A More Relaxed Way to Meditate | Alexis Santos
A common problem among type-A people is trying to win at meditation. But the practice doesn't work like that. If you over-effort, if you try to make something happen, it's pretty much guaranteed not t...
8 Syys 202155min
Letting Go of Perfectionism | La Sarmiento
In this episode, we're talking about the difference between kindness and what our guest, La Sarmiento, calls "radical kindness," how to muster the strength to be kind to annoying people while setting ...
6 Syys 20211h 1min
Reversing the Golden Rule | Jamil Zaki
In this episode we're talking about how what you believe— about yourself, or about the world — can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. So if you believe the world is a cold and unforgiving place, it ca...
1 Syys 20211h
The Evolutionary Case for Kindness | Dacher Keltner
Here's a question: Is there an evolutionary advantage to being kind? Our guest today is Dacher Keltner, an eminent scientist who will make the case that, contrary to popular conceptions of evolution ...
30 Elo 202158min
Optimizing Your Stress | Modupe Akinola
Stress – which many of us despise and try to avoid – does not actually have to be a bad thing. Rather, it's our relationship to stress, our mindset about stress, that determines whether we are helped ...
25 Elo 20211h
The Science of Making and Keeping Friends | Robin Dunbar
Friendship might not necessarily be something you've considered to be an urgent psychological and physiological issue. On this show, we spend a lot of time exploring how the quality of our relationshi...
23 Elo 20211h 3min
Improving Your Relationships - Buddhist Style | Martine Batchelor
This great deep-Dharma episode is all about using an ancient, fascinating, and readily-accessible Buddhist concept as a way to improve your interactions with other human beings. The concept in questio...
18 Elo 20211h 8min
Help, Work Sucks | Cal Newport
A lot of us right now would probably agree that the technologies meant to make our jobs easier are actually stressing us out. (Think: the email and Slack messages that never stop and with which you ca...
16 Elo 20211h 1min
