Nervous Habits with Ricky Rosen

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by his law school classmates Austin Lowe and Ezra Louvis to recap their law school experiences on the eve of their graduation.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by journalist Florence Williams. Florence and I explore issues including… —How a molecular analysis of your blood sample can show whether you have the cells of a lonely person… —The ways in which heartbreak impacts the immune system, and whether you can literally die from a broken heart… —Roughly how much time it takes for one's emotional and physical health to return to baseline after a break-up… —Why you should consider sending artifacts from your exes to the Museum of Broken Relationships, and finally… —Why rebounding after a relationship might actually be good for your health.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, Founder and CEO of Amazon Jeffrey Bezos, and political commentator Ben Shapiro - all voiced by the immensely talented comedian and impressionist Austin Nasso.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Author and Journalist Mark Schatzker. Mark and I explore issues including… —Why the rate in obesity in Northern Italy is more than five times lower than in America, despite the fact that Northern Italians indulge in pastas, fried cheeses, fatty meats, and rich desserts… —Why every diet only works for a set amount of time, then our body reverts to a set point… —Why satiation, the feeling of being full, only happens if food is swallowed, and if food is spat out, your hunger persists… —How artificial sweeteners, vitamins, and fat replacers in our processed foods are a major contributing factor to the obesity epidemic in America, and finally… —Whether seeing the amount of calories next to a menu item actually lowers the amount that people eat.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by longtime friend and aerospace engineer Stefanos Axios. Stefanos and I explore issues including… —The likelihood that an asteroid like the one featured in Don't Look Up will collide with the earth in our lifetimes, and what could be done in that scenario to prevent an extinction event... —How exactly you would die from an asteroid collision, and finally… —Why Don't Look Up is arguably the most powerful allegory for climate change depicted in any movie.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by journalist Wendy Syfret. Wendy and I explore issues including… —How a belief in nihilism can free you from many of the struggles in your daily life… —Why the humor of Gen Z is so “dark and weird”… —How the hopelessness of the climate change crisis, the corrosive divide in our politics, and the never-ending pandemic are making young people consider becoming nihilists… —Whether it is possible for people who believe in nihilism to fall in love, and finally… —Why you don't have to surrender your belief in God to be a nihilist.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by author, founder, and executive chairman of ClassPass, Payal Kadakia, to explore issues including: —The importance of not compartmentalizing your identities and being able to be your full self at work, —How someone stuck at a dead-end job might be able to discover what lights them up, —How Payal turned an idea formulated on a red-eye flight into a billion dollar business, and finally… —How you can stand out in a sea of millions of LinkedIn requests and networking emails to find a mentor and grow your network.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by orthopedic surgeon, Dr. David Hanscom. Dr. Hanscom and I explore issues including… —The dangers of sitting for too long… —Why the best solution for chronic pain isn't medication or treatment but is instead just time… —The business of medicine, and how the modern medical field incentivizes practitioners to be dishonest with patients, and finally… —Why social isolation is so hazardous to your health.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by professor of history, and professor of education, Dr. Jonathan Zimmerman. Dr. Zimmerman and I explore issues including… —The limitations on speech in totalitarian regimes around the world, —How to balance the necessity for free speech with the importance of limiting the spread of misinformation online, —Whether the government has a duty to regulate social media platforms, and finally… —Why the “fake news” problem on the Internet is not so much a free speech problem as it is an educational problem.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by researcher and the author of All the Time in the World, Lisa Broderick, to explore issues including…. —The most commonly studied brainwave frequencies and how they alter our perception of time… —How we can slow down time using chronostasis… —The role of selective attention in how we experience time, and finally… —Why people in life-threatening emergencies experience the slowing down of time.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, Dr. Anna Lembke. Dr. Lembke and I explore issues including… —Why moderate exposure to pain can inadvertently lead to pleasure… —How electroconvulsive shock therapy works to “reset” the brain… —How euphoric recall reinforces chemical dependency, and finally… —Why it might be better to tolerate pain or discomfort rather than popping a pill.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by journalist and author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power, Max Chafkin, to explore issues including…. —Some of the most powerful criticisms of billionaire investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, and why exactly he is such a polarizing figure, —Peter Thiel's rivalry with Elon Musk and his mentorship of Mark Zuckerberg, —Peter Thiel's behind-the-scenes machinations in the 2016 presidential election and his financial support of a half-dozen Senatorial campaigns, and finally… —How Peter Thiel's anti-establishment mindset has shaped the culture of Silicon Valley over the last two and a half decades.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by the Best-Selling Author of “The Molecule of More” and Professor and Vice Chair for clinical affairs in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University, Dr. Daniel Lieberman to explore issues including…. —How dopamine explains why we only want things until we get them, and then we don't want them anymore… —Why the key to happiness involves a transition from future-oriented dopamine to present-oriented neurotransmitters like serotonin… —How to tell if someone has a dopaminergic (dopamine-driven) personality… —Why we tend to go through life always at the same base level of happiness, and finally… —How to manipulate the dopamine circuits in your brain to solve your problems through dream incubation.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Futurist and author of the book, The Future of You, Tracey Follows to explore issues including… —Why in the future, you might be paying for your goods at the supermarket, not with a credit card or cell phone, but by using your face to make transactions, —How people might be able to ‘thought control' machines in the future, —How, by preserving and uploading your mind files, it might be possible to create a digital version - or cyber double - of yourself, and finally, —How some companies are collecting users' data so that AI can enable them to continue to have text or voice conversations with their loved ones after they die.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by futurologist Dr. Ian Pearson to forecast what the world will look like in 2050, including: —Digital life extension; —The toilets of the future; —The prospect that sex with robots might occur more often than sex between humans; —Hypersonic travel; —3-D printed fast food; and finally —A digital afterlife.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author Luke Burgis to explore issues including… —Why exactly we want the things that we want, —What’s so special about mirror neurons, —How babies learn to imitate within minutes of birth,  —Why fulfillment stories are an effective way to overcome your mimetic impulses, and finally… —Why you should pick one desire to suffer over, and let go of lesser desires.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, and author of Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX, Eric Berger to explore issues including… —How Elon Musk demands the impossible from his employees - and more often than not gets it, —The specific challenges associated with creating a commercially developed, privately funded rocket, —SpaceX’s early struggles with competing with industry titans like Boeing and Lockheed, and launching the Falcon 1, and finally… —The likelihood that SpaceX will get us to Mars within our lifetime.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author, Professor, Behavior Scientist and Founder of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab Dr. BJ Fogg to explore issues including: —The evolutionary advantage to habits, and whether other animals exhibit them, —How habits make multi-tasking (or task-switching) possible, —The incentive shift from extrinsically motivated behavior to intrinsically motivated behavior, —The tiny habits recipe to adopting new behaviors, and finally… —How Dr. Fogg is using the principles of behavior design on projects ranging from screen-time reduction to climate action.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author and Dating Expert Jon Birger to explore issues including… —Why you should think of dating apps more like visiting the eBay marketplace than actually looking for a life partner… —Why offline relationships are shown to be three or four times longer lasting than online relationships… —How the disproportionately high number of female, relative to male, college graduates affects the dating culture… —Why the workplace is the best place to meet someone, and what is responsible for the decline in workplace relationships over the last decade, and finally… —The suitor’s advantage - why whichever party makes the first move is most likely to achieve the best outcome.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Professor of Neuroscience Dr. Austin Lim to explore issues including… —Why psychedelics like LSD, DMT and magic mushrooms are classified as Schedule I controlled substances… —What sort of impact these drugs have on the neurotransmitters in your brain in both the short and long-term… —Why the placebo effect is so prevalent in the treatment of depression and anxiety, and finally… —How likely it will be that these drugs might be used in the future, in lieu of antidepressants, to treat mental health disorders.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Professor in American Politics, and chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, William Howell. Professor Howell and Ricky explore issues including: —How the historical rankings of the American presidents will change in the coming years as society’s values shift over time… —Whether there is a correlation between a president’s approval ratings and their historical rankings… —Whether any presidents might be added or removed from Mount Rushmore in the next few decades, and finally… —What will ultimately be the defining legacy of the Trump presidency, and how the Republican Party can move forward in the next four years.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Director of the Netflix Documentary “A Life On Our Planet,” and Executive Producer of the Netflix Documentary Series “Our Planet,” Dr. Keith Scholey to explore issues including: —Why biodiversity in our wildlife isn’t just nice to have - it is critical to the continuation of the human race; —Why the ocean is a key ally in our battle against global warming; —Why, if we continue on the path that we are on, it will lead to a crisis in global food production, parts of the earth being rendered uninhabitable, and eventually another mass extinction event for most animal species; —Why the crashing insect populations all around us poses a threat to our food supply; and —What all of us can do TODAY to prevent this terrifying future from becoming a reality.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by astrophysicist and Professor of Science at Harvard University Avi Loeb to explore issues including: —How confident we can be that there is extraterrestrial life somewhere in our galaxy, —What exactly scientists are looking for when they look for life beyond earth, —Why the scientific community has been reluctant to invest in the search for extraterrestrial life, and finally… —The likelihood that the earth will ever be drawn into a black hole.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by American chess grandmaster and U.S. Olympiad Gold Medallist Sam Shankland to explore issues including: —The onerous process of becoming a grandmaster in chess, and why SO few chess players ever earn the title of grandmasters, —Just how realistic the Netflix series, the Queens Gambit, was at portraying chess,—Why some chess games can last up to 7 hours,—Whether or not humans will ever be able to compete with computers at chess, and finally… —Why people who have never played chess before should still care about chess.

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Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author, and Podcaster, Kendra Adachi to explore issues including: —Why we should remove the stigma from being “lazy”, —Why you should pick and choose one or two things to be a genius at, and be comfortable being *lazy* about everything else… —How to use the "Lazy Genius" principles to survive the carousel of crises of 2020.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Author, and Meditation and Mindfulness Expert, Aimee Morgan to explore issues including: —How you can train your mind and body into being responsive instead of reactive... —The importance of meta-attention in mindfulness (paying attention to what you’re paying attention to)... —Some alternatives to meditation for people who can’t seem to turn off their stream of consciousness, and finally… —Why you should consider a half-day or a full-day of complete silence.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —In general, why you should be wary of using search engines on the mainstream web... —How to access the hidden part of the internet that makes up 95 to 96 percent of the total internet landscape, and is not accessible by search engines, and finally… —How you can actually harness the anonymous power of the dark web for good (and not to engage in illicit or nefarious activities).

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Certified Health and Life Coach and C.E.O. of LivingHealthyList.com, Denise Stegall, to explore issues including: —What is responsible for the explosion in demand for organic and locally grown foods in the last decade, —The problem with eating fruits with pesticides on them, —Why you should avoid eating meat that has been injected with antibiotics at all costs, and finally… —The Dirty Dozen: the 12 fruits and vegetables that you should be buying organically.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Author and Time Management Expert Adrian Shepherd to explore issues including: —How the approach to time management differs in the East vs. the West... —The One Bite Time Management System, and how to eliminate procrastination by “eating that frog”... —Why you should do your work in 90 minute sessions... —The five practices that successful people use, and finally… —Why saying no is the key to managing your time efficiently.

Hear from Travel Blogger, Author, and Ted Speaker, Jen Ruiz on how to travel around the world on a budget. Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and Jen explore issues including… —Why you should resist the urge to plan every minute of your vacation when you travel, —How it’s possible to travel around the world while still working full-time, —Why traveling by yourself is almost always better than traveling with others, and finally… —How you can find plane tickets for $16 and lodging for $9 when traveling around the world.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Author, Keynote Speaker, and Guinness World Record Solo Pilot Ryan Campbell to explore issues including: —What the experience of flying around the world alone for 70 days was like for a 19 year old kid from Australia... —All about Ryan’s experience as the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash... —Having been diagnosed a complete paraplegic, how Ryan taught himself to walk again, and finally… —Why starting with gratitude is the key to navigating change.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Sleep Expert, Mollie McGlocklin to explore issues including: —All about “rebound sleep” and how the quality of your sleep is impacted by your sleep the night before... —Why people who supposedly thrive on under 7 hours of sleep are still experiencing cognitive decline... —Circadian rhythm entrainment, and how the smartphone is responsible for the prevalence of sleep deprivation in America... —Why a consistent 7 day sleep schedule is always better than “catching up on the weekend”, and finally… —Whether it’s healthy to wake up an alarm clock.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Millionaire Investor and Author Lloyd Edge to explore issues including: —Why people should look to escape the “shackles” of the 9 to 5 job… —How to develop a stable passive income stream… —Why only 5 percent of people are able to unlock the passive income lifestyle… —Why property is the least volatile investment you can make, and finally… —Why you should always buy low and sell high on your investments.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Addiction Specialist, Clinician and Medical Director Dr. Vera Tarman to explore issues including: —Why our addiction to food is the most critical addiction that hardly anybody talks about... —How exactly the fast food industry targets ‘heavy users’ to perpetuate their addictions to processed food… —Why you can never really scare a person out of an addiction… —How to program your brain into only craving healthy food, and finally… —Why “calorie-counting” is not the answer, and how you might end up dieting yourself into obesity.

Want to know how one of the fastest rising names in the stand-up comedy scene comes up with his material? Hear from stand-up comedian (Showtime Special: Stay at Home Son) and the host of the Youtube web series, Tacos Con Todo (First We Feast), Jesus Trejo, on his thoughts on the comedy landscape in 2020. Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and Jesus explore issues including: —Why stand-up comedians are the modern-day philosophers… —The process by which a stand-up comedian comes up with material… —Why comedy has come to dominate American culture so much over the past few decades… —What exactly people find funny, and finally… —How comedy can possibly survive in the age of outrage culture.

Are you stuck in a rut with your romantic partner? Wondering why all you do is fight? Or do you find yourself in a never-ending cycle of toxic relationships? Hear from Relationship and Love Coach Marie Winter on how to identify conflicts and triggers in your relationships. Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and Relationship and Love Coach Marie Winter explore issues including: —How to re-frame what you want to get out of dating online… —How the repetition compulsion theory works and why we repeat the past to heal our pain… —Why our attachment to our caretakers is the common thread throughout all of our romantic relationships… —How our “Inner Child” decides for us what we seek in relationships… —Why people struggle to reconcile emotionality with sex, and finally… —Why you should never ‘play games’ or feign disinterest in the early stages of dating.

Want to get inside the mind of the one of the best freestyle rap artists in the world? Hear from multi-talented music artist, Harry Mack, on his inner monologues when he’s performing his widely acclaimed freestyle raps. Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and Harry explore issues including: —How a world-talented freestyle rap artist stays motivated while honing his craft... —Why during the extreme intensity of the Flow State, your body might literally feel like it’s disappearing from your consciousness… —The 1% rule: how to get 1% better everyday for one year, and finally… —Harry Mack performs a freestyle rap about growing up in the 1990’s.