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ANNE-LAURE LE CUNFF: Experiment Before You Commit

Full Focus is known for helping people achieve their goals. So when a guest’s book is subtitled How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World, you might expect a debate. In

JOHN LA PUMA: Why Your Brain Needs the Outdoors

Most of us treat time outside as something to squeeze in once the real work is done. But what if the 3:00 crash, the restless nights, and the short fuse over an irritatin

JON ACUFF: Turn Intention into Action

You can be extremely capable—leading teams, hitting deadlines, maintaining good habits—while still living as an expert procrastinator. Most of us can find some gap betwee

LUKE BURGIS: Discerning What You Actually Want

Most ambition advice is about how to reach the top of the mountain. Luke Burgis points out that many of us have an upstream problem: we’re climbing a mountain we don’t ac

RYAN LEVESQUE: Real Life in an Artificial Age

Chaos always prompts us to search for something solid. Confronted by the upheaval of economic reckoning, ecological exhaustion, and existential uncertainty, our souls are

CARL HONORE: Living at the Right Speed

Most of us know we’re moving too fast, but can’t figure out how to stop. In this episode, journalist and author Carl Honoré joins Michael and Megan to explain how we got

SUMMER REPLAY: RICH LITVIN: Finding What You Want

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SUMMER REPLAY: KEN COLEMAN: Find the Work You're Wired To Do

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SUMMER REPLAY: DONALD MILLER: Edit Your Life for Success

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SUMMER REPLAY: IAN CRON: The Path to Flourishing—and Freedom

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SUMMER REPLAY: JEFFERSON FISHER: Staying Grounded When Tensions Rise

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SUMMER REPLAY: ANDREW ABELA: The Habits That Change Everything

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ANGUS FLETCHER: Our Uniquely Human Contribution

It's no secret that machine intelligence is evolving by the day. But what if there's a uniquely human intelligence that's altogether different? In this episode, neuroscie

BRAD STULBERG: The Heart of Excellence

Brad Stulberg is a researcher, writer, and coach focused on performance and sustainable excellence. In this conversation, he makes the case that excellence isn't primaril

HENRY CLOUD: How to Arrive at Your Desired Future

Getting where you want to go requires five essential elements—and we’re all missing one or two, usually without realizing it. In this episode, Michael and Joel sit down w

EVE RODSKY: Creating Better Balance at Home

Even couples committed to a true, fair partnership can fracture under the weight of an invisible kind of work that almost always goes unacknowledged. In this episode, Meg

KELLY MCGONIGAL: Harnessing the Hidden Gift of Stress

We've spent decades trying to reduce, manage, and protect ourselves from stress. But what if that entire strategy is backwards? In this episode, Michael and Megan sit dow

BARRY SCHWARTZ: Stop Searching for the Best

We've been told our whole lives that more choice equals more freedom, and therefore, more happiness. But that equation breaks down sooner than we think. In this episode,

NICHOLAS CARR: The Case for Adding Friction

We’ve never had more access to information or more tools to make work faster and easier. But according to Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows and Superbloom, speed and

JACOB MCHANGAMA: Disagreeing Without Losing Each Other

Most of us have an unspoken rule set for modern relationships: Avoid the landmines. But according to Jacob Mchangama, that kind of fear-based self-censorship leads to dis