The Better Human Podcast

#310 - The Mind’s Error

Here are a couple of mental mistakes I see people make often:Ad hominem - discrediting a person as a means of attacking their idea (This happened a lot with Trump. People didn't like him, so nothing he said could be true or good.)Confirmation bias - this bias is responsible for many of the errors of perception we humans face. It is seeing only what you want to see—ignoring disconfirming evidence because that evidence is painful to see or accept. You see what you want and ignore what you don’t.Recency bias - Human memory has been proven infallible in numerous studies. We think we have a crystal clear account of the past, like a mental hard drive, but our memory changes each time we recall an event. There is no way to recall a past event and not have your current state cloud your memory. (It’s a damn shame that many are in jail right now, thanks to faulty eyewitness accounts.)There are many many more.To simplify this all, and arm you with a heuristic you can use in your everyday life, do this:Remind yourself that you’re probably wrongAs Socrates said, know that you know nothing - create an empty, blank slate of a mind.Accept that most information changes, so the only things you can build up are first principles. Stick with principles.Say maybe a lot and shrug your shoulders a lot. Be less certain because you can’t be certain or much, other than first principles.And for the love of whatever you deem holy, stop getting upset at others that your brain is struggling to open. If you want to be upset, blame yourself. Then do something about it.👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human NewsletterFollow Colin on Twitter and IG. Reach Colin via this form.The Better Human Company: Donate your old devices, cables, power banks here.Support the show and get awesome products:☕☕ What I Put In my coffee: Wild Cocoa Butter, Wild MCT Oil, Wild Coffee, Wild CocoTropic‍‍🍄🍄 What I take daily for optimal health: Wild Fish Oil, Wild Shrooms, Wild Pink salt, Wild Collagen‍

#309 - Love Your Fate → Embrace Suffering → Enjoy Hard Things

Balancing duality is one of the hardest things in life. Duality is the Taoist concept that everything is defined by its opposite.Your life is a constant interplay of opposites.Without pain, you can’t know how great it is to not be in pain.Without struggle, you don’t appreciate not struggling.Without hot you don’t know what cold is.Without day, there is no such thing as night.Without working for something, you won’t appreciate it.Since you can't remove duality from life, your best strategy is understanding it and using strategies to use it to your advantage.Examples include:Do hard things and enjoy that process so you can enjoy—and get—the benefits.Embrace fate - Amor fati (love of fate). Love every moment of your life no matter how bad you think it is because that is your life and you can’t control the past so you may as well accept it and move forward.Accept the struggles in life rather than convincing yourself you are unlucky a victim or some other mental bullshit. The more you let unfortunate circumstances induce learned helplessness, the more unfortunate you will get in your life. And at that point, you are choosing it. Choose better.👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human NewsletterFollow Colin on Twitter and IG. Reach Colin via this form.The Better Human Company: Donate your old devices, cables, power banks here.Support the show and get awesome products:☕☕ What I Put In my coffee: Wild Cocoa Butter, Wild MCT Oil, Wild Coffee, Wild CocoTropic‍‍🍄🍄 What I take daily for optimal health: Wild Fish Oil, Wild Shrooms, Wild Pink salt, Wild Collagen‍

#308 - Top 5 Regrets Of The Dying

I have a burden on my soul. During all my long life, I did not make anyone happy, neither my friends, nor my family, nor even myself. I have done many evil things…. I was the cause of the beginning of three big wars. About 800,000 people were killed because of me on the battlefields, and their mothers, brothers, and widows cried for them. And now this stands between me and God. —OTTO VON BISMARCKTop 5 regrets of the dying are in this order:According to Bronnie Ware, the five most common regrets shared by people nearing death were:"I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.""I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.""I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.""I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.""I wish that I had let myself be happier."A 2018 study reached similar conclusions, finding that people were more likely to express "ideal-related regrets", such as failing to follow their dreams and live up to their full potential.👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human NewsletterFollow Colin on Twitter and IG. Reach Colin via this form.The Better Human Company: Donate your old devices, cables, power banks here.Support the show and get awesome products:☕☕ What I Put In my coffee: Wild Cocoa Butter, Wild MCT Oil, Wild Coffee, Wild CocoTropic‍‍🍄🍄 What I take daily for optimal health: Wild Fish Oil, Wild Shrooms, Wild Pink salt, Wild Collagen‍

#307 - The Simple Life Is Better

“Really true, good, and great things are always simple. The language of truth is always simple.”—LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECAVery often the simplest and least educated people can easily and unconsciously understand the meaning of life while the most scholarly people lack this ability, because they have been too educated to understand the simple things that are basic to all people. The clearest and simplest notions are almost always concealed by sophisticated meditations.”—MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIf you want to find an example to follow, you should look among simple, humble folk. There is real greatness only in those who do not advertise themselves, and who do not understand themselves as great.-Tolstoy👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human NewsletterFollow Colin on Twitter and IG. Reach Colin via this form.The Better Human Company: Donate your old devices, cables, power banks here.Support the show and get awesome products:☕☕ What I Put In my coffee: Wild Cocoa Butter, Wild MCT Oil, Wild Coffee, Wild CocoTropic‍‍🍄🍄 What I take daily for optimal health: Wild Fish Oil, Wild Shrooms, Wild Pink salt, Wild Collagen‍

#306 - Why The Hard Is Necessary

👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human NewsletterFollow Colin on Twitter and IG. Reach Colin via this form.The Better Human Company: Donate your old devices, cables, power banks here.Support the show and get awesome products:☕☕ What I Put In my coffee: Wild Cocoa Butter, Wild MCT Oil, Wild Coffee, Wild CocoTropic‍‍🍄🍄 What I take daily for optimal health: Wild Fish Oil, Wild Shrooms, Wild Pink salt, Wild Collagen

#305 - The Few ＞ The Many

The salvation of mankind depends upon independent thinkers directing their thoughts rightly. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON"To find out what you love to do demands a great deal of intelligence; because, if you are afraid of not being able to earn a livelihood, or of not fitting into this rotten society, then you will never find out. But, if you are not frightened, if you refuse to be pushed into the groove of tradition by your parents, by your teachers, by the superficial demands of society, then there is a possibility of discovering what it is you really love to do. So, to discover, there must be no fear of not surviving."Krishnamurti, J. . Think on These Things👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human NewsletterFollow Colin on Twitter and IG. Reach Colin via this form.The Better Human Company: Donate your old devices, cables, power banks here.Support the show and get awesome products:☕☕ What I Put In my coffee: Wild Cocoa Butter, Wild MCT Oil, Wild Coffee, Wild CocoTropic‍‍🍄🍄 What I take daily for optimal health: Wild Fish Oil, Wild Shrooms, Wild Pink salt, Wild Collagen‍

#304 - Better Human Is A Choice

 You choose to be like everyone else, or you choose to take control of your life. There is no in-between. 👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human NewsletterFollow Colin on Twitter and IG. Reach Colin via this form.The Better Human Company: Donate your old devices, cables, power banks here.Support the show and get awesome products:☕☕ What I Put In my coffee: Wild Cocoa Butter, Wild MCT Oil, Wild Coffee, Wild CocoTropic‍‍🍄🍄 What I take daily for optimal health: Wild Fish Oil, Wild Shrooms, Wild Pink salt, Wild Collagen‍

#303 - Embrace Your Burdens (Love Of Fate)

Today’s Big Idea: AMOR FATIIn his book, Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is, he wrote:“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary . . . but love it.”👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human NewsletterFollow Colin on Twitter and IG. Reach Colin via this form.The Better Human Company: Donate your old devices, cables, power banks here.Support the show and get awesome products:☕☕ What I Put In my coffee: Wild Cocoa Butter, Wild MCT Oil, Wild Coffee, Wild CocoTropic‍‍🍄🍄 What I take daily for optimal health: Wild Fish Oil, Wild Shrooms, Wild Pink salt, Wild Collagen‍

#302 - Let’s Talk Finances with Natalie and Colin

👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human NewsletterFollow Colin on Twitter and IG. Reach Colin via this form.The Better Human Company: Donate your old devices, cables, power banks here.Support the show and get awesome products:☕☕ What I Put In my coffee: Wild Cocoa Butter, Wild MCT Oil, Wild Coffee, Wild CocoTropic‍‍🍄🍄 What I take daily for optimal health: Wild Fish Oil, Wild Shrooms, Wild Pink salt, Wild Collagen‍

#301 - The Antidote To Death

We should get ready for death, because it will come, sooner or later. The best thing to do is to live a good life. If you live a good life, you should not be afraid of death.The right path in life is very narrow, but it is important to find it. You can understand it, as well as we can understand it, as a walkway of wood built across a swamp; if you step off it, you will plunge into the swamp of misunderstanding and evil. A wise man returns to the true path at once, but a weak man plunges further and further into the swamp, and it becomes more and more difficult for him to get out.TolstoyThe right path is Truth. It is narrow, and easily stepped off of. All you must do is step back on the path rather than going deeper into the swamp. Like all things, the path never ends, it is a forever path.👨 The Better Human Podcast is a show dedicated to the pursuit of Building Better Humans. Hosted by Colin Stuckert, Entrepreneur, Thinker, and Better Human Builder.🧑‍🤝‍🧑 We are obsessed with finding ways to become better. We are PRO HUMAN and celebrate the collective human experience.📖 We bring on human guests to teach, share, and learn.Connect: Get my best content each week via the Better Human NewsletterFollow Colin on Twitter and IG. Reach Colin via this form.The Better Human Company: Donate your old devices, cables, power banks here.Support the show and get awesome products:☕☕ What I Put In my coffee: Wild Cocoa Butter, Wild MCT Oil, Wild Coffee, Wild CocoTropic‍‍🍄🍄 What I take daily for optimal health: Wild Fish Oil, Wild Shrooms, Wild Pink salt, Wild Collagen‍