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More Creative What does it mean to be creative? How does creativity exhaust itself, or is it a gift that can be taken away? Does everyone have some degree of creativity or only very few ones? These and other questions explored Hicham from Casablanca, Graziano from Milan, Ethan from Seoul, Vozkov from Leon, and JUN […]

Humble Confidence Hello! I’m Vaclav and this is the Chatcast. Today we’re discussing the dangers of overconfidence. Together with Hicham from Casablanca, Graziano from Milan, Roman from Kiyv, Anur from Colombo, and Mark from Kaluga we learned how overconfidence affects us, what would happen if it didn’t exist, and how to balance confidence and humility. […]

You’ll Never Walk Alone Hi! I’m Vaclav and this is the Chatcast. Today we’re gonna explore if we are better athletes than we were in the past. What’s happening in sports? You could have imagined Jesse Owens, the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics 100m sprint winner, being way behind Usain Bolt. If you take a look […]

Being Wrong What does it mean to be right? How do we deal with being wrong? These, and other questions, explored Hicham from Casablanca, Graziano from Milan, and Mark from Kaluga. Kathryn Schulz On Learning To Love ‘Being Wrong’ On being wrong Why It’s Hard to Admit to Being Wrong What Can Doctors Learn By […]

Getting Smarter Thanks to Roman from Kyiv, Tanya from London, Mark from Kaluga, and Graziano from Milan for participating in this Chatcast. Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents’ The importance of stupidity in scientific research Should We Stop Telling Kids They’re Smart? What happens when our computers […]

Friendship Thanks to Ethan from Seul, Roman from Kyiv, Alexandre from Oskol, and Mark from Kaluga, Graziano from Milan for participating in this Chatcast. Is There A Limit To How Many Friends We Can Have? Do We Choose Our Friends Because They Share Our Genes? Why you should talk to strangers The True Meaning Of […]

Speaking Up Thanks to Esmaeil from Tehran, Ethan from Seul, Roman from Kyiv, Miguel from Valparaiso, and Leonard from London, for participating in this Chatcast. What Drives Us To Speak Up? Why Is It Hard To Speak Up? What Do We Risk If We Don’t Speak Up? Can Employees Really Speak Up Without Retribution? How […]

Memory Games Thanks to Graziano from Milan, Italy, Roman from Kyiv, Ukraine and Hicham from Casablanca, Morocco for participating in this Chatcast. Why can’t we remember the first years of our life? Making False Memories How reliable is your memory? Can Anyone Learn To Be A Master Memorizer? Can Eyewitnesses Create Memories? False memory syndrome […]

Bad Design Thanks to Graziano from Italy, Ron from South Korea, Roman from Ukraine and Keivan from Iran for sharing their opinions with us in this Chatcast. How Can We Design For A Better Experience? How Do Buildings Make Us Feel? Ingenious Homes In Unexpected Places John Hodgman: Design, explained. Jens Kubieziel https://www.flickr.com/photos/21816577@N00/ Schlechtes Design […]

This Is How I Talk In this episode we discussed our speech and languages we speak. Some questions to think about. Why We Speak? Does Language Bring Us Together Or Pull Us Apart? The language more beautiful than words What Does It Mean To Be ‘Articulate’? This Is How I Talk – SNL Special thanks […]

I Want To… Believe? In this episode we tried conversing about the nature of human mind. Why is it so easy to believe things and so hard to acquire the scientific set of mind? –Would you rather believe something that turns out to be false, or not believe something that turns out to be true? […]

Hello guys, Tonight we had a random chat together with Graziano and Vaclav. It was absolutely not planned but I wanted to have a chat, a beer and to enjoy my time in English with some people. As usual my recorder was running and we agreed together to publish this record so there you go. Talk […]

Hello everybody! The topic of this Chatcast was “Deadlines”. Some question to think about: – Are deadlines important? – Do you meet your deadlines? – Is it hard for you to meet them? – Have you ever applied after a deadline? – How do you make sure you meet deadlines? – How does having to […]

Hello everybody! After a hiatus of one year, Chatcast is finally back! The 51st episode was recorded on February 26th which we present here. We are really grateful for people that were able to make some time and participate in the renewed Chatcast, Daniel from Switzerland, Carlos from Venezuela, Roman from Ukraine, and Alexander from […]

Hello folks! How are you? I’m Vaclav and this is Chatcast. I hope it’s going okay, that things are, at least, tolerable. I’ve been thinking ever since our founder Guillaume let me host the talks here how to introduce myself. At first, feeling a bit awkward about it I produced a pair of intros and I […]

Hello Guys, It’s been a while since the last episode. The Chatcast is in kind of stand by mode and we try to do an episode from time to time. This episode is about sports, sport apps and general talking. Links: http://wayoflifeapp.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/up-by-jawbone-track-health/id916240764?mt=8 https://www.runtastic.com/ http://teacherluke.co.uk/ Thanks to the guys who took part to this episode […]

Hello guys, Here is the first episode of the year about new resolutions. We had Taisa from Brazil and Hien From Vietnam. Here are the questions: 1.Do you usually take new year’s resolutions and why? 2.Do you succeed to realise your resolutions? 3.How do you do to succeed ? 4.Do you hate new year’s resolutions […]

Hello guys, First of all I’d like to wish you all a very nice year for 2016 and I hope you had a few days off to have some rest. Here is the last episode we recorded in 2015 about climate change. What is your definition of climate change? Some people say that “climate change […]

Download this episode Dear Participant, Today we spoke about Sleeping Habits with Denis, Ethan and Nastya as a host. It was a really funny conversation and I really enjoyed it. Thanks Nastya for hosting this episode and thanks to the participant. Here is the podcast and the album I listen to when it’s time to […]

Hello Everyone, Here is again a great podcast episode hosted by Ethan from South Korea. Questions: Do you believe in the existence of aliens? Tell us your favorite TV show or movie that features aliens What’s going to be your reaction like when encountered aliens? Do you think we as human beings should keep reaching […]