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How You Can Help End Polarization and Inequality – and Get Happier, Too | Robert Putnam & Shaylyn Romney Garrett
Episode 405
In this episode, Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett discuss the recent book they co-authored, The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century …
4 years, 3 months ago
What Is Nirvana? | Robert Thurman
Episode 404
If you want to make change in a world filled with all sorts of horrors and obstacles, does it help or hurt to stay cheerful while you go about your b…
4 years, 3 months ago
This Episode Will Make You Stronger | Sister Dang Nghiem
Episode 403
It's hard to be a human. No matter how good things are for you, being alive is still hard; whatever your life circumstances are, we're all subject to…
4 years, 3 months ago
How To Work Around Your Own Irrationality | Richard Thaler
Episode 402
This episode explores how to make the infernally difficult challenge of habit formation a little easier, with guest Richard H. Thaler, who won the No…
4 years, 3 months ago
How to Embrace the Anti-Diet | Christy Harrison
Episode 401
This episode is the second in our two-part Anti-Diet Series, and features guest Christy Harrison. Christy is an anti-diet registered dietitian and nu…
4 years, 3 months ago
Jameela Jamil on Mental Self-Defense
Episode 400
Our guest for our 400th episode is actor and activist Jameela Jamil, who you may have seen on such shows as The Good Place, The Misery Index, and Leg…
4 years, 3 months ago
How to Get Out of Your Head | Willa Blythe Baker
Episode 399
It is a common desire to get out of our heads, to escape the internal noise, the chatter, the Sturm und Drang, the sound and fury, etc. You hear abou…
4 years, 3 months ago
The Right Kind of Suffering | Paul Bloom
Episode 398
Is there a good kind of suffering? Paul Bloom says, yes -- there is a kind of suffering that you choose. This voluntary suffering can reduce anxiety …
4 years, 3 months ago
Best of the Archives: How Your Emotions Are Made | Lisa Feldman Barrett
Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett is at the forefront of understanding human emotions: what they are, why humans evolved to have them, how they're different f…
4 years, 4 months ago
How to Benefit From Religion, Even as a Nonbeliever | David DeSteno
Episode 397
Dr. David DeSteno has embarked on a project he calls "religio-prospecting." In other words, he has been looking at the scientific evidence that many …
4 years, 4 months ago