The Nick Standlea show delivers long-form conversations with high-achieving individuals on Learning, Fitness, Wealth, and Storytelling. You can expect in-depth interviews with authors, professors, college admissions experts, doctors, athletes, writers, speakers, entrepreneurs, and creators.
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Learning: growth mindset, accelerated retention, flow, positive psychology, college admissions, awareness, mindfulness, free will, agency, the "idiot phase," intrinsic motivation, eudemonia, and building true expertise.
Health: fitness, nutrition, personalized medicine, meditation, longevity, athletic excellence, and mental resilience.
Wealth: creating businesses, passive income, investing, time value, entrepreneurship, college financial aid, negotiation, and risk.
Storytelling: creativity, writing, the Hero's Journey, structure, the War of Art, and living a creative life.
More about the Host: Nick earned a perfect score on the SAT, but believes standardized tests reveal little about an individual outside of showing colleges how hard he or she is willing to work in order to achieve their future goals.
He’s won grants to teach kids to surf in Hainan, China, study business at the University of Oxford, and Art History at the Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence, Italy. He is a former Research Associate at the Quality of Life Research Center where he got to work for his hero and mentor, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (author of Flow).
Nick founded numerous companies, including Test Prep Gurus, a test prep and education consulting firm based in Newport Beach, California that works with students across the United States, and in twelve countries. He is a writer, speaker, entrepreneur, consultant, and podcaster.
Episode Related Links:
Interview with Nick: "How to Create a Successful Podcast" (Medium Magazine)
Growth Mindset - "Don't Tell Kids They're "Smart" Video
Nick Standlea, CEO of Test Prep Gurus, Interviewed by Authority Magazine
"How I Learned to Not Hate the ACT" Video
Positive Psychology Video by Nick Standlea
Reducing Anxiety in College Admissions Talk
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