INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 60-minute Cambridge lecture by Demis Hassabis will teach you more about the future of AI than most people will learn in the next 5 years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later
Would highly recommend you watch David Foster Wallace talking about boredom, and why some people now find it so hard to read.
Sorely wish he were around today to hear his views on TikTok and the like.
In 2017, Harvard professor Michael Porter gave a 72-minute masterclass on why most companies fail at strategy.
His frameworks:
- "There is no best company"
- The IKEA test he hated every minute of
- Why happy customers mean you're in trouble
12 lessons on strategy:
One of the most painful truths in life is that many conflicts are not caused by hatred, but by failed coordination. Two people can want the same broad outcome and still destroy each other through pride, bad timing, and poor signaling. A lot of war is just mismanaged alignment.
Here is a list of 10 YOUTUBE channels with expert public speakers and communicators who will teach you the A-Z of speaking with confidence.
1. Vinh Gaing - How to force yourself to speak coherently.
2. Leila Hormozi - How to articulate your thoughts more clearly than 99% of people.
3. Anna Marie- speaking confidently and coherently
4. Jefferson fisher- How to respond with confidence
5. MMM English - Advanced English people
6. Dr Grace Lee
7. Natalie Dawson - speaking like the 1% elite
8. Joya Dass - Public speaking
9. Accurate English with Lisa Mojsin
10. Mel Robbins- The blue print for mastering every conversation
50 YouTube Channels That Will Teach You More About Humans Than Any University Ever Could.
1. Emotional Intelligence – Psych2Go
2. Dark Psychology – Charisma on Command
3. Therapy and Healing – Therapy in a Nutshell
4. Body Language – The Behavior Panel
5. Stoic Philosophy – Daily Stoic
6. Influence and Persuasion – Robert Cialdini
7. Brain and Behavior – Robert Sapolsky
8. Attachment Theory – Thais Gibson
9. Trauma Recovery – Patrick Teahan
10. Narcissism – Dr. Ramani
11. Decision Making – Veritasium
12. Habit Science – James Clear
13. Social Skills – Better Ideas
14. Human Psychology – Jordan Peterson
15. Anxiety and Depression – Kati Morton
16. Present Moment Living – Eckhart Tolle
17. What Drives People – Daniel Pink
18. Self Sabotage – Lisa Olivera
19. Childhood Wounds – Dr. Gabor Mate
20. Self Worth – Mark Manson
21. Boundaries – Terri Cole
22. Addiction – Addiction Mindset
23. Grief – David Kessler
24. Anger – Dr. Bernard Golden
25. Introversion – Susan Cain
26. Memory and Focus – Memorize Academy
27. Cognitive Biases – Your Bias Is Showing
28. Behavioral Economics – Dan Ariely
29. Overcoming Fear – Susan Jeffers
30. Power and Strategy – Robert Greene
31. Abuse Recovery – Melanie Tonia Evans
32. Parenting – Dr. Becky Kennedy
33. Relationships – John Gottman
34. Identity – Dr. Joe Dispenza
35. Sleep Science – Matthew Walker
36. Stress – Dr. Andrew Huberman
37. Connection – Brene Brown
38. Moral Thinking – Jonathan Haidt
39. Personality – Frank James
40. Shadow Work – Michael Sandler
41. Subconscious Patterns – Bruce Lipton
42. Peak Performance – Steven Kotler
43. Emotional Regulation – Dr. Kim Sage
44. Why People Do What They Do – Malcolm Gladwell
45. Mental Toughness – David Goggins
46. Overthinking – Jay Shetty
47. Family Patterns – Vienna Pharaon
48. Nervous System – Irene Lyon
49. Human Connection – Simon Sinek
50. Purpose and Meaning – Viktor Frankl
You will never truly understand people until you understand these:
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- The Bystander Effect
- Dunning Kruger Effect
- Attachment Theory
- Stockholm Syndrome
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- The Pygmalion Effect
- Mirror Neurons
- Emotional Contagion
- The Halo Effect
- Learned Helplessness
- Shadow Self by Carl Jung
- The Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell
- Toxic Positivity
- The Fundamental Attribution Error
- Confirmation Bias and how it shapes reality
- The Backfire Effect
- Terror Management Theory
- Social Comparison Theory
- The Scarcity Mindset versus Abundance Mindset
- Why humans need narrative to function
- The psychology of tribalism
- How loneliness physic
Things to research when bored:
-String theory
-Dark matter
-Analects of Confucius
-The Fermi Paradox
-Quantum Entanglement
-Time dilation and relativity
-Transhumanism
-Lost Civilisations and Myths
-Political Bias in Cartography
-Bioluminescence
-Street art movements
-Legends of Werewolves in Europe
-The Voynich Manuscript
-Green children of Woolpit
I’ve seen hundreds of professors explain game theory.
But this professor explains it so simply that even a 15-year-old can understand it.
Once you understand this, you start seeing hidden strategies everywhere - in markets, business, and life.
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Google Gemini has a feature called Guided Learning.
You can use it to learn literally anything, step by step, like a personal tutor.
Here’s how to access it.