Better Look Back Vol. 3 - Nutrition & Procrastination

12/18/17 • 74 min

In this episode Ian, Darren & March continue the Better Look Back series. We reflect on our personal experiments with nutrition and procrastination to tell you what worked, what failed and what new discoveries we’ve found to help you get better. We cover a lot of ground, including:

Show Notes

2:05 — Live taste test and review of Fruition One Hundred Percent handcrafted, small batch dark chocolate
17:00 — Darren's results from his Bulletproof coffee shop experience
22:14 — March's results and tips for Bulletproof coffee
26:32 — March's nutrition discoveries on kimchi and sauerkraut
37:19 — Ian's new mushroom discovery for your immune system
42:27 — March's results with tools to help him stop procrastinating on writing his novel
59:22 — Darren's results using Stanford researcher, B.J. Fogg's research on motivation and Ian's 10 Minute Rule advice
1:05:57 — Darren and March tested the Qualia brain supplement...how did it go?
1:10:28 — How March is using the 5 Minute Journal to defeat procrastination through mindfulness
1:15:10 — The 3 steps on the stairway to productivity
1:16:34 — Darren shares William Wordsworth's poem "The World Is Too Much With Us"

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Show Notes

2:05 — Live taste test and review of Fruition One Hundred Percent handcrafted, small batch dark chocolate
17:00 — Darren's results from his Bulletproof coffee shop experience
22:14 — March's results and tips for Bulletproof coffee
26:32 — March's nutrition discoveries on kimchi and sauerkraut
37:19 — Ian's new mushroom discovery for your immune system
42:27 — March's results with tools to help him stop procrastinating on writing his novel
59:22 — Darren's results using Stanford researcher, B.J. Fogg's research on motivation and Ian's 10 Minute Rule advice
1:05:57 — Darren and March tested the Qualia brain supplement...how did it go?
1:10:28 — How March is using the 5 Minute Journal to defeat procrastination through mindfulness
1:15:10 — The 3 steps on the stairway to productivity
1:16:34 — Darren shares William Wordsworth's poem "The World Is Too Much With Us"

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How to strengthen your relationships

In this episode Ian, Darren & March talk about how to strength your relationships with others in life. We reflect on why relationships matter, our own personal experiences with them, tips & tricks you can use, and experiments we’re going to try and report back on.

Show Notes

1:45 — Why relationships matter
4:39 — Impacts of isolation: from prisoners to monks
7:33 — Week long silent retreats
8:47 — How humans experience loneliness at a cellular level
9:54 — Aristotle's Golden Mean and relationships
10:54 — 3 keys to defining a good friend
14:48 — Ian's story of reconnecting with his best childhood friend after 10 years
19:50 — March's story of reconnecting with his first friend since moving to the US
22:51 — Ian's theory of why people hate high school reunions & love college reunions
25:04 — Uniqueness of experiences = strongest relationships
26:21 — How March burst into tears and confessed his undying love for his future wife
30:05 — They critical component to March's early relationship with his wife
31:32 — Ian explains the "group friend"
33:20 — How Ian founded The Brunch Bunch to strengthen his relationships
37:12 — How Darren met his wife at his birthday party & told work she was his fiancé before he asked her
44:34 — How the Gottman "The Art and Science of Love" workshop strengthened March's marriage
48:12 — March's tips from Gottman's "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work"
54:51 — Darren & Ian's tips from "The Five Love Languages" by Gary Chapman
1:01:48 — Tips for dealing with the physiological responses of stress in relationships
1:04:06 — Darren's secret weapon for improving all his relationships
1:12:23 — Ian's tips for dating in the modern world
1:20:28 — How to use your smartphone to maintain relationships from afar...and invented Snapchat before Snapchat
1:26:20 — Ian's story of how pre-planning helps him maintain key relationships
1:26:20 — March will experiment with weekly thank you notes to express gratitude
1:26:20 — Darren will experiment with trying the Gottman seminar March mentioned
1:26:20 — Ian will experiment with eating alone less often, especially during the work week

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Dreaming for insights, lucid and more

In this episode, Ian, Darren, and March explore the nature of dreams and share our own experiences with dreaming and with lucid dreams. We cover a lot of ground, including:

Show Notes

3:00— March educates us on the known facts about lucid dreaming
12:12— Our experience with lucid dreaming
14:54— Darren’s lucid dream
16:30— Ian wonders whether children dream more frequently than adults
18:00— Ian suggests a new cartoon character.
18:21–16 year old Darren almost buys a telescope instead of a car
20:00— March’s terrifying recurring dream experience
26:44— A clever use for dreams that is signature Ian style
27:18— A book recommendation from Ian on lucid dreaming
30:11— Ian, Darren, and March discuss how frequently they each remember dreams of any sort.
32:28— Why just listening to The Better Show might cause you to remember more of your dreams
32:50— How a personal performance coach teaches visualization to pro athletes and professionals