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What Diary of a CEO says about productivity & performance

Everything Diary of a CEO and guests said about productivity & performance across 29 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

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Epstein read the original 10,000-hour study and concluded the most popular finding in his field 'is not right.'
00:14:59David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Andre Ericsson refused to share the variance data; a later paper showed the original 'complete correspondence' conclusion was wrong.
00:20:13David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Average age of a founder of a top fast-growing tech startup is 45, and a 50-year-old beats a 30-year-old's odds.
00:22:46David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Bartlett hired a dedicated 'head of failure' whose sole job is to increase the rate of experimentation and failure across his 40-person team.
00:27:23David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Daniel Kahneman personally sought out Epstein and over lunch pointed him to the 'kind vs wicked learning environments' research.
00:48:36David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Serena Williams told Epstein her father had her do ballet, track, gymnastics and taekwondo before tennis - not the assumed Tiger path.
01:08:14David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Two Harvard-led studies found cardiac patients are less likely to die when top specialists are away at a cardiology convention.
01:56:09David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Epstein admits his impulse to 'burn things down' damaged personal relationships he regrets, and names forgiveness as his growth project.
02:00:45David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Reaching International Master in chess takes ~11,053 hours on average, but some did it in 3,000 and others never made it past 20,000.
00:16:30David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
In the violinist study the top group slept ~60 hours a week - Epstein jokes it could be the '625,000 hours of sleep study.'
00:21:14David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
An office worker checks email an average of 77 times a day, each switch carrying a cognitive cost.
00:34:07David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
At the US Air Force Academy, teachers whose students scored highest in intro classes produced students who underperformed later.
00:45:27David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
The main predictor of childhood overuse sports injuries is playing one sport nine-plus months a year.
01:12:21David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Despite high grit scores, nearly half of West Point cadets quit at the first chance - it was a 'match quality' problem, not a grit problem.
01:18:29David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
When ATMs arrived around 1970, the number of bank tellers grew, not shrank, as the job shifted to strategic and customer roles.
01:35:37David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
In freestyle chess, two amateurs with three laptops beat both grandmasters and supercomputers.
01:38:11David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
The 'einstellung effect' makes experts keep applying a familiar solution even after it stops being the right one.
01:57:11David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Across 980,000 procedures, patients operated on during the surgeon's birthday were more likely to die within 30 days.
01:58:12David Epstein · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2024
Eagleman reveals his theory: we dream to defend the visual cortex from being taken over by the other senses during darkness.
00:00:00Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
Claims your brain peaked at age two, when neural connections are densest, and has been pruning ever since.
00:16:46Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
Cites the religious orders 'nun study' where some nuns had Alzheimer's-ravaged brains but no cognitive symptoms due to cognitive reserve.
00:14:08Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
Declares himself a 'cyber optimist' who thinks the internet will make the next generation smarter, not dumber.
00:27:27Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
Reveals he has aphantasia (no visual imagery), and that many of Pixar's best animators are aphantasic too.
01:09:25Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
States that if Earth didn't rotate into darkness, humans presumably wouldn't dream at all.
01:17:43Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
Predicts a 2026 market opportunity for a new social network built to connect people rather than maximize engagement.
01:29:06Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
The brain has about 86 billion neurons; Eagleman describes the self as a 'team of rivals' of competing neural networks.
00:04:08Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
Romanian orphans deprived of touch and talk grew up with lasting cognitive deficits, showing plasticity's downside.
00:08:51Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
The anterior mid-cingulate cortex is bigger in people who repeatedly do hard things they don't want to do.
00:19:48Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
You can tell a pianist from a violinist by the brain alone, because violinists develop fine-motor cortex on only one side.
00:20:18Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
The 'effort phenomenon': people pay more for art or natural diamonds that seem to have taken more effort.
00:34:42Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
Eagleman defines all creativity as bending, breaking, and blending existing concepts into new remixes.
00:46:12Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
At least 3% of people have synesthesia, a blending of senses where letters or sounds trigger colors.
01:11:29Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
Brain plasticity correlates almost perfectly with how much an animal species dreams (measured via REM).
01:18:13Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
The blind mole rat still dreams despite having lost vision, because the dream circuitry is evolutionarily ancient.
01:19:16Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
By one estimate, around a billion people are now in relationships with AI companions.
01:05:45Dr. David Eagleman · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
Rio says Ferguson almost never entered the dressing room because the culture was self-sustaining through lieutenants like himself, Giggs and Neville.
00:19:34Rio Ferdinand · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2021
Ferguson sold Beckham, Stam and Van Nistelrooy at the peak of their powers because culture and the club came before any individual.
00:24:41Rio Ferdinand · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2021
Rio claims Ferguson's on-camera blaming of referees was calculated to deflect heat from his players.
00:32:24Rio Ferdinand · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2021
Rio recounts a bitter exit from United when Ed Woodward told him he was finished, denying him a proper send-off Ferguson would have given.
00:42:42Rio Ferdinand · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2021
Rio admits he was out partying four or five times a week at West Ham and Leeds before changing his lifestyle at United.
00:52:28Rio Ferdinand · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2021
Rio made his grief documentary mainly for his children after they lost their mum, and it ended up helping strangers heal.
01:00:42Rio Ferdinand · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2021
Rio reveals Bartlett's habit of talking out loud to himself to process emotions, and shares how his wife Kate transformed his ability to communicate.
01:05:23Rio Ferdinand · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2021
As a kid Rio did gymnastics, ballet, athletics, drama and karate before his dad made him pick football at 13-14.
00:02:35Rio Ferdinand · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2021
Rio trained for three to four years at the Central School of Ballet in Farringdon.
00:04:07Rio Ferdinand · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2021
Rio joined the board of The Gym Group as a non-executive director despite not understanding the business behind fitness.
00:09:49Rio Ferdinand · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2021
Ferguson knew Rio's granddad's favourite drink was brandy and sent flowers to his mum's house.
00:35:28Rio Ferdinand · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2021
Even the waiting staff in Rio's box and the dinner lady at the training ground noticed the cultural shift after Ferguson and David Gill left.
00:45:14Rio Ferdinand · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2021
Rio names his Ferdinand-Vidic pairing as built on a shared pride in not conceding and mutual cover.
00:55:01Rio Ferdinand · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2021
Rio's football management company looks after roughly 85-95 past and present players including Michael Keane, Ben Godfrey and Mason Holgate.
01:13:43Rio Ferdinand · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2021
Rio rates Sergio Ramos as the standout defender of the past seven or eight years but Virgil van Dijk as the best over the last two.
01:26:06Rio Ferdinand · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2021
Claims your brain is 12.5 times more likely to believe a gesture over the spoken words.
00:00:00Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Says muting your cues to seem stoic is a 'danger zone' that makes people distrust you, citing Ring founder Jamie Siminoff failing in the Shark Tank.
00:10:53Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
A 58,000-working-hour study: sitting within 25 feet of a high performer lifts your performance 15%, near a low performer drops it 30%.
00:35:22Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
A 'gross' sweat study: people unknowingly smelling skydivers' fear-sweat had their own amygdala/fear response activated.
00:36:55Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Surgeons rated low on warmth and competence from voice tone alone had the highest rate of malpractice lawsuits.
01:11:36Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Admits saying 'I'm a hugger' before a TV pitch ('I'm not,' replied the exec) tanked the deal; she now never hugs first.
01:40:09Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Reveals she only initiates conversations Monday and Friday: 'Tuesday Wednesday Thursday I don't talk to anyone.'
02:34:14Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Bartlett confronts his own 'suspicious' feeling about success and reluctance to admit he's reached 'the end of the movie.'
02:38:21Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Telling players they're playing the 'Community game' vs the 'Wall Street game' (identical game) doubled how much they shared.
00:07:45Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Van Sloan's study found the single trait predicting popular kids was having the longest list of people THEY liked.
00:24:25Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Wiseman's study: people who think they're lucky spot a planted 'stop counting' newspaper ad; unlucky people miss it and keep counting.
00:33:17Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
The most viral TED speakers used about 465 hand gestures in 18 minutes versus 271 for the least popular.
00:44:43Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Ideal Zoom distance is one arm's length (nose to fingertips); too close accidentally signals intimacy cues.
00:51:59Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Ideal eye contact in Western culture is 60-70%; over 70% reads as territorial and invasive.
01:03:18Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
The 'other shoe effect': a model who spilled the smoothie sold more blenders, and spilling coffee made a job candidate rated higher.
01:51:37Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Monica Moore's research suggests it can take around eight glances to get someone to approach you in a bar.
02:11:53Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
The average person spots a lie with only 54% accuracy, barely better than a coin toss.
02:24:19Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Van Edwards argues AirPods are 'killing friendship' by eliminating the micro-moments and weak ties that build connection.
02:19:07Vanessa Van Edwards · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2024
Ali admits he pursued medicine largely for prestige and status rather than a genuine desire to save lives.
00:05:41Ali Abdaal · The Diary of a CEO · Aug 2021
His career tipping point was his 81st video, an evidence-based 'how to study for exams' video that went viral and exploded his subscriber count.
00:13:21Ali Abdaal · The Diary of a CEO · Aug 2021
Ali confesses he never worked out consistently until he hired a personal trainer, outsourcing his willpower to accountability.
00:19:01Ali Abdaal · The Diary of a CEO · Aug 2021
Ali reveals he quit plans to move to America for medicine (the USMLE path), and his mother still calls him a quitter for it.
00:44:57Ali Abdaal · The Diary of a CEO · Aug 2021
Ali openly discusses relationship struggles, his self-image as a 'weedy nerd kid,' and tension between being himself and acting more 'alpha.'
00:57:23Ali Abdaal · The Diary of a CEO · Aug 2021
Steven shares that his fitness only stuck once he stopped working out for women and made health an intrinsic, daily, goal-free habit.
01:02:33Ali Abdaal · The Diary of a CEO · Aug 2021
Ali argues his counterfactual impact as a YouTuber inspiring people into medicine is greater than his impact as just another UK doctor.
01:28:15Ali Abdaal · The Diary of a CEO · Aug 2021
Ali was born in Karachi in 1994, his parents divorced when he was two, and he grew up in landlocked Lesotho before moving to the UK in 2003.
00:02:37Ali Abdaal · The Diary of a CEO · Aug 2021
As a young teen he lied about his age on PayPal, claiming to be 18 at 13, to earn $5 freelance graphic design jobs.
00:03:38Ali Abdaal · The Diary of a CEO · Aug 2021
Ali claims making one video a week for two years will '100% guarantee' it changes your life, even if he can't predict the numbers.
00:16:29Ali Abdaal · The Diary of a CEO · Aug 2021
He cites Seth Godin's 'have to vs get to' reframe, sparked by a 13-hour shift where he had to put in a difficult cannula.
00:31:28Ali Abdaal · The Diary of a CEO · Aug 2021
Ali uses the 'daily highlight' from Make Time but admits only about a 50% success rate at actually doing it each morning.
00:48:06Ali Abdaal · The Diary of a CEO · Aug 2021
The core of learning is testing yourself (active recall) and spaced repetition, not consuming more information.
00:49:38Ali Abdaal · The Diary of a CEO · Aug 2021
Steven frames time as roughly 500,000 free 'chips' (hours) a human gets in life, to be spent intentionally.
01:09:45Ali Abdaal · The Diary of a CEO · Aug 2021
The Against Malaria Foundation can statistically save a life for roughly 2,000-3,000 pounds in bed nets, per effective altruism analysis.
01:26:43Ali Abdaal · The Diary of a CEO · Aug 2021
A quote attributed to J.P. Morgan: a man always has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.
01:32:21Ali Abdaal · The Diary of a CEO · Aug 2021
Julian's combined TED Talks have over 100 million views, with the speaking talk alone around 40 million on YouTube.
00:08:20Julian Treasure · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
His talk on listening has been seen by only one-fifth as many people as his talk on speaking, showing people prefer being heard over listening.
00:09:22Julian Treasure · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
Julian suffered a pulmonary embolism that permanently reduced his lung efficiency, making him more conscious of deep breathing.
00:18:47Julian Treasure · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
He names 'fixing' as one of four leeches that undermine communication, where someone refuses to let others be upset.
01:01:29Julian Treasure · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
Julian and his wife Jane lost a stillborn baby, Lily, and chose to involve their daughter Holly fully rather than hide the grief.
01:02:32Julian Treasure · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
Stephen reveals Social Chain grew to hundreds of millions in revenue with no outbound sales team, built almost entirely on storytelling and stage talks about his mum.
01:11:28Julian Treasure · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
A supermarket study showed French music made French wine outsell German five-to-one, and German music reversed it three-to-one, all unconsciously.
01:28:35Julian Treasure · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
Julian had already given four TED Talks before the famous fifth speaking talk, which made him unusually practiced.
00:05:46Julian Treasure · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
The world record for static apnea (holding breath underwater) is around 28 minutes.
00:18:47Julian Treasure · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
RASA stands for Receive, Appreciate, Summarize, Ask, Julian's framework for active listening.
00:51:33Julian Treasure · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
Stephen opened all his talks for four years with an unfinished story about his mum hanging up the phone, resolving it only at the end.
01:10:23Julian Treasure · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
Intel's sonic logo, designed by Walter Werzowa, is worth hundreds of millions of dollars in brand value.
01:21:23Julian Treasure · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
The Wheaties barbershop-quartet jingle from around 1926 is considered the first use of sound in advertising.
01:25:30Julian Treasure · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
Birdsong makes humans feel safe because over hundreds of thousands of years we learned that singing birds signal no predators.
01:27:34Julian Treasure · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
Knowledge workers are roughly one-third as productive in open-plan offices as in quiet spaces.
01:28:05Julian Treasure · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
An 83-year-old man recently completed climbing all of Scotland's Munros, over a hundred peaks above 3,000 feet.
01:38:33Julian Treasure · The Diary of a CEO · Sep 2022
Chris reveals he secretly trained a language model ('Chrisbot') on 250 of his podcast episodes and every blog post he ever wrote.
00:11:22Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Chrisbot's answer prompts a real decision: Chris commits to reaching out to Iman Gadzhi via a mutual friend to book him on the show.
00:11:54Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Chris discloses he suffered with anxiety and depression, mostly depression, throughout his 20s, sometimes bed-bound for days at a time.
01:06:48Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He says fixing his broken sleep pattern resolved a huge amount of his depression, which he had largely been mistaking for sleep deprivation.
01:07:49Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Reflecting on his Diary of a CEO visit, he says watching Steven Bartlett's team convinced him to relinquish some control and delegate.
00:30:33Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Chris breaks down his income sources: the podcast, UK rental properties, an S&P tracker ISA, and 'pennies' from Amazon affiliates.
01:36:49Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He gives his core antidote to social anxiety: no one cares what you're doing, you barely exist in anyone else's universe.
00:00:00Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Chris is a self-described 'complete Croc convert' and says his ideal two-shoe lineup is Crocs and Vans.
00:15:29Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He is good friends with Zane Navratil, the current world number-three ranked men's pickleball player, who he calls 'unplayable'.
00:42:53Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He argues morning coffee is pointless because the adenosine system isn't active in the first 90 minutes, preferring LMNT first thing.
01:38:52Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
The Stephen Shaw episode on population collapse was the conversation that most shifted his worldview in the past year.
00:10:51Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He notes his rise was slow, taking half a decade and 600-plus episodes, contrasting with Brett Cooper hitting two million subs in a year.
00:54:18Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Rather than buying a Rolex or sports car, he flew his whole team and friends to Vegas for a David Goggins trip with Cirque du Soleil.
01:27:33Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He uses the Zeigarnik effect, leaving a sentence half-finished at day's end so it's easier to restart writing the next morning.
00:25:50Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
He cites research that life-satisfaction gains plateau around $70-80k, with each doubling beyond giving smaller returns.
00:26:54Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
The question he left for the next Diary of a CEO guest, borrowed from George Mack: what overlooked topic will historians study?
01:34:45Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
The Chrisbot was built by Zachary and Miguel from aiship.co.
01:41:28Chris Williamson · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2023
Ben did a 360 feedback report describing him as erratic, hot-headed, arrogant and a poor manager; his wife reading it and saying 'that's the most you thing I've ever read' was his moment of becoming self-aware.
00:22:11Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
He deliberately chose to lean entirely into his strengths (brand, product, marketing, creativity) and hand finance/ops/management to others, voluntarily moving himself out of the CEO seat.
00:25:18Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
After roughly four months back as CEO, Ben explains he stepped back into the role two years after Steve first told him he could do it, rather than relax with his shareholding.
00:29:55Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
A sarcastic Blue Lives Matter reply posted by a Gymshark staffer triggered thousands of comments, messages and death threats aimed at Ben personally.
01:04:26Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
Ben kept the employee who caused the pile-on, saying he doesn't believe in cancel culture and that firing people who fail with good intentions leaves only people who've never failed.
01:08:01Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
Gymshark is close to signing a lease on its first-ever permanent physical store, a flagship community hub in London.
01:21:52Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
Asked what happens if he's removed, Ben admits a founder sees all the dots and there would be a loss in vision, culture and specialness even though commercials would continue.
01:25:31Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
At 14 Ben did work experience with his granddad lining furnaces around the Midlands, learning hard work and absorbing stories of business risk.
00:02:33Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
A BTEC in IT taught him Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Illustrator, the exact software he later used to build Gymshark.
00:05:08Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
Ben credits World of Warcraft for teaching him teamwork and the 'Avengers assemble' model of specialist team-building he still uses at Gymshark.
00:10:47Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
Gymshark went from around 30 employees and one Midlands office to 900 employees and offices worldwide in nine years.
00:14:23Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
Ben cycled through Chief of Brand, marketing, product and tech roles, each time being replaced by someone better, before becoming CEO.
00:27:51Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
Ben took public speaking lessons after meeting a coach by chance at a Gymshark event, having listed public speaking as a weakness on his phone wallpaper.
00:39:40Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
He uses a Churchill-attributed idea of 'preparing impromptu remarks', rehearsing phrases and trigger-stories to overcome speaking nerves.
00:41:13Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
Ben and Steven both took two to three years to realise that great talent mattered far more than their own individual skills.
00:59:44Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
Before Gymshark, Ben built two failed fitness apps, a failed fitness social network and a failed forum; Gymshark was roughly his seventh attempt.
01:27:37Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
Ben advises against quitting your job, noting he worked at Pizza Hut for four or five pounds an hour while Gymshark was already doing hundreds of thousands in revenue.
01:31:10Ben Francis · The Diary of a CEO · Dec 2021
Steven reveals his last serious relationship, with a woman he thought he'd marry, ended over a sexual issue that emerged seven to eight months in.
00:01:32Kate Moyle · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2021
Steven shares that the relationship ended when his partner said she wasn't comfortable talking about sex with him after a year together.
00:09:46Kate Moyle · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2021
Steven describes another relationship ending because of perceived physical incompatibility he could never bring himself to discuss.
00:55:50Kate Moyle · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2021
Steven admits he developed erection problems from performance anxiety and overthinking after a bad sexual experience.
01:00:32Kate Moyle · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2021
Moyle names unrealistic expectations as the single biggest killer of relationships in the modern age.
01:20:29Kate Moyle · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2021
Moyle says communication is the top distilled principle of couples who enjoy great sexual relationships.
01:33:02Kate Moyle · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2021

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