A New Way To Think About Your Time | Ashley Whillans (2021)

I grew up with that famous Groucho Marx joke, "I wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have me as a member." It always resonated with me. As my grandfather would say, "I resemble that remark." ...

26 Elo 202057min

It's a human urge to return to normalcy after a cataclysmic event. But if we rush back to normalcy without taking a beat, without metabolizing what we've all been going through, that can create profou...

24 Elo 202058min

This episode is a mix of the technical, the practical, and the delightful. We're talking about a meditation technique that can impact relationships, your biases, and how you handle things such as lyin...

19 Elo 20201h 21min

The virus has exploited so many weaknesses of our culture. But having exposed the weaknesses, such as inequities and reckless individualism, could the current crisis lead to a fundamental shift for hu...

17 Elo 202059min

Today we have a master class in resilience. My guest is George Mumford, who has overcome some towering difficulties in his own life, including an addiction to drugs. He went on to become a legendary m...

12 Elo 202056min

This week on the show, we're exploring the interrelated themes of grit and resilience -- both massively resonant and relevant issues in the era of Covid and BLM. Today, my guest is Angela Duckworth. S...

10 Elo 202054min

At a time when work has become more challenging than ever, we're going to explore one myth and one revelation. The myth -- which many of us, myself included, have consciously or subconsciously incorpo...

5 Elo 20201h 8min

In this episode, we take a simple, useful, and down-to-earth stroll through one of the most confounding -- but liberating -- concepts in Buddhism. On the one hand, Buddhists tell us the self is an ill...

3 Elo 202052min