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Show summary
We continue our 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos miniseries, and this week we discuss the harm in excessive self-critical social media comparisons and the powerful concept of incremental self-improvement (RULE 4 / Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today).
Show notes
1:59 – Comparing yourself to others is a losing game; your inner critic always wins
5:15 – Many social media platforms can drive internal criticism to unhealthy levels
6:30 – Social media consumption is harming the next generation (The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt)
8:01 – Envy blinds you from seeing what you really need in your life
9:30 – The Monkey Business Illusion (YouTube viral video)
11:02 – Incrementally improve yourself one day at a time–aim low
14:55 – Don’t be a tyrant or a slave–negotiate with yourself
21:11 – Darth Sidious, the postmodernist (YouTube clip)
22:45 – The new #10yearchallenge
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GenYChron Ep. 0012 – The Impossible Burger, dangers of soy and food evolution
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 26:45 — 11.5MB)
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On this week’s episode we sink our teeth into a trending food topic: the meatless burger that bleeds, AKA “The Impossible Burger”. We also review research about the relatively unknown dangers of eating unfermented soy. To finish, we discuss how the ever-increasing global demand for meat may eventually force us to invent a substitute for meat that is equally nutritious and delicious.
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GenYChron Ep. 0013 – Tea: The drink of the Millennials
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Let’s talk about tea… the drink of choice for our generation. This week, we discuss the growing demand for tea among Millennials, coffee substitutes, making tea from local plants and the health benefits of drinking various teas. We also share our opinions on some of the finer green and black teas, and we outline the different perspectives on tea in Canada and Germany.
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GenYChron Ep. 0018 – Birthdays, Pareto distributions and spirit molecules
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Join us this week as we talk about empirical evidence for birthday-dependent personalities, the eerie predominance of naturally occurring inequality within our universe and a psychedelic substance that our bodies produce, known as N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT).
