Category: Podcast

Pulled a fast one on you today!  TK is occupied in Chicago at a family wedding and told me the house he’s staying in is way too loud and full of nieces and nephews to record today.  I called him a wimp.  He laughed.

Keeping with the family theme, today my brother Levi Morehouse steps in as TK’s replacement.  He’s the Founder & CEO of Ceterus, which provides cloud-based accounting and bookkeeping for franchise owners.  Levi is a ridiculously successful entrepreneur, father, and offensive fouler on the basketball court.

It was just like growing up.  I did most of the talking, he made most of the sense.

Some of the things we discuss:

• If you lived to 150, how would that change your lifestyle today?
• Could you learn more as an Uber driver than a student?
• Philosophers vs. Tony Robbins
• Choosing what to do based on what it does to you, instead of what it does for the world
• Unsung entrepreneurs (and how Levi’s company helps them!)
• Smart drugs

Recommendations: BOLD by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler, Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters.

Previous episodes with Levi:

• Episode 12: Levi Morehouse on Ambition, Advice, and Enterprise
• Episode 53: Beginner’s Guide to Startups Part 3: Finding Your Thing & Growing Without Investment, Levi Morehouse

This and all episodes are available on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher.

This episode is a short audio essay on one of the most life-changing mindsets I’ve found.

Economics is the most powerful social discipline.  It also has tremendous potential to improve our lives on the individual level.  Not by understanding the stock market and making money, but by seeing the world through the lens of rational choice theory.  The minute you do, problems and challenges become opportunities and possibilities.  The world becomes a series of games.  All actions become a source of information and enlightenment.

Economics helps you navigate relationships with others, and your own process of self-knowledge and self-improvement.

When you assume rationality, you can begin to peel back and understand the preferences, information, and incentives that cause people to do what they do.

 

This week’s guest is Mitchell Earl, the co-author of Don’t Do Stuff You Hate and a Praxis participant working at Ceterus, one of the INC 5000 fastest growing companies in the country.

Mitchell shares the origin story of Don’t Do Stuff You Hate and covers his journey from growing up in rural Oklahoma to becoming an author and working with a high growth startup in Charleston, South Carolina.

Covered in this episode

• Life lessons from livestock and meat evaluation
• Why do so many young people want to go to law school?
• Being entrepreneurial in college | Freelance writing and photography
• The “Don’t Do Stuff You Hate” origin story
• Lessons learned from writing a book
• Mitchell’s next book
• Then tension between getting things done and getting things perfect
• The value of teamwork on a book project and benefits of co-authoring

Don’t Do Stuff You Hate is now available on Amazon, make sure to get your free chapter.

Links and recommendations from this episode:

• Don’t Do Stuff You Hate
• Mitchellearl.com
• Foundation for Economic Education

If you are a fan of the show, make sure to leave a review on iTunes.

All episodes of the Isaac Morehouse Podcast are available on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher.

TK and I get into discussion on a recent post I did about working your butt off before trying to optimize your life, and his story of learning the “carry the tray”.  Then we dive into a little philosophy and explore crappy arguments for and against the supernatural, aliens, immortality, God, and more.

Mentioned in the episode: Carl Sagan, Bertrand Russell’s Problem of Philosophy, not finding yourself until you know how to work, game theory, carrying the tray, John Hasnas, Descartes, the Socratic method, Steven Brams, and more I’m probably forgetting.

Recommendations: Superior Beings, and, The Fabric of the Cosmos.

This and all episodes are available on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, and Stitcher.

Today we dive deep into the ideas behind a single chapter of a (weird but fascinating) book TK recommended called, “Sex, Drugs, Einstein, & Elves”.  It’s about language, and to what extent our vocabulary actually alters our reality, not merely our attempts to give expression to it.

Discussed in the episode: Marc Andreesson, George Lakoff, Ben Horowitz, Wayne Dyer, Seth Godin, Terrence McKenna, Clifford Pickover, Robert Anton Wilson, general semantics theory.

Recommendations: Lexicon, and, The Tyranny of Words.

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Aaron Watson is a two-time national ultimate frisbee champion and the host of Going Deep with Aaron. On “Going Deep” Aaron has interviewed Wired Magazine founder Kevin Kelly, Chris Guillebeau, Taylor Pearson and over 100 other entrepreneurs, authors, and interesting human beings.

This episode is a wide-ranging conversation with Aaron covering:

• The benefits of starting a podcast
• Life lessons from sports
• Goals vs. processes
• How to prepare for podcast interviews
• Beginners Guide to Snapchat
• The creator vs. consumer experiences on Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat
• The relationship between work and happiness
• And more

If you are a fan of the show, make sure to leave a review on iTunes.

Links from this episode:

• Going Deep with Aaron Watson
• Add Aaron on Snapchat
• The End of Jobs by Taylor Pearson
• Tropical MBA Podcast
• Scott Adams Blog: Goals vs. Systems

This and all episodes are available on SoundCloud, iTunes, YouTube, and Stitcher.

Kevin Geary (previous guest of this podcast) brings me on his Revolutionary Parent Radio to discuss raising kids who have entrepreneurial know-how.

You can’t teach entrepreneurship. Attempts to do so are silly. But, you can provide an environment that allows the entrepreneurial spark we all have to grow. School and authoritarian structures do just the opposite. The best thing is to first do no harm.  Get out of the way.  Remove the things that artificially increase the cost of failure, dampen curiosity and experimentation, and provide too-quick answers from experts to be memorized and regurgitated.

Even if your kid will never start a business, the traits being crushed through the conveyor belt mindset are the very traits needed to succeed at any form of employment in the near future.

Check out Kevin’s stuff at revolutionaryparent.com.

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TK and I only had twenty minutes today so we ran down a few things that grind our gears, discussed the good side of being bad, why trying to be what you’re not is the greatest evil, why the NBA’s Eastern Conference is a big joke, why Thomas Hobbes is the root of all bad social theory, and more.

Recommended in the episode: Anarchy Unbound, Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves.

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The purpose and result of state supported and mandated schooling is a reduction in the supply of education.  More school = less learning.  That’s the whole point.

Education is too important to have the clumsy ham-fist of the state and its bureaucracy get involved.

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This Friday TK and I are taking a break from live discussion…but you still get to hear his ideas!  This episode is a chapter from the audiobook version of Why Haven’t You Read This Book?

The episode includes the book’s introduction as well as a chapter, read by Mitchell Earl, that tells TK’s story of throwing caution to the wind and traveling cross country to audition for American Idol.

Next week we’ll be back taking listener questions, so send them our way via palmet.to, email, or social!

Enjoy, and download a free chapter of the audiobook at whyrtb.com.

This and all episodes are available on SoundCloud, iTunes, YouTube, and Stitcher.