CULT OF WE: How WeWork's CEO Vaporized $40 Billion
Adam Neumann, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home (eight of them, actually) and a happy (if slightly hyperactive) disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; ...
11 Aug 20211h 1min
BREATH: Is Deep Breathing the Secret to Long Living?
We do it 25,000 times a day, but most of us rarely give breathing a thought. Author James Nestor says we’re missing out on one of the most powerful pathways to health and happiness. He leads Rufus thr...
4 Aug 202147min
DRUNK: Can Alcohol Make You More Creative, Sociable, and Attractive?
Do we have alcohol to thank for civilization? The answer, according to Edward Slingerland’s new book, “Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization,” is a resounding yes. Edward,...
27 Jul 20211h 12min
DEATH, SEX & MONEY: Anna Sale Talks About Hard Things
A lot of us run away from tough conversations. Anna Sale runs toward them. For nearly a decade, as the host of the podcast “Death, Sex & Money,” she has been having searching conversations about “the ...
21 Jul 20211h 10min
THE BOMBER MAFIA: Malcolm Gladwell on Warfare, Audiobooks, and the Future of Storytelling
Malcolm Gladwell’s extraordinary new book, “The Bomber Mafia,” tells the story of a group of pilots who met on a muggy airbase in central Alabama and hatched a plan to revolutionize warfare. This was ...
14 Jul 202158min
EFFORTLESS: Embrace the Easy Option
Teddy Roosevelt once said that nothing is worth doing “unless it means effort, pain, and difficulty.” And to that bestselling author Greg McKeown says, “Baloney!” There’s no denying that hard work oft...
7 Jul 202155min
HIGH CONFLICT: How to Defuse Any Squabble (Amanda Ripley & Susan Cain)
Have you ever lain awake at night, obsessing over a conflict with a colleague or a relative or a politician you’ve never met? That’s what journalist Amanda Ripley calls high conflict. If good conflict...
30 Jun 202150min
EXTENDED MIND: Want to Get Smarter? Try Thinking Outside of Your Brain
Modern life has not been easy on our brains. Average IQ scores rose steadily throughout the last century. Now they appear to be leveling off. The problem, according to neuroscientists, may be that we ...
23 Jun 20211h 14min
