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Hosted by Spencer Greenberg · science · EN · 326 episodes
Clearer Thinking is a podcast about ideas that truly matter. If you enjoy learning about powerful, practical concepts and frameworks, wish you had more deep, intellectual conversations in your life, or are looking for non-BS self-improvement, then we think you'll love this podcast! Each week we invite a brilliant guest to bring four important ideas to discuss for an in-depth conversation. Topics include psychology, society, behavior change, philosophy, science, artificial intelligence, math, economics, self-help, mental health, and technology. We focus on ideas that can be applied right now to make your life better or to help you better understand yourself and the world, aiming to teach you the best mental tools to enhance your learning, self-improvement efforts, and decision-making. • We take on important, thorny questions like: • What's the best way to help a friend or loved one going through a difficult time? How can we make our worldviews more accurate? How can we hone the accuracy
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Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg is hosted by Spencer Greenberg. The show has published 326 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Race to Replace Us With AI (with Garrison Lovely)" (6 October 2026, 74 minutes), "Why we procrastinate, and what actually helps (with Itamar Shatz)" (21 September 2026, 56 minutes), and "Neurodiversity, Autism, Awe, and Religious Experience (with Jonathan Machnee)" (13 September 2026, 96 minutes).
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 77 minutes across 326 episodes.
Booking probability for Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg's contact route on record: verified email.
Spencer Greenberg hosts Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg, a science show with 326 episodes published.
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Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Read the full transcript here. Could AI simultaneously be an extraordinarily powerful technology and an economic bubble, and why would those possibilities not contradict each other? What does the history of the internet...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Read the full transcript here. What exactly is procrastination, and how is it different from simply deciding to postpone something? Why is chronic procrastination so common, and why can it affect highly conscientious...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Read the full transcript here. What does “neurodivergent” actually mean, and has the term become too broad to be useful? Why might people grouped under the same neurodivergent umbrella have conflicting needs? Is autism...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Read the full transcript here. Why is producing meat so inefficient? How does animal agriculture contribute to hunger and malnutrition? How large are the environmental costs of meat production? How does industrial...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Read the full transcript here. What makes an attachment to AI meaningfully different from an attachment to a human, animal, or fictional character? If chatbot relationships are built around validation and adaptation...
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Read the full transcript here. Why do people gravitate toward self-help that reinforces the strategies they already use well? How can we identify the default lens through which we interpret nearly every situation? What...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Read the full transcript here. How large is the housing crisis, and why does it impose trillions of dollars in economic costs? Why has housing become especially unaffordable across English speaking countries and an...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Read the full transcript here. Why can the same meditation technique produce emotional openness in one person and dissociation in another? How can meditators tell whether they are cultivating equanimity or merely...
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Read the full transcript here. What happens to a community when no one has the formally recognized authority to punish, exclude, or forgive? Are written rules a constraint on freedom, or are they sometimes the very...
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Read the full transcript here. What changes when we stop imagining transformation as a single breakthrough and start seeing it as thousands of small, low-resistance actions? How do we know whether a small action is...
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Read the full transcript here. Why is so much self-help useless, and why is some of it genuinely life-changing? What separates a powerful psychological technique from vague advice? Why is “love yourself” often less...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
<p> Read the full transcript here. </p> <p>How do we know whether the things we do every day actually work? Why do so many practices in medicine, parenting, education, conservation, and public policy begin as intuition...
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<p> Read the full transcript here. </p> <p>How much good is lost when charity optimizes only for what can be measured? When does a cost-effectiveness model clarify reality, and when does it create false confidence...
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<p> Read the full transcript here. </p> <p>Why do our minds sometimes need experiments more than insight? What changes when therapy becomes a way of practicing life outside the therapist’s office rather than explaining...
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<p> Read the full transcript here. </p> <p>What are the world’s leading AI companies actually trying to build when they talk about superintelligence? Is the goal merely better chatbots, or systems that could outperform...
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<p> Read the full transcript here. </p> <p>What should count as trauma, and what gets lost when the word expands to cover ordinary distress? Why do some frightening events leave lasting psychological injury while others...
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<p> Read the full transcript here. </p> <p>How do we tell the difference between a theory that is incomplete and a theory that is simply wrong? What should count as success in fundamental physics when direct experiments...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
<p> Read the full transcript here. </p> <p>What should count as trauma, and what gets lost when the word expands to cover ordinary distress? Why do some frightening events leave lasting psychological injury while others...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
<p> Read the full transcript here. </p> <p>Is dishonesty best understood as a permanent feature of human nature or as a condition that worsens when incentives and tools change? When new technologies make cheating easier...
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
<p> Read the full transcript here. </p> <p>Could AI trigger an economic break as large as the Industrial Revolution, or even larger? What changes when labor stops being the main bottleneck in production? If intelligence...
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