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.

In this conversation we talk about; the people of Okinawa and their secrets of living a long and happy life, Blue Zones, the meaning of Ikigai, how to find your Ikigai, Victor Frankl and Logotherapy, flow and multitasking, the concept of Wabi-sabi plus many other topics besides.

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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.

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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.

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