Dan Riley

My core beliefs

* Life is about reducing and eliminating suffering, pursuing meaning, and feeling peace and joy. * Lifestyle design is everything - creating an individualized, tested, thoughtful set of habits, relationships, work styles - that uniquely fits and works for your personality and preferences. * All people are

Quotes from "How To Change Your Mind"

At least at the beginning, the Spring Grove psychedelic work enjoyed lots of public support. In 1965, CBS News broadcast an admiring hour-long “special report” on the hospital’s work with alcoholics, called LSD: The Spring Grove Experiment. The response to the program was

Learning quotes

* "It isn't the learning that's so hard - it's the unlearning." * "A good book changes your mind; a great book changes your actions." * "Only the autodidacts are free." * "Knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from people’s heads." * "The greatest teacher is called

Education quotes

* "Schools trade curiosity for compliance." * "Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand." * "The overeducated are worse off than the undereducated, having traded common sense for the illusion of knowledge." * "Wasting your time is not the worst thing the educational

The top 5 regrets of the dying

From Bronnie Ware [https://bronnieware.com/regrets-of-the-dying/]: 1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. 2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard. 3. I wish I’d had

Inverting my life

Rather than asking what will make me happy, ask what is certain to make me miserable? I have some ideas. * Sleeping less than 8.5 hours / night * Filling my day with meaningless appointments * Being dishonest with myself * Having fewer than four or five face-to-face

Freedom quotes

* "The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them." * "The spirit of

Episode 13: Avi Loeb - 'Oumuamua, UFOs, and Extraterrestrial Life

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Episode 12: Bruce Poulter - MDMA for PTSD

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Episode 11: Stephen Fried - Benjamin Rush & A Life In Journalism

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Episode 10: Dan Barker - A Preacher's Journey From Religion

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Episode 09: Nancy Segal - Identical Twins and Human Nature

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Episode 08: Daryl Davis - Befriending the Ku Klux Klan

DanRiley.org [https://www.danriley.org/home] Episode 08, available on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/episode/7AxelxnZMGgWKaN5VziesM?si=8lHEpJ5TQF-HET9MddyWaA&dl_branch=1] , Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-08-daryl-davis-befriending-the-ku-klux-klan/id1546657722?i=1000530040230] , and YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcT4pe_

Episode 07: H.W. Brands - A History of the American West

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Episode 06: Jonathan Zimmerman - The Importance of Free Speech

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Episode 05: Jeremi Suri - History, and reducing American tribalism

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Episode 04: Anthony Charles Graves - Innocence Found

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Episode 01: Mike Ware - The Innocence Project of Texas

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Episode 03: David Buss - Evolutionary Psychology

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Episode 02: Alex Dominguez - Psilocybin for PTSD

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Book Quotes from "The School of Life: An Emotional Education"

Much anxiety surrounds the question of how good the next generation will be at math; very little around their abilities at marriage or kindness. That we think so well of untrained intuition is because (perhaps without realizing it) we are the troubled inheritors of

Quotes from "Atomic Habits"

We all face challenges in life. This injury was one of mine, and the experience taught me a critical lesson: changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you’re willing to stick with them for years. Habits

All aphorisms

DanRiley.org [https://www.danriley.org/home] Aging: * The first thing to go when aging is imagination. * Most people say “this is who I am now” around 30, and stop growing. * Most meet most of their friends before 25. Conversation: * Life is a dinner

All quotes

DanRiley.org Decision-making: * "The sailor cannot see the north / but knows the needle can." * "If you cannot decide, the answer is no." * "The hardest 'no' to identify is the one closest to a 'yes'." * "The golden rule of decision making is that the person

The enduring Rand

Ayn Rand is a polarizing figure. Still, I have to give it to her. I first read her book Anthem as a teenager. For anyone who felt out of place, stifled in their upbringing, ambitious, industrious, pining for autonomy, she spoke to you in

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