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Alchemy For Life — 250 episodes · page 1 of 3
Gaslighting and the Toxic Group Organism
How are you?
Don’t Overthink This
Your brain is spooky (that pile of clothes is not a dog)
Trapping a Moment in Time
Why Being Undecided Feels So Exciting
Why “Consistent” Triggers Defensiveness
What Most People Get Wrong About Dopamine
I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn’t have the time.
Mapping Without Intent
Planners vs. Doers: Discovering Your Productivity Personality
The absence of something, anything, and everything is not nothing
Theft by Proxy – Stealing in the Age of AI
Willpower is a Finite Battery
It’s OK to be Curious.
Music, pattern matching, and good storytelling.
Timing it Makes it Valuable.
Learn to Prompt Both AI and Humans
What an Anti-Vision Board Can Teach You
What behavioral mapping reveals about Elon Musk
The Dark Side of Repetition & What’s Really Causing Your Pain
Conflict resolution in just three words
Why your resolutions failed and how to fix that.
Taking the “fun” out of “funnel.”
The Last Episode
Limitations
Top 10 things you can do NOW to be successful in 2026
How Can I Stop Worrying?
What is Friction and When is it a Good Thing?
The beginner mindset makes you a better teacher
Surface Dwellers and the Pursuit of Knowledge
I think I found the perfect question
Joseph Mallozzi – Executive Producer Stargate franchise, Dark Matter
Why selfish productivity may be the best productivity
The invisible Barrier
Learning styles and learning right in front of someone
What’s Apathy? Who cares.
The Availability Gap: Why Your Energy Matters More Than Your Time
A fast “no” is always better than a time-wasting “yes.”
Mindfulness from Bhutan – my chat with a monk named Jamyang.
The unnerving power of no
When the Devil Sounds Like a Unicorn
Waking up to a Monster. Are you in Survival Mode?
A Dire Warning: the MIT study and ChatGPT
What episodes are notable in 2025 so far?
Hypnosis and speaking to your manager.
Good or Evil?
Non-Local Consciousness
Meaningful Exhaustion and the energy transfer
Question Mark – Oh how the tables have turned
The Anatomy of Ghosting
Time is sometimes money but is always Energy
The amazing, frustrating, daunting world of squares and triangles
Your Catalog and Your Facets
Intellectual Injury—what the heck is that?
Old Photos and Robots
The pleasure principle and a new book
What I learned writing a screenplay
Teacher, Teach Thyself
Do you experience Disconnected Happiness?
Dramaturgy, Role Theory and Modes
Manuel Rendon of Timeplast and 4d programmable matter
Most useful and helpful episodes of 2024!
Resolutions—what works and what doesn’t
Depression and throwing away the container
Am I a systems thinker?
The Silence of Success
Deferred Gratitude and Exotic Cars
Time and energy = space
Is Positivity just oblivious contentment?
Forced to be an Emergency Responder and Love Bombing
What is OCD? Do I have OCD? The Reality of coping with OCD.
Don’t speak that into existence!
Psych Charm: ADHD
Psych Charm: Anxiety
Gamification, Iconization and Tangibility.
Creativity as a skill
If you don’t see the system…
ADHD, Perception and Overwhelming Data – It’s Not Your Brain
It’s Time for Something Different
Guaranteed Great Day if You do This…
Engagement Fiction for Your Type A Brain
Selfishness demystified
Too much power to something via label
How Much Real Estate do You Own…in the 4th Dimension?
Three Phrases to Improve the Quality of Your Life
Stood up – Switching Gears and the Element No One Talks About.
Meat Puppets handing you mailing list data
If I were you…
Conf Calls, Promises and Who is Actually Talking
The Challenge of Perspective
Protecting Your Energy
Feeling Safe & Relaxed – Parasympathetic Nervous System
Too Many Words
A Strength Stretched too far Becomes a Weakness
Live Your Life Iteratively
Type A Retirement – the frightening truth
Why white space is vital to communication
Mentor, teacher, instructor… but is it ‘coach?’
Taking responsibility for the good in your life.