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How to Be a Better Human

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Join How to Be a Better Human as we take a look within and beyond ourselves.How to Be a Better Human isn’t your average self improvement podcast. Each week join comedian Chris Duffy in conversation with guests and past speakers as they uncover sharp insights and give clear takeaways on how YOU can be a better human.From your work to your home and your head to your heart, How to Be a Better Human looks in unexpected places for new ways to improve and show up for one another. Inspired by the popular series of the same name on TED’s Ideas blog, How to Be a Better Human will help you become a better person from the comfort of your own headphones.Follow Chris on Instagram at @chrisiduffy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Autor: TED

199
Episodios
32 min 57 sec
Duración Promedio
Inglés
Idioma

Categorías:

Educación

Duración Total:

109 hr 17 min

Todos los episodios

Julissa Arce on why success isn’t worth her assimilation

20 Mar, 2023

When do you feel like you've reached "success"? Julissa Arce is an acclaimed social justice advocate, the author of four books, a former vice president at Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, and was named a 2019 Woman of the Year …

Duración: 31 min

Why Kim Scott thinks you need to ask for feedback

13 Mar, 2023

You know what they say about unsolicited advice (don’t give it!) but when it comes to SOLICITED feedback, author and executive coach Kim Scott says: bring it on. Kim believes that when it comes to improving your life at home, …

Duración: 36 min

Cord Jefferson's creativity is fueled by mental health

06 Mar, 2023

Television writer Cord Jefferson has written for the kind of shows that crack hearts open. From The Good Place to Watchmen, Station Eleven to Master of None, Cord has spent his career wrangling human emotions in the writers’ room – …

Duración: 34 min

Anne Helen Petersen on changing your relationship to work and the guardrails that can prevent burnout

27 Feb, 2023

What does "burnout" even mean anymore? If you're asking yourself this question, you've come to the right podcast. Anne Helen Petersen is the writer who helped popularize the term and she thinks people are missing the big picture. In this …

Duración: 31 min

Pardon the Interruption… But Did Sports Debate Shows Change the World?

20 Feb, 2023

From risky snowboard halfpipe runs, to 400m sprints where every second counts, to high-stakes archery tournaments, performing well in sports requires mental toughness as much as physical toughness. How do athletes get “in the zone”? And what can we all …

Duración: 40 min

Why love –and therapy– means going in a direction you don’t yet know (w/ Dr. Orna Guralnik)

13 Feb, 2023

In her critically acclaimed Showtime docuseries, Couples Therapy, clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst Dr. Orna Guralnik thinks deeply about relationships, emotions, and connection. In this episode, Dr. Guralnik explains why she believes psychoanalysis helps us love better, dispels myths about the …

Duración: 35 min

Jody Avirgan learned everything from sports

06 Feb, 2023

When it comes to sports, it might seem like there are two kinds of people. Those who are religious about their love for the game and those who only see Super Bowl Sunday as a vessel for an epic halftime …

Duración: 33 min

Andrew Marantz doesn’t want you to give up on the internet

30 Ene, 2023

The internet can be a wonderful, but also a terribly unpleasant place. Andrew Marantz knows this well. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker who spent three years embedded in the world of internet trolls to understand how …

Duración: 35 min

The science of happiness (w/ Laurie Santos)

23 Ene, 2023

The phrase “comparison is the thief of joy” might be the kind of cliche that makes you roll your eyes – and yet, it’s an idea that is, scientifically, pretty accurate. In today’s episode, psychologist Laurie Santos – a Yale …

Duración: 35 min

How to care for the people who take care of us (w/ Ai-jen Poo)

16 Ene, 2023

Activist, and MacArthur Genius, Ai-jen Poo believes that caring for others is one of the fundamental acts that make us human. But from nannies to elder-care workers, house cleaners to living assistants, single parents and beyond, globally, caretakers do not …

Duración: 39 min