Embracing Uncertainty & Radical Curiosity with LeoĀ Babauta

What Leo learned about learning, his fun debate with Tim Ferriss on abandoning goal setting and more...

This is a quick note to mention that episode #3 of the Curious Humans podcast is live, enjoy!

🌓Leo Babauta is the prolific writer of Zen Habits who joined me from the distant island of Guam 7,400 miles away.

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"When you’re feeling fear, instead of turning away from it or trying to escape/avoid it … try turning towards it. Actually allow yourself to feel the fear. We don’t often want to feel it, but we have a greater capacity to feel fear than we give ourselves credit for."

– Leo Babauta


In this wide-ranging conversation we covered…


šŸ§˜ā€ā™‚ļø The incredible Zen Habits origin story—his path from being in debt, overweight, a smoker and feeling miserable to escaping debt, gaining a following of over a million readers, publishing books on habit-change, finding joy and even running an ultra-marathon!

šŸ’Ŗ How to develop 'radical curiosity' and dive inwards even when you don't like what you're seeing; how to ā€˜hold the pose’ when you're entire body wants to shut down and run.

šŸ‘Øā€šŸŽ“ How he unschooled and de-programmed his kids to facilitate their own natural state of curiosity.

šŸš€ Leo's compelling case for why a fully-optimised life would actually suck and risks being the most controlled boring thing possible.

🤼 What he's learned about learning and a fun debate with Tim Ferriss on the idea of abandoning goals.

ā“Listener Question // ā€œHow do you feel about the balance between achievement and appreciation?ā€ Share your thoughts here in the comment thread.


šŸ“ Read the full transcript here over on Medium.

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