William MacAskill: Want to make a difference? Don’t Work for a Charity
[17:12] William MacAskill makes a clever plea to those young graduates who want to improve the lives of others: Want to c…
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Attached: The Science of Attachment – Anxious and Avoidant Loving
[5:07] In the book “Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it can Help You Find and Keep Love”…
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Amy Herman: 4 Steps for Optimizing Situational Awareness and Visual Intelligence
[4;41] Amy Herman teaches visual intelligence to doctors, intelligence analysts and the NYPD. Here she runs through h…
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Jonathan Haidt: Why We’re Convinced We’re Right (and everyone else is wrong!)
[2:13] Are you trapped in an online echo chamber? Society is becoming ever more divided as we seek out information that r…
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Christopher Hitchens: Faith
[3:25] Arguably one of the best speeches in recent memory. [Video and text source Morphing Reality You Tube channel]…
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The Seven Deadly Sins
[7:30] The Seven Deadly Sins were a list of psychological flaws first identified by Christianity in the 4th century. Ch…
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The philosophy of Stoicism
[5:29] What is the best life we can live? How can we cope with whatever the universe throws at us and keep thriving nonethe…
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Michael Patrick Lynch: How to see past your own perspective and find truth
[14:26] The more we read and watch online, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between what’s real and wh…
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Tali Sharot: How Cognitive Biases Bend Reality: Private Optimism vs. Public Despair
[8:55] Think you’re not an optimist? Neuroscience begs to differ. Dr. Tali Sharot explains that 80% of people global…
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Robert Sapolsky: The Neuroscience of Lies, Honesty, and Self-Control
[5;26] So when we look at the world’s ills one of the biggest sources of it is us failing to do the right thing when it’s …
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