The Better Human Podcast

Really true, good, and great things are always simple. The language of truth is always simple. —LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA

Very often the simplest and least educated people can easily and unconsciously understand the meaning of life while the most scholarly people lack this ability, because they have been too educated to understand the simple things that are basic to all people. The clearest and simplest notions are almost always concealed by sophisticated meditations. —MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

If you want to find an example to follow, you should look among simple, humble folk. There is real greatness only in those who do not advertise themselves, and who do not understand themselves as great. -TOLSTOY

👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.

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If your goal is to be happy and successful then you what you are trying to do is build loops that make behaviour that brings happiness and success as automatic as possible.

Here’s why that’s not only hard, but impossible for most people ot figure out.

They try to ADD things.

Books, gurus, courses, coaches, seminars, routines, habits.

But that’s like adding new rooms to a home built on wooden- termite invested foundation. With each additional room you add, you only speed up the collapse.

You have to tear the entire fucker down and rebuild a new foundation. Nietzsche figured this out. He calls it his three step metamorphosis and his overman concept.

“Make it a rule never to withhold or conceal from yourself anything that may be thought against your own thoughts. Vow it! This is the essential requirement of honest thinking. You must undertake such a campaign against yourself every day.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Remove and simplify and address rather than pile on and further clutter your inner world. 

👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.

📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.

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👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.

📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.

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👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.

📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.

Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human Newsletter

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👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.

📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.

Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human Newsletter

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Here are a couple of mental mistakes I see people make often:

Ad hominem - discrediting a person as a means of attacking their idea (This happened a lot with Trump. People didn't like him, so nothing he said could be true or good.)

Confirmation bias - this bias is responsible for many of the errors of perception we humans face. It is seeing only what you want to see—ignoring disconfirming evidence because that evidence is painful to see or accept. You see what you want and ignore what you don’t.

Recency bias - Human memory has been proven infallible in numerous studies. We think we have a crystal clear account of the past, like a mental hard drive, but our memory changes each time we recall an event. There is no way to recall a past event and not have your current state cloud your memory. (It’s a damn shame that many are in jail right now, thanks to faulty eyewitness accounts.)

There are many many more.

To simplify this all, and arm you with a heuristic you can use in your everyday life, do this:

1. Remind yourself that you’re probably wrong
2. As Socrates said, know that you know nothing - create an empty, blank slate of a mind.
3. Accept that most information changes, so the only things you can build up are first principles. Stick with principles.
4. Say maybe a lot and shrug your shoulders a lot. Be less certain because you can’t be certain or much, other than first principles.
5. And for the love of whatever you deem holy, stop getting upset at others that your brain is struggling to open. If you want to be upset, blame yourself. Then do something about it.

👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.
📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.
Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human Newsletter
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The Better Human Company: Donate your old devices, cables, power banks here.

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Balancing duality is one of the hardest things in life. Duality is the Taoist concept that everything is defined by its opposite.

Your life is a constant interplay of opposites.

• Without pain, you can’t know how great it is to not be in pain.
• Without struggle, you don’t appreciate not struggling.
• Without hot you don’t know what cold is.
• Without day, there is no such thing as night.
• Without working for something, you won’t appreciate it.

Since you can't remove duality from life, your best strategy is understanding it and using strategies to use it to your advantage.

Examples include:

Do hard things and enjoy that process so you can enjoy—and get—the benefits.

Embrace fate - Amor fati (love of fate). Love every moment of your life no matter how bad you think it is because that is your life and you can’t control the past so you may as well accept it and move forward.

Accept the struggles in life rather than convincing yourself you are unlucky a victim or some other mental bullshit. The more you let unfortunate circumstances induce learned helplessness, the more unfortunate you will get in your life. And at that point, you are choosing it. Choose better.

👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.

📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.

Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human Newsletter

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The Better Human Company: Donate your old devices, cables, power banks here.

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I have a burden on my soul. During all my long life, I did not make anyone happy, neither my friends, nor my family, nor even myself. I have done many evil things…. I was the cause of the beginning of three big wars. About 800,000 people were killed because of me on the battlefields, and their mothers, brothers, and widows cried for them. And now this stands between me and God. —OTTO VON BISMARCK

Top 5 regrets of the dying are in this order:

According to Bronnie Ware, the five most common regrets shared by people nearing death were:

1. "I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me."
2. "I wish I hadn’t worked so hard."
3. "I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings."
4. "I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends."
5. "I wish that I had let myself be happier."

A 2018 study reached similar conclusions, finding that people were more likely to express "ideal-related regrets", such as failing to follow their dreams and live up to their full potential.

👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.

📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.

Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human Newsletter

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The Better Human Company: Donate your old devices, cables, power banks here.

Support the show and get awesome products:

☕☕ What I Put In my coffee: Wild Cocoa Butter, Wild MCT Oil, Wild Coffee, Wild CocoTropic‍‍

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“Really true, good, and great things are always simple. The language of truth is always simple.”

—LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA

Very often the simplest and least educated people can easily and unconsciously understand the meaning of life while the most scholarly people lack this ability, because they have been too educated to understand the simple things that are basic to all people. The clearest and simplest notions are almost always concealed by sophisticated meditations.”

—MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

If you want to find an example to follow, you should look among simple, humble folk. There is real greatness only in those who do not advertise themselves, and who do not understand themselves as great.

-Tolstoy

👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.

📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.

Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human Newsletter

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The Better Human Company: Donate your old devices, cables, power banks here.

Support the show and get awesome products:

☕☕ What I Put In my coffee: Wild Cocoa Butter, Wild MCT Oil, Wild Coffee, Wild CocoTropic‍‍

🍄🍄 What I take daily for optimal health: Wild Fish Oil, Wild Shrooms, Wild Pink salt, Wild Collagen‍

👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.

📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.

Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human Newsletter

Follow Colin on Twitter and IG. Reach Colin via this form.

The Better Human Company: Donate your old devices, cables, power banks here.

Support the show and get awesome products:

☕☕ What I Put In my coffee: Wild Cocoa Butter, Wild MCT Oil, Wild Coffee, Wild CocoTropic‍‍

🍄🍄 What I take daily for optimal health: Wild Fish Oil, Wild Shrooms, Wild Pink salt, Wild Collagen