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Spencer Greenberg's interview podcast on psychology, rationality, and self-improvement, often testing popular ideas (personality systems, self-help advice, decision-making heuristics) against data and expert interviews.
NPR's practical advice podcast covering health, money, relationships, and everyday life — short episodes with actionable takeaways from experts.
Cate Hall argues that people avoid the self-improvement strategies most likely to help them because those strategies require confronting a core, personality-defining fear — an "existential cringe" that distorts judgment like intoxication does.
Spencer Greenberg talks with Cate Hall, author of You Can Just Do Things, about why people gravitate toward self-help that flatters their existing strengths rather than the advice that would challenge them, the Enneagram as a lens on default psychological "shape," and how personal agency comes from noticing degrees of freedom — untested social scripts and low-stakes rejection — that others assume are fixed constraints.