable, most of the time. We are the cause of our unwanted feelings, and we can change our feelings by changing the underlying philosophy behind our feelings.

REBT is based on some of the philosophies of the Stoics, especially Epictetus, who said: ”Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them." For Ellis, achieving tranquility of mind was not about changing what was going on in the external world, but rather, changing our underlying philosophy of life. Events themselves don't cause us to be miserable, it is our beliefs about the events that control our emotions. By changing our underlying beliefs, we can change how we feel.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Opening Credits 

00:00:15 Introduction 

00:01:17 Who Was Albert Ellis? 

00:05:51 A Guide to REBT 

00:15:14 Practicing REBT 

00:16:51 REBT Self-Help Form 

00:18:45 Conclusion 

00:19:23 About the Author 

00:19:32 Closing Credits

I talk with Kerry McDonald about her book, Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom. 

Chapters:

00:00:00 Kerry McDonald https://fee.org/kerry

00:04:30 Public school vs Homeschool 

00:06:20 Harvard 

00:10:50 FEE https://fee.org/

00:11:30 Cato https://www.cato.org/

00:12:10 Educational Freedom in America 

00:14:15 Compulsory schooling laws 

00:16:10 Unschooling 

00:19:00 Adult learning vs child learning 

00:20:40 Creativity, curiosity, entrepreneurship 

00:23:30 Unschooling at Kerry's home 

00:25:18 Creating vs consuming 

00:27:40 Gender differences 

00:29:14 Kids are expected to read earlier and earlier 

00:30:27 Individuality in education 

00:31:15 Thomas Edison 

00:32:35 Study on adults who were unschooled

00:33:25 Left vs Right in homeschooling

Isaac Morehouse, founder and CEO of Crash, and founder of Praxis talks with me about learning out loud, job hunting, being honest, pitching yourself to get a job, and prioritizing your time.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Isaac Morehouse https://isaacmorehouse.com/

00:00:19 Inner Game of Startups https://canonic.xyz/books/12cy7aGkmg9CxgLXd4WFp6FJWSJHcbZ5NQ/limited

00:01:00 Praxis https://discoverpraxis.com/

00:01:02 Crash https://crash.co/

00:10:25 My pitch to Isaac https://aaronolson.blog/2022/02/23/how-to-pitch-your-way-to-a-new-job/

00:10:50 Mindset shift in the job hunt 

00:12:50 Increase your luck surface with a job pitch 

00:16:20 Could a bad pitch harm your job search? 

00:19:15 Be honest in your job hunt 

00:20:15 A good salesperson is empathetic 

00:22:40 Posting in the days of COVID 

00:26:00 Posting on social media 

00:28:25 Homeschooling and learning out loud 

00:32:20 Twetch http://twet.ch/inv/stoic

00:34:00 Kids learning out loud 

00:36:50 Prioritizing time 

00:39:00 Don't do stuff you hate 

00:41:00 80/20 Rule 

00:42:00 Don't try to be everywhere at once 

00:43:40 Tiny payments https://www.nanopay.cash/

00:49:30 Create more than you consume

Daniel Krawisz (aka The Bitcoin Emperor) shares with me his latest thoughts about what Fredrick Nietzsche and Ernest Becker had to say about taking risks in life. Daniel implores us to consider taking some calculated risks in life. Thanks, The Bitcoin Cash Podcast for the chapter marks!

Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro 

00:00:42 Discussing economics 

00:03:10 Presentation start 

00:06:34 Nietzsche and Becker 

00:11:21 Random walks 

00:14:51 Fear of death 

00:16:32 Economics and Becker’s psychology 

00:23:05 Darwinian influence 

00:24:14 Theory summary 

00:26:00 Rationality of instinct 

00:30:47 Fauci 

00:33:57 Summary of attitudes 

00:40:35 Application of theory 

00:45:00 Optimal strategy 

00:48:35 Modern cultural groups 

00:57:58 Men and danger, philosophical approaches 

01:03:00 Practical implementation and Warren Buffet 

01:07:00 Scams/games 

01:10:00 Value of money and Bitcoin

I talk with Hunter Hastings from the Mises Institute about the role that creativity and imagination in entrepreneurship. Hunter tells about the role that action and experimentation play in entrepreneurship. 

Chapters:

00:00:00 Hunter Hastings https://hunterhastings.com/

00:00:30 Hunter Hastings on Twitter https://twitter.com/hhhastings

00:02:46 What is an entrepreneur? 

00:08:22 Role of the customer 

00:10:35 Imagination vs implementation 

00:12:50 E4B website https://econ4business.com/

00:16:40 Education 

00:20:31 Big business becomes bureaucratic 

00:23:01 Cryptocurrency 

00:25:08 Twetch http://twet.ch/inv/stoic

00:26:55 Austrian economics 

00:29:15 How to think like an entrepreneur 

00:31:44 Don't complain, create 

00:33:33 Don't analyze, experiment 

00:35:18 Test the market 

00:38:03 Econ 4 Business Podcast https://mises.org/library/economics-business

00:38:32 Hunter Hastings Website https://hunterhastings.com/

00:38:45 Mises.org https://mises.org/

00:39:24 Mises Institute Books Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mises-audio-books-podcast/id1055730978?mt=2

00:40:01 Austrian Economics a Primer https://www.adamsmith.org/research/austrian-economics-a-primer

00:40:36 Economics in One Lesson https://youtu.be/N5MGRxD-HSc

00:40:54 Human Action by Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/library/human-action-0

00:41:05 Bob Murphy notes on Human Action https://mises.org/library/robert-p-murphy-cooperation-enterprise-and-human-action

Dr. Hugh McTavish argues that the madness of COVID lockdowns caused more harm than good.

https://covid-sanity.org/

https://www.hughmctavish.com/

https://amzn.to/3mXZm8i

00:00:00.000 Professor Per Bylund https://perbylund.com/

00:00:36.107 How did you become interested in entrepreneurship?

00:03:08.377 Theory vs practice of entrepreneurship

00:03:26.372 Mises: Human Action https://mises.org/library/human-action-0

00:04:28.346 Will understanding economics help us become better entrepreneurs?

00:04:46.894 Errors entrepreneurs make

00:04:59.100 Production process vs value process

00:08:15.300 Serving yourself by serving others

00:09:14.261 Creativity and imagination

00:09:53.810 Ideas vs implementation

00:09:57.590 Invention vs innovation

00:11:47.666 Value first, cost second

00:15:06.411 Entrepreneurship: Thinking about the economy in the right way

00:15:49.231 What projects get you excited about entrepreneurship?

00:16:11.760 Decentralization of technology

00:17:09.611 Social media

00:20:26.529 Future of content creation

00:21:28.986 Cryptocurrency

00:22:09.028 Ethereum https://ethereum.org/en/

00:22:13.817 Nano https://nano.org/

00:22:31.627 Micropayments

00:23:09.352 What hasn’t crypto had wider adoption?

00:23:33.028 Fiat currency

00:25:00.919 Security vs ease if use in cryptocurrency

00:26:07.982 Barriers to cryptocurrency

00:26:49.228 Responsibility in crypto

00:27:44.403 Over-engineering in crypto

00:28:41.022 Crypto has not become money

00:29:12.480 Intellectual property https://twitter.com/PerBylund/status/1386774810617958403

00:30:24.896 IP distorts the market

00:32:59.205 IP and big pharma

00:33:17.117 Nexium vs Prilosec https://www.healthline.com/health/gerd/nexium-vs-prilosec

00:36:03.192 Big pharma and vitamins

00:37:19.990 IP as monopoly privilege

00:37:35.537 IP is not benefiting the consumer

00:38:05.682 IP fosters inventions instead of innovations

00:39:55.611 IP and cancer drugs

00:41:48.707 IP is based on the assumption that the idea matters

00:42:25.540 Smartphones and IP

00:44:37.947 Copyright and creative works

00:47:03.336 Metallica and IP

00:47:33.959 Ways to make money other than royalties

00:49:33.249 Monopoly privileges coddle creatives

00:51:23.296 Getting rid of IP allows for different business models to flourish

00:53:35.363 Crypto and creative services

00:55:02.043 Where to go to learn more about entrepreneurship?

00:55:29.836 Mises.org https://mises.org/

00:55:52.440 Per Bylund on Twitter https://twitter.com/PerBylund

00:56:48.467 Economics in one lesson https://youtu.be/eyIfEpNfU2U

00:00:00.000 Introduction Anthony Stadlen 

00:00:16.899 Anthony's interest in psychotherapy

00:01:08.488 Lies in family origin

00:02:24.037 Sartre 

00:04:23.061 James Joyce 

00:04:29.562 Freud

00:05:21.125 Leonardo Da vinci 

00:08:21.490 Existential analyst 

00:08:27.437 Ronald D. Lang 

00:08:28.518 Aaron Esterson 

00:09:46.627 The Divided Self 

00:09:58.269 Existence Rollo May

00:10:36.515 Ludwig Binswanger 

00:10:52.429 Case of Ellen West 

00:13:52.286 The Myth of Mental Illness 

00:15:05.405 Praxis 

00:15:07.044 Human Action 

00:16:44.197 RD Lang

00:16:48.205 Esterson

00:16:50.937 Reason and Violence 

00:16:57.188 Sanity, Madness and the Family 

00:17:07.867 David Cooper 

00:17:41.758 Praxis

00:19:54.390 Szasz was an intellectual terrorist

00:22:16.654 When did you first meet Szasz?

00:23:46.731 Anthony Clare 

00:26:46.277 Case of Dora and Caterina 

00:29:12.498 A Poor Model for Students: The Case of Thomas Szasz https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/a-poor-model-for-those-in-training.html?m=0

00:30:00.845 Inner Circle Seminars https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/?m=0

00:30:52.644 Szasz Inner Circle Seminar 

00:31:05.942 Thomas Szasz Award

00:32:15.575 Szasz was my best friend

00:33:41.920 Szasz was an out-and-out atheist

00:34:36.363 The Myth of Psychotherapy 

00:35:21.212 The cure of souls

00:35:33.326 Carl Jung 

00:36:50.441 The Question of Lay Analysis 

00:38:57.796 Religious leaders as psychotherapists

00:40:03.788 Payment in therapy

00:40:31.500 The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 

00:42:13.453 The Myth of Psychotherapy https://amzn.to/2QnBP2E

00:44:02.599 Attending to the soul

00:44:53.205 Did Szasz believe in psychotherapy?

00:45:59.848 Against Therapy https://amzn.to/32StBCB

00:47:13.783 Psychoanalysis under Stalinism

00:49:02.731 The only person Szasz could talk to about psychotherapy

00:49:35.836 Divine awe of psychotherapy

00:50:14.893 Possibility for repentance in psychotherapy

00:51:19.931 Money and psychotherapy

00:52:30.378 Contract in Psychotherapy

00:56:54.184 Worldly care of the soul

00:57:07.553 Secular pastoral counseling

00:57:30.013 Freud on Psychotherapy 

01:00:04.744 Szasz on Psychotherapy

01:01:30.679 Religion, Rhetoric, Repression

01:02:58.525 Noble vs base rhetoric

01:03:35.776 Why is it so hard for people to understand Szasz?

01:05:13.137 Involuntary psychiatry and the insanity defense

01:06:48.050 How Szasz came to his thinking on psychiatry

01:07:09.955 Szasz as a child

01:10:12.714 Ignaz Semmelweis 

01:14:13.690 Health vs ethics

01:15:51.900 Problems in living

01:21:49.341 Why I am not a health professional http://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/why-existential-psychotherapy-is-not.html

01:24:35.805 Freud, Anna Feud, Ernest Jones 

01:27:42.847 Psychotherapy in UK needs no license

01:30:07.528 The religion of the state https://amzn.to/3nboTZI

01:31:53.675 Szasz in UK vs US

01:33:38.296 Will Szasz's ideas ever become mainstream?

01:34:50.283 Szasz said psychotherapy was finished in the US

01:36:31.687 How did Szasz remain so prolific?

01:37:45.213 Did Szasz still correspond in his old age?

01:39:42.916 Szasz's suicide https://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com/p/thomas-szasz-obituary-anthony-stadlen.html?m=0

01:41:49.343 What is your most fond memory of Szasz?

01:44:22.120 Szasz and the meaning of life

00:00:00.000 Daniel Krawisz https://twitter.com/DanielKrawisz

00:00:51.691 What comes after bitcoin?

00:01:16.117 Get as rich as possible

00:01:25.613 Bitcoin is like building an engine

00:01:45.799 Austrian economics is like thermodynamics

00:03:34.687 The problems of socialism https://mises.org/library/praxeology-knowledge-problem-socialism

00:03:58.870 Money is efficiency

00:04:51.565 Without money we lack cooperation

00:05:25.167 Without money we get central planning

00:06:47.390 What is profit paying for? https://mises.org/library/meaning-competition-0

00:07:11.065 Profit is superior planning https://mises.org/library/profit-and-loss

00:09:18.703 Entrepreneurs are superior planners

00:11:09.064 Knowledge of the future is the most valuable thing

00:14:59.046 Profits are caused by differential knowledge

00:18:21.421 Anti-inductivity https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/h24JGbmweNpWZfBkM/markets-are-anti-inductive

00:18:36.272 Scientism https://mises.org/library/pretense-knowledge

00:19:21.549 Marx said capitalists are parasites

00:19:55.751 When you get rid of profits, you get rid of planning

00:21:52.723 Is bitcoin a ray of sunshine?

00:22:28.276 Bitcoin is a way of getting wealthy by understanding economics

00:25:27.507 A block is a history of the economy

00:26:01.918 Miners will apply knowledge for profit

00:27:04.582 Will bitcoin become undeniable?

00:27:26.381 Selfish mining

00:28:21.896 What is a selfish miner?

00:34:26.616 Hurdles to bitcoin

00:34:56.619 Bitcoiner's big mistake

00:35:34.527 Entrepreneurship is spending money to make money

00:36:46.917 Make things for other bitcoin entrepreneurs

00:37:31.591 Ignore non-bitcoiners

00:39:23.370 Bitcoin is like Galt's Gulch

00:40:24.840 We need SPV service and programmers

00:41:17.048 We need bitcoin miners https://bitcoinfiles.org/t/0c9544cf8650794d0221a0b11fec45ed19409e6deef9b3eeeea7ee956cdde7af

00:42:44.725 Accountancy

00:43:48.906 Bitcoiners need to be more realistic

00:44:00.109 Chain-analysis

00:44:53.100 Privacy

00:45:52.254 Crowdfunding on the blockchain

00:48:57.106 What happens if you lose your keys

00:50:09.881 Craig Wright getting stolen funds back https://coingeek.com/craig-wright-begins-landmark-legal-action-to-retrieve-stolen-coins/

00:51:15.468 Craig Wright's lawsuit

00:52:34.372 Is there a turning point in bitcoin coming?

00:55:19.705 Up next: time https://mises.org/library/time-and-praxeology