The Fred Pinto Podcast

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist, public speaker, and author of The Science Delusion and Science and Spiritual Practices, among other books.(00:00:00) In this episode(00:00:19) Intro(00:03:47) Chapter 1: One Free Miracle(00:11:45) Chapter 2: Living in a Material World(00:17:10) Chapter 3: A Trinitarian Metaphysics(00:26:33) Chapter 4: Nature’s Purposes(00:40:10) Chapter 5: Why Does Spirituality Work?(01:01:08) Chapter 6: Breaking Dogmas For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Coleman Hughes is a writer, podcast host and musician. He is the author of The End of Race Politics, and is a regular contributor to The Free Press.(00:00:00) In this episode(00:00:22) Intro(00:05:50) Chapter 1: Making Sense(00:11:14) Chapter 2: The New Race Politics(00:36:18) Chapter 3: Identity: Race or Values?(00:46:05) Chapter 4: Race Politics in Corporate America(01:02:41) Chapter 5: The Victimhood Trap(01:09:23) Chapter 6: Rationalizing ReligionFor more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Dr. Steven Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, whose books include The Language Instinct, The Blank Slate, Enlightenment Now, and Rationality. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World. (00:00:00) In this episode(00:00:11) Intro(00:03:17) Chapter 1: Revisiting the Blank Slate (00:11:53) Chapter 2: Ideology, Progress, and Intellectual Resistance(00:21:11) Chapter 3: Is Rationality Uncool? (00:36:28) Chapter 4: Reason as a Moral Virtue(00:45:30) Chapter 5: Our Mismatch with the Modern World(00:52:12) Chapter 6: AI, Music, and Constructive OptimismFor more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Dr. Jean Twenge is a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, and the best-selling author of The Narcissism Epidemic and Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents – and What They Mean for America’s Future.(00:00:00) In this episode(00:00:12) Intro(00:05:36) Chapter 1: Today’s Mental Health Epidemic(00:13:51) Chapter 2: The Rise of Individualism(00:24:43) Chapter 3: The Silent Generation(00:29:50) Chapter 4: The Baby Boomers(00:33:43) Chapter 5: Generation X(00:43:10) Chapter 6: Millennials(00:50:27) Chapter 7: Gen ZFor more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Dr. Michael Mannino teaches at the Institute for Data Science and Computing at the University of Miami and is the Chief Science Officer at the Flow Research Collective.(00:00:00) In this episode(00:00:06) Intro(00:04:30) Chapter 1: Neuroscience and Philosophy(00:18:40) Chapter 2: Mind Body Connection(00:28:26) Chapter 3: Levels of Embodied Consciousness(00:46:17) Chapter 4: The Cognitive Benefits of Movement(01:04:27) Chapter 5: Achieving Group Flow(01:21:37 ) Chapter 6: The Neuroscience of SpiritualityFor more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Steven Kotler is a New York Times best-selling author, an award-winning journalist, and the executive director of the Flow Research Collective. His books include Stealing Fire, The Rise of Superman, and The Art of Impossible. - Chapters - (00:00:00) In this episode (00:00:11) Intro(00:02:58) Chapter 1: What is Flow? (00:24:11) Chapter 2: Calibrating Challenges (00:33:47) Chapter 3: Purpose and Flow (00:41:14) Chapter 4: Chapter 4: The Neurobiology of Wisdom  For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

James Altucher is an entrepreneur, investor, best-selling author, and host of The James Altucher Show.- Chapters - (00:00:00) In this episode…(00:00:15) - Intro(00:06:27) Chapter 1: Entrepreneurship: a Series of Experiments(00:23:21) Chapter 2: Reinvention and Problem-Solving(00:46:49) Chapter 3: The Spokes and Wheel Approach(01:02:02) Chapter 4: AI’s Creativity Revolution(01:11:03) Chapter 5: The Decline of Cities (01:19:29) Chapter 6: The Chess Game of LifeFor more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Claude Silver is the Chief Heart Officer at VaynerX.- Chapters - (00:00:00) In this episode…(00:00:16) Intro(00:02:31) Chapter 1: Queen of Hearts(00:16:32) Chapter 2: Caring with High Standards(00:28:18) Chapter 3: Purpose and Grit(00:38:05) Chapter 4: Empathetic truth-telling(00:43:43) Chapter 5: Of Chops and Culture(00:54:08) Chapter 6: The Balanced LifeFor more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Jonathan Pageau is a religious iconographer, public speaker, and host of The Symbolic World podcast.- Chapters - (00:00:00) In this episode…(00:00:07) Intro(00:01:44) Chapter 1: The First Purpose(00:04:49) Chapter 2: Art and Meaning(00:14:40) Chapter 3: The Indifferent Universe(00:34:20) Chapter 4: On Miracles(00:43:44) Chapter 5: Fundamentalisms, Old and New(00:55:01) Chapter 6: Religion and Politics(01:08:34) Chapter 7: Purpose ExternalitiesFor more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Dr. Daniel A. Yudkin is a Fellow in Social and Behavioural Science at the Wharton School and Director of Research at More in Common. - Chapters-(00:00:00) In this episode…(00:00:42) Chapter 1: Exiting Academia(00:17:10) Chapter 2: Hidden Tribes(00:50:49) Chapter 3: Society and Morality(01:14:10) Chapter 4: Diversity and Shared Norms(01:23:32) Chapter 5: Future ProjectsFor more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Glenn Greenwald is an award-winning journalist, author and constitutional lawyer. His reporting on the global surveillance programs won a Pulitzer Prize for The Guardian. He hosts the daily show System Update on Rumble. - Chapters - (00:00:00) In this episode…(00:00:20) Intro(00:02:57) Chapter 1: The political spectrum(00:07:24) Chapter 2: Journalism and knowledge of the law(00:13:23) Chapter 3: Snowden’s legacy(00:22:38) Chapter 4: Fear and civil liberties(00:58:15) Chapter 5: Political hypocrisies(01:25:41) Chapter 6: The cost of truthFor more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Ariel Helwani is a sports journalist and the host of the MMA Hour. He’s won MMA Journalist of the Year at the World MMA Awards every year since 2010.- Chapters - (00:00:00) In this episode…(00:00:33) Chapter 1 - Back to Montreal(00:13:20) Chapter 2 - Journalistic Ethics(00:21:30) Chapter 3 - Truth vs Spectacle(00:33:16) Chapter 4 - The Future of the UFC(00:42:53) Chapter 5 - Thicker SkinFor more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Dr. Bjørn Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus, the best-selling author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Best Things First, and a visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He’s been named one of the top 100 public intellectuals by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines and was listed among TIME’s 100 most influential people in the world. - Chapters - (00:00:00) In this episode…(00:00:19) Intro(00:03:34) Chapter 1:  Go Check the Data(00:16:36) Chapter 2: The UN Climate Panel View(00:20:46) Chapter 3: Fighting the Apocalypse(00:39:30) Chapter 4: Economic Development and Progress(00:46:37) Chapter 5: Best Things First(01:01:25) Chapter 6: The Value of LifeFor more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Tom Bilyeu is a unicorn entrepreneur, award-winning screenwriter, and the founder of Impact Theory, a media company dedicated to positively impacting lives through empowering educational content.For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Mitch Joel is a best-selling author, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and co-founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that provides premium, bite-sized thought leadership.For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Jesse Itzler is a serial entrepreneur, recording artist, coach, co-owner of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks, and the New York Times best-selling author of Living with a SEAL and Living with the Monks. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast.Subscribe to Fred's  Substack at https://fredpinto.substack.com/ and get a copy of the PDF with the studies referenced in this episode. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Ido Portal is a world-renowned expert and thinker on human movement.For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Dr. Richard Weikart is an award-winning historian and emeritus professor of history at Cal State University Stanislaus, a Fellow at the Discovery Institute, and the author of several thought-provoking books, including From Darwin to Hitler, and The Death of Humanity. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Dustin “The Diamond” Poirier is a decorated UFC fighter, and the co-founder of The Good Fight Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to helping underserved communities.For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Is well-being best achieved in accepting what is, or in passionately engaging in what is yet to be? Technology lawyer and writer Fred Pinto links counterintuitive findings from philosophy, wisdom studies, and psychology to tease out the idea that finding ourselves comes as a result of losing our firmly held ideas of ourselves first. In a modern world that encourages self-obsession, this talk is for everyone who wants to achieve more authentic forms of acceptance and transcendence.  This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Robert Greene is the multiple-time #1 NYT best-selling author of The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, The Art of Seduction, The 50th Law (with 50 Cent), The Laws of Human Nature, and The Daily Laws.For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

The Hon. Justice Michael P. Donnelly is the 160th justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. He’s the recipient of multiple awards, including the Public Service Award from the Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys, and served as chair of the Ohio Supreme Court’s Commission on Professionalism. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Ryan Holiday is a multiple-time NYT #1 bestselling author, whose books include Trust me, I’m Lying, The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Discipline is Destiny. He is the host of the Daily Stoic Podcast, and the owner of The Painted Porch bookstore in Bastrop, Texas. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Dr. Daniel J. Levitin is a cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, musician, and the author of multiple NYT best-selling books, including This is your Brain on Music, A Field Guide to Lies, and Successful Aging. Levitin has published more than 300 articles, in journals including Science, Nature, PNAS, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal.  His TED talk How To Be Calm When You Know You’ll Be Stressed is one of the most viewed ever, at over 20 million views. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Why Purpose is Personal is a TEDx talk I gave at the TEDxYouth @ Sunset Beach event in Vancouver on September 9th 2022. The core question I wanted to answer was: why is the advice of gurus and experts often so unsatisfying when it comes to finding true purpose in life? This quest took me to the emerging science of meaning and purpose, which invites us to take a radical leap forward to a truly “n of one” approach to our lives. In other words, meaning isn’t general, or theoretical: it’s personal. You can access a PDF with the sources and references I refer to in this talk by subscribing to my Substack (https://fredpinto.substack.com/about) here (https://fredpinto.com/sources-references-why-purpose-is-personal-tedx-talk/). For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Daniele Bolelli is a philosopher, best-selling author, podcaster, and martial artist. He’s the host of the Drunken Taoist and History on Fire podcasts, and the author of several books, including On the Warrior’s Path, Not Afraid, and Create Your Own Religion. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

Andy Nulman is a businessman, author, public speaker and comedian. He co-founded Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival and Airborne Mobile, has lectured at McGill University, on the TED stage, and at C2 Montreal, and is the author of three books, including Pow! Right Between the Eyes: Profiting from the Element of Surprise, on the art of surprise marketing. For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack. 

How can we better harness human ingenuity toward living the good life? Join me as we uncover the mindsets, stories, and insights of leading entrepreneurs, thought leaders and innovators. Sign up to my substack here to receive the latest podcast entry directly in your inbox.For more podcasts, check out https://fredpinto.com/podcast or subscribe to Fred's Substack.