Part 2 of 2: “Why Becoming Your Future Self Requires Letting Go | Dr. Benjamin Hardy”
Release Date: 12/24/2025
🧠 Polymathic Perspective 3| When Systems Lose Coherence Before They Collapse | Episode 3 | Dov Baron
The Dov Baron Show
Episode 3 Polymathic Perspective Podcast | Dov Baron When Systems Lose Coherence Before They Collapse What if the world isn’t collapsing, but losing coherence, and our leaders are mistaking relief for evolution? Episode Description What happens before systems collapse? Not chaos. Not moral failure. Not even bad leadership. They lose coherence. . In the first episode of The Polymathic Perspective Podcast, Dov Baron introduces the lens that will define this show: coherence as the invisible regulator beneath power, identity, culture, economics, and leadership. . Starting with a moment at...
info_outline
Why Chasing 'Happiness' Can Destroy a Meaningful Life | Kerry Cohen, PhD
The Dov Baron Show
Why Chasing Happiness Can Destroy a Meaningful Life | Kerry Cohen, PhD What if the reason you feel empty isn’t because you’re broken, but because you’ve been chasing happiness instead of truth? Episode Description We’re taught to want happiness, to avoid discomfort, and to measure success by how good life feels. But in this honest, often uncomfortable conversation, Kerry Cohen, PhD challenges that story from the inside. Joining Dov Baron, Kerry explores the difference between feeling good and being alive, and why so many high-functioning, successful people secretly feel disconnected,...
info_outline
🧠 Polymathic Perspective 2| The Loneliness Signal: How Certainty Quietly Replaces Connection | Dov Baron
The Dov Baron Show
The Loneliness Signal: How Certainty Quietly Replaces Connection What if the loneliness so many of us feel isn’t a lack of connection, but the price we pay for the certainty our nervous system learned to depend on? What single question from this episode are you taking into the week, without trying to answer it? Episode Description Loneliness is everywhere. But what if we’ve misunderstood it? . In this second episode of The Polymathic Perspective, Dov Baron offers a polymathic understanding of the global loneliness epidemic, not as a social failure or a lack of belonging, but as a...
info_outline
Is the Post-War World Order Already Finished? | MI5 & MI6 David Bickford retired Former Legal Director
The Dov Baron Show
🎙️Is the Post-War World Order Already Finished? | David Bickford (Former MI5 & MI6) What if the global order didn’t collapse overnight, but quietly expired while we were still arguing about yesterday's rules? Episode Description For decades, global stability rested on assumptions we no longer question, until they stop working. . In this rare and sobering conversation, Dov Baron sits down with David Bickford, former Under Secretary of State and Legal Director to MI5 and MI6, to examine what happens when institutions designed for a post-war world are forced to confront modern chaos....
info_outline
🧠 Episode 1: The Polymathic Perspective: Why Curiosity Was Never Your Problem | Dov Baron
The Dov Baron Show
🧠 Episode 1: The Polymathic Perspective: Why Curiosity Was Never Your Problem What if the thing you’ve been told to fix about yourself is the very thing the world needs most right now? Description: For the first quarter of my life, I believed I wasn’t very bright. Not because I couldn't think, but because I couldn’t stay in a single lane long enough for anyone to know what to do with me. . If you’ve ever been told to “find your niche” and felt smaller every time you tried, this podcast isn’t here to optimize you. It’s here to integrate you. . In this opening episode...
info_outline
🎙️How China Has Already Rewritten the Rules of Innovation | Adrian Simpson | Long-form
The Dov Baron Show
🎙️China Isn’t Catching Up, It’s Already Rewriting the Rules of Innovation | Adrian Simpson 🔥 What if the greatest threat to Western leadership isn’t AI, China, or authoritarianism, but our addiction to comfort, incremental change, and the illusion that we still have time? 🧠 EPISODE SUMMARY Most leaders believe they’re living at the edge of innovation. Adrian Simpson has taken over a thousand executives inside the factories, boardrooms, and innovation hubs that quietly prove otherwise. In this conversation, Adrian reveals what actually happens when Western CEOs step...
info_outline
Part 2 of 2🎙️ Keith Ferrazzi | Why Leaders Who Go It Alone Won’t Survive What’s Coming
The Dov Baron Show
(Part 2)🎙️ Why Leaders Who Go It Alone Won’t Survive What’s Coming | Keith Ferrazzi What if the leadership model that made you successful is the very thing that will make you irrelevant in the next collapse? 🧠 Episode Description In Part 1, Keith Ferrazzi challenged the myth of indispensability inside teams. In Part 2, he widens the lens, exposing how that same leadership addiction scales into AI disruption, economic instability, and even authoritarian collapse. . This conversation moves beyond organizational charts and into the future of work itself. Keith explains why AI...
info_outline
Part 1 of 2🎙️ Keith Ferrazzi | Why Indispensable Leaders Create Fragile Teams.
The Dov Baron Show
(Part 1)🎙️ Keith Ferrazzi | “Why Indispensable Leaders Create Fragile Teams.” What if the leadership trait you’re most proud of is the very thing making your team fragile without you? 🧠 Episode Description Most leaders believe being indispensable is proof they’re doing their job well. Keith Ferrazzi argues the opposite. . In Part 1 of this provocative two-part conversation, Dov Baron sits down with Keith Ferrazzi to dismantle one of leadership’s most deeply protected identities, the belief that strong leaders must sit at the center of decision-making, accountability, and...
info_outline
Part 2of2:🎙Why Analytics Are Killing Creativity, and What You Must Do Instead | Nir Bashan
The Dov Baron Show
Part 2 of 2:🎙Why Analytics Are Killing Creativity, and What Leaders Must Do Instead | Nir Bashan What if the greatest threat to creativity isn’t AI, analytics, or complexity, but leadership’s fear of looking foolish? Description In Part 2 of this conversation, Nir Bashan takes the gloves off. This episode isn't anti-technology; it's anti-deception. . Nir dismantles the mythology surrounding AI, social media, and analytics, exposing how Silicon Valley hype has replaced human judgment with self-congratulatory narratives. He shares MIT research showing that AI use can dramatically reduce...
info_outline
Part 1:🎙 The Lie That Stops Smart Leaders from Solving Problems: Nir Bashan: Reclaiming Your Solution Mindset |
The Dov Baron Show
Part 1: 🎙 The Lie That Stops Smart Leaders from Solving Problems: Reclaiming Your Solution Mindset | Nir Bashan. What if the story that the world is broken is the most dangerous lie leaders keep telling themselves? Description We’re told every day that the world is failing, overwhelmed, under-resourced, and spiraling toward collapse. But what if that story isn’t reality, it’s a filter? . In Part 1 of this deeply challenging conversation, Dov Baron sits down with Nir Bashan, author of The Solution Mindset, to confront a belief most leaders never question: that complexity is...
info_outlinePart 2 of 2: “Why Becoming Your Future Self Requires Letting Go | Dr. Benjamin Hardy”
What if the hardest part of becoming your future self isn’t discipline or clarity, but the willingness to let go of what once made you successful?
.
Episode Description
Part 1 revealed why meaning comes before courage.
Part 2 reveals the price of acting on that meaning.
In this continuation, Dr. Benjamin Hardy takes the conversation out of the abstract and into lived reality. He dismantles one of the most seductive lies in personal growth: that you can create a radically different future without giving up the past that built your current life.
Using the 80/20 principle, Dr. Hardy explains why most people remain trapped in “2x thinking”, incremental improvement driven by familiarity, safety, and social approval. True 10x growth, he argues, is not additive. It is subtractive. It requires stripping away nearly everything that does not belong to the future you are committed to becoming.
Together, Dov and Ben explore why letting go feels like tearing off a limb, how family and loved ones unconsciously resist your transformation, and why honesty, not harmony, is the foundation of real growth.
This episode is not motivational. It is clarifying.
And for many listeners, it will be confronting.
.
👤 About Dr. Benjamin Hardy
Dr. Benjamin Hardy is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author whose work focuses on courage, transformational leadership, and exponential growth. His research explores how future identity, meaning, and commitment drive extraordinary personal and professional change. He is the author of Willpower Doesn’t Work and Personality Isn’t Permanent, and a sought-after speaker for entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 leaders.
Website
Social Media
https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminhardy88
https://www.facebook.com/benjaminhardy88
https://twitter.com/BenjaminPHardy
https://www.instagram.com/benjamin_hardy_phd
🔥 What This Episode Confronts Directly
-
Why 2x growth protects the past while 10x growth demands transformation
-
How the 80/20 principle becomes a truth filter, not a productivity hack
-
Why most of what fills your life today actively blocks your future
-
The emotional pain of releasing identity, habits, and relationships
-
How “good” becomes the enemy of “great”
-
Why family and friends often resist your growth out of love
-
The difference between loyalty to people and loyalty to your future self
-
Why progress begins with radical honesty
-
How simplification unlocks depth, mastery, and freedom
Key Moments From the Conversation
2x vs 10x
Dr. Hardy explains that 2x growth allows you to keep 80 percent of your current life intact. It is past-driven, linear, and familiar. 10x growth, by contrast, requires keeping only the core 20 percent and releasing the rest. Not because it is bad, but because it cannot scale to who you are becoming.
Letting Go Feels Like Loss
Letting go of the 80 percent does not feel empowering at first. It feels like grief. Like ripping away parts of your identity, comfort, and history. Dr. Hardy is explicit: this pain is not a sign you’re doing it wrong. It’s the cost of transformation.
Why Growth Threatens Relationships
As you move toward your future self, people who love you often feel destabilized. Your growth represents their loss of familiarity. This is why honesty and boundaries, not reassurance, are required. You cannot protect others from the discomfort of your becoming.
The Deeper Psychological Truth
The mind is designed to keep you safe, not fulfilled.
Safety preserves the past.
Transformation threatens it.
Dr. Hardy explains that without a compelling future, the mind defaults to protection. The only force strong enough to overcome this is a future self that feels real, meaningful, and emotionally alive.
Reflection Question
What part of your current life are you protecting out of familiarity, even though you know it does not belong to the future you claim to want?
Sit with that. Don’t rush past it.