Today’s podcast is a new topic for me. I played around with the new OpenAI product, ChatGPT, which is an artificial general intelligence program that can answer any question asked by a user in human-like prose. It’s fascinating to see where the field has come and what this means for the future. It’s a lot to think about, hence why I’m sharing it with you today. Thanks for listening and I hope you found this episode to be a valuable one. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast comes to you on the back of a conversation with a family friend, in which he told me about a colleague’s Facebook post regarding her work as a psychologist. She wrote about how she doesn’t like when people throw their personal matters onto her upon hearing that she is a psychologist. I thought this was a really interesting topics, so I came here to talk through it for a few minutes. I hope you find it to be a valuable reflection. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a reflection on the romanticism of the peak moments and the intensity of hard work in action and sport movies like Rocky. Months of hard training, day after day, is often captured in a 4-minute clip. I speak about this at length here, and where I think we should shift the focus of our romanticism. I hope you find it to be a valuable reflection. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a short reflection on a portion of a book I really appreciate titled Awareness by Anthony De Mello. It’s so easy to be carried away by our thoughts and emotions, which can lead us to acting impulsively and trying to fix things that we don’t understand. In this episode, I bring De Mello’s perspective on this problem to light, which I find to be a useful frame. I hope you do as well. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a couple of quick thoughts that I wanted to share. First, I talk about a new part of my morning routine that has been helpful. Second, I talk about some nuances around the narrative of participation trophies and excessive entitlement making a “softer” generation. I hope you find something here to be helpful or insightful. Thanks so much for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast comes off the back of Thanksgiving, an American holiday that calls particular attention to gratitude. Gratitude is a bit of a paradox nowadays for many. There is so much to be grateful for, yet it is a sea of things that can also drown us. In this episode, I talk through my personal journey through that sea and reflect on how to navigate it. I hope you find it to be a valuable listen. Thanks for tuning in. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is the sixth and final part of my reading of my latest article on The Platform, titled Quarter Three - 2022, which you can see at mattbest.net/theplatform/quarter-three-2022 . In this reading, I cover a number of learnings, from connecting our personal value and goal attainment to sitting with our distraction. These articles always provide me with a lot of value, and I hope they do for you as well. Thank you for listening to this episode and the entire series. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is the fifth part of my reading of my latest article on The Platform, titled Quarter Three - 2022, which you can see at mattbest.net/theplatform/quarter-three-2022 . In this reading, I cover a number of learnings, from the role of communication in an effective kitchen to empathizing with the rejector. These articles always provide me with a lot of value, and I hope they do for you as well. Thank you for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is the fourth part of my reading of my latest article on The Platform, titled Quarter Three - 2022, which you can see at mattbest.net/theplatform/quarter-three-2022 . In this reading, I cover a number of learnings, from the ability of love to remove our death anxiety to the benefits of trying to like our jobs. These articles always provide me with a lot of value, and I hope they do for you as well. Thank you for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is the third part of my reading of my latest article on The Platform, titled Quarter Three - 2022, which you can see at mattbest.net/theplatform/quarter-three-2022 . In this reading, I cover three big learnings, the first about parsing the difference between true competence and confidence, the second about hierarchies of value through attention, and the third about saying “thank you.” These articles always provide me with a lot of value, and I hope they do for you as well. Thank you for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.