1% wiser by Jamie Green

Francesc Miralles (@frmiralles) is a Spanish writer, essayist, translator and musician. He is perhaps most well known for his 2016 bestseller book Ikigai - subtitled the Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life, which he wrote with his friend Hector Garcia, and which has sold more than 1.5m copies worldwide. His novels have also been translated into more than twenty languages.

John Vervaeke(@vervaeke_john) is an award-winning Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Toronto, and the creator of the popular Youtube series ‘Awakening from the Meaning Crisis’. In this conversation we dive into the root, symptoms and possible path out of the meaning crisis. We discuss the symptoms across society that point to a crisis of meaning. We explore the cognitive cultural role of religion, and constructing a narrative order in the Enlightenment age. We explore John’s work on self deception, relevance realisation, and the ecologies of practice that build meaning and wisdom.

Nika Kabiri (@nikakabiri) helps businesses and individuals make better decisions. She has spent more than twenty years studying how people make decisions, and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of Washington. In this conversation we unpack Nika’s advice for how you can take better decisions, and some of the ways in which we can get derailed. We talk about bias, decision fatigue, the paradox of choice, and many other influences on our decision making. 

Lucas Cantor (@lucasdcantor) is an Emmy-winning composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and conductor. In this conversation we talk about Lucas’ collaboration with artificial intelligence to finish Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony. We explore his process for working with the AI, and what this means for the intersection of music and technology. Plus we explore the craft of composition, and Lucas’ favourite books from his podcast Book Society.

Chris Field (@disruptionchris) is an author and founder of Mercy Project, an organisation responsible for rescuing hundreds of children from modern slavery in Ghana. In this conversation we talk about Mercy Project's innovative approach to tackling this problem, and how it can be applied to other social problems. We also cover other more light hearted topics such as Chris's viral ice cream review, and his inspiring approach to doing good in the world, which is also the subject of his new book, A Billion Hours of Good.

Oliver (@oliverburkeman) is author of a number of books including, The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking* and Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done.* His new book, Four Thousand Weeks*, is about "making the most of our radically finite lives in a world of impossible demands and relentless distraction".

“Those who love deeply are wounded deeply” ~ J Mclaurin.

“Suspend your judgement and immerse yourself in the moment. What does this person have to say? Let go of your biases and immerse yourself in the present moment” ~ S Kavari.

"Education is the most important investment in your life. It's the one thing that no one can take away from you. You could lose your home to a natural disaster, or you could be forced to leave it during a war and become a refugee. So anything you possess materially can be taken away from you, but there's one thing that no one can take away from you is your education, your ability to think for yourself." ~ S. Basij-Rasikh

“The story of humanity is that of the restless wanderer, never sure that the world will provide us with enough” ~ R Frazer.