Nervous Habits with Ricky Rosen

Nervous Habits - Summer Hiatus

Nervous Habits - Episode 71: Law School Wrap-Up with Austin Lowe and Ezra Louvis

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 - BONUS EPISODE on Eradicating Filler Words from Conversation, Living The Rest of Your Life Inside the Metaverse, Thought-to-Text Typing, Love Is Blind, and Lunch in the School Cafeteria Before Smartphones [UNEDITED]

Nervous Habits - Episode 70: The Museum of Broken Relationships, The Minister of Loneliness, and a Pill for Heartbreak with Journalist Florence Williams

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 fr...

Nervous Habits - Episode 69: Funhouse of Impressions ft. Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos and More (with Comedian Austin Nasso)

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 - Episode 68: WTF Is In Our Food? The Dangers of Artificial Sweeteners, Fat-Replacers, and Vitamins with Journalist and Author of the End of Craving, Mark Schatzker

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 i...

Nervous Habits - Episode 67: Planet-Killing Asteroids, Cataclysmic Climate Change, and Other Existential Threats: The Science Behind “Don’t Look Up” with Aerospace Engineer Stefanos Axios

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 ...

Nervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE on Taking Out Books from the Library (Yes Even Now); Phone Games for Addictive Personalities; and Spoiler Rules for TV Shows That Ended 10+ Years Ago [UNEDITED]

Nervous Habits - Episode 66: Nothing We Do Really Means Anything, But That’s Okay: A Theory of Sunny Nihilism With Journalist Wendy Syfret

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 lov...

Nervous Habits - Episode 65: “How Was Your Weekend?” Being Your Whole Self At Your Job, with Founder and Executive Chairman of ClassPass, Payal Kadakia

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 ...

Nervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE on Previewing The Year Ahead, Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in Class, Suing Food Companies for False Advertising, and Revisiting My Most Cringeworthy Tweets [UNEDITED] 

Nervous Habits - Episode 64: Sitting, Stress, and Social Isolation Will Kill You with Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. David Hanscom

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 - BONUS EPISODE on Holidays You’ve Never Heard Of, Obsolete Landline Phones, Seeing Your School Teachers On Dating Apps, and Being In A Room Full of People Where Everyone Is Laughing Except You [UNEDITED] 

Nervous Habits - Episode 63: QAnon, Injecting Cleaning Disinfectant, and Holocaust Denial: The Dark Side of Free Speech with Professor of History and Education Dr. Jonathan Zimmerman

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 ...

Nervous Habits - Episode 62: Brain Waves, Chronostasis, and Out-of-Body Experiences: The Wrinkles in Time with Researcher Lisa Broderick

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 - Episode 61: Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy, Cauterization, and Ice Cold Showers: The Pursuit of Pain with Professor of Psychiatry Dr. Anna Lembke

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 discomf...

Nervous Habits - Episode 60: An Alternate History of Silicon Valley with Journalist Max Chafkin

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 finan...

Nervous Habits - Summer Hiatus (With Interruptions From Puppy)

Nervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE on Bringing Your Cell Phone Into the Bathroom, Planning Your Obituary, Revenge Bedtime Procrastination, and Tracking Your Friends’ Outfits [UNEDITED]

Nervous Habits - Episode 59: Our Lives Are Driven By Dopamine: How A Single Chemical In Your Brain Explains Every Decision You’ve Ever Made with Professor Daniel Lieberman

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 neurot...

Nervous Habits - Episode 58 (Part II): Facial Recognition for Purchases, Brain Machine Interface Technology, ’Cyber Doubles,’ and ‘Memorial Bots:’ The Future of You with Futurist Tracey Follows

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 - ...

Nervous Habits - Episode 58 (Part I): Digital Life Extension, Toilets As Mini-Laboratories, Robotic Pets, and 3D Printed Fast Food: A Vision of the World in 2050 with Futurologist Dr. Ian Pearson

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 - Episode 57: Monkey See, Monkey Do: The Power of Mimetic (Imitative) Desires In Our Everyday Lives With Best-Selling Author of “Wanting” Luke Burgis

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 - Episode 56: The 21st Century Space Race: Elon Musk’s Relentless Efforts to Disrupt the Aerospace Industry (And Toast His Pop-Tarts) with Senior Space Editor Eric Berger

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, an...

Nervous Habits - Episode 55: Multi-Tasking, Motivation, and The Science of Behavior Change with Best-Selling Author, Researcher, and the Founder of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab Dr. BJ Fogg

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author, Researcher, 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… ...

Nervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE on Legally Changing Your Name to A Number, The Best Fast Food Twitter Accounts, Netflix Cracking Down on Account Sharing, and Getting Emotionally Invested in Shitty Rom Coms [UNEDITED]

Nervous Habits - Episode 54: The Business of Love: Why Dating Apps Aren’t Invested In Your Happily Ever After’s with Best-Selling Author of “Date-onomics” Jon Birger

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 ...

Nervous Habits - Episode 53: LSD, DMT, and Magic Mushrooms: The Anti-Depressants of the Future: Exploring the Possibility of Psychedelics to Treat Mental Health Disorders with Professor of Neuroscience Dr. Austin Lim

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 f...

Nervous Habits - Episode 52: Hail to the Chiefs: Rankings America’s Best (and Worst) Presidents with Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago Professor William Howell

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...

Nervous Habits - Episode 51: A Catastrophic Extinction Event Is Right Around the Corner: A Conversation With Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, and Director of the Netflix Documentary “A Life On Our Planet” Dr. Keith Scholey

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, ...

The Official Nervous Habits 50th Episode: The Story So Far, There Are 999,999 Other Podcasts On Spotify, and A Love Letter to My Dream Guests

Nervous Habits - Episode 49: We Are Ants Fighting Atop A Grain of Sand: Probing the Existence of Extraterrestrial Life with Astrophysicist and Chair of the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University Professor Avi Loeb

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 ho...

Nervous Habits - Episode 48: Checkmate: A Crash Course in Chess with Grandmaster and U.S. Olympic Gold Medallist Sam Shankland

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by American chess grandmaster and U.S. Olympic 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… —W...

BONUS EPISODE Featuring Two-Pound Burger-Eating Challenge Amidst A Conversation About Life After 75, Near-Death Experiences, and the Afterlife

Check out the full video on the official Nervous Habits Podcast Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKl2NHIDUNo&feature=youtu.be

Nervous Habits - Year-End Round-Up and Holiday Hiatus

Nervous Habits - Episode 47: Redefining Laziness: Using the “Lazy Genius” Life Hacks to Save You Time and Energy with Best-Selling Author Kendra Adachi

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 - Episode 47: Level Up: Using the “Lazy Genius” Life Hacks to Save You Time and Energy with Best-Selling Author Kendra Adachi

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.

BONUS EPISODE Previewing the 2020 Presidential Election Featuring: The Top Profanity in POTUS History, The Streisand Effect, and The Internet Kill-Switch [UNEDITED]

Nervous Habits - Episode 46: The Chaos Antidote: A Skeptic’s Guide to Mindfulness and Meditation with Author Aimee Morgan

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 ...

Nervous Habits - Episode 45: An Afternoon Inside the Dark Web

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 - Episode 44: The Shopping Cart Theory, and Eat Real Food with Certified Health and Life Coach Denise Stegall

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 ...

Nervous Habits - Episode 43: How to Stop Being Lazy and Quit Procrastinating with Time Management Expert Adrian Shepherd

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.

Nervous Habits - Episode 43: How to Quit Procrastinating with Time Management Expert Adrian Shepherd

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.

The Longest Episode of Nervous Habits Ever - BONUS EPISODE on “Dopamine Fasting”, The Dangers of Cancel Culture (and “Karen Culture”), and Imagining All of Your Text Messages Were Public, Ft. Me, Myself and I [UNEDITED]

Nervous Habits - Episode 42: Wakening Wanderlust: How to Explore Countries Around the World for the Cost of Going to a Baseball Game with Travel Blogger and Best-Selling Author Jen Ruiz

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 ...

Nervous Habits - Episode 41: Sticking the Landing: What Surviving a Devastating Plane Crash Taught Guinness World Record Solo Pilot Ryan Campbell About Resilience

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 ...

Nervous Habits - Episode 40: Vanquish Insomnia For Good with Sleep Expert Mollie McGlocklin

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...

Nervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE on A Million Parallel Universes, The Many Worlds Theory, The Ultimate Fate of the Universe, Getting Sucked Into a Black Hole, and How Do You Know That You’re Actually Human [UNEDITED]

Nervous Habits - Episode 39: Escape the Shackles of the 9 to 5 Job and Secure Complete Financial Freedom with Millionaire Investor and Author Lloyd Edge

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 - Episode 38: We Are All Addicted to Something: Facing Our Addictions to Sugar and Processed Foods with Clinician, Medical Director, and Addiction Specialist Dr. Vera Tarman

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 “ca...