
The Ultimate Gameshow: Revisiting My Idea With A Different Mentality
About this episode
If there was an ultimate game show all with different versions of yourself (horny, happy, assertive, angry, confident, etc.,) which of them would win?
In Episode #307 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: whether you would prefer your upper body or lower body to be cold, revisiting the gameshow I explain in Ep #203, how different permanent mental states would effect our lives, why goal setting is probably our defining characteristic, the optimal amount of mistakes to make while learning a language and my recent enlightenment of being boring.
As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!
Timeline:
(0:00) - Juan's back (with poor lighting)
(0:54) - Jumpers vs Long Pants
(4:20) - Competing against your replicas
(7:25) - Which mental state is the most successful?
(11:08) - Michio Kaku & the teletransporter
(13:07) - What mind state leads to the worst life?
(16:52) - How about the most interesting life?
(18:54) - Annual goals chitchat
(22:37) - Monthly goals & skill stacking
(26:34) - Making mistakes while language learning
(32:54) - Mean Parisians
(33:58) - Even though I ballet I'm boring
(38:58) - Hand me down car woes
(40:14) - Fountain is doing giveaways
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