Midlife Isn’t a Slow Fade: 5 Ideas to Inspire Your Third Turn
Midlife can feel like standing on a rope swing: you know it’s time to let go, but the familiar still has a powerful grip. In Your Turn: How to Create a Midlife You Love, longtime NPR health and scienc...
7 Sep 30min
When Systems of Care Stop Caring
What happens when the systems designed to help us begin treating people like problems to process? Dr. Paul LeBlanc explores how education, healthcare, government, and other institutions can recover th...
4 Sep 23min
The Art of Fighting
Conflict gets a bad rap—but avoiding it can leave relationships shallow, tense, and stuck. In The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict, Priya Parker reveals how healthy disagreement c...
3 Sep 24min
When Quitting is the Winning Move
“Winners never quit” sounds inspiring—until persistence starts doing more harm than good. Journalist Lindsay Crouse, author of The Case for Quitting: The Surprising Benefits of Opting Out, explains wh...
2 Sep 24min
Why You Procrastinate—and How to Stop
Why do we delay work we genuinely care about—even when we know we’ll regret it later? In Solving Procrastination, Dr. Itamar Shatz reveals the psychological tug-of-war behind our tendency to put thing...
1 Sep 26min
How to Build a Resilient Brain
Your brain is remarkably resilient—but modern life doesn’t always make protecting it easy. In Brain Defenders, neurologist David Perlmutter explains how the brain’s immune cells can either preserve co...
31 Aug 26min
The Truth About Weight Loss
Today, we’re talking about the promises, perils, and psychology of changing how we eat. In Magic Pill, Johann Hari explores the new weight-loss drugs transforming medicine—and raising big questions ab...
28 Aug 26min
Trying Hard Is Embarrassing. Do It Anyway.
Work is full of strange little humiliations: trying too hard, caring too much, asking for what you want, or realizing you’ve accidentally become the person who always pours the metaphorical water. Tod...
27 Aug 33min
