I'm just here helping the bots!

"It is so easy to get sucked into work that is urgent and not important. This is a death trap for productivity." You just described the office I work in.

"the secret to making good decisions is to make good decisions" is legit my experience with self help books - aka, if you have the thing then you don't need this book but if you don't have the thing this book will not help. Congrats to those in the middle of the venn diagram.

I would totally listen to that book as an audio book if it was read in Grey's sarcastic voice

This is the first cortex episode I have seen, i'm hooked!

1:10:00 That matrix is called the "Eisenhower Method" of General Dwight D. Eisenhower fame

"I can be playing Stardew Valley and listen" oh do you mean what I'm doing right now

the actual habits come 51 minutes in.. I guess they did learned something from business books

Am I crazy that I totally understand the difference between compromising and synergy? Compromising mean you didn’t get everything you wanted and you gave up some i.e. 1+1 = 1.5 Synergizing means you got everything you wanted and the sum of those parts gives extra benefits i.e. 1+1 = 3

One of the best Cortex Podcasts ever

I feel so honored to be the first comment. All of my hard work and dedication has paid off. Getting the first comment has been a dream of mine for many years, and I would like to thank those who have helped me along the way. First and foremost i would like to thank god for giving me this opportunity. Next i would like to thank my parents. I want to thank my friend Peter Griffin for being really skinny and always there for me. I would also like to thank my pet tadpole for surviving against all odds for over a week. Next i would like to thank the squirrel that lives in my backyard for climbing trees because that gives me inspiration that i need to get through the day. This is a special moment in my life and i would like to thank any of my unmentioned friends and family that have helped me along the way. This moment will be a moment that I will never forget. I just remembered a few other people i would like to thank; Abraham Lincoln, the fish I caught in the third grade, my light in my room because i wouldn’t be able to see the keyboard without it, the internet for letting me go on the bodybuilding forums, my house because without it i would be homeless, and last but not least i would like to thank all the people out there that actually took time out of their day to read this. I cannot stress how much of a big deal to me this is. I have been trying to be the first on a post for years, but that has not been possible until this amazing day. Hopefully my good luck will continue, but this is undoubtedly a rare occasion. If you asked me how I did this, I would say, you can achieve anything u set your mind on. To all the kids out there reading this, I would like to tell them to follow their dreams. Being the first is truly amazing, thank you everyone

It's interesting to see how different people take the book in different ways. I found this book to be so packed with PRACTICAL wisdom that I keep going over it again and again and it changed my life. I guess if you don't relate to the content you just don't get involved with the book and it seems like an excessive amount of words, but I devoured it. And I mean in a personal way, not necessarily in buisness.

getting a grasp of topics needs both the individuals feeling of free will and want to understand a concept, plus the communicator who tries their best to communicate a idea depending on the audience

I'm so happy that I finally got around to the pod! = D Algorithm take this: The 7 Habits of Hightly Effective People Pod Cortex CGP Grey 😄😃😀😍 I like CGP Grey's channel. Talking about random stuff that's interesting, and hear his calm voice (even when frustrated it's rather calming). And now he's with his friend that radiates joy and sparks it in Grey! This is so interesting! = D I'm only 10 minutes in but HERE WE GO!

I can believe the wife suddenly remembering about frigidaire because something similar happened to me. Aslong as i can remember i have had trouble swallowing pills. No matter the size, taste, texture it just feels like i physically can't do it which is obviously not true. So when i need to take medication i always end up chewing them up first which leaves the most disgusting vomit inducing taste in my mouth but that is the only way i can swallow them. A couple years ago i finally figured out why. When i was small child me and my stepdad were going to see some kind of motorbike race. And as we were talking and laughing in the car i had a hard candy in my mouth that i used to love. But as i was laughing i accidently swallowed the candy and started choking. Luckily we were close to the track and the doctor there ended up saving my life. I don't remember what happened in between swallowing the candy and getting to the doctor. I barely remember the doctor only that i threw up and have no recollection whatsoever of the rest of that day. This was the only time in my life that i thought i was going to die. And i had forgotten it. Or rather blocked out a traumatic experience i presume since it was still floating around somewhere in my subconscious. PS: Oddly it took me many years before i even tried eating a hard candy again. But even though i eat them very carefully on the rare occasion that i do. It didn't click why i was so afraid of accidently swallowing one of them untill a couple of years ago.

My elementary school used the 7habits for the kids to follow

Hey KZfaq I love this video send me more of this

I just realized grey uses the boxes from 1:01:00 in the most deadly job video for the amendments.

You've had a podcast this whole time??? Subscribed!

This book seems like a glorified buzzfeed list now

So this is actually being taught in my school right now.

48:40 - habits You're welcome

All the people with timestamp for actual review - are you really came just for book and not just search for one of popular or just in queue Cortex podcast? It's interesting to listen to them, come on UPD: especially they ARE talking about book when you wanna skip

The episode about death was posted a few hours before a shotting in a school in Brazil, it was pretty weird

That music though!! I actually laughed out loud at my desk.

Thanks for a funny and interesting review. I'll use these three good habits.

people try their best to communicate possibly useful ideas, up to individual if they apply it to their own will

this sounds like an art-house book

17:10 These "stories" were the biggest thing that undermined the book for me. It was required reading for a college course, and there were many reasons I thoroughly did not enjoy it, but the deliberately embellished or outright fabricated "true stories" fundamentally made me resent Covey as an author. If the same stories had been presented as hypotheticals, the title of Gravest Sin would have gone to something else, but I would have at least felt less like my intelligence was being insulted. Fun podcast tho, what a trip to revisit.

1:23:00 if only they believed in synergy they would have found love, sadge

27:53 I'm listening to this while playing stardew valley lol...

note to self. ep 21

but just love her tho

To be fair, I did see people in Southeast Asia with families of five on one motorcycle. Not safe, but it can be done. Most I ever managed was three people, one backpack and one day bag.

Thank you for sharing my school rules

i just listen to it in the background while playing games

why does cgp have a fading reverb effect on his voice?

Joke's on you, bots! I listen to podcasts with iTunes!

In the Cinergy chapter the dude had said something like 'You're having problems. You made a kid with cinergy'. Was he going anywhere with that? Like: "...That cinergy that you felt, that connection of minds and emotions, a version of that that can be found in your daily lives and finding that would increase your cinergy" or "You cared for each others' needs when you made that child. Try to find that care for each other even when you're not physically close".

Half way through Triggers, damn Im enjoying this book. Can you guys talk about it one day?

I Just came because of the bots...

if a summary of books is something that fits, I would suggest reading those instead

ohh cortex woo!

43:44 you're welcome.

i like how at the end you two were praising the three advices and saying how they're actually very good but then the for the next half~ an hour you just roasted the man and kept saying that he's just. um.. Dumb

I've only read 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. I don't remember it having any of the crazy stuff you mention. Maybe it's actually the better option…?

The 7 Habits begins at 38:53 You’re welcome 😉

My friend love is a verb is pretentious a d condescending at the same time

Algorythm !

"You have to be an attendee to be there" re: the Podcon discussion was funny. I'd argue that is indeed the case for any life event. 😉

spooky book

Anyone else out here with PTSD from intro to engineering and this book lol

memento mori

Seems like the writer was going senile during writing the book.

Lol, I was playing Stardew Valley while listening this

Not a technical limit, literally a limit set by the designers, possibly to suggest a livestream in place of an uncessarily long video. Just weird that it was mentioned in the desc. to be something it really was not.

I say truths like that though, damn.

this ep felt more like hello internetish

2 people weren't that effective

I have a love-hate relationship with this book. It's somewhat barely love, and mostly kinda hate. Sigh

i honestly want to read this book now because i wanna know how much it really is garbage

AHHA, I forgot to read the book.

Not first

Pod Con? So now podcasts have their own convention too... I cannot find the words to describe how much I dislike conventions in general. They sell tickets at professional-sports-gouging prices, parking fees are exorbitant, bus shuttle programs are packed with long lines and late pickup times, pseudo intellectuals (aka nerds) try to outsmart each other and show how much more they know about a particular subject, no outside food is available (forced concession prices on hungry attendees), prices for memorabilia in general are much more expensive than one would pay in stores or online (Amazon), and they sometimes sell tickets before having a completed guest list. Plus it just propagates this stupid culture of idol worshiping (seriously, is there anything more pathetic than waiting in line to get someone's autograph... a signed piece of paper from a person who doesn't know you and will probably never see you again?). Sorry to be so negative, I just feel that now-a-days there is a "convention" for just about everything, and in the end, most of them just serve a business purpose, even though the official line is about how "they're an outlet for the fans". In the end it's about self promotion and selling a brand/way-of-life and marketing overpriced and unnecessary products. I'd love to hear Myke and Grey's opinion on this subject!

myke is so frustrating sometimes. he just parrots what grey said a few seconds ago as if it was his own idea. as a professional podcaster, be better myke.

I hate HAAATEE it when you review a book because you always show the negative side of the book.. especially you Myke.

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Don't take the lords name in vain

27:30 This book is the worst book. _Yikes_

I really like CGP Grey videos, they are compact, concentrated and interesting, so to see this almost two hour watery talk is highly disappointing. CGP Grey has happy voice and fast speech, his colleague in a contrast slow and sad, so reaction on their voices is similar.

so the introduction to the book tells you everything you need to know... it has pyramid scheme artist Richard DeVos, Focus on the Family board member Orson Scott Card, and Orrin Hatch... yeah... hard pass from me.