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Ce înseamnă să trăiești o viață bună?Acest podcast este o călătorie prin filosofie, psihologie, literatură și dezvoltare personală—acolo unde înțelepciunea antică întâlnește știința modernă. Ghidat de gânditori precum Jonathan Haidt, Proust, Seneca, Buddha și voci contemporane din psihologia morală, explorăm contradicțiile frumoase și dificile ale condiției umane. Fiecare episod aprofundează idei mari—fericirea, iubirea, suferința, moralitatea și identitatea—prin metafore precum călărețul și elefantul și reflecții despre cum poveștile pe care ni le spunem ne modelează viața. Vei găsi citate care îți vor rămâne în minte, perspective reale și un ton calm și introspectiv, care te însoțește și după ce episodul se încheie. Nu e un podcast de „self-help”. E un podcast de auto-cunoaștere.Un spațiu pentru gândire profundă, simțire sinceră și, poate, rescrierea propriei povești. Episoade noi la fiecare două luni.Abonează-te și fă un pas conștient către interior.

What does it mean to live a good life?This podcast is a journey through philosophy, psychology, literature, and personal growth—where ancient wisdom meets modern science. Guided by thinkers like Jonathan Haidt, Proust, Seneca, Buddha, and contemporary voices in moral psychology, we explore the messy, beautiful contradictions of being human. Each episode unpacks big ideas—happiness, love, suffering, morality, and identity—through metaphors like the rider and the elephant, and reflections on how our stories shape our lives. Expect thought-provoking quotes, real-world insights, and a calm, reflective tone designed to linger long after the episode ends. This is not self-help. It’s self-inquiry.A place to think deeply, feel honestly, and maybe, rewrite your own story. New episodes bi-monthly.Subscribe and take a thoughtful step inward.

In this episode, I am exploring the various types of family types, from the exogamous community to the authoritarian and the egalitarian nuclear family. Even though the research of Emmanuel Todd, the main researcher behind this, was done a long time ago and seems outdated today, these old fashioned types are largely still relevant today and it seems family types influence political ideologies too.

In this episode, I am exploring a few stats on inequality in selected countries from the 1980s to the late 2000s. 

In this podcast, I survey some tables I found on the quality mix of occupations in selected countries like Germany, Sweden or the USA in the three decades between 1960s and 1980s

In this episode, I am exploring a few data points from the past, mainly the 1980s, regarding the pensions, the industrial growth and a comparison between corporatism, etatism and private pensions in several advanced economies of the world Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Adrian-Fanaca-104495404719783 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-fanaca-ma-polsci-mba-ab44172b/

In this episode, I am exploring what is Fisher effect, what happened to world trade since the 1970s, but first, we crack some jokes  Please wrote to me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Adrian-Fanaca-104495404719783 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-fanaca-ma-polsci-mba-ab44172b/

In this video, I am exploring a few ideas from an economics and a social sciences book from which I get the CIO cartoon from the 1940 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Adrian-Fanaca-104495404719783 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-fanaca-ma-polsci-mba-ab44172b/

In this podcast, I am exploring a few ideas from economics, and then laugh a little at how labor was communicating to the workers

In this episode, I am sharing 13 things that changed since I have started drinking, 8 of those being an update since year 1 milestone Please share it, like, comment, subscribe, click the bell for receiving all my newest episodes   Enjoy!

In this episode, I am exploring the microeconomics concept of income and substitution effects, plus the effect of the interest rates on savings rate

In this episode, I am exploring a few economics concepts of what happens when your budget increases or price decreases, as well as explaining what is an indifference curve and why it is bended and not a straight line

In this episode, I am exploring some ways of looking at work, its misery and possible disappearance, then I move to some Freudian principles of repression and compulsion and their stages, to finish with some statistics about poverty rates in Europe 

In this episode, I am exploring some categorization of firms in capitalism, how capitalism changed in the last decade and how it functions, all in under 5 minutes and based on some economics textbook figures I am interpreting

In this episode, I am talking about the urban middle class, the urban working class and the rural working classes in Germany of 1925, few years before Hitler came to power