Nassim Nicholas Taleb: Antifragile
[19:19] Radical philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb offers a blueprint for how to live – and thrive – in a wo…
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What Are You Worth? Getting Past Status Anxiety
[2:13] Writer Alain De Botton says that status anxiety is more pernicious and destructive than most of us can imagine, a…
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Daniel Kahneman: Moving to California Won’t Make You Happy
[2:18] In some crucial areas of human cognition, we don’t know and we can’t fully trust ourselves. On the b…
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Daniel Goldstein: The battle between your present and future self
[16:00] Every day, we make decisions that have good or bad consequences for our future selves. (Can I skip flossing just …
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An Experiment in Gratitude | The Science of Happiness
[7:13] What makes you happy? Have you ever wondered why? Join us as we take an experimental approach on what makes people …
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Sophie Scott: The Science of Laughter
[1:16:44] If you ask people what makes them laugh, they will tell you they laugh at jokes: however if you look at when they …
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Dacher Keltner on Touch
[7:54] Dacher Keltner, the UC Berkeley psychology professor and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, …
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Dan Siegel: How to Successfully Build an “Integrated” Child
[13:40] Dan Siegel, a renowned psychotherapist explains the neurobiological workings of a child’s brain and h…
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Timothy Wilson: Redirect – Personal story editing
[18:25] In this RSA talk Professor Wilson reveals how many conventional psychological therapies and interventions, …
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Stress: Portrait of a Killer
[56:04] The stress response: in the beginning it saved our lives, making us run from predators and enabling us to take do…
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