Jordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and former University of Toronto professor whose academic work on personality — particularly the Big Five traits and their relationship to political orientation and achievement — is well cited. He became a global public figure in 2016, and “12 Rules for Life” sold millions of copies. The genuinely…
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Professor Idan Segev is a computational neuroscientist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and one of the founding figures of the field. He was a long-standing contributor to the Blue Brain Project and the European Human Brain Project, which set out to build biologically detailed computer simulations of cortical tissue, neuron by neuron. His work…
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Gregg Braden is an author and speaker who began his career as a computer systems designer and geologist in the aerospace and energy industries before turning to writing on consciousness and spirituality. His books — “The Divine Matrix,” “The God Code,” “The Isaiah Effect” — argue that human emotion and belief directly shape physical reality…
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Bruce Lipton is a cell biologist who taught anatomy at the University of Wisconsin and did research at Stanford Medical School before writing “The Biology of Belief.” His thesis is that genes are not destiny — that signals from the cell’s environment, and by extension from our thoughts and beliefs, control gene expression. The first…
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Eben Pagan built two careers. He first became widely known in the early 2000s under the pen name David DeAngelo, writing dating advice for men and effectively industrializing that corner of the internet. He then pivoted to teaching marketing and productivity to entrepreneurs, with programmes including “Wake Up Productive” and “Guru Blueprint.” The thread connecting…
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Dr. Alan Mandell is a chiropractor and one of the more unlikely success stories on YouTube, where he posts as “motivationaldoc” to an audience of millions. His videos are short, unproduced, and relentlessly practical: a single stretch, a nerve-glide, a self-massage technique, a posture correction, demonstrated in two or three minutes and explained in plain…
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Box breathing is about as simple as an intervention gets: inhale for four counts, hold for four, exhale for four, hold for four. Repeat for a few minutes. It’s widely associated with US Navy SEAL training and is used across military, law enforcement, and emergency-response settings as a way to stay functional under acute stress.…
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Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford, where his lab has worked on neural regeneration, binocular vision, and the neuroscience of fear and stress. The Huberman Lab podcast has made him one of the most-heard science communicators in the world. His most durable contributions are about light and the…
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Daniel Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for work that was, strictly speaking, psychology — which tells you how thoroughly he and Amos Tversky reshaped our understanding of human judgement. Their prospect theory demonstrated that people don’t evaluate outcomes rationally against expected value; they evaluate changes relative to a reference point, and they…
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