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10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation

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"When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations -- and that ...

What Makes Life Worth Living in the Face of Death?

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As a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi felt he'd be prepared to face his own mortality. After all, he'd helped so many of ...

Donald Hoffman: Do We See Reality as It Is?

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Thomas Huxley once proclaimed that the fact that human consciousness results from something as mundane as irritating ...

Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong

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What really causes addiction -- to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari ...

Sleep Is Your Superpower

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Sleep is your life-support system and Mother Nature's best effort yet at immortality, says sleep scientist Matt ...

How Great Leaders Inspire Action

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Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership starting with a golden circle and the ...

The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers

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"How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies 'originals': ...

Measuring What Makes Life Worthwhile

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When the dotcom bubble burst, hotelier Chip Conley went in search of a business model based on happiness. In an old ...

Teach Girls Bravery Not Perfection

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"[M]any women I talk to tell me that they gravitate towards careers and professions that they know they're going to ...

Ask Where I'm Local

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So many times when we introduce ourselves others, or are introduced by someone else, we place a lot of importance on ...

A World Where We Trust Strangers

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"Something profound is changing our concept of trust, says Rachel Botsman in this TED talk. While we used to place ...

Between Medicine and Music

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Robert Gupta has played the violin all his life, studying at Juilliard and joining the LA Philharmonic at 19, but he ...

A Prosecutor's Vision for a Better Justice System

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"[H]ow many of you, by the age of 25, had either acted up in school, went somewhere you were specifically told to ...

How Emotions Change the Shape of Our Hearts

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"A record of our emotional life is written on our hearts," says cardiologist and author Sandeep Jauhar. In a ...

SuperBetter: a Healing Game

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In the face of death, or other deeply challenging circumstances, how would you respond? Many people come to such ...

How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them

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Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly as we've seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and ...

In Search of the Man Who Broke My Neck

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When Joshua Prager was 19, a devastating bus accident left him a hemiplegic. He returned to Israel twenty years ...

When We Design for Disability We All Benefit

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"I believe that losing my hearing was one of the greatest gifts I've ever received," says Elise Roy. As a disability ...

The Dream We Haven't Dared to Dream

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What are your dreams? Better yet, what are your broken dreams? Dan Pallotta dreams of a time when we are as excited, ...

Bill Strickland: Rebuilding a Neighborhood with Beauty, Dignity, Hope

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In this inspirational and motivating TED Talk, Bill Strickland shares his remarkable journey from a kid flunking out ...

The Quest to Understand Consciousness

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"Every morning we wake up and regain consciousness -- that is a marvelous fact -- but what exactly is it that we ...

Looking Past Limits: the Remarkable Story of Caroline Casey

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Activist Caroline Casey tells the story of her extraordinary life, starting with a jaw-dropping revelation (no ...

A Young Poet Tells the Story of Darfur

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Emtithal "Emi" Mahmoud writes poetry of resilience, confronting her experience of escaping the genocide in Darfur in ...

Rethinking the Bucket List

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How would you live every day as if it were your last? Go skydiving? Attempt to ride a bull for 2.7 seconds? ...

What Almost Dying Taught Me About Living

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"The hardest part of my cancer experience began once the cancer was gone," says author Suleika Jaouad. In this ...

Three Ideas. Three Contradictions. or Not.

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Hannah Gadsby skewers the straight world's dismissal and outright hostility toward the LGBTQ community in her ...

How Craving Attention Makes You Less Creative

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt has gotten more than his fair share of attention from his acting career. But as social media ...

What Baby Boomers & Millennials Can Teach Each Other

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For the first time ever, we have five generations in the workplace at the same time, says entrepreneur Chip Conley. ...

How to Put the Power of Law in People's Hands

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What can you do when the wheels of justice don't turn fast enough? Or when they don't turn at all? Vivek Maru is ...

Jason Sowell: Stop Trying to Change the World

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When DailyGood volunteer, LuAnn Cooley walked into a laundromat last week, she was greeted by a group of volunteers ...

Opening Your Heart to Bhutan

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How does a jet-setting financial analyst from London end up a Buddhist nun in Bhutan? Emma Slade (ordained as Ani ...

Three Lessons of Revolutionary Love in a Time of Rage

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"Revolutionary love is the choice to enter into labor for others who do not look like us, for our opponents who hurt ...

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