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100 Books A Year With Keven Wang

409 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings

My name is Keven Wang. Join my journey to dissect and talk about 100 books a year. Follow my 200 books a year reading challenge on Goodreads: goodreads.com/Kevenwang

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Episodes

Lessons in Stoicism: Life and death

September 20, 2023 19:45 - 7 minutes - 7.07 MB

How should we think about life and death according to the stoics?

Lessons in Stoicism: Dealing with adversity

September 14, 2023 19:30 - 4 minutes - 4.23 MB

How should we deal with adversity according to the stoics?

Lessons in Stoicism: Our place in nature

September 11, 2023 19:36 - 5 minutes - 4.83 MB

Stoics argue what should be our place in nature?

Lessons in Stoicism: Problem with emotions

September 05, 2023 19:23 - 4 minutes - 4.02 MB

How do the stoics think about “emotions”?

Lessons in Stoicism: What we can control?

September 01, 2023 19:16 - 7 minutes - 6.6 MB

Welcome to our new series: Lessons in Stoicism. Let start off by talking about what the stoics believe we can control

Power vs. Force

August 20, 2023 15:47 - 6 minutes - 5.99 MB

Finally finished the book “Power vs. Force” by David Hawkins. Lots of recommendations over the years. Here are some of my thoughts on it.

Reflection: Commonplace Notebook

August 19, 2023 16:44 - 5 minutes - 5.35 MB

Reflecting on my first experience with “commonplace notebook”

New Series Coming!

August 17, 2023 15:33 - 45 seconds - 709 KB

New series coming. Stay tuned

Outlive-Sleep and Conclusion

July 01, 2023 17:57 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MB

Here is the series finale, hope you enjoyed it -Kiev

Outlive-VO2 Max and Zone 2 Exercise

July 01, 2023 17:35 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MB

Let’s dive in a bit more on cardio exercises

Outlive-Exercise and Strength Training

July 01, 2023 17:21 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MB

We’ll cover exercise philosophies and high level strength training principals.

Outlive-Find the right eating patterns

July 01, 2023 17:00 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MB

We will cover fasting, macro nutrients groups etc

Outlive-Nutrition 3.0

July 01, 2023 16:36 - 6 minutes - 5.72 MB

What are the 3 questions we need to ask ourselves about nutrition?

Outlive-Strategy and Tactics

July 01, 2023 16:26 - 4 minutes - 4.54 MB

What are the differences between strategy and tactics in the realm of longevity.

Outlive-Series Continues

May 29, 2023 15:24 - 4 minutes - 3.91 MB

Finally finished the book 2 months later. Series will continue -Kev

Outlive-Medicine 3.0

April 02, 2023 22:23 - 10 minutes - 9.4 MB

What is medicine 3.0 ?

Outlive: Catching Falling Eggs

April 02, 2023 22:09 - 10 minutes - 9.28 MB

Welcome back to a brand new series on Peter Attia’s new book.

New series is coming. Stay tuned…

March 28, 2023 12:22 - 1 minute - 1.19 MB

Thank you for your continuous support. New series is coming soon

The Intelligence Trap

July 08, 2022 16:50 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MB

We are back from our break

Pausing

April 10, 2022 13:27 - 7 minutes - 6.43 MB

I am hitting the “pause” button for this podcast

Power of Regrets

April 04, 2022 02:03 - 7 minutes - 6.8 MB

We tend to view “regrets” as negative experiences in our lives. Maybe it is time for a change. To have regrets is what make us human.

How to Build the FIrst Network?

March 27, 2022 21:48 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MB

Where should we start in terms of building the first “atomic” group

What is the Cold Start Problem

March 20, 2022 22:20 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MB

What is the cold start problem? Laying down a foundation for a new series.

Loneliness and Aloneness

March 13, 2022 21:13 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MB

Why we are constantly finding an escape for our mind?

Teach Me How to Love?

March 13, 2022 20:56 - 7 minutes - 6.66 MB

Question: I am full of hate, would you please teach me how to love?

Why Do We Want to be Famous?

March 06, 2022 03:52 - 5 minutes - 5.31 MB

Let us all ask ourselves this question?

What is Intelligence?

March 06, 2022 03:41 - 3 minutes - 3.3 MB

What is intelligence? Do we dare to give it a definition?

The Problem with Freedom

February 27, 2022 22:02 - 3 minutes - 3.3 MB

The problem of freedom, we are not talking about democracy here. But in the context of personal growth.

The Function of Education

February 27, 2022 21:55 - 6 minutes - 5.57 MB

Let us talk about the function of education. It is for us to live freely, is to have no fears

Money, Credit and Wealth

February 27, 2022 21:37 - 5 minutes - 5.29 MB

Let us wrap everything together and end this series! How can we distinguish between financial economy and real economy

What is Money?

February 19, 2022 22:50 - 8 minutes - 7.76 MB

What is money? How does the system work? How can we understand financial policies?

On Reserve Currency

February 19, 2022 22:29 - 4 minutes - 4.23 MB

What does it mean for a country to have a reserve currency?

Money and Credit

February 13, 2022 04:07 - 10 minutes - 9.8 MB

We need to understand the relationship between money, credit and debt.

18 Points for the Changing World Order

February 06, 2022 23:00 - 7 minutes - 6.68 MB

Conceptually, let us map out the index here.

The Decline

February 05, 2022 21:38 - 10 minutes - 9.39 MB

What are the characteristics for an empire on decline?

The Top

January 30, 2022 21:43 - 9 minutes - 9.02 MB

What are the early warning signs for countries on the top?

The Rise

January 29, 2022 23:11 - 7 minutes - 6.76 MB

What are the characteristics for empires on the rise?

Eight Determinants of Wealth and Power

January 21, 2022 00:45 - 8 minutes - 7.62 MB

Let us kick start this series, I cannot wait. Please reference these 8 determinants, we will visit them later on. 1. Education 2. Competitiveness 3. Innovation and technology 4. Economic output 5. Share of world trade 6. Military strength 7. Financial center strength 8. Reserve currency status

On Selling Out

January 18, 2022 22:53 - 17 minutes - 16 MB

How does Howard Marks approach the issues of “selling” in investing .

TDL(12) Amor Fati

January 17, 2022 01:36 - 3 minutes - 3.25 MB

Lover of fate

TDL(11): Accept People as Facts

January 15, 2022 01:12 - 5 minutes - 5.39 MB

Why we tend to project our emotions upon people. We radically accept them as facts

TDL(10) The Art of Presence and Absence

January 15, 2022 00:52 - 4 minutes - 4.21 MB

Let us talk about leadership image.

TDL(9) Choose Time

January 13, 2022 03:08 - 6 minutes - 5.54 MB

Let us talk about how Einstein approached job selection.

TDL(8) Redefine Boredom

January 09, 2022 03:22 - 4 minutes - 3.67 MB

When we encounter boredom in life, it should serve as a trigger for new challenges

TDL(7) Consider Yourself A Builder

January 03, 2022 23:11 - 3 minutes - 3.64 MB

It is easy to focus on the process when we are doing work with tangible outcomes. We should be more mindful when we are doing our jobs with intangible outcomes ex:knowledge work. Respect the process

2020 Year End Review

December 31, 2021 15:34 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MB

Top 10 Books of the Year(in no particular order) 1. Principles for the Changing World Order ->Ray Dalio 2. Will -> Will Smith 3.Think Again-> Adam Grant 4.The Education of a Value Investor ->Guy Spiers 5. Richer Wiser and Healthier ->William Green 6.The Price of Tomorrow ->Jeff Booth 7.Noise -> Daniel Kaahneman 8.Be 2.0 Jim Collins 9.Lyndon Johnson Trilogy -> Robert Caro 10. Working Backwards : Colin Bryan

TDL(6) You Have One Goal

December 26, 2021 17:04 - 4 minutes - 3.84 MB

Continuing our discussion on apprenticeship. You should only have one goal in pursuit of mastery

TDL(5) What the Mentor Needs?

December 23, 2021 23:09 - 7 minutes - 6.61 MB

We always approach finding mentor in the mindset of what can they do for me? Have we thought about what can we do for them?

TDL(4): Become Who You Are

December 20, 2021 02:46 - 3 minutes - 3.33 MB

Listen to that inner force.

TDL(3):Change Yourself From Within, Little by Little

December 17, 2021 23:24 - 5 minutes - 5.06 MB

Don’t subscribe to the outward illusion, focus on internal growth.