Insights From History's Greatest Thinkers - David Senra - #566

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Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is David Senra. He's a podcaster and a writer. Many of the most important insights you need to learn to improve your life have already been discovered in the past. Thankfully, David spends all his time reading biographies of the greatest thinkers, founders, entrepreneurs, and inventors from history, and has synthesized those lessons so that you can remember them too. Expect to learn how Steve Jobs came to think about time, what Kobe Bryant believed about the dangers of success making you soft, how the Rockefellers created their fortune, why crossing the Vanderbilts might result in you being very dead, whether anyone with extreme success managed to master a work-life balance, why you have to start reading Paul Graham's work, David's most recommended books, and much more. In other news, this episode is brought to you by Qualia Mind. General nutrition makes us all feel better, but great brain nutrition can be life-changing. Your focus and energy to grind toward your goals, learn new skills, or even be present in your relationships can be radically transformed with specialized brain supplements. Qualia Mind is a research-backed blend of 28 high-purity, vegan, non-GMO ingredients into the best mental performance fuel on the planet. It supports focus, clarity, willpower, and mood, and is even formulated to support long-term brain health. Also, they have a 100-day money-back guarantee, so you can buy it and try it for 99 days, and if you do not like it, they will give you your money back. I particularly love their caffeine-free version. If I'm working later in the day, and I don't want to ruin my sleep, but I do want a bit of a boost in terms of my focus, their caffeine-free version is a fantastic solution. And you can go and try Qualia Mind right now for $100 off, plus an extra 15% off your first purchase. Go to neurohacker.com/modernwisdom.
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I, last night, was with one of the first e-sports performance coaches. So he is a mental performance coach that is employed by an e-sports organization to train their mental athletes, as they call them, to maximize their performance. And the stuff that they're doing with these kids is so cool. Taking across all of the stuff that we've seen from physical training now, and porting it across into something which is, actually, I think, the most mentally taxing sport that exists, because you can move your avatar on the screen significantly quicker than you can move your body, which means that you're basically overclocking your brain. Your brain was meant to move limited by the pace of your body moving when it comes to reaction times. And what you're doing now is you've managed to overclock the physical world, and you're now trying to catch up mentally. This guy was, Thanksgiving dinner, nerded out with this guy for like two and a half hours. It was brilliant.