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 from Seoul.

How Do You Get Over Writer’s Block?

Where does creativity hide?

Where good ideas come from

Where Does Creativity Come From?

No Talent Circus

Amanda Hirsch
Creativity in Progress

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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.

The Overconfidence Effect

The Humility-Confidence SeeSaw: The Untold Secret of Great Leaders

Queen Of The Night

Can You Be Both Confident and Humble?

In Defense of Ignorance

Why Saying Is Believing — The Science Of Self-Talk

Francois de Halleux

Trust the driver

The Trola pass is one of the most dangerous parts of the Sichuan-Tibet highway. The road is a mere
dirt track climbing as high as 5050m above sea level. Luckily, I could count on the experience and
confidence of our reliable driver that day.
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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 at the numbers, 10.3 sec and 9.58 sec, which corresponds roughly to 7 meters distance between them at the finish, it looks like a lot. But the truth of matter is that if Owens were to compete on the modern surface his time would be 9.63 sec, which isn’t that longer than Bolt’s. So, what does it mean? Where are we heading to? Should the doping and mechanical assistance be allowed in sports? What to expect from sports in the future? These, and other questions, explored Hicham from Casablanca, Graziano from Milan, Leo from London and Anur from Colombo.

Are Athletes Really Getting Faster, Better, Stronger?

The Legend Of Steve Davies

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/11/330681966/the-legend-of-steve-davies
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/sep/05/harry-redknapp-played-fan-west-ham

What will sports look like in the future?

What Does It Take To Dive Into Dangerous Waters?

Are we born to run?

7ty9
sports
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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 Admitting Their Mistakes?

Are There Mistakes In Jazz?

When Great Scientists Got It Wrong

gwire
Flypostering is Wrong

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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 get smarter than we are?

cielleandlacey charronandcochran…

Lacey is Smart

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 Friendship

‘Friendship’ Roman style: What the Romans would have thought of Facebook

Quotes About Best Friends

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Friends

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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 Does Speaking Up Change Minds?

Speak Up
Speak Up global

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

Hanna Lerski

maybe it was the most beautiful day in the summer…to me it’s a medicament in hard days…
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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

Schlechtes Design
Man sollte den Namen seines Geschäftes sorgfältig wählen.

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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 to the participants of this episode, Graziano from Italy, Roman from Ukraine and Eli from Russia

John Hoey
Spoken English

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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?
– Is it natural for you to doubt?
– How do you think of the quote, “I don’t want to believe. I want to know.”— Carl Sagan ?
– Do you see a face in the Moon?
– You hear a rustle in the tall grass. Is it a dangerous predator or just the wind?

Radoslaw from Bulgaria, Shoaib from Pakistan, Ron and Barbossa from South Korea, Roman from Ukraine and Graziano from Italy sought for answers…

Why Do We Believe In Unbelievable Things?

Why Do People See Faces in the Moon?

The Journey to Finding Yourself By Rena Camille

Mr Thinktank
Flying Saucer, Cup, and Teapot!

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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 to you soon.

Cheers

Guillaume

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 meet a deadline affects your performance?

The article to read http://jameshaytonphd.com/how-to-meet-deadlines/

Thanks to Carlos from Venezuela, Shoaib from Pakistan, Ron from South Korea and Graziano from Italy!

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 Russia. Thank you guys!

‘Misapprehensions‘

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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 rejected them all with scorn.

Then, at some point, it struck me that the better way to announce myself was just to…speak.

What we all crave for is fluency and being eloquent. It’s exactly what brings us together here every time we want to learn something new by talking and sharing our inspirations and insights.

I’m always excited to meet new people. The thing that we can always teach each other a thing or two never stops amazing me. I got lucky to have met some phenomenal learners. People with great skills and enviable grit that made me realize my potential.

I figure that we’re exactly that to each other. A huge source of inspiration and friendly support we need so badly to improve and succeed eventually.

My point is that everyone got to have a chance. A chance to learn and teach. Teaching allows us to learn a lot.

I hope we’ll all enjoy it every time we hang out.

I can’t tire you any longer with my speech and wait you’ll at a regular time on Sundays.

One more thing! I also took the liberty to record a very short story I wrote for our first meeting. Hope it’s fine with you.

Okay, here we go.

Today, the Chatcast team proudly present: ‘Misapprehensions‘.

[Okay.] It was a hot summer day. White drove his car.

Something kept nudging him. What was that? His family and him were about to have a great time at the beach. Yet, it didn’t feel right.

Generally, he didn’t mind company. But. When he met Martin there, his high-school classmate, the previous year, he didn’t like it. Actually, he hated the mere sight of Martin. Why?

Well, obviously Martin must have voted for the new President. He looked like one who had.

Now. For White most people looked like that. They were the 84 per cent majority who voted for Lewis. Damn him! So, there was no way, no way, White could feel at ease with that kind of person. Even if it was a classmate, or a co-worker. Anybody! No. Way.

White! How are you, pal? That was him, Martin! Speaking to White! It happened again. Well. Now. Surprisingly, they had a pretty lively and amiable talk. Have a nice time! Same to you, pal! Wow.

He seems to be a nice person after all, thought White. Shameless bastard! He must have voted for that scum Lewis! raged Martin. I certainly shouldn’t have come here! Damn it!

The story is by me, Vaclav Landakoff. We thank the bands Greater Than Or Equal To and Lobo Loco for the soundtrack, used under the CC license, you are free to share and adapt it. Find more on creativecommons.org

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See you all!

The First Session

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 and see you next time, (probably next Sunday).

Guillaume

P.S This episode is also available on YouTube:

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 ? Why ?

During this episode we mentioned a few links that you can find here:

Zdenek’s English Podcast:

https://audioboom.com/channel/zdeneks-english-podcast

The episode of Guillaume’s English Podcast about immersion:

http://talk2learn.ch/episode-6-english-immersion/

Luke’s English Podcast:

http://teacherluke.co.uk/

And this where you can download this podcast on iTunes:
http://oyebhfkq.preview.infomaniak.website/itunes

And for the last link I ask you to be really careful about who and where you meet people.
Always meet people in a public place and always say to someone where you go, when and who you are supposed to meet.
This is a general rule when you meet people from internet.

http://meetup.com

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.

1. What is your definition of climate change?
2. Some people say that “climate change is a natural phenomenon and human isn’t affecting it at any degrees.” Do you agree with it? If not, why?
3. Do you actually feel that climate of region/country that you live are changing?
4. Many people believe that we need to protect our environment. Between strong government regulation and free market economy, which one do you think is more effective?
5. World leaders are trying to solve climate change issue. What’s going to be your proposal if you were one of them?

Feel free to leave a comment and tell us what you think about climate change.

Cheers

Guillaume

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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 sleep, enjoy

Meditation Oasis

Tibetan Meditation Music

By the way our partner Gymglish would like to offer you 7 days of free trial so don’t hesitate to signup now.

Have a nice week

Cheers

Guillaume

Hello Everyone,

Here is again a great podcast episode hosted by Ethan from South Korea.

Questions:

1. Do you believe in the existence of aliens?
2. Tell us your favorite TV show or movie that features aliens
3. What’s going to be your reaction like when encountered aliens?
4. Do you think we as human beings should keep reaching out to the outer space in order to contact aliens? Why?
5. Let’s say they exist. Friend or foe to us?
   
6.  Do you tend to believe people who claim that they have seen aliens? Why? Why not?

Thanks to the participant for this episode.

Leave us a comment, do you believe in aliens and why?

Cheers

Guillaume