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Master your anxiety to unleash your genius, with Jesse Eisenberg

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Jesse Eisenberg

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Adam Grant’s #1 phrase to unlock potential

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It doesn’t matter if you fail. It matters how you fail.

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Gary Vee: Rules of billion-dollar brands

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Gary Vaynerchuk

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Berkeley professor explains gender theory

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The CEO playbook: 3 critical tips from 1,000 interviews

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How to future-proof your career

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A man is walking towards a crate with the number 60 on it.

You probably won’t retire when your parents did—here’s why that’s not all bad news

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Employees over customers.

Work culture in the U.S. is broken. It’s on employers to fix it.

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President Barack Obama delivers a persuasive speech from a podium.

The psychology of persuasion, as told by an Ivy League professor

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The burnout antidote on a yellow background.

The #1 cause of burnout is not what you think

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How to deal with Debbie in HR — and other terrible coworkers

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A Harvard career coach’s “unspoken rules” for getting promoted

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Failure is the key to “ultimate success”

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Kevin O’Leary: I invested in FTX. Here’s the big problem with crypto.

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Kevin O’Leary

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Fix hidden conflict — before it’s too late

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Ask smarter questions in 5 minutes

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Give up on happiness. Go hard at wonder.

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5 “signal emotions” we suppress at work

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Cassandra Worthy

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7 steps to profit hypergrowth

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3 rules of persuasion for empathic leaders

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Stoicism: How to turn your sadness into strength

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Three purple coneflowers at different life stages: dried and dead, wilting, and fully blooming, shown against a black background.

The happiness paradox, explained in 7 minutes

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What the Navy’s TOPGUN program really teaches you

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workplace inclusion

“I don’t have imposter syndrome and neither do you”

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Ruchika T. Malhotra

Mind hack: Revive your focus with this 12-minute exercise

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the power of branding

10,000 years of branding explained in 6 minutes

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How to learn from failure and quit the blame game

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flow state

How ‘flow state’ can treat anxiety and depression

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mental chatter

What to do if your inner voice is cruel

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The science of consciousness is solving the biggest illusion in our universe

“Consciousness is fundamental. It’s a fundamental property of the world that we inhabit, a fundamental property of the universe.”

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How Rainn Wilson discovered sacredness

The hospital where Rainn Wilson’s wife and son nearly died became his own personal holy site. There, he discovered that the sacred can exist in places we least expect it. During his talk at A Night of Awe and Wonder, he explained how the awe we feel in moments of courage and love is moral beauty — and following it might be the start of our spiritual revolution.

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A timeline diagram showing portraits of various scientists, documents, and equations connected by arrows, illustrating the historical development of quantum mechanics.

Why general relativity would’ve been discovered without Einstein

“The messy reality of it is that all of these very smart people, including Isaac Newton, were talking to other people.”

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How the myth of destiny distorts our decisions

“When you start to accept that you have profound influence on the world, but very limited control, you start to see the world differently.”

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Want to be more productive? Start by doing less

“In most instances, ‘good enough’ is good enough.” A time management expert, a cognitive scientist, and a psychologist share their takes on productivity, perfectionism, and the harm of hustle culture.

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