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More To Learn
by Adam Ashton
A show about all things books and learning, hosted by Adam Ashton. A new episode every week, because there's always... More To Learn
Episodes
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Discipline of The Soul
It's not uncommon to find someone who has physical command of themselves, Discipline of their Body. Nor is there a shortage of brilliant people who have brought their Mind under control. What is extraordinarily rare is someone who not only combines these two disciplines, but also manages to do so...
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Discipline of The Mind
Following on from the previous episode about discpline over our physical vessel, this episode is about discipline over our temperament. Based on Ryan Holiday's book Discipline Is Destiny, we'll hear stories from the likes of Beethoven and Tom Brady to learn how we can improve our own attitudes.
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Discipline of The Body
When we're talking about discipline, the first and most obvious place to start is discipline over ourselves, over our exterior: discipline of the body. In this episode, based on Ryan Holiday's book Discipline Is Destiny, we'll hear stories from basballer Lou Gehrig, inventor Thomas Edison,...
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Discipline Is Destiny (introduction)
Over the next three days, we'll be learning from the book Discipline Is Destiny by Ryan Holiday. Following on from his book Courage Is Calling (episode #xxx of the What You Will Learn podcast if you want to hear the best bits of that book), this is the second book in his four-part series on the...
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Best Books of 2023
Before we power ahead into the new year, let's take some time to look back at the year that was. As has been an annual tradition since 2016, I'm looking back at my top 10 favourite books I read in 2023.
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Oliver Burkeman: Happiness, Change, Time Management & Motivational Seminars
I had the pleasure of speaking with Oliver Burkeman, who is quickly becoming one of my favourite authors. His books HELP!, The Antidote and Four Tousand Weeks have all been winners and I can't wait for what he dishes up next. In this episode we speak about happiness, making effect change, the…
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Fundamental Attribution Error (HELP!, part 3)
It's one of the most pervasive cognitive errors in our human psychology. When we assess others, we overemphasise personality-based explanations and undervalue situational ones. If someone is late to a meeting, we assume it's because they're a lazy person, not because they were stuck in traffic.…
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Hofstadter's Law (HELP!, part 2)
You might've heard of Parkinson's Law, how tasks expand to fill the time alloted to them. Well this is Parkinson's on steroids. Hofstadter's Law says that: any task you're planning to complete will always take longer than expected, even when Hofstadter's Law is taken into account. It's a viscious...
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The Abilene Paradox (HELP!, part 1)
Part 1 of a three-part mini series based on the book HELP! by Oliver Burkeman. This episode is inspired by the article titled 'How To Please None Of The People None Of The Time' that originally featured as a column in The Guardian. In this episode, you'll learn how trying to please people is...
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WYWL: Four Thousand Weeks
In preparation for my interview with Oliver Burkeman, I revisited his three books: Four Thousand Weeks, HELP!, and The Antidote. This was originally Episode #400 of the What You Will Learn podcast (published in November 2022) about the book Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management For Mortals, which...
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Dan Ariely: Misbelief & Irrationality
After first interviewing Dan Ariely in November 2017, he's back for Round 2! This time, we speak about his brand new book, Misbelief. Buy Misbelief: https://misbeliefbook.com/ Dan's website: https://danariely.com/
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Relativity & Comparison (Predictably Irrational)
Dan Ariely's 2008 book 'Predictably Irrational' highlighted "the hidden forces that shape our decisions". Rather than the standard economic theory that looks at how we think people SHOULD behave, behavioural economics looks at how people ACTUALLY behave. Ariely found that rather being in the...
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WYWL: The Upside of Irrationality
In preparation for my interview with Dan Ariely about his new book, Misbelief, I revisited a bunch of his previous books as well. The Upside of Irrationality takes some of Ariely's research and findings into human behaviour and applies them to the world of work and motivation. This was originally...
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Owen Fitzpatrick: Natalie Imbruglia Meets The Jesus Terminator
Today I'm chatting with Owen Fitzpatrick. Owen is the author of 8 or 9 great books (with more on the way), he's the host of the Changing Minds podcast, and he delivered my favourite TED Talk of all time. On this episode, we chat about Owen's compulsion for inputting new information, how he went...
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September 2023 Wrap Up
A quick wrap up of the month of September: Podcast updates (including stats) Emails and Voice Memos What I've been reading What's coming up next
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Adam Jones: Best Books Under 150 Pages
I met up with my old buddy Adam Jones (former co-host of the What You Will Learn podcast) to discuss our favourite short books. Some of these books are quick and easy reads, some are small in stature but hefty in nature, really packing a punch. I guess the old adage holds true: it's not the size...
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The 5 States of Awareness (Breakthrough Advertising, part 2)
Perhaps my new favourite framework for marketing and advertising - understanding where you customer currently is (in terms of their awareness of your product or service) and using that to inform your headlines and copywriting. You know the end point you want to get them to (buying from you)…
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Harnessing Mass Desire (Breakthrough Advertising, part 1)
Breakthrough Adveritising was written by Eugene Schwartz in the 1960s. Recently, over the last decade or so, it's had a real resurgence and developed a bit of an underground cult following. And for good reason! While this book was originally written specifically about copywriting for newspaper…
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Tyler Cowen: Reading, Learning & Real-World Economics
Tyler Cowen: Academic economist, author, podcaster, blogger, professor, online educator, reader, listener, foodie, and much much more. Marginal Revolution: https://marginalrevolution.com/ Conversations With Tyler podcast: https://conversationswithtyler.com/
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Job Interviews Done Better
Have you ever been sitting in a stock-standard, stale, boring, question-and-answer job interview? Whether you were doing the interviewing or being interviewed, it's not the best way to identify talent. Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross have some suggestions as to how to conduct better job interviews. In...
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Steve Glaveski: How Books Can Change Your Life
Steve Glaveski is an author, a podcaster, an entrepreneur, and a mate. We've both interviewed eachother a couple of times for our respective podcasts, and in this episode we go deep on Steve's reading journey. We talk about WHY Steve reads, some reasons NOT to read, books that have changed…
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Steph Clarke: Quitting While You're Ahead
Steph Clarke is a facilitator, futurist, and learning designer. She is also the host of the (recently retired) Steph's Business Bookshelf podcast, where she's shared the three big ideas from over 200 non-fiction books in 15 minutes or less. I met Steph back in 2019 when her podcast was just…
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Incentives: Money VS Favours
I'm interviewing famous economist Tyler Cowen so I wanted to brush up on a few economic concepts. I studied economics in high school and at university, but a lot of the textbook stuff seemed a little crusty and irrelevant. Thankfully, I've read some great books that have taken the concepts from…
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Adam Jones's Reading Origin Story
Adam Jones is back behind the mic. After 7 years of reading books and podcasting together on What You Will Learn, Adam joins me to talk about: how he got into reading in the first place, what differentiates a bad book from a good book from an awesome book, face-slapper / jaw-dropper books we've...
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July 2023 Wrap Up
At the end of the first full month of the new podcast, I thought I'd do a bit of a round up of: some podcast updates and highlights (and what's to come) my favourite 5-star review of the month a listener audio question the books I read in July 2023 (some I finished, some in progress, some...
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6 Life Lessons from 6 Months of Fatherhood
In January I had my first child, I transformed overnight from an "adult" to a "parent". I thought there would be some overnight lightning bolt type of change.. but I don't know if there was. Perhaps there was a gradual change over the weeks and months head. In some ways everything has changed, in...
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Cass Sunstein: Decisions About Decisions
Cass Sunstein is the author of HEAPS of great books, and is officially the most cited legal scholar in the world. Some of his books include "Nudge" (co-authored with Nobel Prize winner Richard Thaler), "Noise" (co-authored with Oliver Sibony and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman), and "Sludge"...
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Nudge VS Sludge
The book Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein has been described as "the most impactful book on behavioural economics". The core concepts in the book have found the way into large corporations and even entire political teams have been formed called 'nudge units' to implement the ideas in the...
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Ranking Robert Greene (with Adam Jones)
This episode was sparked by a conversation Adam Jones and I had over a brunch. Adam Jones said he'd been battling through, trying to read Seduction by Robert Greene, and we tried to rank Robert Greene's books in order from our favourite to our least favourite. As our mutual favourite author of…
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5 Thoughts from Truffle Hunting
Over the weekend I went hunting for truffles. It was a bit of a guided tour where we were introduced to the background of the truffle farm and their philosophies, then we went out with a couple of dogs to go and sniff out some truffles that we'd use to cook up a delicious lunch. While we were...
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How To Run A Solo Podcast (advice from Steve Glaveski & Owen Fitzpatrick)
After 7 years of podcasting as a duo, I'm now podcasting solo. It's going to take a little while to work out this transition, so if you're listening now - thank you... and please stick with me! I reached out to two people I've viewed as mentors over the years, two blokes who are authors slash...
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Derek Sivers: Good Books VS Great Books
Derek Sivers is one of my favourite people to learn form. Check him our here: https://sive.rs/ In this episode, we nerd out on all things books. We speak about why he reads books, how he picks what to read next, why he recommends some books and doesn't recommend others. But my favourite part is…
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How To Live by Derek Sivers
What should we do in order to get the most out of our lives? How shold we behave to maximise our outcomes? What is the BEST way to live? Derek Sivers tells us just that. In his book 'How To Live', he shares exactly how we should live. Except... There isn't just one answer... there are 27. Each...
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Welcome to More To Learn
My name is Adam Ashton and i'm kind of addicted to learning… Instead of going to some 12 step program, I've decided to fuel this addiction. I started my learning journey in 2015 when I read 10books. In 2016 it was 30, and every year since it's been around 60 to 70 books a year… I cant get enough!…
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