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And there's a book that has really tapped into this I think it's the first book that has really addressed this head on and that book comes from two Columbia professors and the title of the book is Attached. The new science of adult attachment and how it can help you find and keep love.

I think it's the first book that has really addressed this head on and that book comes from two Columbia professors and the title of the book is Attached. The new science of adult attachment and how it can help you find and keep love. The authors of this book are Amir Levine and Rachel Heller.

and I read The Art of Learning.

I haven't written a book since The Art of Learning and I'm a couple years into this beautiful process of writing my next book...

But that's really not what he's known for you know Princeton professor.

He's so funny he's very humorous and I started to work my way into I don't have some like I don't want people think I have some like whiz bang like spiritual practice that's whatever you know but it became very interesting to me and drew this.

I read Sam Harris's first book End of Faith in 2006 and so I've followed him for 15 years religiously read all of his books lying moral landscape and his.

To learn more about Morgan's work and to find links to his two superb books, The Psychology of Money and Same as Ever, please see the links in the show note captions.

My guest today is Robert Green. Robert Green is an author who has written more than five best-selling books including The 48 Laws of Power,

if you read any of the books about Feynman or by Feynman surely you're joking Mr. Feynman or what do you care what other people think these are wonderful short stories mostly about Feynman doing things like picking all the locks at the Los Alamos laboratory and putting all the top secret documents out on the floor of the office so that when people came in in the morning they were all out there

we need a restrictive government because left to our own devices, human life is nasty, brutish and short.

He is also the author of the bestselling book, Chatter, The Voice in Our Head and How to Harness It.

when I wrote Chatter, when I got into Shift, the broader terrain of regulating your emotions, there are even more tools out there.

No discussion of growth Mindset would be complete without mentioning that growth Mindset is the brainchild of my colleague Carol Dweck in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University today you'll learn how she discovered growth Mindset and you will learn how others have taken that discovery and expanded upon it and especially its application in and out of the classroom.

The research paper I'd like to discuss briefly that beautifully embodies the runway that led to the discovery of growth Mindset is paper from Dr. Carol Duac as well as her colleague Claudia Mueller and the title of the paper essentially says it all the title is praise for intelligence can undermine children's motivation and performance

The paper was published in 1998 but just two years prior in 1996 there was a survey of parents asking to what extent do you believe that intelligence is fixed? An 85% answered that they thought that intelligence was fixed

This paper was really ahead of its time and it's really what seeded the entire field of growth Mindset and the understanding of what that is

The study I'm referring to is a study first author, Mangle's last author No surprise, Carol Dweck And it's entitled Why do beliefs about intelligence influence learning success? A social-cognitive neuroscience model

Robert also revealed to me that he is close to completing a new book entitled Determined, The Science of Life Without Free Will,

title is determined a science of life without free will and essentially the first half of the book is trying to convince a reader.

And then the second half is this gigantic juncture built around the fact that i've thought there's any free will since i was like an adolescent and despite thinking that way i still have absolutely no idea how you're supposed to function with that belief.

How are we supposed to like go about everyday life if anything you feel entitled to isn't true if any angers and hatreds you feel are justified if there's no such thing as appropriate you know blame or punishment or praise or reward and none of it makes any sense and somebody like even compliments you on your haircut and you've been conditioned to like say oh thanks as if you have something to do.

Yeah, determined from the science of life without fruile seems like we can't publish a book these days without a sub title so that's that's it's fantastic well very excited to read the book.

Please see the show note captions. If you're learning from and or enjoying this podcast, ... his most recent one entitled How God Works, The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion.

They read The Big Book... it's actually just a clock. It was called The Big Book because it was printed on cheap paper. It says flat out this book is mostly stories and we tell stories in the hopes that something in them will catch you and say, gosh, that life is like mine.

Cal also has a new book out now, it's one that I'm currently reading, entitled Slow Productivity, The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout.

And as the title suggests, it gets into specific protocols to avoid burnout and to bring about one's highest quality work over the greatest amount of time.

Cal Newport, I don't know if you know Cal Newport's work, but you guys are very symbiotic in your messages with he's a professor of computer science at Georgetown.

Yes, at Georgetown and wrote a book some years ago really ahead of its time called So Good They Can't Ignore You, which is about not meditating or doing much work to try and figure out what one's passion is by thinking.

Rather go out and acquire skills and get develop a sense of passion for something by your experience of hard work and getting better and feedback.

I wrote an entire book about infidelity as in what happens when desire goes looking elsewhere.

We start to ask kids you know what's the name of the servant who shows up in the scene and great expectations, right? Is it Molly or is it Maria, right?

And it's like who the heck knows and that is not the point of reading great expectations, right?

so it's what it's a strategy from my book I wrote a book on strategy my version of the art of war called 33 strategies of war but it's really about strategy the strategic thinking it's inspired from Sun Su the great Chinese strategist but it has vast philosophical implications the idea is you can almost think of it like barometric pressure

Those books include the circadian code and a more recent book, The Circadian Diabetes Code, both of which we've provided links to in the show note captions.