The reality behind my book launch
A few weeks ago, I posted photos of myself signing books at Barnes & Noble on Fifth Avenue and at my local bookstore. It looked like a win....
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Changing Minds with Owen Fitzpatrick
Changing Minds is a psychological podcast by Owen Fitzpatrick that reveals the insights and science behind why we do what we do, think what we think and say what we say.The idea is to help y...
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How to heal polarization
Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness spent decades as sworn enemies in one of the bloodiest conflicts in modern history. Then they became genui...
How influence works
In the early 1980s, Steve Jobs asked an engineer to save 10 seconds off the Macintosh boot-up time. The engineer found 28. His skills never...
How to make better decisions
I almost said "pick up the phone" was the wrong call for Stanislav Petrov to make. His training said launch. The screen said launch. He said...
How to manage your mental health
In 2006, I sat on a hillside above Quito and drank ayahuasca with a shaman. For a few hours, my entire reality came apart: dragons, monsters...
How Inner Propaganda works
For years, a voice in my head told me I was worthless, and it never once sounded like an opinion. It sounded like the truth. It took thirty...
Maybe no one went crazy. It's your brain.
Picture the most wrong person you know. Now consider that somewhere out there, someone is just as certain about you. In this episode, I expl...
How storytelling secretly rewires your beliefs
During the Second World War, up to forty percent of the German army tuned in nightly to a radio host they trusted completely. He never exist...
How logic betrays the people who trust it
Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes and one of the sharpest minds of his era, spent years publicly defending photographs of f...
The neuroscience of giving and donating with Cherian Koshy
When people give, they're not just transferring money. They're rehearsing a version of themselves. That insight, shared by my guest Cherian...
Why most culture change fails (And what works)
When Louis Gerstner took over a dying IBM in 1993, he told his leadership team the company's last problem was a missing vision. Every expert...
You don't find meaning from life. You build it
In 1938, a London stockbroker named Nicholas Winton canceled a ski vacation and went to Czechoslovakia instead. Over the following months, h...
Your labels are your limits (with Nir Eyal)
Why do so many people read the book, understand the advice, and still not change? Nir Eyal started asking that question when readers began c...
You're a hypocrite. That's the best news you'll hear today
A coach with decades of experience once told me she knew exactly what she needed to do to stop smoking, but just couldn't do it, because she...
Why feelings feel like facts
I was lying on a wooden floor in the Amazon jungle, convinced I was finally seeing the truth. The colors were sharper. The connections were...
The belief that sabotages every conversation you have (with Tamsen Webster)
Socrates was executed for it. The ancient Greeks called it parrhesia: the practice of speaking truth openly, even at personal risk. The form...
The hidden psychology that decides whether your team will fight for you or walk away
At 25 years old, Anne Devlin was tortured, thrown into a cell with six inches of sewage on the floor, and offered the equivalent of $90,000...
Your brain has five versions of the truth, and most of them are wrong
Nobody thinks they're the one watching propaganda. It's always the other channel. That's naive realism, and it's one of the biggest barriers...
How the Emperor created Darth Vader: The psychology behind the dark side
This episode of Inner Propaganda is one I have been waiting to make for a long time. In honor of May the 4th, we are going full Star Wars to...
Your brain has a context window, and it's lying to you
Welcome to the very first episode of Inner Propaganda . In this episode, I open up about the darkest moment of my life, at 14 years old, sit...