
Overlooked Rules on Being a Useful Human - Essential Behavioural Psychology
Published: June 9, 2026
Duration: 21:40
You've read the productivity books. You've optimised your mornings. But what if the whole thing is backwards?
Self-improvement content is everywhere, yet it almost universally focuses on extracting more value from yourself. This episode flips that. Drawing on behavioural psychology and a surprisingly useful analogy about cells and organs, Sam makes the case that the most effective thing you can do for your own growth is to become genuinely useful to the people around you. Not as a strategy. As a mindset. The inversion is simple: stop asking what moves you forward and start asking what moves ot...