Dr. Brené Brown, Research Professor and Author
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Brené Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation – Brené Brown Endo...
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Best-Selling Author Gretchen Rubin
This week’s conversation is with author Gretchen Rubin on happiness, human nature, and habits.Gretchen has spent the past decade researching and writing abo...
Wendy Behary: Narcissism and High Performance
Wendy Behary is a founding fellow and consulting supervisor for The Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Aaron T. Beck Institute). Wendy has a specialty in treating na...
Chade-Meng Tan: Joy at Scale & Global Peace
Chade-Meng Tan (Meng) is a Google pioneer, award-winning engineer, international bestselling author, thought leader and philanthropist. He retired from Google a...
Jamie Wheal and Steven Kotler: Altered States of Consciousness, Stealing Fire
This conversation is with Jamie Wheal and Steven Kotler. Many of you will remember Steven from our conversation about flow state -- if you missed that, check ou...
The Allure of Zen Buddhism
I think a lot about Zen Buddhism because I meditate every day.I get up every morning and before I eat or do anything I meditate for 35 minutes. It's a v...
My Method for Writing
The first thing I think people overlook when it comes to writing is the distinction between the research and the thinking and then the writing.A lot of ...
Robert Greene: Mastery & Research
Robert Greene is author of the New York Times bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, and his fifth book...
The Inability to “Turn It Off”
Ryan Holiday explains why the cost of mastery for him is not being able to “turn it off." He thinks it extends to many successful people in their respecti...
Ryan Holiday: Ego, Obstacles, Writing
Ryan Holiday is a media strategist and prominent writer on strategy and business. After dropping out of college at nineteen to apprentice under Robert Greene, a...
Mindset of a Multiplier Leader
Liz Wiseman explains how she helps leaders bring out the best in other people.The "diminisher mindset" is nobody is going to figure it out without me ...
Kayt Sukel: Sex, Risk, and the Brain
As a cultural scientist, passionate traveler and science journalist, Kayt Sukel has no problem tackling interesting (and often risky) subjects spanning love, se...
Liz Wiseman: Multiplying Genius
Leading others is much more involved than the charisma to motivate.Where are you leading to, is equally as important of a question as: Where are you leading...
Jon Gordon: Storytelling
If you’ve ever found yourself wondering if you’ve made the mistake of trading your deepest talents — for the security of a good-paying-gig — I think you’ll appr...
Ashley Merryman: Science of Competition
The origin of the word "compete" emphasizes the notion of striving together (as compared to striving against). Author Ashley Merryman takes a deep dive into the...