Learning EPISODES

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Are you willing to question everything you know? To challenge ingrained beliefs and biases in a quest for truth? Welcome to a journey of intellectual curiosity and bold exploration into the Socratic method as a tool for effective research. This episode has me recounting personal experiences, sharing how this timeless technique has profoundly impacted my research approach. We delve into Ward Farnsworth's The Socratic Me...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Do you ever wonder how the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, became one of the most effective executives in American history? Join me, David Kaiser, as we unravel Lincoln's unique approach to learning, his application of mathematical principles to law, and his commitment to logic and reasoning. Glean wisdom from Carl Sandberg's monumental biography, "Abraham Lincoln the Prairie Years," as we explore Lincoln's ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Today's episode we take a break from philosophy and divert our attention to The American Masterpiece. America's number one written novel. Much like Russia has War and Peace as that great classic treasure of world literature so too must America have her own masterpiece. Today we share that American masterpiece as the Winds of War, the great historical fiction novel written my Herman Wouk. Its sweeping narrative ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message This week, we will take a break from Philosophy 101 with a question I often get, "where does your love for books come from?" To help answer that question will be today's book of the day, Sundays at Eight with Brian Lamb Key Points from the Episode: What are the characteristics of a great interview?My impromptu meeting with Mr. Brian LambGreatness hidden and disguised.Still looking for those nuggets of wisdom!Other resources:...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Since it is Holy week--the most important week on the Christian Calendar--todays episode and Thursday's episode will be a cross between a MOJO minute and a Catholic Corner. Our guide and author for today will again be Fr. Mark-Mary Ames and his wonderful little book, Habits for Holiness: Small Steps for Making Big Spiritual Progress. Key Points from the Episode: The Spiritual war all around us has indeed "leveled up" in the last ...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Let's talk movement on todays MM. Our guide for todays nugget of wisdom is Frank Ring the author of Walking for Health and Fitness: The Easiest Way to Get in Shape and Stay in Shape. Key Points from the Episode: Did you know the Amish walk roughly 18,000 steps per day?Did you know our ancestors walked anywhere between 6-9 miles per day?Walking just a mile a day can help to reduce many chronic health issuesOther resour...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message In todays episode, we pivot in our quest to build a flourishing life by taking a long look at our professional and work lives. Specifically, how do we bring value to a company as employees? Helping us along our journey as todays guide is Donald Miller and his wonderful book, Business Made Simple. Key Points from the Episode: Should a solid business education help you understand how businesses actually work?What...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Let's get philosophical shall we? Todays MM introduces us to Richard Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences and then we pull apart this notion of the quest for ideas with the great-grandfather of personal development, Jim Rohn, in his magnum opus, Leading an Inspired Life Key points: William of Ockham and nominalism Ideas do have consequences What's your next big idea?Want to leave a review? Click here and if we earne...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message Whoa, what a title for this MM...Building our second brain In this MM, we look at Getting Things Done by David Allen but then we zoom ahead to what our future looks like within the productivity domain with Tiago Forte's new book, Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential Key Points from the Episode: Can we, with technology, find a reliable system that helps us s...

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text Message MOJO Minute #149 brings us one of the most powerful insights we have covered from these books. In 2008, Dr. John Ratey wrote Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. Thank you Dr. Ratey for sharing these nuggets with us! It's pretty cool!! Key Points from the Episode: Recap of our earlier MM#54 on this very subject and book, Balancing of the brain is important and ...

By far one of the most requested books for us to review was Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons and World-Class performers by Tim Ferris. It is also one of the hardest books to review. lol

Todays MM will be an overview.

Key Points from the Episode:
Tim's humility.

Its pretty cool that we have covered 4 of contributors in our MOJO Minutes from in this book.

Why this book is a notetakers dream

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In MM#91, we take a step back to ask why read? why read history? what's the point?

we answer this question with the help from Mike Duncans excellent work, The Storm Before The Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
Key Points from the Episode:
Is America following the same trend lines as the Roman Republic before it fell?

Duncan provides a compelling list of why the Roman Republic fell

Cicero's EPIC speech about the fall of the Republic

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In this episode , David checkouts the Grandfather of the personal development movement, John Maxwell and his book, Jump Start Your Growth: A 90-Day Improvement Plan.
Key Points from the Episode:
Why hope is not a plan?

The Two Misconceptions of Personal Growth.

Who do you want to be? A great question tying in Eric Greitens book Resilience from MOJO Minute #30.

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