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The #1 Evidence Based Growth Podcast on the Internet. The Science of Success is about the search for evidence based personal growth. It's about exploring ways to improve your decision-making, understand your mind and how psychology rules the world around you, and learn from experts and thought leaders about ways we can become better versions of ourselves.

The Science of Success Matt Bodnar

    • Education
    • 4.7 • 1K Ratings

The #1 Evidence Based Growth Podcast on the Internet. The Science of Success is about the search for evidence based personal growth. It's about exploring ways to improve your decision-making, understand your mind and how psychology rules the world around you, and learn from experts and thought leaders about ways we can become better versions of ourselves.

    Are Babies Racist? Is Empathy Bad for Society? And More with Dr. Paul Bloom

    Are Babies Racist? Is Empathy Bad for Society? And More with Dr. Paul Bloom

    In this episode we start with a dive into evolutionary psychology and how biases have been programmed into you by millions of years of evolution, look at why our guest condemns the concept of Empathy, how the science demonstrates that empathy has no correlation with doing good in the world, how empathy creates disastrous outcomes, and more with our guest Dr. Paul Bloom

    • 43 min
    How You Can Hack Your Creativity, Productivity, and Mood Using Your Environment with Benjamin Hardy

    How You Can Hack Your Creativity, Productivity, and Mood Using Your Environment with Benjamin Hardy

    In this episode we discuss how your environment plays a tremendous role in shaping who you are, look at how personality develops and what underscores it, talk about how to engineering your own environment to make yourself more productive and effective, examine at how to battle self sabotage and much more with our guest Benjamin Hardy.

    • 55 min
    Four Questions That Will Change Your World - An Exploration of “The Work” with Byron Katie

    Four Questions That Will Change Your World - An Exploration of “The Work” with Byron Katie

    In this episode, we take a journey into the inquiry know as “The Work’ and uncover the 4 question framework that you can use to break down negative thoughts and limiting beliefs. We examine what happens when we argue with reality, look at the difference between being right and being free, explore the causes of suffering, and much more with our guest Byron Katie.
    Byron Katie is an American speaker, author, and founder of the method of self-inquiry known as “The Work”. She has worked with millions of individuals at both private and public events in prisons, hospitals, treatment centers, universities, and schools. She is the author of three bestselling books and her work has been featured in TIME, The Huffington Post, Oprah, and much more!

    • 44 min
    The Secret That Silicon Valley Giants Don’t Want You To Know with Dr. Adam Alter

    The Secret That Silicon Valley Giants Don’t Want You To Know with Dr. Adam Alter

    In this episode we discuss the danger of getting addicted to your screens. We look at how technology is designed to be as addictive as possible, and how those addictions specifically make you spend more time on things like social media and news that make you less happy. We discuss how screens rob us of time and attention and why it’s so hard to break away from them. We also look at how-how you can structure your environment to spend more time away from your phone and create ways to get out of these addictive behavior loops with our guest Dr. Adam Alter.

    • 51 min
    How You Can Become A Superconnector with Scott Gerber

    How You Can Become A Superconnector with Scott Gerber

    In this episode we discuss how to become a “superconnector." We look at the idea that networking is not about tactics, it’s about a fundamental shift in how you think about interacting with people. We examine how to break free from the lazy and shallow networking that social media often creates, discuss why you should never ask “how can I help?”, look at the power of curiosity and asking better questions and much more with our guest Scott Gerber.

    • 50 min
    Brain Scans Reveal The Powerful Memory Techniques of Memory Champions, Greek Philosophers, and SuperLearners with Jonathan Levi

    Brain Scans Reveal The Powerful Memory Techniques of Memory Champions, Greek Philosophers, and SuperLearners with Jonathan Levi

    In this episode we discuss becoming a SuperLearner. We dig into questions that I’ve pondered for a long time - does speed reading work? Can we actually speed read and increase our reading comprehension? Are there strategies you can use to improve your memory? And perhaps most importantly - how can we align the way we think, learn, and remember with the way our brains actually operate? We go into this and more with our guest Jonathan Levi.

    • 1 hr 8 min

Customer Reviews

4.7 out of 5
1K Ratings

1K Ratings

Nattikid88 ,

Great podcast!

Matt has a ton of great interviews! Not only people you’ve heard of in everyday life, but also people you may not know but have a ton of valuable information to share. I’ve been listening to his podcast for about a year and have been able to implement a lot of the information into my own personal development journey.

nickname$1 ,

Morning walk motivation

I’ve moved the Grand Cayman and no longer have my accountability walking friends. We used to walk and talk every morning at 5a and I loved the company, conversation and connection. Now that I’m here, I needed a reason to get up and get moving. The variety of conversations and interesting topics is my new motivation! Thanks for sharing all these great interviews! I love your style and science based approach.

eeliza ,

Interesting content, frustrating editing

I’ve started listening recently and I’m finding the show interesting and full of insights that are applicable to my life. However, I find the ad/sponsor placements more frustrating than in any other podcast I listen to. The ads seem to interrupt the interviewee mid-sentence every time. By the time the ads are over, I’ve forgotten the start of whichever sentence and I’ve lost my grasp on the topic of conversation. Editors, please listen and wait for a period!

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