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Mental Health

Some introverts find peace while everyone else sleeps

March 14, 2022 Culture, Mental Health

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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How to kick your success addiction and love your work

March 10, 2022 Culture, Mental Health

Arthur C. Brooks discusses his research to understand how to move past waning opportunities for advancement and embrace aging with all its many wonderful possibilities.

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Positive thinking can bring you down

March 8, 2022 Culture, Mental Health

Psychotherapist 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.

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When your disability is invisible to others

March 7, 2022 Health, Mental Health

Frank 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.

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A wandering mind is a creative mind

March 4, 2022 Mental Health, Science and Technology

Cognitive neuroscientist Moshe Bar explains why divided attention can lead to bigger discoveries — from lessening anxiety to better connecting the dots of our daily lives.

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There IS such a thing as too much pleasure

February 28, 2022 Culture, Health, Mental Health

Dr. 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.

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Is your personality permanent?

February 23, 2022 Mental Health, Science and Technology

Olga Khazan talks about her quest to change five traits of her personality and the lessons she learned along the way.

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The pressure to act happy when your child has special needs

February 9, 2022 Education, Health, Mental Health

Heather 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.

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Rediscovering the world beyond your devices

February 8, 2022 Mental Health, Science and Technology

Journalist 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.

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In a disaster, she put the bottle down

February 8, 2022 Health, Mental Health

Danielle 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.

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Nature Is Our Nurturer

February 3, 2022 Environment, Health, Mental Health

Lucy 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.

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A battle-tested guide to confidence

January 31, 2022 Mental Health

Nate 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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