These are some examples of how the principles from Emerson's essay, Self-Reliance, have been applied in real life to overcome the main barriers to creativity and integrity (the two main things that impede those are conformity and a drive to appear consistent).

This is Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay, Self-Reliance, translated into modern English by Adam Li Khan. It is Khan's book, unabridged, read by the author. It's a manifesto on personal integrity and creativity.

Is there anything you can do about being shy? Is there anything you ought to do? Adam Li Khan shares his own experience in getting over his shyness, and talks about what worked and what didn't work.

This is the entire essay, read by Adam Li Khan, and includes the dictionary definitions of some of the words that are no longer commonly used.

There are many significant historical events that you already know about, but the role dogs played in those historical events are generally unknown. We talked about a few of them in this episode.

The world is unequal, and it has been for hundreds of years. Much of the inequality seems to be divided by race. Where did it come from? How did it start? In this episode, we explore how it came to be this way.

This is a short podcast about a recent study showing that conspiracy thinkers were using protective measures like hand washing and social distancing until their government recommended they do so, and then they stop doing it.

Arguing with someone on Facebook is very likely to have the exact opposite result from what you're looking for, and it's not anybody's fault. It's just the way the human brain works. Find out how it happens and what ingenious experiment discovered it.

Our brains evolved to divide the world into us and them. This fundamental element of our psychological makeup is the problem. One of the many ways it manifests itself is as racism. But even though we can't get rid of our own evolutionary biology, we can still do something about it. That's what we will explore in this episode.

Why did the Roman empire keep expanding? What caused the Civil War? The surprising answer to these and many other big historical events is soil erosion. Find out how soil erosion drives human history in this episode.