Faith Hill reveals the lives of extreme introverts – people who crave being alone – and the ways they get around interacting with the rest of society.
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Faith Hill reveals the lives of extreme introverts – people who crave being alone – and the ways they get around interacting with the rest of society.
Read moreArthur C. Brooks discusses his research to understand how to move past waning opportunities for advancement and embrace aging with all its many wonderful possibilities.
Read morePsychotherapist Whitney Goodman explains why the messages we’re getting about always being happy are making us depressed and anxious, and what to do about it.
Read moreFrank Bruni discusses his vision loss in one eye, and the resulting reframing of his priorities after the diagnosis that he could lose his sight in both eyes.
Read moreCognitive neuroscientist Moshe Bar explains why divided attention can lead to bigger discoveries — from lessening anxiety to better connecting the dots of our daily lives.
Read moreDr. Anna Lembke, a medical director of Stanford Addiction Medicine, joins us to discuss the neuroscience of pleasure, why our bodies crave it, and the consequences of overconsumption.
Read moreOlga Khazan talks about her quest to change five traits of her personality and the lessons she learned along the way.
Read moreHeather Lanier joins us to discuss the personal struggles she faces parenting her daughter, a child with a very rare genetic disorder, while navigating a world that expects parents to raise high-achieving children.
Read moreJournalist Johann Hari discusses why we’re only able to focus on tasks for minutes at a time, what happened to our attention span, and how these racing thoughts can be monetized by big tech.
Read moreDanielle Tcholakian discusses the first year she lived without alcohol – a year during which so many people lived in fear and isolation at the beginning of the pandemic.
Read moreLucy Jones joins us to talk about her story of overcoming addiction by forming a deep connection with the beauty of nature, and the biological reasons humans need to be outside.
Read moreNate Zinsser, director of West Point’s Performance-Psychology program, lays out his step-by-step guide to overcoming the mental pressures holding us back.
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