Category: Podcast

  • 39: Reflecting On Your Learning, And Daily Talk

    On episode 39, on December 9th, I bring some life discussion about things like: The fires that are happening in Los Angeles Keeping consistent on your efforts My plan on how I will be reading the last chapters of Behave How you should reflect on your mistakes We are looking great in December. To more…

  • 38: Upcoming 2017 End Of Year Video For Youtube

    Hey all we keep it moving here. The fires continue in Los Angeles, but the city is solid. In this episode, I go over: The end of year video I am likely making for Youtube A shortened version will be for Instagram Updates on book reading and an upcoming chapter Drinking water We all have…

  • 37: Being Romantic About Judgment In Character

    In a recent conference where Gary Vaynerchuk was answering questions, he said “People love to be romantic about their judgment in character; thus it deems them non-actionable when it most matters”. This episode is about: Not being attached to your past decisions or maneuvers Make it more about firing, or cancelling, and not about hiring Being…

  • 36: The Power Of Story And Focusing On What You Can Do

    How do he do it? 16 episodes in 16 days with episode 36 on December 6. In this one, I talk about: the power of story to connect with people how you can set focus on what you can do instead of missed opportunities commentary on potential future podcast discussion We are on the podcast…

  • 35: Managing Yourself During Fires And Other Emergencies

    Fires happen in Southern California, or near Los Angeles, and a few are currently burning away. This prompted me to do this episode on how to manage during such instances, and those of earthquakes and other disasters, and to think about them in advance. Couple of fires going on right now (Thomas Fire and Creek…

  • 34: Chapters 9 Through 12 Of Behave By Robert Sapolsky

    We are back at it with some Sapolsky for you. This is a summary of chapters 9 through 12 in his book “Behave”, and I took in-depth notes on these chapters regarding human behavior. Some of the topics in this episode are: collectivist versus individualist cultures and their different thinking how culture impacts action how…

  • 33: The Arboretum, Festival Of Lights, And Goodreads

    33 in the building~. In this episode, I wanted to discuss two places I went to, and an update to an online profile of mine. the plants at The Arboretum in Arcadia, Los Angeles flower and plants and what is cool the Festival of Lights in Riverside, and all its various features how I switched…

  • 32: World Cup Draw, Predicted Victories, And Country Discussion

    World Cup 2018 is coming next year, and the draw for the team groups happened. They are 8 groups of 4 countries each. In this episode, I discussed: the countries involved in the groups stories I knew of that related to the countries things about soccer as a sport my guesses on who would win…

  • 31: Discussing Concepts In Jay-Z New York Times Conversation Video

    This episode is discussion about life concepts presented by Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) in his discussion with Dean Baquet of The New York Times, as seen/heard in this Youtube video. This video/audio had concepts about people, vulnerability, truth, fear, pain, compassion, helping, challenging, having a dialogue, and more. All the times links are to that time in…

  • 30: Not Taking Things Too Seriously

    What do we have in store in this last episode of November, episode 30 on November 30, with 10 days in a row of podcasts? discussion about not taking things too seriously giving weight only where it is fitting talk on Christmas tree lightings and their representation some description of my December goals as posted…

  • 29: Focusing Through Variety, And Some Non-Conceptual Discussion

    Threw in some variety in this here episode #29 on November 29th. In this episode that I recorded in a car, we have: focusing in the face of variety and distraction keeping to a plan you have set discussion about cars and people walking by while I recorded this some talk about colors and non-conceptual…

  • 28: High And Low Energy Times, Products, And Peoples’ Wants

    This here is episode 28, on the 28th, with topics of discussion including: high and low energy times in society being efficient with when things are best for doing using the products you have while you have them matching what people want The Armen Show is rolling out of the year in a booming style,…

  • 27: Creating Ways To Say Yes That Work For You

    The world hands you chances to say yes, but it doesn’t always fit how you do things. Here I talk about an example of how you can. saying yes and suiting it to yourself how chef Morimoto did it with a ketchup example adjusting to life like evolution already exemplifies side discussion of my book…

  • 26: Consistent Effort And Not Acting On Fear

    Episode 26 is up on November 26th, and this one is about two main topics, and some side commentary: consistent effort and its associated habits the things that come on the side of regular activity not giving in to fearful decision stoppage why acting in fear is a great universal test some discussion about episodes…

  • 24: Descriptions Of Some People I Follow On Twitter

    Here comes episode 24 on November 24th, and it is about some of the people I follow on Twitter. I wanted to go over who they are and why I check their stuff. Richard Dawkins – views on biology and evolution Scott H. Young – writing articles since 2006 on personal development and learning Demetri Martin…

  • 23: Thanksgiving And The Things You Do

    Happy Thanksgiving folks. Here I do a little talk about the day, and holidays in general. Thanksgiving and the time off using it for something like reflection the habits you can build over time little mentions about my hike Thanks for listening and look out for more~ http://media.blubrry.com/thearmenshow/www.armenshirvanian.com/podcast/episodes/tasepisode23thanksgivingandthethingsyoudo.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS

  • 22: Net Neutrality And Efforts Of Reaching Out

    On this 22nd day of November, I bring up the concept of net neutrality, and its maintenance at the current time. for an internet that remains open so that certain sites don’t cost more than others so a form of a censorship doesn’t happen because the internet is the basis of so much that we…

  • 21: Responding To Top Posts On The ENTP Subreddit

    In this episode, I chose to respond to a few choice posts on the ENTP subreddit on Reddit. ENTP is a grouping of a certain personality type that I am most similar to of that personality type system. (Extroverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving) Here I discussed: whether my type does breathing thoughts on ego and its…

  • 19: Chapters 5 Through 8 Of Behave By Robert Sapolsky

    Having continued reading from this great book, I have learned a lot about human behavior. It was recently voted one of the top 10 books of 2017 by The Washington Post. I have been taking notes on it as usual. Covered in this episode: some aspects of how learning occurs adolescence and the lack of…

  • 17: Discussing Some People From My Instagram

    Discussed various Instagrammers I know of Cristel(criztle) of Frog Creek Farms Vince(vince_jacobs) with music and theater Dilan(dilancer) with car knowledge and film interests Natalie(nataliebiehl_) who does artwork and models Kenny(kennysandersbmx) who was on previous episode Ed(edhumek) who represents for Britain Yelena(yelena715) who is a chef I met after the Grammy’s The interview with Andrew(LAHWF) I…