On today's episode I'm going to look at how winning and losing shapes our lives, and why our society and big business has endorsed and even perpetuated the addiction.

According to psychology professor Ian Robertson, of Trinity College in Dublin, "Winning's probably the single most important thing in shaping people's lives."

Robertson has studied winning, and what winning can mean. "All species have hierarchies," he told Spencer. "And your position in that hierarchy will determine your health, your mental function, your mood."Robertson argues in his book, "The Winner Effect," that the reason it's so much fun to win is largely chemical.

"Winning increases testosterone, which in turn increases the chemical messenger dopamine, and that dopamine hits the reward network in the brain, which makes us feel better."

Feel better . . . and, it seems, even live longer.

It turns out Nobel Prize winners outlive the also-brilliant Nobel nominees by roughly two years. Baseball players who make it into the Hall of Fame have a couple of years on players who are turned away.

In Hollywood, it's really Winner Takes All: Academy Award-winners live, on average, four years longer than other actors.

Olympians aren't the only ones who hate coming up short. We ALL do, and that keeps business booming for sports psychologist William Wiener. His clients -- from pro athletes to Little Leaguers (and, of course, their parents) -- have one thing in common, he says: "In their minds, losing is catastrophic."

There's always going to be a major emphasis on winning, because that's just the way society is. That's just the way our culture is: That you want to be number one at the end. And if you're number two, at times, there's no doubt that number two is looked upon as mediocre, as a person that didn't achieve it, sometimes as losers."

Remember that famous line from the Blues Brothers movie with John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd? When anyone asked them why they were getting the band back together, their response was “We’re On A Mission From God”
So if anyone asks me why I’m on my own personal mission from God, my answer is; “In many ways I figure, it’s time somebody spoke God’s truth about what’s going on in the rapidly changing, very frightening, and unpredictable Israel-Hamas War.'“
Maybe it has something to do with my middle name, which when literally translated in Hebrew is “Moses”. Who better to lead from the front guided by God’s hand.

“You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah” presents a flawed, decadent universe — but one that is unapologetically, proudly Jewish. While the portrait of contemporary Judaism is not flattering, it is supremely confident.

No one in the film bemoans being Jewish (except to lament having to memorize the Haftarah portion). So confident are the creators, in fact, that they don’t feel the Jewish enterprise is undermined by making the normative character a Christian. He’s there to set the Jews back on the right path, not supplant or replace them.

Which makes “YASNITMB” an appropriate film for the High Holidays and its message of return, repentance and repair. In its world, Aleinu has come true, and everyone is Jewish. But like the blast of the shofar, Mateo is there to call them back to what it really means to be Jewish — to be, as the doctor tells Jack Lemmon’s character in “The Apartment” — a mensch.

What did you love to do when you were ten years old? You'll find out that whatever you loved to do then, is really your ultimate purpose in life. It was something you were passionate about and it made you happy. It also reveals your natural gifts. Then we're going to look at the power of words and the power of the people using those words has on our mental and physical state.

Welcome to the pilot of an extraordinary podcast., and the rebirth of the Zentrepreneurism movement , a groundbreaking movement inspired by the writing and teachings of serial entrepreneur Allan Holender, a true visionary and changemaker, who authored the best selling book "Zentrepreneurism"-A Twenty First Century Guide To The New World Of Business". He predicted in 2006, that "The fusion of one's personal vision with one's professional mission, grounded in activism and a holistic philosophy , will hallmark the next thousand years." What makes this podcast, and Allan's personal journey, also recounted in his book, extraordinary? In the quest for success the real values in our lives can often be lost. Mere existence takes over. Coming to realize the loss and seeking out another way is Allan's story. As the same realization dawns for more and more people in Western Society, Allan's story symbolizes everyone's story. That is why it's extraordinary.