The Straight-A Conspiracy Podcast

The Straight-A Conspiracy Podcast episodes:

• 07.18.2018

  Ep 7: Mistakes

  Humans are hypersocial animals. We’re desperate to be liked and belong because in the distant past that was how we survived. We need our group. So that’s why we spend so much time in school trying to look smart and...

  
• 07.11.2018

  Ep 6: Feeling Stupid (Shame!)

  Early on, we can learn to feel a certain way in a certain context. That can mess up our entire lives. Nowhere is that more powerful in the context of school than the feeling of stupid. Yep. Stupid is a...

  
• 07.04.2018

  Ep 5: Feeeelings! Emotion

  Your attention is your most valuable resource, but it doesn’t just float free of anything else. There’s a thing that shapes and controls your thinking. It’s your emotions. That’s right. Feeeeeeelings aren’t just for hippies, kids. They’re actually some hardcore...

  
• 06.27.2018

  Ep 4: Attention

  Of course, while everyone has automaticity, not everyone automates everything. In order to master things, you have to control how you use your most valuable resource: your attention. Your attention is the brain “spotlight” - that’s how you control what...

  
• 06.20.2018

  Ep 3: Automaticity

  While we’ve been taught to think of subjects in school as different, your brain doesn’t distinguish. That’s because the underlying power of your ability to learn rests on one thing: automaticity. If you do anything often enough, it will become...

  
• 04.30.2018

  Ep 2: Movies! The Genius Myth

  Don’t Believe The Hype About Genius: How Overselling Some People Leads Most People to Undersell Themselves

  
• 04.30.2018

  Ep 1: Welcome to The Straight A Conspiracy Podcast!

  We all hear stories about ourselves all the time; who we are and what we can or can’t do. Those stories can end up running our whole lives and making our choices for us... if we let them! In this...