Today’s podcast is a reading of my latest Substack post, which you can see at https://www.mbest.substack.com/quarter-four-2024 . There were 51 points that I pulled out of my review, which I hope you find to be useful and illuminating. Thanks for reading and listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a wandering stream of consciousness in which I reflect on my very busy past week. I’ve had a lot on my plate, which I share a bit about and how I’ve balanced it, bringing me to some points about focus, gratitude, and the bigger picture of purpose at play for me. I hope you find it insightful and useful! Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast starts with a reading of my latest Substack piece, which you can find here: https://mbest.substack.com/p/the-river-of-life . It’s more artistic and poetic than I’m used to writing on this blog, but I felt compelled to write in this way this week, so here I am! After the reading, I share some of my thoughts that go against what I share in the piece, or at least provide more context around it. I hope you find it insightful and applicable. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today marks my 1,500th consecutive day of writing in my journal. When you add it up, I’ve spent the equivalent of over 20 entire days just writing during that period. In this episode, I reflect on what this process has meant to me and what I’ve learned along the way. It has truly become a part of me, which I’m sure you’ll be able to hear in my voice. I hope this leaves you feeling inspired to reflect on your own life in some way, even if it’s not as extensive as writing every day for the rest of eternity. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a reading of my latest Substack post, which you can see here: https://open.substack.com/pub/mbest/p/values?r=2c9gzu&utm_medium=ios . I discuss values from four different angles, which stem from my reflections and use of them over the years. I hope you find these ideas to be applicable and useful. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

I recently shaved my face and just left a mustache. I haven’t seen my chin in nearly eight years, so it was good to know it’s still there when I got rid of the beard that covered it for so long. In this episode, I reflect on this experience of significantly changing my external appearance, which then pulls me into some reflections on my identity, emotions, and thoughts. I think this is one of my best episodes in a while, and I hope you do, too. As always, thanks for listening. Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast revisits a topic I discussed very early on in the history of The Best Podcast, in Episode 148 to be exact. In that episode, I espoused a view about epigenetics that was fairly naive and uninformed from what I would have aspired to then and aspire to even more now. I did some more reading about the topic to go more in depth on it, only to discover that this view was quite unfounded. I share what I learned here and reflect a bit on this changing of opinion. I hope you find it to be useful to you in some way. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast digs into an observation of us and of myself. It’s so easy to consume content, especially when it’s infinitely available. However, we need processing time to make sense of everything that we consume, which is much harder for us to make time for because of our current information environment. I share more about this here, which I hope you find useful and interesting. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a reading of my latest piece on Substack, which you can find at www.mbest.substack.com/p/evolving-happiness . I approach the topic of happiness through the lens of humanity’s evolutionary history and identify some suggestions for how to manage modernity in a way that integrates our past. I hope you find some value in this piece that you can apply to your life. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast starts with a quick tip about how I’ve started reading more this year. Despite the title, I use this small change as a segue into what I’ve noticed has been the value of reading more for me as a person, both for myself and in my relationships. I hope you find some value in this idea. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.