Active Recall With Walter & Francis

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Recapping our first 8 episodes in a speed round format (80 seconds each). Podcast recommendations: Short Story Long (w/ Tamara Dhia), Knowledge Project (w/ Barbara Oakley), and Industrial Strength (Joe DeFranco) ( 00:05:38 ) Speed rounds: First 8 episodes ( 00:20:24 ) Q: You can't break necks easy? ( 00:24:38 ) Cool thing #1 : Tamara Dhia (Short Story Long) ( 00:31:46 ) Cool thing #2: Barbara Oakley (Knowledge Project) ( 00:33:42 ) Cool thing #3: Triple H (Industrial Strength)   This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

Links The Rock in The Rolling Stone Bill Simmons podcast: The Making of the Andre the Giant documentary Josh Waitzkin on the Tim Ferriss Show The Prodigy Returns The Four Burners Theory: The Downside of Work-Life Balance This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

This week we’re talking about Daniel Pink’s latest book When: The Secrets of Perfect Timing. If you’ve ever watched one of those whiteboard timelapse videos, there’s a good chance it was inspired in some way by the whiteboard video of Pink’s talk about “Drive”. Are you a lark or an owl? (You’re probably a third bird.) Are you looking for ways to improve how you schedule things in your day? Are you looking for a good time to start something? (If not, you might be looking for a good time to end something.) When has the answers to these questions. Thinkers 50 named him one of the top 15 thinkers in the world. He had one of the top 10 most watched TED talks ever. And now upwards of twenty people will read about his book as Active Recall’s BOOK OF THE WEEK. Get to know yourself (What’s your chronotype?) I took this chronotype questionnaire. Go check it out. It took less than five minutes and asks what times you do certain things and how you feel about certain times. I was a 61 which falls in the moderate-morning

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Talking about 5 of Game Informer's Top 300 games Book of the week: Four-Hour Work Week   This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

What do you say to a demigod? What if you're stuck answering phones? Does money bring happiness? What (else) brings happiness? ( 00:01:43 ) Xerxes gets insulted and spits back at Leonidas ( 00:07:50 ) Jacoby - What if you're talented but they've got you answering phones? ( 00:18:30 ) Drama - Moe, money, and happiness ( 00:30:00 ) Book of the week: A Guide to the Good Life This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

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I thought I uploaded this a couple weeks ago but I didn't. No more solo episodes! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

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Wally and Ces try to break into the gaming niche by rambling about games and shoe-horning them into lessons for LIFE. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

The ever-changing, ever-evolving format The theme this week is practice. We’re tweaking things again. We’re going to try to have one theme going through the entire  podcast. I think we had a good thing going a couple episodes ago where we did (1) recommendations, (2) a book of the week, and (3) The Magic Window. Last week we tried to do that again and it came off a little too random. The book of the week used to tie things together pretty well but we just couldn’t read that many books. Now we’ll try having a theme to tie things together. We’re going to do recommendations but this time we’ll open it up beyond podcasts to videos or blog posts or whatever. We’re still going to do a book of the week. We’re still going to do The Magic Window. And we’re going to try to tie it to one theme. Yes, AI, we’re talking about practice Practice (Recommendations) I made a bunch of videos last week. A lot of them are about practice. I started to  Niche down into gaming life lessons. I’m kind of motivated by this because it’s

[ 00:08:20 ] Podcast Recommendations [ 00:15:35 ] Wally tells a Musashi story (still podcast recommendations) [ 00:27:30 ] Book of the week: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living === Podcast recommendations Tim Ferriss podcast: Terry Crews Jocko Willink podcast: Tim Ferriss (Musashi) MFCEO: One Year From Today: Where Will You Be? Joe Rogan #962: Jocko Willink Book recommendation How to Stop Worrying and Start Living This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com

(00:03:20) Resolutions (Podcast recommendations) (00:19:10) Subtle Art of Not Giving a F- (Book Recommendations) (00:33:50) Arcade Games (The Magic Window) (00:47:38) Closing gratitude (Borrowed Segment) === We're back! New year, new you! Trying out this format, building on some of the things from late last year (podcast recommendations and the magic window) and the bulk of our first 20 episodes (book of the week). I'm really enjoying this format. Here are some things we talked about. Podcast recommendations Pat Flynn Show: Dan John on Measuring what Matters Jocko Willink #100 with Tim Ferriss Art of Manliness: Motivation myth Jeff Haden Book of the Week: Subtle Art of Not Giving a F- Stop caring about unimportant things so that you can focus on the important things Maybe being a digital nomad isn't the answer Creating things because it's fun for you The Magic Window: Arcade games Talking about a couple games we played growing up The Simpsons: Is this game overrated? Time Crisis 2: How it ties into t

We're switching the format up. Here's the rough outline that we used. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit activerecall.substack.com