Nervous Habits With Ricky Rosen

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —Our problem with overconsumption of media in 2020, —Why the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates might have his head too buried in an iPhone to invent the next - well - iPhone, —Why companies are spending more on innovation but getting fewer returns on their investments, —Why patents are inadequate incentives for innovation, and finally... —The most overrated films of our lifetime.

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —Why, contrary to what your friends may say, it is actually scientifically impossible to remember events from our infancy, —Why your mind recalls specific experiences from throughout your life “randomly” over the course of your day, —Why once you have learned something a certain way, it becomes almost impossible to unlearn it, —Why it is not true that we only use ten percent of our brain capacity, —How your constant reliance on Google is eroding your brain’s ability to retrieve old memories before the neuronal pathways decay, —Why it is impossible to retrieve the same exact memory twice, and finally, —Why we have a tendency to remember the past more positively than how it actually happened.

Where to Go to Get More Information: 1. Are You Smart Enough to Work At Google? By William Poundstone

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —Why it’s far more difficult to prove that you’re sane rather than insane… —Just how effective psychiatrists are at identifying people with psychosis… —The problem of subjectivity in sanity… —Why the epidemic of gun-related deaths is an exclusively American problem… —How all of us have become numb to the gun violence in our country, and finally… —What we can do to curb gun violence in America.    Segments: Sanity vs. Insanity: 7:10 Gun Violence in America: 27:46   Where to Go to Get More Information: 1. The Rosenhan Experiments in Psychiatry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment 2. The Psychopath Test, by Jon Ronson https://www.huffpost.com/entry/psychopath-test-ted-talk_b_2973423 3. Ernest Hemingway Biography https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Hemingway 4. Howard Hughes Biography https://www.britannica.com/biography/Howard-Hughes 5. Howard Hughes Psychosis https://www.apa.org/

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —The logical probability that we are living in a Matrix-like simulation… —Why, if we were living inside a simulation, we would remain blissfully unaware of this fact… —Whether the simulation would be an “ancestor simulation” being run by future human civilizations or a simulation being run by alien life forms from the other side of the universe… —Why it would be far easier to prove that we ARE living inside a simulation than that we are NOT living inside one, and finally… —How we should live our lives if we are, in fact, living in a simulation.   Where To Go To Get More Information: 1. Zhuangzi, “The Butterfly Dream” (Ancient Chinese Text) https://www.jstor.org/stable/1399947?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents 2. “The Matrix” (1999) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/ 3. “Brain In A Vat” Hypothesis http://www.philosophy-index.com/putnam/brain-vat/ 4. “The Allegory of the Cave”, Featured in The Republic

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by long-time friend and mechanical engineer, Stefanos Axios. They have a spirited and comprehensive discussion, spanning issues including: --The jobs that automation will displace that humans currently have, and the jobs that will be created by the new technology… --Why some jobs can never be able to be effectively carried out by robots… --How the sex robot industry is shaking up the automation field… --How the increasing amount of federal financial aid that is allotted to students has actually made college more expensive… --Why a comprehensive student loan forgiveness plan would be an inadequate solution to a worsening problem, and finally… --Why cryptocurrency has the potential to spread like wildfire in the coming decades.   Segments: 3:50 - Automation and the Future of the 9-5 Job 31:20 - The Cost of College 59:45 - Cryptocurrency   Where To Go To Get More Information: 1. The Four Hour Workweek, by Tim Ferris 2. Wall-E (2008) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and sister & Clinical Psychology doctoral candidate Holly Rosen address a number of topics in the field of personality psychology including: —Why most of us fall somewhere on the spectrum of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. —The five components that are universally believed to form the building blocks of our personality… —Whether our environment or genetics plays a more significant role in the development of our personality… —How the Myers-Briggs Test treats personality as static … —Why your Enneagram type might be different every time you take the test, and finally… —How to know if you have a clinical personality disorder or if you’re just really paranoid.   Where To Go To Get More Information: 1. APA Definition of Personality https://www.apa.org/topics/personality/ 2. The Big Five Personality Dimensions (“OCEAN”) https://www.verywellmind.com/the-big-five-personality-dimensions-2795422 3. Nature vs. Nurture Debate in Personality Psychology https://www.workstyle.io/how-p

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —Why far fewer Americans identify as vegetarians compared to most other industrialized nations… —From an evolutionary biology perspective, whether human beings were designed to eat other animals to begin with… —The impact of Americans’ swelling appetite for meat on animal welfare and the environment… —Whether diverse schools of philosophical thought might argue for or against the practice of eating meat… —The conditions to which pigs, chickens, and cows are subjected in factory farms in America, and finally… —What the growing demand for “meatless meat” and the expansion of companies like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meats tells us about the future of meat consumption in America.   Where To Go To Get More Information: 1. Rates of Vegetarianism by Country https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country 2. American Vegetarian Population https://news.gallup.com/poll/238328/snapshot-few-americans-vegetar

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —Why dining alone is the most uncomfortably thrilling experience you can have while traveling… —How you can take advantage of favorable exchange rates to make your money go further while on vacation… —Why it is better to travel to an international destination by yourself than with friends… —How traveling to a foreign country broadens your perspective and teaches you to be grateful for your life at home, and finally… —The ways in which life in Western Europe differs from the day to day in America.   Where to Go to Get More Information: 1. Americans’ Cigarette Smoking Habits https://www.heart.org/en/news/2018/08/29/smoking-in-america-why-more-americans-are-kicking-the-habit https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=5382924 2. Countries with Favorable Exchange Rates for the American Dollar https://www.smartertravel.com/9-countries-where-the-u-s-dollar-is-strongest-in-2019/ 3. T

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —Why in the last one to two years, young people have been increasingly more concerned about the amount of time they spend “screen-sucking”… —The psychology behind why excessive social media use makes us anxious and depressed… —How Facebook knowingly engineered moderate behavioral addictions into their platform, including the same strategy that casinos use to keep you playing their slot machines… —Why turning off your notifications, deleting addictive apps, or even taking a digital sabbath will not remedy cell phone addiction… —Why you should pledge to stop hitting the like button on social media, and finally… —How to be more intentional with your phone use, and get back some of that autonomy that has been taken away from you.   Where to Go to Get More Information: 1. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in A Noisy World, by Cal Newport 2. “Phantom Vibration Syndrome Among Cell Phone Users” h

In honor of Father's Day this past weekend, Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by his dad, Jay, the former radio broadcasting sensation, wrestling referee and a whole lot more. Ricky and Jay have an elaborate discussion, addressing issues including... --The most glaring differences between growing up in the 1960s/70s and growing up today... --How carrying around a flip phone and staying off of Google influences the way that my father views the world... --Why starting his own exterminating company was more appealing to my dad than attending college... --What life lessons my father has drawn from his work as an Animal Cruelty Prevention Officer... --Why it is critical to experiment with various careers in your lifetime, and finally... --Why human connections and maintaining a robust reputation are the keys to a secure and satisfying livelihood.   Where to Go to Get More Information: 1. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (A.S.P.C.A.) https://www.aspca.org/ 2. Professional Wrestling

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by long-time friend and aerospace engineer, Stefanos Axios.  They have a spirited and comprehensive discussion, spanning issues including: --Why life seems to go by more quickly as you get older... --How "free radicals" and "anti-oxidants" can protect you from aging.. --Why we should stop treating people when they're sick and start treating them when they're healthy... --How you can predict someone's age just by looking at their hand... --Why we should continue investing trillions of dollars in exploring the observable universe... --Whether we should be worried about Earth becoming uninhabitable within our lifetimes... --What exactly is keeping us from sending people to colonize Mars today... --What makes the United States Federal Reserve arguably the most powerful body in the world... --Why Americans should care about our country's insurmountable national debt... --Whether middle-class Americans should be concerned about a recession or depression in their lifetimes,

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: --How technology and blue light from cell phones have caused children's eyesight to worsen at younger ages... --Why doctors do not hesitate to write patients a prescription - even when they feel perfectly fine.... --Which doctors you should prioritize visiting once (or more) throughout the year... --Why rest is the most important component of an effective work-out plan, and finally... --Why meal prepping is the answer to all your problems.   Segments: Doctors' Visits: 11:21 Building A Work-Out Regimen: 36:33 Meal Prep: 1:04:30   Where to Go to Get More Information: 1. Statistics on Physician Visits in America (Center for Disease Control) https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/physician-visits.htm 2. Do You Really Need A Yearly Physical? (Harvard Medical) https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/a-checkup-for-the-checkup-do-you-really-need-a-yearly-physical-201510238473 3. How Often Should You See Primary Care

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: --Whether a society in which all relationships have known 'expiration dates' would be worthwhile... --How one relationship expert can predict the divorce of any couple with 90% accuracy... --Why knowing your love language can make a significant difference in your relationships... --Why an earpiece that would allow you understand any spoken language isn't as promising as it sounds...  --How your personality changes when you speak in a foreign language through the principle of linguistic relativity... --How learning a new language can help you cope with rejection and earn more money at your job, and finally... --The 50 movies that you absolutely need to see before you die.   Segments: Learning Languages: 2:41 The Keys to a Successful Relationship: 37:22 Must-Watch Movies: 1:19:19   Corrections & Clarifications from the Podcast: 1. I stated on the podcast that the film Taxi Driver was 90 minutes lo

Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: --How one university's "Bias-Free Language Guide" took politically correct terminology too far... --Why a comedian getting kicked off-stage at a university performance epitomizes the perils of 'call-out culture'... --Why, though the overwhelming majority of people find fault with 'PC culture', it continues to infect American society... --The multitude of unexpected ways that owning a pet can affect your health... --How giving a senior a plant to take care of can actually extend his or her life... --How the exotic pet trade is leading to the endangerment of some of your favorite pet species... --Why you should be wary of the "natural flavors" hiding in all of the processed food in your pantry, and finally... --Why eating genetically modified foods is not as scary as it sounds. Where to Go to Get More Information: 1. Pet Ownership Statistics Worldwide https://www.petfoodindustry.com/articles/5845-in