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24 ENTRIESIn Why We Do What We Do, Tony Robbins offers a fast-paced account of the emotions and needs that influence human choices. He asks why people with similar resources make dramatically different decisions, emphasizing.
Jane McGonigal’s 2012 TEDGlobal talk connects her recovery after a serious concussion with the design of SuperBetter, a game meant to help people practice resilience. The provocative title about extra years of life is a.
Daniel Kahneman’s The Riddle of Experience vs Memory asks why the quality of an experience and our later judgment about it can diverge. The talk distinguishes the experiencing self, which lives through moments, from the.
Barry Schwartz’s Paradox of Choice challenges the assumption that every additional option makes consumers better off. When a decision becomes complicated, more choice can increase effort, uncertainty and later regret. Schwartz’s.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow, the Secret to Happiness explores experiences in which a person becomes deeply absorbed in a meaningful activity. The talk invites a different view of wellbeing from the pursuit of comfort or.
Brown’s 2012 talk revisits the public response to her earlier work on vulnerability and turns toward shame: the fear of being unworthy of connection. She combines personal experience, humor and social observations to discuss
Dweck’s growth-mindset talk is often reduced to a slogan about trying harder. Her real educational question is more demanding: what changes when a person views an unfinished ability as something that can develop through usefu
Pink challenges the belief that larger incentives always produce better work. He argues that rewards can work well for certain clear tasks while becoming less reliable when people need judgment, creativity or sustained commit
Tim Urban's TED2016 talk, ‘Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator,’ turns avoidance into a memorable comic story. Instead of pretending that people simply need more willpower, he describes a conflict between planning for the future and choos
In her TEDxHouston talk ‘The Power of Vulnerability,’ researcher and storyteller Brené Brown examines the connection between openness, belonging and the fear of being judged. The address is not a request to disclose everything to everyone. It is
