Episode Details

There's a word most of us don't use nearly enough—equanimity—and Margaret Cullen says it's the key to feeling fully alive without getting wrecked by every emotional wave that rolls through. Then in the second half, Dan Lyons makes the case that one of the most powerful things you can do in an endlessly noisy world is simply stop talking.

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