Life
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Cayte Bosler | January 8, 2014
Make 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, 2013
Gorilla 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, 2013
End 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, 2013
Kinds 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, 2013
Life 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, 2013
30 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, 2013
Celebrating 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, 2013
10 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, 2013
6 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, 2013
Top 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, 2013
Managing 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, 2012
Nature. 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, 2012
The 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, 2012
7 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, 2012
Bringing 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, 2012
The 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, 2012
Do 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, 2012
New 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, 2012
The 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, 2012
Maximising 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, 2012
The 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, 2012
Self-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, 2011
A 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, 2011
Enjoying 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, 2011
Compassion 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, 2011
The 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, 2011
Distant 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, 2011
Happiness 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, 2011
3 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, 2011
Inspiring 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, 2011
Unborn 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, 2011
Trust 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, 2011
Eckhart 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, 2011
The 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, 2010
How 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, 2010
Are 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, 2010
This 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, 2010
When 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, 2010
The 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, 2010
Kicked in the Rear?
Greek philosopher Aristotle said, “Criticism is something you can avoid easily—by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.”...