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How to Be an Adult
Do you find yourself wishing that your parents had taught you more about how to take care of yourself, your emotions and your health? This show offers practical guidance for outwardly successful but inwardly lost adults like you. It’s the philosophy of life that you should have received when you turned 18, but didn’t. Each episode attempts to arrive at principled answers to a single question about how we might find happiness and peace. We are driven by a mission to democratize self-assurance.
Episodes
- How to Be an Adult
How to Know What You Want (Ep. 40)
In all relationships and generally in life, it’s considered good manners to “know what you want.” But what if you don’t? Worse, what if…
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How to Disappoint Others (Ep. 39)
Because this podcast is called How to Be an Adult, and we take our promises seriously, you will never see us release an episode titled “How to Never…
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How to “Be Yourself” (Ep. 38)
“Just be yourself!” We’ve all heard this platitude, but without specific instruction in what it means, the advice is rather useless. In this…
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How to “Take Care of Yourself” (Ep. 37)
If you’ve ever heard the clichéd phrase, “take care of yourself,” you might have been flummoxed about how, especially if your needs were…
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How to Have Better Sex (Ep. 36)
Good sex is not an accident: it happens deliberately. In this dual-hosted episode of How to Be an Adult with Luke and Kate, we strip away the cultural noise to…
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How to Dress Like an Adult: Pour Homme (Ep. 35: Part 2 of 2)
In the second of this two-part episode about how to dress like an adult, pour homme, Luke shares what he has learned about outerwear, accessories and how to…
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How to Dress Like an Adult: Pour Homme (Ep. 34: Part 1 of 2)
If you’ve been following our social media, you might have noticed that Luke has been dressing better in recent months. In the first of this two-part…
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How to Cope with Tragic Events in the News (Ep. 33)
When current events are so constantly upsetting, how do we remain informed without descending into despondency? In this timely episode, Luke shares how he…
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How to Excel at Your First Job (Ep. 32)
At some point, we must all take our first jobs. In this solo episode, Luke speaks about how to get the most from yours, from the perspective of a small…
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How to Overcome Procrastination (Ep. 31, with Kate Voss)
In this conversational episode, Kate and Luke discuss how to overcome procrastination, based on their personal experience, as well as professional work with…
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How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome (Ep. 30)
If you’ve accomplished enough with your life, and you’re very self-critical at the same time, you will probably feel at some point that you’re an impostor or a…
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Principles for Effective Protest: A Special Episode Following the SSI-SJP Clash Near TMU (Ep. 29)
On November 5, 2025, the tranquility of our hypnosis office was broken by a clash between two student groups, Students Supporting Israel and Students for…
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8 Ways to Win at Capitalism (Ep. 28)
Chances are, there isn’t a revolution coming, and you’re going to be living in a capitalist society for the rest of your life. Now what? In this solo episode…
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How to Think About Time (Ep. 27)
In this episode co-hosted by Luke Chao and Kate Voss, we discuss how we might maturely relate to time. It’s less about time management, and more a philosophy…
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How to Cope with Uncertainty (Ep. 26)
Most of our anxiety comes not from what actually happens, but from what we imagine might happen in an uncertain future. In this solo episode with Luke Chao, he…
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What Makes a Relationship Successful (Ep. 25)
Kate is the newest member of our team at The Morpheus Clinic for Hypnosis, and in this episode, she and Luke discuss some of the hallmarks of a successful…
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How to Ask Yourself Great Questions (Ep. 24)
The questions we ask ourselves determine which thoughts subsequently enter our minds. If we ask ourselves about counterfactual scenarios, our mind floods with…
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How to “Be a Man” (Ep. 23)
This timely episode tackles an important topic that I’ve tried a few times to speak about. For the half of the population who are male, how are we supposed to…
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How to Forgive Yourself (Ep. 22)
We all know that we should forgive ourselves for our mistakes, but until somebody teaches you how, the path to redemption isn’t always obvious. In this…
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How to Stop People-Pleasing (Ep. 21)
This episode is for all the recovering people-pleasers out there. If you feel like it’s hard to say “no” in an unfair situation, I’m going to give you a moral…
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How to Consume the News Without Falling Apart (Ep. 20)
We’ve recently heard of a trend of young people avoiding the news entirely to preserve their mental health. In our view, this is unnecessarily self-defeating…
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How to Stop Being a Perfectionist (Ep. 19)
In one of our most focused episodes to date, Luke deconstructs the notion of perfection and suggests achiveable standards, such as authentic self-expression…
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Why the Glass Is Half Full (Ep. 18 of How to Be an Adult)
In the eternal debate about whether the proverbial glass is half full or half empty, both arguments are often presented as equally valid. In this solo episode…
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More About Addiction, with Marc Lewis (Ep. 17, pt. 2 of 2)
This episode of How to Be an Adult, the second of two parts, features a very special guest: Marc Lewis, Ph.D., psychologist, academic and bestselling author of…
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About Addiction, with Marc Lewis (Ep. 16, pt. 1 of 2)
This episode of How to Be an Adult, the first of two parts, features a very special guest: Marc Lewis, Ph.D., psychologist, academic and bestselling author of…
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How to Cope with a Breakup (Ep. 15)
Not every relationship lasts forever, and it’s when a relationship ends that all your self-loving and self-caring will really matter. In this episode, Luke and…
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How to Love Yourself, Too (Ep. 14)
When you keep hearing that you need to love yourself, and nobody gives you instructions in how, it’s easy to feel stuck (and not any more loved). But…
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How to Live Well After Trauma (Ep. 13)
If you’ve had an experience that overwhelmed your ability to cope, or when you’ve been in an environment where you were regularly unable to cope, you’ve…
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Truth, Morality and Beauty: Not Just for Victorians (Ep. 12)
In this episode, we advocate for capital-letter Truth, Morality and Beauty in our purportedly post-modern world, and we argue that these ideals are not…
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Memento Mori: Facing the Inevitable (Ep. 11)
Since the dawn of time, philosophers have grappled with how to cope with our knowledge of death, both when it happens to loved ones and when it happens to us…
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How to Be a Leader (Ep. 10)
If you do adult life well enough, eventually you’ll be considered such an exemplar of adult behaviour that your boss will ask you to lead other people, or you…
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What They Didn’t Teach You About Work and Money (Ep. 9)
So many of us grew up hearing from adults that work is necessarily hard, or that money is necessarily hard to come by. Yet younger generations have exceeded…
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How to Care for Your Body (Ep. 8)
For the first 18 years of your life, your parents were responsible for ensuring that you had adequate food, clothes and shelter. Once you reach adulthood, it’s…
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How to Care for Your Mind and Emotions (Ep. 7)
By the time we reach adulthood, we’re expected to be responsible for our own thoughts and emotions: we can’t just blame other people every time we’re unhappy…
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Why Live a Principled Life? (Ep. 6)
Throughout this podcast, we’ve made the case (and we will continue to make the case) that living an excellent life requires us to abide by a set of principles…
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Why You Must Exceed Your Parents (Ep. 5)
You can find many people and traditions that will tell you to honour and respect your parents. In this episode, we make a case for why, in adulthood, you must…
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Childhood Lessons You Must Unlearn (Ep. 4)
In most households and in schools, the rules for children are different from the rules for adults. But the time you reach adulthood, these childhood rules…
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Your Place in the World (Ep. 3)
In this episode, Luke and Pascal speak about how to relate to other human beings as an adult, and more generally, your place in the world. We start by speaking…
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How to Be an Adult: The Untold Lesson (Ep. 2)
In this episode, we’re going to delve into a philosophy of adulthood that makes it empowering and liberating, rather than onerous and burdensome. We challenge…
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What Is an Adult? (Ep. 1)
Our team has launched a new podcast, called How to Be an Adult. It’s the trail guide to life that you should have received when you turned 18, but didn’t…