SH68: How to Grow Old

How do you feel about getting older?

Are you worried about losing your energy, strength, and pleasure (yes that pleasure, but also the other pleasures of life and youth)? About inching closer to death every day?

In this episode, the humans discuss ‘How to Grow Old‘ by Marcus Tullius Cicero, a book about how exaggerated/mistaken those beliefs are and how great growing old can be, that is just as relevant today as when it was written in 44 BCE.

Standard Humans is hosted by Aidan Dennehy and Evan.

Shownotes:

How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius by Ryan Holiday

SH47: The Courage to be Disliked

Is everyone capable of being happy?

Are people able to change?

Does trauma exist?

In this episode the humans discuss The Courage to be Disliked, a book that shows you how to achieve real happiness and free yourself from your past experiences. Giving you the courage to change and ignore the limitations that we and those around us place on ourselves.

Standard Humans is hosted by Aidan Dennehy and Evan.

Shownotes:

The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

SH39: Marcus Aurelius - How to do the Work of a Human Being

What is Adlerian Psychology?

Alfred Adler

Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

Kant argues that one can have moral worth (i.e., be a good person) only if one is motivated by morality

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life & Business by Charles Duhigg

The Science of Well-Being by Dr. Laurie Santos

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck

Episode 34: Taking Stock of 2020

At the end of every year, it’s good to review what happened before you start making decisions about what you want the next year to look like. In this episode, the humans go back through every episode of the podcast they published in 2020 and talk about what has happened since and how they feel about the topics months later. They end by discussing the future of the podcast and what they want to talk about over the next year.

Standard Humans is hosted by Aidan Dennehy and Evan.

Shownotes:

Episode 12: The Experimental Dozen

CGP Grey Yearly Themes Video

SH13: Using Meditation to Manage Stress

• Transcendental Meditation

• The 5 am Club by Robin Sharma

SH14: Using Sport to Understand Other Humans

• The Stranger by Albert Camus

Episode 15: How to Stop Procrastinating RIGHT NOW / Episode 16: How to Get Your Schoolwork Done by 4:30 pm

• Deep Work by Cal Newport

• Theodore Roosevelt’s Schedule during University

• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg

Episode 17: Staying Healthy while Social Distancing / Episode 18: Sticking to your Goals during Quarantine

Episode 19: Parasitic Social Media

• Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

Episode 20: The Life-Changing Magic of GOING TO BED

• Why We Sleep: The Power of Sleep and Dreams by Dr. Matthew Walker

• The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma

Episode 21: When is it Time to Quit your School Clubs?

Episode 22: Dear Future Self

• A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport

Episode 23: 10 Books that will Change your Life

Episode 24: The A to Zs of Getting a Job

Episode 25: Super Chill But Good Job Plan

• Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life

• The Science of Well-Being by Dr. Laurie Santos

Episode 26: How to WIN at College/University

Episode 27: Is Working Hard a Bad Sign?

• Chidi refers to Chidi Anagonye from The Good Place

Episode 28: What is a 'Good Life'?

Episode 29: Cooking Basics so you don't Starve

Episode 30: Tao Te Ching

Episode 31: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (Part 1) / Episode 32: Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (Part 2)

Episode 33: The 5 am Club

Riemann Sum - Wikipedia

Differential calculus  - Wikipedia

Utilitarianism

Deontological ethics

Virtue Ethics

Episode 33: The 5am Club

How do you make time in the day for exercise, self-renewal, and personal growth? How do you wake up feeling inspired, focused, and ready to go? Is it even possible to wake up at 5am?

The this episode of Standard Humans, the humans tackle these and questions and more from Robin Sharma’s The 5am Club. Aidan followed the guidelines for almost 3 month and has a lot to say on the matter.

Standard Humans is hosted by Aidan Dennehy and Evan.

Shownotes:

The 5am Club by Robin Sharma

The 5am Club Book Summary

Reasons why it is better to sleep before midnight (One hour before midnight is not equal to two after midnight, but it’s still a good idea)

Effect of Coffee on your Enamel

The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma

It Takes 66 Days to Form a Habit Academic Study

The 21 Day Rule is a Myth based on anecdotal evidence from one plastic surgeon=

Beginner’s guide to Intermittent Fasting

Episode 30: Tao Te Ching

A Podcast is most useful when it is empty.

What is wisdom? What is ambition? What is the Tao? All questions that the humans attempt to answer in this episode while discussing the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu.

Standard Humans is hosted by Aidan Dennehy and Evan.

Shownotes:

Tao Te Ching (Free Online)

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)

Nicer copy of the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (Translated by Stephen Mitchell)

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

The Science of Well-Being course by Dr. Laurie Santos

A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

The Last Days of Socrates by Plato

“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking” by Friedrich Nietzsche

When a liquid curves upward it is called a convex meniscus