The Science of Success

By Matt Bodnar

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The #1 Evidence Based Growth Podcast on the Internet. The Science of Success is about the search for evidence based personal growth. It's about exploring ways to improve your decision-making, understand your mind and how psychology rules the world around you, and learn from experts and thought leaders about ways we can become better versions of ourselves.

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12.01.2023

In this episode we look at how to live a healthy, happy, successful life - from the inside out. We explore what it means to have an “integrated” brain, look at lessons across vastly different scientific disciplines, and share the ...

The Science of Success episodes:

12.01.2023 The Simple 20 Minute Exercise That Rewires Your Brain For Happiness with Dr. Dan Siegel In this episode we look at how to live a healthy, happy, successful life - from the inside out. We explore what it means to have an “integrated” brain, look at lessons across vastly different scientific disciplines, and share the ...
11.30.2023 Here’s Why You’re Stuck… This is How You Fix It with Gary John Bishop In this episode we discuss how you create your own reality. We explore the idea that your life experiences are not random or arbitrary, but rather a direct result of your subconscious beliefs. When the conscious and the subconscious conflict, ...
11.16.2023 How To Overcome FOMO: The Fear of Missing Out with Carl Honore In this episode we discuss how to beat FOMO - the Fear of Missing Out. How do you overcome the emotional barriers and fears of missing out and saying no to things? How do you get over the awful feeling ...
11.09.2023 Pride: Why The Deadliest Sin Could Hold the Secret to Your Success with Dr. Jessica Tracy In this episode we discuss PRIDE – and why it may not be the deadly sin that it’s often cracked up to be. We dig into how the research defines pride, examine the critical distinction between self esteem and narcissism, ...
11.07.2023 Artificial Intelligence, Cryogenics, & Procrastination with Wait But Why’s Tim Urban In this episode we discuss what Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking all consider the single greatest threat to humanity, why “death” is not binary event that makes you transition from being alive or dead at a specific moment in ...
11.02.2023 Why You Shouldn’t Follow Your Passion & The Rare Value of Deep Work with Cal Newport In this episode we discuss why you should not follow your passion, the two biggest pitfalls people struggle with trying to build a career they love, the incredible importance of DEEP WORK, why deep work is so valuable and how ...
10.31.2023 How One Simple Act Could Massively Transform Your Brain Chemistry Today - The Power of Kindness with John Wang In this episode we discuss the incredible power of kindness, show how kindness triggers “the helpers high” and causes dopamine and oxytocin to flow through your brain, look at study data from 136 countries showing science behind why kindness is ...
10.26.2023 Making Better Decisions, The Sophomore Jinx, & The Illusion of Objectivity with Dr. Richard Nisbett In this episode we discuss the errors people make in their reasoning and how to correct them, we explain a number of statistical principles to help sharpen your thinking and make you a better decision maker, why every $1 spent ...
10.26.2023 How You Can Predict The Future Better Than World-Famous Experts - The Art & Science of Risk with Dan Gardner In this episode we discuss the radical mismatch between your intuitive sense of risk and the actual risks you face. We look at why most experts and forecasters are less accurate than dart throwing monkeys. We talk about how to ...
10.12.2023 School Kills Creativity. Here’s How To Revive It with Chase Jarvis In this interview, we discuss why “creativity is the new literacy” and how you can unlock your own creative genius to create the life you want to live. Most people are completely wrong about what they think creativity is and ...
10.05.2023 Dan Carlin: Fake News, Misinformation, and Being an Informed Citizen In this episode we ask: how do you become an active and informed citizen? What are the challenges of forming a coherent view of history and politics? What do you do if your foundational beliefs are coming into question? In ...
10.03.2023 The Shocking Secret You Must Know to Create Lasting Behavior Change with John Assaraf In this episode, we discuss how to hack your brain to finally create the results you want in life. We take a hard look at what really drivers results and the reality that knowledge and skill aren’t what make you ...
09.26.2023 (B) Whole Foods CEO John Mackey on Conscious Capitalism, Leadership and Win-Win-Win Thinking In this episode, we discuss conscious capitalism, transformational leadership lessons, and how to use win-win-win thinking to create breakthroughs in your business with Whole Foods co-founder and CEO John Mackey.
09.23.2023 Powerful Tools For Dealing With Uncertainty with Josh Kaufman In this episode, we share powerful strategies for dealing with uncertainty, some of the most important tools for making better decisions, how to get more flexibility in your life, and much more with our returning guest Josh Kaufman.
09.22.2023 Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington on Building Your Dream Team In this episode, we explore the power of mentorship to transform your life with our guest Shark Tank’s Kevin Harrington.
09.14.2023 Why It’s So Hard To Follow Through On Your Goals with Dr. Sean Young In this episode we ask - why you don’t follow through on the things that are most important to you? How can someone facing down near death fail to follow essential health protocols? What causes people to self sabotage? Why ...
09.09.2023 How You Can Be More Confident In Tough Situations, Conflicts, and Negotiations with Kwame Christian Do you feel uncomfortable in conflict with others? Do you experience fear and anxiety when dealing with tough situations? Most negotiation tactics and strategies assume you’re already a master negotiator with nerves of steel - that’s the wrong starting place. ...
08.31.2023 Selling Treason: How To Influence Anyone When Your Life Is On The Line with Jason Hanson In this episode we discuss how to train yourself to think and act like a spy, with lessons from a real world expert. In the game of spycraft, the stakes couldn’t be higher and one mistake may land you dead ...
08.25.2023 Life’s Great Question - How To Find Meaning In Your Work & Life with Tom Rath In this episode, we ask the big question - how do you find meaning in your life and work? When you’re starting death in the face, life’s purpose becomes clear. We learn how to harness those lessons to find meaning ...
08.17.2023 Don't Label Me! The Psychology of Labels with Irshad Manji Irshad Manji is an internationally acclaimed educator, author, and speaker. She serves as the Director for Courage, Curiosity, and Character at Let Grow, a national nonprofit that promotes intellectual independence and emotional resilience in young people. Its signature program is ...
08.12.2023 How To Live the Life You Are Truly Made For with TOMS Founder Blake Mycoskie Blake Mycoskie is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, and best-selling author most known for founding TOMS Shoes and is the person behind the idea of One for One®, a business model that helps a person in need with every product purchased. ...
08.03.2023 The Secret To Creating Influence In Any Situation with Phil M Jones Phil Jones is an international business speaker and bestselling author. Phil has made it his life’s work to completely demystify the sales process. He has gone on to deliver over 2,500 presentations in 57 countries across five continents, training more ...
07.27.2023 Create The Habits You Need To Succeed with James Clear James is an American author, entrepreneur, and photographer. His personal blog, jamesclear.com has over 400,000 email subscribers. Since his last visit to the show, his first book Atomic Habits has gone on to sell over 1 million copies worldwide. James’s ...
07.20.2023 How To Love Yourself and Focus on Effort, Not Outcome with Kamal Ravikant Kamal Ravikant is the author of the bestselling books, Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On I, Live Your Truth, and Rebirth. He’s been a US Army Infantry soldier, held the hands of dying patients, climbed in the Himalayas, spoken ...
07.13.2023 The Number One Reason Why You Resist Making Big Changes In Your Life with Jen Sincero *CONTAINS PROFANITY* In this episode, we discuss how to identify and defeat the stories that hold you back, how to use your complaints as a compass to improve your life, powerful methods for creating permanent habit change, and we unmask ...
07.06.2023 How to Be a Fearless Leader with Carey Lohrenz In this interview, we dig into what it takes to be a fearless leader with the first-ever female F-14 Tomcat Fighter Pilot in the U.S. Navy, Carey Lohrenz. We dig into fearless leadership, what it was like being a pioneer ...
06.29.2023 Create Epic Breakthroughs By Blasting Away Your Biases & Assumptions with Dr. Beau Lotto In this episode we discuss the surprising science of creativity. We begin with a fascinating look into how your brain create reality around you and assigns meaning to things that often have no meaning at all, then we examine the ...
06.22.2023 Uncover the Root of Your Pain, How to Smash Perfectionism, Love Yourself, and Live a Richer Life with Megan Bruneau In this episode we discuss why the “happiness” movement has done us a disservice and sometimes makes things worse, how perfectionism creates an illusion of control and distorts your reality, how to become aware of the critical inner voice at ...
06.16.2023 Real Life Inception – From Bank Robbery to Neuroscience with Dr. Moran Cerf In this episode we discuss real life inception with a former bank robber turned neuroscientist. Is it possible to plant ideas in your head? Are your memories an accurate reflection of past reality? Can you change and mold your memories ...
06.08.2023 From Waiting Tables to Owning a Major League Team - The Epic Journey of Marcus Whitney In this episode we share how a college dropout went from waiting tables to becoming the owner of a Major League Soccer Team and the most powerful VC in the healthcare industry. We uncover the incredible strategy that can be ...
06.01.2023 You Aren’t Actually Self-Aware with Tasha Eurich In this episode, we tell the truth about self-awareness. 95% of people think they are self-aware but only 10% actually are. Where do you think you stand and what can you do to improve what our guest calls the superpower ...
05.25.2023 Defeat FOMO & Make More Confident Decisions In this episode we share how you can be more confident when make the tough decisions in your life, discuss how to deal with FOMO and show you the key to ultimately achieving greatness with our guest Patrick McGinnis. Patrick ...
05.18.2023 Are You Living In A Simulation? Consciousness, Quantum Physics, & The Matrix with Rizwan Virk What can video games teach us about real life? In this episode, we explore the science behind the concept that we may be living in a simulation, look at the hard problem of consciousness, explore the relationship between quantum physics ...
05.17.2023 The Shades of Influence with Robin Dreeke and Chase Hughes This week we’re diving into the two sides of the topic of influence. Surprisingly, there are two very different schools of thought on the best way to influence someone. But which style is more effective? What are the pros and ...
04.27.2023 How To Execute on Huge Goals, Take Action, and Create The Results You Want with Neil Patel In this episode we talk about execution, how to break down big goals into actionable steps, how and why Neil hired a “mama” for himself, the “ten minute rule” that could help you achieve big productivity gains and how to ...
04.20.2023 How High Performance is Created At The Most Successful Sports Franchise In The World with Dana Cavalea In this episode, we discuss the truth about championship performance. Nobody becomes a champion by accident. We uncover the counter-intuitive reality that being a champion isn’t about doing more, it’s about doing less. We expose the reality that most people ...
04.13.2023 Self Help For Smart People - How You Can Spot Bad Science & Decode Scientific Studies with Dr. Brian Nosek In this episode, we show how you can decode scientific studies and spot bad science by digging deep into the tools and skills you need to be an educated consumer of scientific information. Are you tired of seeing seemingly outrageous ...
04.06.2023 How You Can Stop Distraction Right Now with Nir Eyal In this episode we talk about one of the MOST important skills in the modern world - the ability to be inDISTRACTable. Are you sick and tired of distraction? Do you feel constantly overwhelmed in a world of notifications, demands, ...
03.31.2023 You Can Become More Creative With This Unique Strategy Used By American Spies with Beth Comstock In this episode we discuss how our guest helped the secret agents become more creative. We look at specific strategies to navigate personal change while empowering and using your imagination. How do you become more imaginative? What are the keys ...
03.22.2023 The Godfather of Influence, Dr. Robert Cialdini In this episode we discuss an old trick palm readers use that you can leverage to get people to do what you want, why persuasion does not lie just in the message itself, but rather in how the message is ...
03.02.2023 Dr. Brené Brown: The Can’t Miss Interview On Shame, Self Worth Empathy & Living a Courageous Life If you don't feel worthy of love and belonging, if you feel lesser than other people; if you can't forgive yourself for your mistakes or your terrible moments or the stupid things you've done in life; if you can't accept ...
02.23.2023 Your Luckiest Year Ever - The Science of Luck with Gay Hendricks and Carol Kline In this episode, we have two incredible guests on the show, Gay Hendricks and Carol Kline. We dig into some of the incredible stories of how Gay and Carol's past, how you can create luck in your life, see more ...
02.16.2023 Four Questions That Will Change Your World - An Exploration of “The Work” with Byron Katie In this episode, we take a journey into the inquiry know as “The Work’ and uncover the 4 question framework that you can use to break down negative thoughts and limiting beliefs. We examine what happens when we argue with ...
02.09.2023 Making Smart Decisions When You Don’t Have All The Facts with Annie Duke In this episode we discuss how to make better decisions under conditions of uncertainty. We look at “the worst call in the history of football,” discuss examples from life, business and even high stakes poker to understand how to make ...
12.08.2022 Lessons From A Year In Space - A Conversation with Astronaut Scott Kelly Scott Kelly is an American engineer, retired astronaut, author and naval aviator. He is best known for spending a record-breaking year in space. He is a former US Navy fighter pilot, test pilot, and veteran of four spaceflights. Kelly commanded ...
12.01.2022 Your Luckiest Year Ever - The Science of Luck with Gay Hendricks and Carol Kline In this episode, we have two incredible guests on the show, Gay Hendricks and Carol Kline. We dig into some of the incredible stories of how Gay and Carol's past, how you can create luck in your life, see more ...
11.24.2022 Unlock Peak Performance & Get More Flow In Your Life with Steven Kotler Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist, and the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance. He is the author of nine bestsellers (out ...
11.17.2022 How To Make You & Your Ideas Backable with Suneel Gupta Suneel Gupta is a teacher of innovation at Harvard University and is the author of the upcoming book, BACKABLE, where he explores how to get people to believe in your ideas. Suneel’s ideas have been backed by firms like Greylock ...
11.10.2022 The Number One Reason Why You Resist Making Big Changes In Your Life with Jen Sincero Jen Sincero is a bestselling author, success coach, and motivational speaker who spent more than a decade traveling the world helping people transform their lives and their bank accounts via her public appearances, private sessions, coaching seminars, and books, including ...
11.03.2022 A Masterclass in Mental Toughness for Your Family with Amy Morin Amy Morin is editor-in-chief at Verywell Mind, a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and psychology lecturer at Northeastern University. She’s also an international bestselling author. Her books include, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, 13 Things Mentally Strong Parents ...

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