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Want to take control of the future? In each episode of this podcast, Entrepreneur magazine editor in chief Jason Feifer takes something that seems concerning or confusing today, and then learns its surprising history, what important things we’re missing, and the solutions that can make us smarter and better. (The show was previously called Pessimists Archive.)

Build For Tomorrow Jason Feifer

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Want to take control of the future? In each episode of this podcast, Entrepreneur magazine editor in chief Jason Feifer takes something that seems concerning or confusing today, and then learns its surprising history, what important things we’re missing, and the solutions that can make us smarter and better. (The show was previously called Pessimists Archive.)

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    • 34 min
    The Greatest Myth About Learning

    The Greatest Myth About Learning

    For decades, people have been told they have a certain “learning style.” Maybe you think you’re a visual learner, for example, or a reading/writing learner. But new research is upending all that. Here’s what we got wrong — and how we can become truly better learners.

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    • 40 min
    What People of 1923 Predicted About 2023

    What People of 1923 Predicted About 2023

    In 1923, a famous scientist predicted how work would change in 2023. Now, 100 years later, we can confirm: He was shockingly right… and yet totally wrong. What happened? The answers can tell you a lot about what’s coming in the next 100 years, and how technology will (and maybe won’t) change work forever.

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    • 45 min
    The Best Ways to Use a Crisis

    The Best Ways to Use a Crisis

    Everyone’s freaking out! How can that be put to good use? In this episode, we discuss the unexpected benefits of the bubonic plague, what the four-day workweek tells us about the future of work, how world-changing technologies become adopted, why business failures lead to success, how to use crises to change the status quo, and more.

    This episode originally aired on The Jordan Harbinger Show, as he interviewed me, Build For Tomorrow host Jason Feifer.

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    How to Stop Obsessing Over “What If…?”

    How to Stop Obsessing Over “What If…?”

    Have you ever messed up — or just thought you messed up! — and then obsessed over what you could have done better? This episode is about what’s happening in your brain, why you’re doing it, and how to finally let it go.

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    • 39 min
    How to See Gain, Where Others See Loss

    How to See Gain, Where Others See Loss

    You can find opportunity in the hardest situations. But how?
    To answer that out, we take lessons from one of the most fascinating changes in cultural history -- when the record player was invented. Many people loved it, but musicians hated it. They tried to stop it. But their anti-recorded-music campaign did not go as planned.
    This is a story about what it takes -- for us all! -- to let go of the past and embrace the future.

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Love it!

Great hosting, impeccable research, love the archival articles and quotes!

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So Funny

Shows you how we (humans) are always so scared of change or that which is different. Well researched, great pace, and quite funny!

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