Life
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Cayte Bosler | January 8, 2014Make Time for Awe
Jason Silva is a self-described epiphany junkie. He recently enthused to me about how some movies, for example,...
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Damian Aspinall | December 22, 2013Gorilla Reunion
This heart-tugging video captured the extraordinary reunion of two old friends: a man and the gorilla he raised...
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Carly Sullens | December 13, 2013End of Year Reflection
Year End Review Questions 365 days are about to come to pass. Before moving into the New Year...
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Barbara Fredrickson | October 2, 2013Kinds of Happiness
Human bodies recognize at the molecular level that not all happiness is created equal, responding in ways that...
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Roberto D'Angelo Francesca Fedeli | August 13, 2013Life Lessons
Roberto D’Angelo and Francesca Fedeli thought their baby boy Mario was healthy — until at 10 days old,...
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Meg Jay | May 20, 201330 Is Not The New 20, Why?
30 Is Not The New 20, Why? Clinical psychologist Meg Jay has a bold message for twenty somethings:...
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Pip McKay | May 2, 2013Celebrating Motherhood
I was flicking through a catalogue, as you do, looking for an appropriate present for my Mum on...
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Andrew Cohen | April 28, 201310 Challenges of a Liberated Woman
The mission of the EnlightenNext women is to pioneer a new stage of human culture through transforming themselves...
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Jeff Haden | March 30, 20136 Habits of Remarkably Likeable People
They’re charming. They’re genuine. And they can make an entire room full of people smile. When you meet...
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Albrecht Powell | January 25, 2013Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s Eve has always been a time for looking back to the past, and more importantly, forward...
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Adam Fraser | January 5, 2013Managing Transitions
Life is a series of transitions! During our day we transition between different environments and different roles. Each...
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Louie Schwartzberg | December 18, 2012Nature. Beauty. Gratitude
At TED – Nature’s beauty can be easily missed — but not through Louie Schwartzberg’s lens. His stunning...
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Tsh Oxenreider | December 13, 2012The Big Questions
Below are 20 questions I use each year as a springboard to reflect on the past 365 days....
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Femke Stuut | October 19, 20127 Steps to Loving Yourself
“A troop of porcupines is milling about on a cold winter’s day. In order to keep from freezing,...
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Robert Masters | September 6, 2012Bringing Sex Out of the Closet
Sex is arguably still in the closet. Yes, it’s wearing a lot less and showing a lot more...
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Tim Kreider | July 12, 2012The Busy Trap
If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of...
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Frans de Waal | July 2, 2012Do Animals Have Morals?
At TED – Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity — caring about the well-being of others seems like a...
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Juan Enriquez | June 19, 2012New Human Species
At TED – Throughout human evolution, multiple versions of humans co-existed. Could we be mid-upgrade now? At TEDxSummit,...
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Carl Richards | June 10, 2012The Right Way to Buy Happiness
Money can’t buy happiness. You hear this all the time, but is it true? I know we can...
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Penny Tompkins and James Lawley | April 15, 2012Maximising Serendipity
The ideas in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s brilliant new book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable...
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Susan Cain | April 10, 2012The Power of Introverts
At TED – In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can...
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Penny Tompkins and James Lawley | March 18, 2012Self-Nudging
Choice architecture for the mind Richard Thaler & Cass Sunstein propose that those of us who have a...
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Tony Porter | December 20, 2011A Call to Men
At TEDxSiliconValley – Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don’t “act like a man.” Telling powerful...
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Impact Factory | December 1, 2011Enjoying Silly Season!
6 Tips For Surviving Christmas Stress The holiday season is one of the most stressful times of year....
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Joan Halifax | November 23, 2011Compassion and the True Meaning of Empathy
>At TEDxSiliconValley – Buddhist roshi Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life (in hospice...
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Brene Brown | September 20, 2011The Power of Vulnerability
At TEDxSiliconValley, The Power of Vulnerability , Brene Brown studies human connection — our ability to empathize, belong, love....
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Sean Carroll | June 6, 2011Distant Time and the Hint of a Multiverse
At TEDxCaltech, cosmologist Sean Carroll attacks – in an entertaining and thought-provoking tour through the nature of time...
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Terry Flynn | May 5, 2011Happiness Quotent
Happiness is one of the hottest areas of economic research. But simply asking people how happy they are...
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Ric Elias | April 26, 20113 Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed
Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in...
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Jacqueline Novogratz | April 13, 2011Inspiring a Life of Immersion
We each want to live a life of purpose, but where to start? In this luminous, wide-ranging talk,...
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Parenting Help Me | March 20, 2011Unborn Child Intelligence
Medical studies show that the development of the brain starts during the course of pregnancy. For this reason,...
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Nicholas Wade | January 23, 2011Trust and Testosterone
The glue that binds a human society together is trust. But people who trust others too much are...
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Nicholas Wade | January 6, 2011Eckhart Tolle & Cesar Millan
Eckhart Tolle talks with Cesar Millan about his trust in animals, living in the present and what dogs...
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William Ury | January 4, 2011The Path From “No” to “Yes”
The Walk From “No” to “Yes” William Ury, author of “Getting to Yes,” offers an elegant, simple (but...
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Steve Jobs | October 26, 2010How To Live Before You Die
At his Stanford University commencement speech, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to...
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Rosina McAlpine | October 17, 2010Are your children too busy to learn essential life skills?
As parents, one of our main jobs is to prepare our children for life. Sooner than we think,...
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Seth Godin | September 15, 2010This Is Broken
Why are so many things broken? In a hilarious talk from the 2006 Gel conference, Seth Godin gives...
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Helen Fisher | September 10, 2010When to Trust Your Gut
That little voice that nudges you when you’re stuck between two choices? It’s real. You’re faced with a...
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Sheena Iyengar | August 4, 2010The Art of Choosing
Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices — and how we feel about the choices we make. At...
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John Maxwell | July 25, 2010Kicked in the Rear?
Greek philosopher Aristotle said, “Criticism is something you can avoid easily—by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”...



