Learned Helplessness
[8:50] Learned helplessness can prevent people from achieving their goals, something I’ve experienced first …
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Sam Harris: Human Values
[8:24] “Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.” Sam Harris [Video and text…
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Sir Ken Robinson: The Power of Imagination
[6:15] “We have an extraordinary human power… the power of imagination” Ken Robinson [Video and t…
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The Best Way to Train Your Brain: A Game
[1:16] Johns Hopkins University researchers tested the two leading brain training exercises and found one works much …
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Paul Rulkens: Why the majority is always wrong
[11:25] This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Paul Rulkens is an exp…
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Abby and Brittany Hensel: The Conjoined Teachers!
[2:46] The amazing Abby and Brittany Hensel are in their final year of college and completing a student teaching assign…
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Daniel Goleman: Your Brain Is Hardwired for Love—Meditation Helps You Fully Express It
[5:33] Meditation is a lot more than just chilling out and reflecting. It can actually rewire your brain to become a bett…
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Barry Schwartz on the New Science of Happiness
[4:58] Social psychologist Barry Schwartz discusses the new science of happiness as well as the difference between re…
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Sonja Lyubomirsky: Who Says You Need a Partner to be Happy?
[3:36] If you don’t have that special someone this Valentine’s Day, don’t despair. You’re …
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Moshe Szyf: How early life experience is written into DNA.
[16:35] Moshe Szyf is a pioneer in the field of epigenetics, the study of how living things reprogram their genome in res…
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