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Back to SearchTHE INTERESTING: How to Live the Good Life
Philosophers have long maintained that the Good Life is braided from two strands: pleasure and purpose. But Middlebury’s Lorraine Besser says there’s…
1 year, 1 month ago
A Productivity Podclass with Cal Newport
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. These are Cal Newport's three principles for achieving your goals without burning out. …
1 year, 1 month ago
Human History Is Not Set In Stone
What if everything we think we know about the history of our species is wrong? That’s the provocative question at the heart of a new book by today’s …
1 year, 2 months ago
Want a More Meaningful Life? Embrace Your Limitations.
In his mega-bestseller “Four Thousand Weeks,” Oliver Burkeman showed that the shortness of life “isn’t a reason for unremitting despair, or for livin…
1 year, 2 months ago
THE WORK OF ART: How Something Comes From Nothing
Making art is hard work, as Adam Moss, the revered former editor of New York magazine, reveals in his illuminating new book, "The Work of Art." The b…
1 year, 2 months ago
ANXIOUS GENERATION (Part 2): How to Raise Resilient Kids in the Digital Age
Earlier this week, Jonathan Haidt joined us to discuss the crisis in youth mental health caused by smartphones and social media. Now he’s back to tal…
1 year, 2 months ago
ANXIOUS GENERATION (Part 1): What Social Media Is Doing to Our Kids
It’s rare these days for a book to go viral, but that’s exactly what happened with “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Ca…
1 year, 2 months ago
Life Is a Game. Here's How to Play It.
“Life is a game. There’s no way to understand the human world without first understanding this. Everyone alive is playing a game whose hidden rules a…
1 year, 3 months ago
REVENGE OF THE TIPPING POINT: Malcolm Gladwell Revisits the Science of Social Contagion
Twenty-five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell was not Malcolm Gladwell. Well, sure, ontologically speaking he was, but he would not have registered on the …
1 year, 3 months ago
The Future of Storytelling, According to Malcolm Gladwell
Next week, Malcolm Gladwell will be on the show to discuss his new book "Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of S…
1 year, 3 months ago