Beyond The Present Podcast

There is no denying the fact that our environment, situation, and the events in our lives all have an impact on our emotional state and sunny days, lucky wins, and happy endings can make anyone feel positive. But what if the weather is too cold and snowy, the day is filled with one unlucky event after another, and your efforts seem to yield no results! How could you remain positive in those situations? The answer lies in having an internal locus of control and generating a positive state from within. In this program as part of the solo edition of Beyond the Present (BTP) podcast Daniel shares with you how to become a source of positivity in a world that thrives on negativity. One of the most important skills in leadership is the ability to motivate and cheer up those who have lost hope, this short talk will show you how to do just that!

On our 100th episode we are here to answer a few handpicked questions by our listeners as part of the Ask Dan Anything edition. Join Pouya as he asks the top questions from Daniel regarding a variety of things ranging from personal to esoteric! 

We all know that we got to risk it to get the biscuit but why don’t we actually do it? In this program as part of the Let’s Talk edition of Beyond the Present podcast Daniel and Pouya discuss living life on edge vs playing it safe and articulate the importance of taking risks to achieve greatness in any facet of life.  You will also be introduced to the concept of risk mitigation through the creation of options so that you are more willing to take bigger risks that can take your personal and professional life to the next level. Stop playing it safe and start listening to this program!

Why do most problems remain unsolved? Why are most dreams not achieved? Why do a lot of us don’t get what we want? The answer will surprise you: because most people do not even make one attempt to achieve them as they are afraid of being rejected.  In this solo round of Beyond the Present Podcast Daniel shares his personal motto of “no inner limits or outer borders” and discusses how we can live without any internal or imagined barriers and learn to never reject ourselves in attempting to get what we want. If you feel stuck, this short talk will hopefully make you unstuck!

Kanwar shares with us what being a Plurilingual means, how it has shaped his identity and in what ways it can help him become a better teacher. Enjoy! Download Show Notes

Your ability to effectively deal with the emotional ups and downs of life is not only essential to your happiness, it is actually a vital factor in achieving success since nothing reduces your overall motivation and hinders your progress more than having to constantly stop or slow down due to having gone through an emotional roller coaster. In this program as part of the Let’s Talk edition of Beyond the Present (BTP) podcast, Daniel and Pouya discuss emotional resilience in detail and offer key steps to take so as to boost one’s emotional resilience in tough situations.   

Your self confidence is nothing more than your psychological immune system that protects you from negative emotions caused by facing with setbacks, failures, and rejections and by taking the right steps to boost your level of self confidence you can insure your emotional well-being irrespective of the situations that you find yourself in. The latest solo edition of Beyond the Present Podcast will help you distinguish situational confidence and fake confidence from authentic confidence and offers tips on how to build and boost true confidence. 

The Matrix is not merely one of the most renowned blockbusters of all times, it is also one of the deepest and most philosophical movies ever made to not only entertain the audience but to make them ask key questions about life, freedom, autonomy, and free will. In this program as part of the Let’s Talk edition of Beyond the Present (BTP) Podcast Daniel and Pouya discuss both the movie as well as the matrix of life that is kept hidden from the eyes of most of us. Understanding the matrix behind most social events can open up the gateway to the knowledge that very few possess and if you want to have access to this secret gateway then listen to this program to see how deep the rabbit hole goes!

Anyone who has ever changed the world did so by first coming up with a dream and then acting on it until the inner world of desires and ambitions gave their place to the outer world of reality for everyone to see and cherish. In this episode of Beyond the Present (BTP) podcast Daniel and Pouya join Olga and Ilya to discuss the importance of discovering our dream, coming up with a plan of action, and then getting busy working on realizing our dreams and achieving our goals! Life is too short to live without a dream and if you want to get started on the journey of goal setting and goal achieving then let this program show you how!   You can listen one of Olga's music here

The BTP team is proud to present a new addition to Beyond the Present Podcast dedicated exclusively to responding to the questions asked by the listeners of our shows. Even though all the questions that we received were quite worthwhile we selected a hand few that we thought would offer useful insights not only to those who asked the questions but also to anyone listening to the podcast.  Feel free to submit your questions for future ADA programs on our website or directly contact @pouyalj the producer of the show. 

Criticism is an inevitable if not frequent part of our lives and the more ambitious our plans and ideas the more criticism we tend to receive, thus, knowing how to deal effectively with criticism is an essential skill on the path to prosperity. In this program as part of the Let’s Talk edition of Beyond the Present (BTP) Podcast, Daniel and Pouya sit down to discuss all things criticism and they go on to describe the four types of criticism and how we can deal with them effectively. Not knowing how to respond well to a criticism can threaten your relationships as well as your plans so give this short program a listen to insure the safety of both. 

It is said that you randomly come up with four ideas per year during your daily commute each one of which could make you a millionaire, yet the vast majority of us fail to materialize our ideas and convert them into a business or practical means of serving others. In this program as part of the Let’s Talk edition of Beyond the Present (BTP) podcast, Daniel and Pouya share with you some ideas on how to bring your ideas into reality and overcome the inner obstacles that prevent you from doing so. 

Pouya sits down with Ali and Kanwar to talk about depression, mental health, social media, what it means to be depressed and how we can cope with it in today's world. Our guests will be sharing some personal insights into how they dealt with depression and/or anxiety and how they managed to overcome them.  In this episode we address some of the missing pieces of mental health as we come to see and understand them in our own lives.

One of the biggest issues in learning a foreign language is acquiring proper pronunciation habits so as to be well understood when communicating with the other speakers of that language. Alas, most of us struggle with a thick foreign accent upon speaking our target languages. In this program as part of the Polyglot Edition of Beyond the Present (BTP) podcast you will be reminded of the importance of developing good pronunciation habits and are offered a few tips on how to actually do just that. If you don't want to speak your target languages just to see that the native speakers can't understand a single word you are saying then make sure to listen to this program.

Apart from death all other defeats are psychological, this is the belief that many high achievers live by! In this program as part of the Let's Talk edition of Beyond the Present (BTP) podcast Daniel and Pouya delve deep into the concept of refusing to accept failure and moving on after having faced with obstacles and setbacks.   Developing a strong mindset can make the difference between inspiring victory and utter failure and having a long term mindset that allows you to think on a macro level rather than a micro one makes the development and maintenance of this mindset possible! If you want to internalize the aforementioned concept then give this program a listen and make sure to tune back whenever you face with setbacks on the way to your goals.

If you think UFO’s were a fad that belonged to the 20th century and they have since disappeared then think again! The Pentagon’s new interest in all things UFO’s following the announcement of US Space Force has made many wonder whether UFO’s can actually be the next big thing on humanity’s expedition in search of alien technologies. In this episode of Beyond the Present (BTP) Podcast  Daniel and Pouya join Deep Prasad to discuss the issue of UFO’s and how it might affect our societies, economies, and very future.  Whether you are a firm believer in UFO’s, an agnostic one, or someone who openly rejects their existence, you can find tons of useful information in this episode so don’t miss out!

If you have no plan for a good financial future then you cannot have one which is why in this program as part of the Let’s Talk edition of Beyond the Present Podcast (BTP) Daniel and Pouya discuss the issue of personal finance and help the listeners understand the formula for building wealth so as to move from financial insecurity to financial security and beyond towards financial independence and eventually financial freedom.  They also emphasize on the importance and practicality of real estate investment and discuss the prospect of building wealth with the help of Airbnb, the online service that has transformed renting houses all over the globe.  You will never become wealthy through income alone no matter how high your income and in this program you will learn what millionaires and billionaires have done for centuries to amass their wealth. 

Your social circle will set the boundary as to what you can and cannot do and what outcomes you will obtain in your life. Following a question asked by one of the avid listeners of Beyond the Present Podcast, Daniel delves deep into the issue of social circle management and how to end friendships and relationships that no longer serve a purpose and instead making them with like minded men and women who are on the same path in life as you. Either your friend, contact, or partner is growing with you or is stopping your growth which is why you want to do what Brian Tracy recommends and “never make useless acquaintances!”. In this solo round you will learn exactly how to implement this strategy in your own social circle.  

It is said that you are the sum of the five people you spend the most time with and in this program as part of the Let’s Talk edition of Beyond the Present (BTP) Podcast, Daniel and Pouya discuss the issue of friendship and shed light on what it means to have true friends!  True friendship is founded upon a win-win dynamic among two sides with mutual interest and in this program you will learn why thinking win-win can pave the way for acquiring true success and happiness in life! 

Govind Mohan is a Mathematician, Philosopher and an entrepreneur .  Deep Prasad is a Physicist, Philosopher and an entrepreneur. More information about them can be found in the show-notes. In the 20th century, we reached a synergistic pinnacle in mathematics, computing and the sciences that allowed us to abstract a very fundamental human task -- learning. One of the major contributing factors to this was David Hilbert's undertaking to create a foundation for mathematics. This subsequently allowed for the development of inference/deduction engines that were able to automatically prove theorems (since there was now a rigorous definition for a proof). Following this, our focus was shifted towards the study of probability, which allowed us to use uncertainty to model events. However, there is no widely accepted unification of these methods. What would such a unification look like? How can we teach computers to make clear, explainable inferences that make use of probability? Is there more to human cognition than