Learning & Memory

09 Oct 2018

Meditation And Optimizing Your Brain W/ Ariel Garten, Founder Of Muse

Greetings, SuperFriends! This week’s episode is a really interesting one, which I’m so happy we did! We are joined by Ariel Garten, a neuroscientist, an innovator, a mother, and an entrepreneur, whose driving purpose is to empower and help others overcome mental obstacles in order to live healthy, happy lives

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02 Oct 2018

Nelson Dellis On Teaching And On How To Turn Failures Into Fuel

Greetings, SuperFriends! Today we are re-joined by Nelson Dellis. And this is a big deal, not just because Nelson is the 4-time USA Memory Champion, but because he was the 5th ever episode guest on this show! I think I’ve gotten a lot better at interviewing since then. Nelson, on the

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04 Sep 2018

Tackling One Learning Challenge After The Other W/ Max Hertan

Greetings, SuperFriends! Today we are joined by Max Hertan, a serial learner. Basically, here’s his story. Max built up an award-winning 7-figure digital marketing agency, Megaphone, and started investing in startups, but, along the way, he, like me, started wondering “Hey, what do I get to learn and how do I

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28 Aug 2018

How To Design Experiences That Help People Learn W/ Julie Dirksen

Greetings, SuperFriends! Today we are joined by Julie Dirksen. Julie is a learning strategist and an instructional designer, who focuses on the science of sustainable behavior change. The truth is, though, Ι was so fascinated by the learning how to learn aspect and the instructional design that we actually got to the

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29 May 2018

Tim Urban On Elon Musk, Learning, Procrastination, and Changing The Blogging Paradigm

Greetings, SuperFriends! Today we are joined by one of my personal heroes, someone whose work I’ve admired for years, and someone who has really shaped my thinking on a lot of different topics, ranging from A.I., Elon Musk, and electric cars, to the history of the universe and space travel.

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03 Apr 2018

SuperLearner Spotlight: Richard Feynman

Greetings, SuperFriends! Welcome to a special episode of the Becoming SuperHuman podcast. I’m calling this episode special because it’s a little bit of a different format, once again. If you guys liked the episode where I focused in and explored a specific skill, did a spotlight if you will, then

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27 Feb 2018

Is Speed Reading a Hoax?

Greetings, SuperFriends! This week we are going to dive into a rather controversial topic, one that people have brought up to me for years. That is, is speed reading a hoax, or is it the real deal? You know, over the last few years that I’ve been teaching accelerated learning

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23 Jan 2018

Unleashing The Creativity Within W/ Michael Gelb, Creativity Expert

Greetings, SuperFriends! Today we are joined by Michael Gelb. The world’s leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development, Michael is a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking. He is also an executive coach and an innovative leader. He has worked with DuPont, Genentech,

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16 Jan 2018

Dr. Barbara Oakley: Understanding Learning And How It Works

Greetings, SuperFriends! Today we are joined by Dr. Barbara Oakley. If that name sounds familiar, it should, because not only is she a professor of engineering at Oakland University, but she also teaches the world’s largest and most popular online course, literally. It is called Learning How To Learn and

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28 Nov 2017

How To Accelerate Your Learning Of Music & More w/ Zach Evans, Piano SuperHuman

Greetings, SuperFriends! Today we are joined by Zach Evans and Zach actually came to us through a recommendation of someone in the SuperLearners Facebook group. Zach is a professional pianist who has also started very successful online music and piano training business, and he specializes in accelerated learning techniques for

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