The Kevin Rose Show

Tim and I sit down to discuss consciousness-hacking, the future of wearables, nootropics, diet, the ego, our favorite books and much more. Tim Chang is the managing director at Mayfield Fund and has been twice named to the Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors. Tim is also an accomplished musician, who performs in three bands, as well as a body and consciousness-hacking enthusiast.

Jim Kwik is a world expert in speed-reading, memory improvement, and optimal brain performance. As the CEO and Founder of Kwik Learning, Jim’s cutting-edge techniques and impressive mental feats have made him a highly sought-out brain trainer for top entrepreneurs and organizations with clients that include Virgin, Nike, GE, Fox Studios, Harvard University, and Singularity University. In this episode, Jim and I discuss his top strategies for memory and learning, motivation, limiting beliefs, digital distraction, and nutrition.  Show Notes: 00:30 -- Kevin's childhood memory challenges (and the self talk that followed) 03:30 -- Luminosity; Lion's Mane Mushroom; Phospholipid Omega-3 DHA 04:30 -- How Jim started as the "boy with the broken brain" 09:03 -- The impact of limiting beliefs on learning and memory  13:20 -- What Jim learnt while visiting nursing homes and seniors' centers  18:50 -- 'The Power of Positive Thinking'; Dale Carnegie; Napoleon Hill  20:00 -- Subvocalization as a constraint for fast

Kevin and Tony talk about his latest book, biohacking, and more. After interviewing 50 of the world's greatest financial minds and penning the number-one New York Times best seller Money: Master the Game, Tony Robbins returns with a step-by-step playbook, "Unshakable," a book that takes you on a journey to transform your financial life and accelerate your path to financial freedom.

Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus help over 20 million people live meaningful lives with less through their website, books, podcast, and documentary. The Minimalists have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Forbes, TIME, ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, CBC, and NPR.

Kevin talks to Michael Pollan, author of "How to change your mind" about the therapeutic potential of psychedelics. Get the show notes here.

Kevin is back w/ Tim-Tim Ferriss for this latest installment of The Random Show.

A lack of sleep is associated with all types of diseases, including Alzheimer's and cancer. Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab—reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to fight disease and change our lives for the better.

Dr. Adam Gazzaley is a Professor in Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry at UCSF. There he designs and develops novel software-based brain assessment and optimization tools. He is also co-founder of Akili Interactive Labs, a company developing therapeutic video games. Dr. Gazzaley has filed multiple patents for his inventions, authored over 130 scientific articles, and delivered over 600 invited presentations around the world. His research and perspectives have been consistently profiled in high-impact media, such as The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, TIME, Discover, Wired, PBS, NPR, CNN and NBC Nightly News.

I'm a geek. Making new connections with people has always been difficult. Jordan Harbinger (host of The Jordan Harbinger Show) teaches us how to destroy social anxiety and make meaningful connections. Show notes.

Dr. Valter Longo is director of the Longevity Institute at USC and the Program on Longevity and Cancer at IFOM in Milan. In this podcast, we discuss Dr. Longo's new book, The Longevity Diet, which is the culmination of 25 years of research on aging, nutrition, and disease across the globe. Dr. Longo has put together a powerful combination of fasting and diet. The diet is that of centenarians (people living 100+ years) combined along with with the scientifically engineered 5-day fasting-mimicking diet (or FMD), done just 3-4 times a year. Dr. Longo designed the FMD after making a series of remarkable discoveries in mice, then in humans, indicating that specific micro-fasts can activate stem cells and promote regeneration and rejuvenation in multiple organs to significantly reduce the risk for diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease. Full show notes here.

Tim Urban has become one of the Internet’s most popular writers. His in-depth and geeky posts have garnered millions of visitors and famous fans like Elon Musk. In this episode, Tim and Kevin talk Bitcoin, VR, how to be more like Elon Musk, cryonics to live forever, and much more. Get all the show notes here.

Chris Hutchins (ex-Google) is the go-to personal finance hacker for many executives in Silicon Valley. In this episode, Chris teaches us how to select the best credit card for points, earning extra income with your house, how and when to retire (the 4% rule), budgeting tools, and his new startup, Grove. Full show notes at podcast.kevinrose.com/17

Full show notes and links here. Andreas M. Antonopoulos is the author of Mastering Bitcoin (O'Reilly). We discuss the separation of state and money, how bitcoin is the worlds first trust protocol, how mining works, looking at bitcoin from a global perspective, what happens to bitcoin once we have quantum computing, and much more.

Tim is back with his new book: Tribe of Mentors. We talk about common traits his mentors share, the single question Tim ask himself every day, and of course, what supplements and body hacks Tim is into at the moment. Full show notes and links here: www.kevinrose.com/single-post/Tim-Ferriss-Tribe-of-Mentors

Kevin speaks with FBI counterintelligence agent and author of "The Code of Trust", Robin Dreeke. You'll learn how to build and maintain trust, icebreakers for a party, the power of establishing a time constraint, the third-party reference technique, and many other trust-building skills.

Ben Greenfield is a prolific self-experimenting health/fitness guru and host of the insanely popular Ben Greenfield Fitness podcast. In this episode, we dive into Ben's daily routine from waking up until bedtime. Ben holds a Master's degree in exercise science and biomechanics, an ISSN Sports Nutrition Certification, a Serotta Bike Fit Certification, and the highest attainable certification as a Strength & Conditioning Coach by the NSCA. He has competed in the Triathlon World Championships of Olympic, Half and Full Ironman distances, and is the Number 1 ranked triathlete for Triathlon Northwest.

Ryan Holiday is the author of "The Daily Stoic," "Ego is The Enemy," and "The Obstacle is The Way." In this episode Kevin and Ryan explore the basics of stoic philosophy, showing how you can reframe your thinking to be more like a stoic.

Bill is the founder and first CEO of Google Ventures (GV). With $3.0 billion under management and investments in Uber and Nest, GV was described as one of the hottest venture funds in Silicon Valley under his leadership. Maris oversaw the growth of the team from 1 to 70+, across 7 offices, 2 continents, and 400 investments.

If you have an idea or product then growth is always on your mind. Kevin sits down with Sean Ellis, author of "Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success."

Gary Vaynerchuk is an American serial entrepreneur, four-time New York Times bestselling author, speaker and internationally recognized internet personality.