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CATCHING SOULS: An Obituary Writer’s Lessons for Living
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THE INTERESTING: How to Live the Good Life
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A Productivity Podclass with Cal Newport
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Human History Is Not Set In Stone
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Want a More Meaningful Life? Embrace Your Limitations.
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THE WORK OF ART: How Something Comes From Nothing
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ANXIOUS GENERATION (Part 2): How to Raise Resilient Kids in the Digital Age
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ANXIOUS GENERATION (Part 1): What Social Media Is Doing to Our Kids
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Life Is a Game. Here's How to Play It.
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REVENGE OF THE TIPPING POINT: Malcolm Gladwell Revisits the Science of Social Contagion
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The Future of Storytelling, According to Malcolm Gladwell
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NEXUS (Part 2): Yuval Noah Harari on How to Safeguard Humanity in the Age of AI
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NEXUS (Part 1): Can Democracy Survive the AI Revolution? (with Yuval Noah Harari)
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Can We End Poverty by Just Giving People Cash?
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GOING INFINITE: Michael Lewis Wants to Change Your Mind About Sam Bankman-Fried
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SUPERCONVERGENCE: Biotechnology Is About to Transform the World. Are We Ready?
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ANXIOUS ACHIEVER: How You Can Turn Anxiety Into a Superpower
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ON THE EDGE (Part 2): How to Get Ahead by Thinking Probabilistically
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ON THE EDGE (Part 1): Nate Silver on Politics, Poker, and Risk-Taking
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The Case for Effective Altruism
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Laziness Does Not Exist
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ALCOHOL: The Good, the Bad, and the Bubbly
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Living for Pleasure
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PROBABILITY: How a 250-Year-Old Theorem Still Explains the World
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GOOD ENERGY (Part 2): Casey Means on How to Supercharge Your Diet
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GOOD ENERGY (Part 1): How to Feel Incredible, Avoid Disease, and Age Well
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BEN FRANKLIN: A Founder's Formula for a Long and Useful Life
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Bill Gates Says Superhuman AI May Be Closer Than You Think
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FRICTION: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier (with Adam Grant & Bob Sutton)
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INFERNAL MACHINE: Dynamite, Anarchy and the Future of Creativity
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UNCERTAINTY: The Surprising Power of Being Unsure
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EDUCATION 4o: How AI Will Revolutionize the Way We Learn
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AFTERLIFE: Sebastian Junger’s Journey to the Edge and Back
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FUNNER: How Language Evolves and Why It Matters
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DEMON OF UNREST: Why the Civil War Matters Today (with Erik Larson)
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ALGEBRA OF WEALTH: Scott Galloway’s Formula for Financial Success
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WHY WE REMEMBER: The New Science of Improving Your Memory
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SLOW PRODUCTIVITY: Can We Get More Done by Doing Less?
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MAGICAL OVERTHINKING: Why Modern Life Is Making Us More Irrational
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Everything Paul Bloom Knows About Psychology
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GET THE PICTURE: Why Bother With Art?
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LOOK AGAIN: How to See Your Life With Fresh Eyes
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GENEROSITY: How Simple Acts of Kindness Can Change the World
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BURN BOOK: Kara Swisher Takes on Big Tech
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SUPERCOMMUNICATORS: How to Connect With Anyone
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MIDLIFE: Once a Crisis, Now an Opportunity
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RADICAL CANDOR: Why Compassionate Honesty Is a Gift
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BLOCKCHAIN: Why Chris Dixon Still Thinks It Matters
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BIG BETS: A Practical Guide to Changing the World
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CLIMATE OPTIMISM: Can We Still Build a Sustainable World?
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FREE WILL: Are We Better Off Without It?
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ATOMIC HABITS: James Clear’s Ultimate Guide to Building Good Habits (and Breaking Bad Ones)
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THE GOOD LIFE: Lessons From the World's Longest Study of Happiness
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How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization (2021)
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Rory Stewart on Politics, Ambition, and Making a Difference
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PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY: Timeless Lessons from Morgan Housel
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EVE: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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THE FAMILY OUTING: Secrets, Memory, and Living Authentically
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Mastering the Art of Difficult Conversations (with Anna Sale)
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ACHIEVEMENT CULTURE: What It’s Doing to Our Kids—and to Us
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FAILURE: The Science of Learning From Your Mistakes
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HOW TO KNOW A PERSON: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply (with David Brooks)
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HIDDEN POTENTIAL: Adam Grant on the Science of Achieving Greater Things
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FACIAL RECOGNITION: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
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Daniel Pink and Brian Lowery Aren’t Sure That You Exist
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Susan Cain on the Power of the Bittersweet (2022)
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HUMAN COMPATIBLE: Can We Control Artificial Intelligence?
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UNREASONABLE HOSPITALITY: The Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
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ELON MUSK: Walter Isaacson on the World’s Most Polarizing Person
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CHANGE: How to Excel When Everything Is in Flux
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DREAM TOWN: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity
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PERENNIALS: How to Thrive in a Post-Generational Society
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ULTRA-PROCESSED: What Fake Food Is Doing to Our Health
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How to Succeed by Quitting (2022)
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Why the Modern World Puts Us All at Risk for Addiction (2021)
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WORK: Henry David Thoreau on Making a Meaningful Living
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RISE AND SHINE: How to Have the Perfect Morning
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Artificial Intelligence Meets Virtual Worlds: The Future of Sentience
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You Should Have More Fun This Summer. Here’s Why.
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PARKING: How It Explains the World
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OUTLIVE (Part 2): How to Optimize Your Diet, Sleep, and Emotional Health
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OUTLIVE (Part 1): Peter Attia’s Guide to the Science of Longevity
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THE WAGER: David Grann Tells a Tale of Shipwreck and Mutiny
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THE REAL WORK: Adam Gopnik on the Mystery of Mastery
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JOY OF MOVEMENT: How Exercise Can Help You Find Happiness and Connection
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BREAKTHROUGH: How to Get Unstuck and Achieve Anything
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EXCELLENT ADVICE: Life Lessons From Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly
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SELFLESS: Why “You” Are a Social Creation
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The Next Big Idea Club Presents — "Immortality: A User's Guide"
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Steven Johnson & Michael Specter on the Future of Life
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You Need a Bedtime (from The Next Big Idea Daily)
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SENSES: Gretchen Rubin’s Guide to Getting Out of Your Head and Into the World
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PSYCH: The Story of the Human Mind
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PREPPY: The Surprising Origins of American Style
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SUCCESSION: The True Story Behind the Hit Show
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ABOLISH POVERTY: Matthew Desmond on How We Can Do It
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READING: Are We Forgetting How To Do It?
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David Chalmers Thinks We May Be Living in a Simulation (and He’s OK With It)
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Is AI Moving Too Fast? A Conversation With Kevin Roose
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LIFE IS SHORT: The Upside of Death
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MUSIC: What the Songs You Love Say About You
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AI: The Origin Story
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Not Finished Is Not Failure (from The Next Big Idea Daily)
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CELLS: Siddhartha Mukherjee on the Breakthroughs That Are Revolutionizing Medicine
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Introducing: The Next Big Idea Daily
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PLEASURE: An Epicurean Guide to the Good Life
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POWER FAILURE: What Happened to GE? (with Malcolm Gladwell & William Cohan)
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DIET: The New Science of Healthy Eating
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How to Develop Your Passions and Avoid Burnout (with Atul Gawande and Adam Grant)
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FEELINGS: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
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SAPIENS: Yuval Noah Harari on Our Past, Present, and Future
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ANALOG: Let’s Build a More Human World
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SLEEP: How Understanding Your Body’s Clock Can Revolutionize Your Health
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ANIMALS: They’re Smarter Than You Think
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HUMOR: The Case for Navigating Life on the Precipice of a Smile
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GOOD ARGUMENTS: Adam Grant and Champion Debater Bo Seo on the Craft of Persuasion
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NEURODIVERSITY: Why No Two Brains Are Alike
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STATUS: Does Our Need for It Explain ... Everything?
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Bittersweet: An Audio E-Course by Susan Cain
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Bonus: Eric Barker Gives Daniel Pink Relationship Advice
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LONGTERMISM: Why You Should Care About Future People
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QUIT: Why You Have to Give Up if You Want to Get Ahead
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PUZZLES: What Crosswords, Riddles, and Wordle Can Teach You About the Meaning of Life
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BUILD: Tony Fadell’s Guide to Making Cool Stuff
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SURVIVAL OF THE RICHEST: How Tech Billionaires Are Preparing for Doomsday
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HAPPINESS: Arthur C. Brooks Shares His Roadmap for Finding Purpose, Meaning, and Success
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DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on the future of AI (from The TED Interview)
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Summer Getaway #4: The Making of ‘Bull Durham’ (with Ron Shelton)
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Summer Getaway #3: The 12-Hour Walk (with Colin O’Brady)
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Summer Getaway #2: An American Odyssey (with Ben McGrath)
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Summer Getaway #1: The Beach (with Sarah Stodola)
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Finding Stillness With Ryan Holiday
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Amanda Little on the Fate of Food
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John Colapinto on the Power and Beauty of the Human Voice
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THE ESSENTIALS: Our Favorite Moments From Season 4
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BICYCLES: Are They the Future of Transportation?
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BIG DATA: Cracking the Codes of Love, Happiness and Success
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Susan Cain & Daniel Pink: Writing, Longing, and the Search for Meaning
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RELATIONSHIPS: Why Everything You Know About Them Is (Mostly) Wrong
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How To Be a Grown-Up
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IMAGINABLE: How Anyone Can Predict the Future (Yes, Even You)
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CULTURE: How Successful Groups Work
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GET IT DONE: How the Science of Motivation Can Help You Achieve Your Goals
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Bonus: The Not-So-Great Resignation (WorkLife with Adam Grant)
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FUN: How to Have More of It
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TWITTER: What Elon Musk’s Acquisition Means for the Future of Social Media
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EMOTIONAL: Do Your Feelings Make You Smarter?
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ORIGIN: How Did Humans Migrate to the Americas?
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BITTERSWEET: Susan Cain on the Beauty of Sorrow and Longing
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Regrets: Daniel Pink Has a Few (And So Should You)
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REALITY+: Are We Living in a Simulation?
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HURT SO GOOD: The Pleasures of Suffering (Paul Bloom & Susan Cain)
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EMPIRE: Why Ray Dalio Thinks We May Be Headed for Civil War
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TIME MANAGEMENT FOR MORTALS: Malcolm Gladwell and Oliver Burkeman
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EVENING ROCKET: Decoding Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Visions of the Future
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GOOD ANXIETY: Can You Turn Worrying Into a Superpower?
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HACK YOUR HABITS: The Science of Making Changes That Stick
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TOGETHER: The Surgeon General’s Prescription for Health and Happiness
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SPIRITUAL TECHNOLOGIES: Two Scientists Debate the Benefits of Religion
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DAWN OF EVERYTHING: The True History of Humanity
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DOPAMINE NATION: Why the Modern World Puts Us All at Risk for Addiction
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AMBITION: How to Achieve Success on Your Own Terms
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FRIENDSHIP: The Science Behind Life’s Deepest Bond
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EXPONENTIAL AGE: Everything Is Accelerating. Who’s at the Wheel?
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NEW POWER: How to Spread Ideas, Build Movements, and Leap Ahead
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SPORTS: Life Lessons From an Olympian, a Hockey Coach, and a Middle-Aged Beginner
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FEELING & KNOWING: Unlocking the Secrets of Consciousness
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Bonus: Adam Grant and Annie Murphy Paul
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LAZINESS: There's No Such Thing
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HOW TO CHANGE: Science-Backed Tips for Becoming Your Best Self (Katy Milkman & Daniel Pink)
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RATIONALITY: Steven Pinker’s Love Song to Critical Thinking
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LOONSHOTS: The Science of Generating Crazy Ideas (Safi Bahcall & Daniel Pink)
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DEADLINE EFFECT: Can You Work Like It's the Last Minute Before the Last Minute?
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EXTRA LIFE: We Doubled Life Expectancy in the Last Century. Can We Do It Again?
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PARENTING: Learn How to Do It Better With Science, Data, and Mr. Rogers
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PERSONALITY: The Science of Being Who You Want
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JOYFUL: Ingrid Fetell Lee and Adam Grant on the Objects That Make Us Happy
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CULT OF WE: How WeWork's CEO Vaporized $40 Billion
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BREATH: Is Deep Breathing the Secret to Long Living?
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DRUNK: Can Alcohol Make You More Creative, Sociable, and Attractive?
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DEATH, SEX & MONEY: Anna Sale Talks About Hard Things
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THE BOMBER MAFIA: Malcolm Gladwell on Warfare, Audiobooks, and the Future of Storytelling
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EFFORTLESS: Embrace the Easy Option
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HIGH CONFLICT: How to Defuse Any Squabble (Amanda Ripley & Susan Cain)
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EXTENDED MIND: Want to Get Smarter? Try Thinking Outside of Your Brain
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DELUSIONS: How Self-Deception Can Help You Flourish (Shankar Vedantam & Daniel Pink)
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AI: The Extraordinary Story of the Tech That’s Changing the World
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MINE: How the Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
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GATHERING: Mastering the Art of Hanging Out
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EMAIL: Would the World Be Better Without It?
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WORK: Should You Do Less of It? Adam Grant and James Suzman on the 15-Hour Workweek.
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CODE BREAKER: Why Walter Isaacson Thinks CRISPR Will Change Life As We Know It
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FOOD: Can We Taste Climate Change?
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CHATTER: Learning to Love the Voice in Your Head
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HUMOR: How to Turn Levity Into Your Secret Weapon
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BEGINNERS: The Joys of Being an Amateur
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THINK AGAIN: Adam Grant on the Power of Changing Your Mind
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VOICE: You Are What You Speak
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THE BRAIN: A User’s Guide to the Blob Between Your Ears
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SERENDIPITY: Good Luck and How to Get It
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DRUG USE: Is Getting High an American Right?
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POST CORONA: Predicting the Future With Scott Galloway
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Season 3: New Ideas, Same Great Taste
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LET’S BE REASONABLE: Sam Harris and Rufus in Conversation
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MIND GAMES: What Poker Can Teach Us About Luck, Skill, and Ourselves
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TRANSCENDENCE: Finding Fulfillment Beyond Ourselves
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HUMANKIND: Finding Hope in Human History
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MIGRATION: Why Human Beings Were Built to Move
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BREATH: Harnessing the Power of a Lost Art
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PERSUASION: How to Change People’s Minds
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ALCHEMY: How Our Creations Recreate Us
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UPSTREAM: Solving Problems Before They Happen
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CIVILIZATION: Recalculating the Price of Progress
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TOGETHER: A Doctor’s Prescription for Health and Happiness
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WEIRDNESS: How to Make it Your Superpower
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BOYS & SEX: Coming of Age in America
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FRIENDSHIP: The Science and Power of Life’s Deepest Bond
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THINKING AHEAD: How to Make Life’s Big Decisions
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LISTENING: What You’re Missing and Why it Matters
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SUCCESSFUL AGING: How to Live a Full, Long Life
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Rethinking Big Ideas: Adam Grant on Finding Balance
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Rethinking Big Ideas: Priya Parker on Gathering Apart
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Rethinking Big Ideas: The Path to a More Generous World
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Rethinking Big Ideas: Daniel Pink on the Future of Work
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Rethinking Big Ideas: On Finding Joy in Simple Pleasures
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Rethinking Big Ideas: Steven Johnson on Scientific Breakthroughs
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Rethinking Big Ideas: Susan Cain on Solitude
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STILLNESS: How to Find Peace in a Frantic World
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FREE MONEY: Why Andrew Yang Thinks a Giveaway Can Save the Economy
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HABITS: How to Let Go of The Old and Bring in the New
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GATHERING: How to Make Our Time Together Meaningful
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FUTURE: Can We Build a More Generous World
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SUCCESS: The Dirty Secret of Getting Ahead
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TRUST: Malcolm Gladwell on How We Talk To Strangers
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POWER: Why You Have More Than You Think
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PERCEPTION: Why What You See Is Not Reality
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UNCENSORED: What Free Speech Debates Teach Us About Empathy
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CONFLICT: How to Have More Productive Disagreements
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JOYFUL: Why Ordinary Objects Can Make You Extraordinarily Happy
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CODERS: The Invisible Architects Who Shape Our Lives
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RACIAL BIAS: Why We Have It and What We Can Do About It
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INDISTRACTABLE: Staying Focused in a World of Distractions
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RANGE: Why Generalists Succeed in a Specialists’ World
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Introducing The Next Big Idea
The Next Big Idea
The Next Big Idea is a weekly series of in-depth interviews with the world’s leading thinkers. Join our host, Rufus Griscom — along with our curators, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink — for conversations that might just change the way you see the world. New episodes every Thursday.