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With Joe Wehbe
There's a Da Vinci in everyone, but it has been locked away. Daily short episodes breaking down the truth behind learning, education and philosophy to unlock those Doors and bring it out.
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With Joe Wehbe#199: Top 11 Takeaways From Peter Thiel's 'Zero To One' (Part 1 of 2)
Welcome back to our mini-series on Peter Thiel's thoughts on education, career and learning. Today we begin one of two episodes unpacking his phenomenal 2014…
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#198: How Did ‘The Education Monopoly’ Take Away Your Ability To Think?
A bit of a tangent today but building on themes central to Peter Thiel, especially the concept of a monopoly – why a pernicious one now exists in education and…
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#197: Why Peter Thiel Calls College ‘An Atheistic Church’
Welcome to our third of eight episode on Peter Thiel's thoughts applied to learning, career and education. Quite a controversial one today linking college to…
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#196: Peter Thiel — 5 Reasons For The Education Bubble
This mini-series on Peter Thiel's thinking on education, career and learning began at episode 195 and continues to 202! This episode has a corresponding blog…
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#195: Is Education An Insurance Policy? PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel
Our next thought leader to review is Peter Thiel. Following on from our episodes on Nassim Taleb (181-194) the next modern thinker we're unpacking is PayPal…
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#194: 4 Ways Nassim Taleb’s Ideas Will Give You An Edge
Episode #194 of the With Joe Wehbe Podcast wraps up the series on Nassim Taleb (181-194). Don’t be overwhelmed — fine to go over it, I spent a month studying…
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#193: Nassim Taleb On Optionality — The No. 1 Career Skill That Everyday People Don’t Understand
Never heard of the term ‘optionality’? Don’t worry, few people have, but I argue it’s one of the most applicable of Nassim Taleb’s ideas to career, especially…
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#192: Nassim Taleb On Why Risk-Taking Is More Important Than Knowledge
Why might knowledge be over-valued? Starting from episode 181, we’re doing a series on Nassim Nicholas Taleb, his book Antifragile and the application of his…
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#191: Nassim Taleb On How To Achieve More By Intervening Less!
Taleb argues that medicine took more lives than it saved up until Penicillin was invented! He also thinks that the Bill Gates Foundation is repeating mistakes…
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#190: Taleb’s Definition Of A Loser & The Doctor Laughed At For Hand-Washing
What’s a loser? Are you one? Well, according to Taleb I’m a loser most days of the year. In this episode, we talk about overcoming the inclination to whinge…
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#189: Nassim Taleb On The Importance Of Taking Asymmetric Bets In Your Career
How do you ‘understand things by layers’ and apply an investor’s mindset to the dynamics of your own life? Is it easier to micro-bullshit, or macro-bullshit?…
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#188: Nassim Taleb On Black Swans And The Right Mindset For An Uncertain Future
Nassim Taleb uses the metaphor of a black swan to explain highly significant, unpredictable events in nature — the sort which make all the difference. Yet we…
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#187: Nassim Taleb On Why You Shouldn’t Be A Careerist Or Put Yourself In A Box
Taleb points out that the great philosophers had another job besides philosophy to prevent themselves from compromising their work and ‘debasing knowledge’ as…
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#186: Nassim Taleb On ‘Lecturing Birds How To Fly’ In Modern Education
You take a room full of birds, lecture them how to fly, and then release them... and they fly! Are you a raving success and genius teacher? This is one of…
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#185: Nassim Taleb's Recipe For Innovation And Distrust Of Science
Nassim Nicholas Taleb doesn’t think innovation comes from academia or the sciences... so where does it come from? Also, you’ll be blown away by the list of…
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#184: Nassim Taleb On How The Titanic Saved Your Life And Why You Shouldn’t Deprive Yourself Of Stressors
Nassim Nicholas Taleb suspects that if it hadn't been for the Titanic, we would have continued to build bigger and bigger boats until meeting an even bigger…
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#183: What’s Better Than Resilience, And Why Is It Missing From The World? – Nassim Taleb Series
Fragile (break easily), Robust (not easily changed)... but what’s ‘Antifragility’ (remember episode 145) and why is it missing from our culture? How can you…
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#182: Nassim Taleb On How Idiots Can Beat Experts
Today we’re talking about being shrewd to overcome a lack of your own intelligence, and why idiots sometimes do better than the experts and theorists! Starting…
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#181: MINI-SERIES — Nassim Taleb On Education, Career And Learning
Nassim Taleb is a noteworthy writer and thinker. He explores ideas like uncertainty, randomness and risk... and over the next few episodes, we’re going to…
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#180: What Is It That I'm Trying To Do?
Blog Version of today’s episode: https://withjoewehbe.com/2021/12/18/what-is-it-that-im-trying-to-do/ A reflection of my overarching goals here. These are the…
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#179: Is There A Da Vinci In Everyone? A Reflection On The Podcast
Is there a Da Vinci in everyone? We are naturally creative and multi-potentialite This has been locked — gift of Da Vinci’s time in Florence was broad…
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#178: From Viktor Frankl To Jim Collins — The 5 Lines of Wisdom That Have Most Influenced Me
Happy New Year! To celebrate the start of 2022, I wanted to kick off with a few special types of episodes. Top 5 Lines of Wisdom that have influenced me: 5 —…
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#177: The Campus, Not The Degree — Focus On The People & Ecosystem
Notes: The lesson I learnt from Scott McKeon Where to go to meet future co-founders and business partners How to treat someone else's organisation as your own…
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#176: How To Crush A Generation Of Young Talent
Chris Dixon wrote a piece around how the next big thing will look like a toy. Think about the internet, cryptocurrencies, gaming, TikTok, Youtube used to be…
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#175: Six Reasons For Going To University (Best To Worst)
Six Common Use Cases: Campus Experience Social Experience Qualifies for a job Prestigious Everyone else does You have to do it (Adrian Caputo) Sign up to The…
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#174: Are We Sending The Wrong People To University?
Examples of the capabilities of incredible young people in this day and age... if they can already do this, why do they need to go to university? Examples of…
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#173: Are You On The Education Conveyor Belt?
My decision to go to university: I'm interested in film but scared of becoming a failure, ending up with nothing, seemed risky University degree would give me…
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#172: Our Problematic Culture Around Going To University
'He already had a job working for a bank in software development and in, I think, security as well. And he knew everything. It was almost, it was so pointless…
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#171: Education Cannot Be A Mass Product — It Must Be Individualised
MERRY CHRISTMAS!! The conversation continues on another daily episode of the With Joe Wehbe Podcast! Want to stay up-to-date with the Podcast? Sign up to The…
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#170: BONUS Preparing For The Exponential Career & The Brains Trust
Update on the Constant Student Exponential Career — Alternative as the current infrastructure is built for linear pathways, leaves things somewhat open Check…
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#169: When Is Education A Backwards Step?
'How much do you think, for example, mainstream education misses the element of being practical in learning?' We continue the conversation with another daily…
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#168: Education Caters Least For The Areas We Need Most – Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Creativity
'We are in a time now more than ever where innovation, technology, opportunity, all those things are ballooning, right? Change is happening faster and faster.I…
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#167: Moving Someone In A Direction Without 'Giving Them Advice'
How to be crafty. How to be tricky. 'I'm not sure if you consciously are aware of it, but you, you pick up on things they say, or like just in conversations…
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#166: Sales And Marketing Are Skills For Everyday Life — How To Use Them To Help People In Any Situation
'How do you convince someone to take a better path? It's a tricky topic because it's an actual thing most people looking to do, but the way you do it is…
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#165: How Do You Change Someone's Worldview?
Ever been too pushy on a perspective? Wonder how to get through to others? We talk about this topic today in the latest daily episode of With Joe Wehbe. Want…
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#164: How Do You Convince Someone To Take A Better Path?
Joe: 'The story from a good friend of mine, Gilly, a good friend of ours. When he was 14, grew up very Catholic, wanted to become a priest, went home, told his…
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#163: BONUS — Overcoming 'The Myth Of Failure'
Developing a new challenge called 'The Exponential Career', one part is the Myth of Failure that Aina talks about here. Failure is not an acceptable ceiling —…
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#162: Don't Let Others Set Your Ceiling
Choose the mountain you want to climb. There's no speed limits. Jobs of the future don't exist yet, so how do you position yourself for them? We unpack…
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#161: You Are Not Your Achievements & Shiny Object Syndrome
Luke: 'I have a bit of a scenario for you to consider. So what about some, what about people that are in a profession? What do you think about some people that…
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#160: Helping People Find Their North, Spotting People's Superpowers, Audience-Of-None
Luke: "Leading onto the next point, what's the best way to help other people find their north?" The daily episodes continue with a discussion of how to help…
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#159: Looking For Constant Improvement, Walt Disney's Mantra, Why You Feel Stagnant
This episode in one quote: "There's a story. Scott's mom told him about when he was young that I think it was like the first day of kindergarten or something…
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#158: Finding Truth North, Phil Knight's Career Advice, Importance Of Travel
You still need a description? That episode title is not compelling enough? Gee, I have some bloody work to do then. On yet another daily episode of the With…
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#157: Whose Advice Do You Listen To?
Answer: Mine. But of course, tread carefully. A lot of people have potential that exceeds the pace they want to go at. We discuss this today on another daily…
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#156: The Danger Of Taking A Longer Study Path Without A Clear Objective In Mind
Where is study and education used to create the feeling of progress, without substance? Why is this trap so seductive? We continue the conversation today with…
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#155: Why People Say 'One Day'
I hate it when people say 'One Day' (except when it's that Les Miserables song). Why do people say it? Why do they put obstacles in their own way? The…
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#154: You Need A Compass, Not A Map
How do you know what mountains to climb? How can you prioritise the best way to learn? We continue the conversation with another short, no-nonsense daily…
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#153: BONUS EPISODE — 5 Reasons Why We Made 18 & Lost? So Were We
Discuss previous episodes #147 and #148 on the quality of advice I'm not sure about this idea of idolising the 'successful' and putting people on pedestals…
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#152: Giving Young People High Salaries Is Dangerous
What's the harm in giving a young person a high salary? What's the enemy of adventure? We keep the conversation going in this daily episode of the With Joe…
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#151: Finding A Calling Aged 62 & Things Change Along The Way
If people find a new calling at the age of 62, then why are you so obsessed with this idea of a 'plan'? This is today's conversation on the DAILY With Joe…
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#150: Christopher Columbus, Unique Discovery And Specialised Generalists
The conversation continues on the DAILY With Joe Wehbe Podcast! Here is the fascinating comparison of Christopher Columbus discovery of a MAJOR continent, that…
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#149: Careers Advice Is The Most Dangerous Advice Of All
The conversation continues on the DAILY With Joe Wehbe Podcast on the danger of careers advice – when people try to give you guidance on what path you take and…
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#148: Everyone Misinterprets Advice & Stories, Not Prescriptions
The conversation continues on the DAILY With Joe Wehbe Podcast, and we talk about the tricky subject of advice... including how my first book might actually…
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#147: Why Is Giving And Receiving Advice So Hard?
The conversation continues on the DAILY With Joe Wehbe Podcast. Luke's question: Why do you think it's so difficult to give and receive advice? And why is it…
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#146: Seeing Connectedness & Tips From Steve Jobs
Another DAILY EPISODE of With Joe Wehbe Podcast continuing the conversation on an important but vague topic, 'Connectedness' and linking it to the greatness of…
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#145: Is Your Mind Resilient, Fragile... Or 'Antifragile'?
Do you crack easily like glass, or come back stronger like hydra? Welcome back to the DAILY EPISODES on the With Joe Wehbe Podcast…
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#144: Binary Thinkers, Nothing Is Black Or White, And Are You 'Good' At Things?
DAILY episodes → come back tomorrow! For more updates sign up here: https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/ The example of university and my non-stance — what…
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#143: How to Give Friends and Family 'Advice' & Having Uncomfortable Conversations
New episodes daily! For more on careers, education and actionable tips head to https://withjoewehbe.com/everything-joe/ Tim Ferriss — your ability to have…
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#142: Why is it so Hard to be Open-Minded?
DAILY EPISODES: there was one yesterday, and obviously there'll be one tomorrow! Want to treat yourself right? Head to https://withjoewehbe.com/ for more…
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#141: The Dunning-Kruger Effect, and When Experience Works Against You
DAILY EPISODES (this continues from yesterday's ep). For more don't forget to head to https://withjoewehbe.com/ The Duning-Kruger Effect — the example of…
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#140: Einstein's Gift, Einstein's Mistake — Strong Opinions Loosely Held
DAILY EPISODES!!! Show me yourself some love by coming back tomorrow. Check out the site for more: https://withjoewehbe.com/ We're never taught how to think…