Crash Course Psychology #20: Adolescence
[10:14] In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank has a look at that oh so troublesome time in everyone’s l…
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Higher Consciousness
[4:32] ‘Higher consciousness’ sounds mystical and possibly irritating. It shouldn’t. It just c…
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The Science of Cheating
[2:52] ASAP take a look at the science of monogamy. Are we designed to be faithful or is monogamy culturally constructed…
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Matthew Syed: Bounce – The science of success
[16:12] Here are 5 of Brian Johnson’s favorite Big Ideas from “Bounce” by Matthew Syed. Hope you …
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Wisdom
[7:38] Philosophy means, in Ancient Greek, the love of wisdom. But the word wisdom can sound very big and forbidding; wh…
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Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation
[18:36] Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know bu…
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Richard St. John: 8 traits of successful people
[7:17] Ten years of research and 500 face-to-face-interviews led Richard St. John to a collection of eight common trai…
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EASTERN PHILOSOPHY – Matsuo Basho
[5:46] Matsuo Basho was one of the most famous Zen poets of Japan, who alerts us to the neglected beauty and interest of ev…
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Interesting?
[2:00] We don’t really want what we think we desire, says philosopher Slavoj Žižek. [Video source: Big ThinkÂ…
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Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence
[18:16] Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? …
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