How to Catch Your Brain Lying to You: A Practical Guide to Self-Awareness Over Ego

It's easy to spend our lives defending a story about who we are, instead of finding out who we could become.

This episode is an invitation to stop protecting your ego and start practising self-awareness as a craft. We look at how high intelligence can turn into a sophisticated self-deception machine, and how the stories we tell ourselves—“I’m the rational one”, “I learn from feedback”, “I’m different from those stubborn people”—are often the very things that keep us stuck.

Through real examples from science, travel, and building (and misbuilding) companies, you’ll see how ego hides i...