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The Mindset That Unlocks Your Full Potential | Dr. Gio Valiante
- ▶ 28:26 Dr. Gio Valiante You can argue that there is a thing called G, which is general intelligence, but again, so, so a Harvard researcher, a guy named Howard Gardner, who, who started doing research in developmental psychology, then cognitive psychology, and he…
Ai Goes Parabolic | OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman
- ▶ 31:04 Greg Brockman I would actually say it was from my Harvard freshman writing class of just keep cutting words in order to be clear and communicate well.
Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt
- ▶ 4:11 Joe Liemandt Um, at 80% of the great inflation, everybody knows, you know, like, you know, 80% of people at Harvard get A's now.
- ▶ 1:03:24 Joe Liemandt I'm like, good luck, because I knew Chloe, her guide, was gonna hold high standards, and you know, Chloe, back to we get really the best in the world, right, she's a Harvard grad, and I know she knows the standard, you know, to get in, and…
- ▶ 1:11:15 Joe Liemandt Why does Harvard have grade inflation? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:06 Joe Liemandt 80% of kids at Harvard get A's.
- ▶ 1:29:38 Joe Liemandt And so I believe in college, you know, Harvard published a paper that 2 times in the scene
Bernie Marcus: The Story of Home Depot
- ▶ 3:44 Shane Parrish The dean said he could get Bernie into Harvard. 2 times in the scene
7 Principles of Inner Excellence to Stay Calm Under Fire | Jim Murphy
- ▶ 45:37 Jim Murphy Well, another thing that happened is that now the, uh, fourteen-year-old teenager in their basement has the same platform as the Harvard professor.
Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [Outliers]
- ▶ 0:49 Shane Parrish In 1995, Munger formalized what he'd learned into a speech at Harvard.
Building Great Businesses | Tracy Britt Cool
- ▶ 13:13 Shane Parrish Where did the ambition come from to go to Harvard? 2 times in the scene
Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street [Outliers]
- ▶ 7:22 Shane Parrish Harvard professors testified mathematical experts calculated probabilities. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:38 Shane Parrish With her husband, Matthew Astor Wilkes, she became a generous patron of the arts and education, supporting institutions from Harvard to Columbia.
Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
- ▶ 7:45 Shane Parrish And in 1940 at a party, she met a brilliant Harvard lawyer named Philip Graham.
Elad Gil: How to Spot a Billion-Dollar Startup Before the Rest of the World
Rose Blumkin: Women of Berkshire Hathaway [Outliers]
- ▶ 18:50 Shane Parrish As Buffett would later observe, this wasn't business acumen you could learn at Harvard.
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Turning Ambitious Misfits into Founders
Logan Ury: The Dating Myths You Need to Stop Believing
John Mackey: Building Whole Foods
- ▶ 46:12 John Mackey They've gotten their, their MBA from Harvard or Wharton or Stanford.
#197 Michaeleen Doucleff: The 4 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make
- ▶ 10:15 Michaeleen Doucleff And this professor at Harvard has, like, tracked down the, the rise of the nuclear family correlates with how long ago the Catholic Church was
Brent Beshore: Business Brilliance and Happiness at Home
- ▶ 1:51:43 Brent Beshore Uh, Harvard educated search searcher the other day. 2 times in the scene
David Segal: Building a $200m Business
- ▶ 20:39 David Segal She's Harvard educated and
Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone
- ▶ 1:26:40 Blake Eastman I think I had this identity that I was a smart person, and I went to school, and at this moment, where this kid next to me was going to West Point, kid to the left was going to Harvard, and I was like, I can't believe I just, like, wasted… 2 times in the scene
Paul Assaiante: Learning to Face Your Fears
- ▶ 16:24 Paul Assaiante We don't have a hard time getting young people excited to play Harvard on Saturday, but we have a hard time getting the nineteen-year-olds to find the relevance and practice on a Wednesday afternoon when nobody's watching.
Todd Herman: Unleashing Your Secret Identity
- ▶ 52:01 Todd Herman Regarding being in the MBA program at Harvard when he was in the 19 seventies. 3 times in the scene
Dr. Gio Valiante (Part 1): Discipline and Resilience
- ▶ 25:52 Dr. Gio Valiante Yeah, I think, I think the psychological research would show that, you know, Howard Gardner, who's a developmental psychologist at Harvard, who was the father of the, the idea of multiple intelligence. 2 times in the scene
Proven Strategies to Accelerate Growth, Productivity and Profits with George Stalk, Jr.
- ▶ 30:52 George Stalk Jr. Well, you know, Clayton Christensen, who's a professor at Harvard, he's dead now unfortunately, um, made some really strong arguments that you perform to the shareholders you want to satisfy.
Jason Karp: Live A Healthier Life
- ▶ 22:06 Jason Karp You know, it's, it's higher criteria to get into Wharton undergrad than it was to get into Harvard.
Jack Kornfield: Finding Inner Calm
- ▶ 22:34 Jack Kornfield And there's beautiful trainings that Chris Gerber at Harvard and Kristin Neff have a whole, whole beautiful training you can find online on mindful self-compassion.
Tobi Lütke: Calm Progress
- ▶ 50:02 Tobi Lütke Like, or a rental off campus across the street from the MIT or Harvard or something like this, where they, they, they, they put people, um, because it didn't fit into anything, right?
Marshall Goldsmith: The Essentials Of Leadership
- ▶ 1:06:42 Marshall Goldsmith By the way, I have repeated this thousands of times to people with MBAs from Harvard, CEOs of multi-billion dollar companies.
- ▶ 1:13:55 Marshall Goldsmith Skinner, the brilliant Harvard psychologist, thought that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:46 Marshall Goldsmith Now, he has a simultaneous MD and PhD with honors from Harvard in anthropology. 2 times in the scene
Laurie Santos: The Pursuit of Happiness
- ▶ 9:41 Laurie Santos Um, yeah, Dan Gilbert, uh, who's a psychologist at Harvard who writes about this stuff, uses the example of, like, you know, the first time your child says mommy or daddy, or the first time your spouse who you're totally in love with says…
David Sinclair: Reversing the Aging Process
- ▶ 33:35 Dr. David Sinclair Um, my student, one of my students at Harvard
- ▶ 47:55 Dr. David Sinclair By my thirties, I went to Harvard, and I thought, if I continue worrying like I have been, I am going to die young, and that's not going to be a good look for someone who works on ageing.
- ▶ 1:18:37 Dr. David Sinclair A colleague of mine at Harvard made, I guess, unnecessary light of it, but his motto is, the secret to living longer is hanging onto the handrail.
- ▶ 1:24:15 Dr. David Sinclair Yeah, 14 is the number that was in that Harvard study, um, that I was referring to.
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 27:25 Balaji Srinivasan Um, if there's a dispute at the government level, what did the Harvard scientists say?
#131 Matthew Walker: The Power of Sleep
- ▶ 1:29:11 Dr. Matt Walker My former Harvard colleague, Steven Pinker, would actually take me to task on the latter.
#121 Walter Isaacson: Curiosity Fuels Creativity
- ▶ 24:30 Walter Isaacson At the moment, that's Kendall Square in Cambridge with Harvard and MIT, and then the Boston area, which has more research hospitals, you know, inch for inch than any other place in the world.
- ▶ 58:58 Walter Isaacson And they're competing against many labs around the world, but especially a really great and charming young scientist named Feng Zhang, who is at the, um, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
#109 Angela Duckworth: Grit and Human Behavior
- ▶ 45:54 Angela Duckworth And Levitt tells a story of how he was a freshman, and he goes to his, like, Harvard, you know, Ec-Ten class. 2 times in the scene
#98 Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present
- ▶ 31:19 Sahil Lavingia And maybe, you know, it's kind of like, maybe you should get into Harvard and, and put this, you know, the acceptance letter on the wall, but not actually attend, especially now.
#89 Maria Konnikova: Less Certainty, More Inquiry
- ▶ 5:50 Maria Konnikova I went to Harvard, you know, I, I worked hard to get to Harvard.
#81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
- ▶ 32:31 Jason Calacanis At MIT or Harvard or Stanford, you can go on MIT's website right now and take all of their courses and then do all the project work and go to Google or any job and say, here's my coursework that I did on my own, on my own time, and I took…
#79 Esther Wojcicki: The “TRICK” to Raising Successful People
- ▶ 1:24:10 Esther Wojcicki There's another one written by a colleague of mine at Harvard called Dark Horse, and talks about
#72 Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
- ▶ 29:07 Neil Pasricha And there's an amazing study that I uncovered while researching my book by Dan Gilbert, famous Harvard, uh, professor and psychologist, author of the book Stumbling on Happiness and other amazing books, called The End of History Illusion.
- ▶ 56:48 Neil Pasricha Then you went to Harvard for two years for business school. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:23 Shane Parrish So one of the stories you told yourself, uh, at Harvard. 3 times in the scene
#69 Stephen Schwarzman: What It Takes
- ▶ 1:34 Shane Parrish We dive into how his high school track coach, Jack Armstrong, taught him enduring lessons that helped him overcome early pitfalls, the one thing the Harvard MBA teaches you, and why he wanted to drop out of Harvard in his first semester,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:00 Shane Parrish Before you went to Harvard and came back and started over again.
- ▶ 13:55 Shane Parrish You said Harvard had one thing to teach you, and they just kept teaching it over and over. 3 times in the scene
#61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad
- ▶ 56:00 Jonathan Haidt And a lot of things changed when Harvard changed its admission criteria to be who was your father and, and, you know, what, what kind of, what kind of young gentlemen are you, um, to SAT scores and to test scores, which are largely…
#60 Jim Dethmer: Leading Above the Line
- ▶ 1:13:17 Jim Dethmer And then the follow on book, the Harvard brain researcher who said that feelings last less than 90 seconds.
#57 Sheila Heen: Decoding Difficult Conversations
- ▶ 5:46 Shane Parrish One at Harvard, one at MIT.
- ▶ 21:44 Sheila Heen Yeah, so that was a little bit of upsetting feedback to get, and I don't know, Harvard being Harvard, we had typical reaction, like, oh, well, clearly you're not doing it right.
#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success
- ▶ 10:09 Daniel Gross 2005, sorry, where he says, yeah, our goal is to really be a good directory at Harvard and maybe other few universities. 2 times in the scene
#51 Celeste Headlee: The Dying Art of Conversation
- ▶ 1:08:51 Celeste Headlee In, in 2014, Harvard released this study in which they discovered that talking about yourself activates the same pleasure center in the brain as sex and heroin.
#47 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 1)
- ▶ 1:37:10 Adam Robinson And to put this in perspective, Stuyvesant's average SAT is higher than Harvard's.
#43 Jennifer Garvey Berger: The Mental Habits of Effective Leaders
- ▶ 4:53 Jennifer Garvey Berger Basically, this is a set of theories coming from, um, sort of the grandfather of it is a Harvard professor named Bill Perry, who taught Harvard professor named Bob Keegan, who taught me. 2 times in the scene
#42 Atul Gawande: The Path to Perpetual Progress
- ▶ 10:12 Dr. Atul Gawande Being at Harvard and going to the very best program and being the most pedigreed and, and the most credentialed, you, um, you had these folks who were getting remarkable results, and it was not about just their performance, it was the team…
- ▶ 46:59 Dr. Atul Gawande Harvard and Yale played the first, you know, kind of official football game, and Yale early on decided that they would have a coach. 3 times in the scene
#40 Ben Thompson: Thriving in a Digital World
- ▶ 37:59 Ben Thompson Like, aware of the, just, I mean, imagine growing up and not even knowing that you should apply to, like, to, like, Harvard or something.
#36 William MacAskill: The Science of Doing Good
- ▶ 25:04 William MacAskill Um, it kind of baffles me that organizations, that, yeah, organizations like Harvard and Stanford are, um, requesting donations from their alumni while at the same time sitting on an endowment of thirty-five billion dollars that they could…
#31 Barbara Oakley: Learning How to Learn
- ▶ 1:22:56 Barbara Oakley I remember I was asked to speak at Harvard, uh, you know, about the course, and I was shocked, because I walked in the room, and it was just packed, and I thought, why is there so much interest? 3 times in the scene
#30 Margaret Heffernan: Collaboration and Competition
- ▶ 2:01 Margaret Heffernan My husband got a position at Harvard and
#27 Chris Voss: The Art of Letting Other People Have Your Way
- ▶ 19:46 Chris Voss He made all the Harvard people really angry, because he used to, he used to call it not BATNA, but WATNA, the worst alternative to negotiating agreement.
#25 Gary Taubes: Is Sugar Slowly Killing Us
- ▶ 1:03:35 Gary Taubes One of them is at Harvard and has not liked my work for 10 years since I wrote a New York Times Magazine cover article about the science of epidemiology using the Harvard cohort study as a case study of a pseudoscience, so I can understand… 3 times in the scene
#23 Ray Dalio: Life Lessons from a Self-Made Billionaire
Aristotle Koskinas on Greek History
- ▶ 32:45 Aristotle Koskinas It's like they're going to Harvard, or, or Cambridge, or Oxford.