256 - The Persuaders - Anand Giridharadas
This is the third episode in a three-part series about how to have difficult conversations with people who see the world differently, how to have better debates about contentious issues, and how to et...
2 Apr 20231h 10min
255 - Good Arguments - Bo Seo
This is the second episode in a three-part series about how to have difficult conversations with people who see the world differently, how to have better debates about contentious issues, and how to e...
19 Mar 20231h 4min
254 - I Never Thought of It That Way - Mónica Guzmán
This is the first episode in a three-part series about how to have difficult conversations with people who see the world differently, how to have better debates about contentious issues, and how to et...
5 Mar 202351min
253 - The World's Greatest Con - Brian Brushwood (rebroadcast)
In this episode, we sit down with famed stage magician and infamous instructor of the school of scams, Brian Brushwood, whose new podcast explores the world's greatest con artists and con jobs from Wo...
19 Feb 202353min
252 - Procrastination - Britt Frank
It’s February. It’s that time of year when we start to wonder if we might not follow through with our New Year’s resolutions. It’s that time of the year when procrastination becomes a centerpiece of o...
5 Feb 202341min
251 - Come up for Air - Nick Sonnenberg
Nick Sonnenberg doesn’t believe there just aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done. That’s because when his business was in crisis mode, he developed a framework for eliminating ineffici...
22 Jan 202344min
250 - Awe - Dacher Keltner
In this episode we sit down with psychologist Dacher Keltner, one of the world’s leading experts on the science of emotion, the man Pixar hired to help them write Inside Out. In his new book – Awe: Th...
8 Jan 202354min
249 - The Power of Surprise (rebroadcast)
In this episode, Micheal Rousell, author of The Power of Surprise, explains the science of surprise at the level of neurons and brain structures, and then talk about how surprises often lead to the st...
24 Des 20221h
