How to Be a Better Human
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How to Be a Better Human
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 b...
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A practical guide to taking control of your life | TED Talks Daily
The real lever of a meaningful life isn’t intelligence or hustle — it’s personal agency, says Cate Hall, former Supreme Court attorney and once the wo...
How to strengthen your relationships — one airport ride at a time (w/ Kasley Killam)
How often do you connect with different people each week? How many many close relationships do you aim to cultivate during those connections? And how...
How to build your kid's confidence — by leaving them alone (w/ Lenore Skenazy)
How do you raise confident and capable children in a seemingly scary and unsafe world? According to Lenore Skenazy, the solution is simple yet controv...
How to talk so people will listen (w/ Julian Treasure)
What’s more important in communication— the content or the delivery? Julian Treasure is a five-time TED speaker and the author of Sound Affects: How S...
How to communicate better (w/ Charles Duhigg)
What makes some people supercommunicators? How can you become one too? This is the central lesson in Charles Duhigg’s bestseller Supercommunicators: H...
How to stop doomscrolling — and what to do instead? (w/ Katherine Cross)
Is it effective to engage with politics on social media — and what does it take to make actual change? Katherine Cross is a researcher on online haras...
The future of finding love with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd | ReThinking with Adam Grant
What will dating look like in the age of AI? Whitney Wolfe Herd is the founder and CEO of Bumble, the popular dating app that has helped millions of p...
How to rest when life is overwhelming (w/ Katherine May)
When someone you love is going through a difficult time, what do you say? Despite your best intentions, author Katherine May argues offering help or s...
How to love your complicated family (w/ Ashley C. Ford)
What parts of yourself did you lose as you grew up? This is one of the central questions asked in Ashley C. Ford’s memoir, Somebody’s Daughter. Ashley...
How to be more joyful (w/ Ingrid Fetell Lee)
What makes kids so joyful? Why do polka-dots and bright colors invoke feelings of joy? How do our senses shape our experience of joy? These are questi...
How to keep close friendships (w/ Aminatou Sow)
“People are expected to have good friendships, but nobody talks about how they happen,” says journalist Aminatou Sow. Aminatou is also the host of the...
How to find laughter anywhere (w/ Dan Harris and guests)
Humor is all around us— you only need to be intentional about seeking moments of laughter and joy in your life. In this special compilation episode on...
How to rethink your emotional attachment to clothes (w/ Diarra Bousso)
We often think donating clothes is a sustainable act, but when tons of garments are shipped to places like West Africa, it creates environmental waste...
How to stop devoting yourself to your job (w/ Sarah Jaffe)
Sarah Jaffe is the author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keep Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone. She and Chris discuss the emo...
Jon Batiste | from Design Matters
Widely recognized as a musical genius and once-in-a-generation talent, Jon Batiste is one of history’s most brilliant, prolific, and accomplished musi...
How your brain predicts your reality (w/ Anil Seth)
What is the aspect of being you that you cling to most tightly? Why are you you and not somebody else? How do you understand and make sense of your ex...
Why stealing other people’s ideas can be a good thing (w/ Austin Kleon)
Austin Kleon thinks stealing inspiration is a good thing — because it requires you to pay attention to the world. Austin is a self-proclaimed “creativ...
Why you don't need a personal brand (w/ Debbie Millman)
“If you’re a good designer in five or ten years, you’re gonna want to look back on your portfolio with horror and nostalgia and somewhat amusement… be...
Information Inoculation: Defending Against Medical Myths: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | from TED Health
Ethan Lindenberger never got vaccinated as a kid. So one day, he went on Reddit and asked a simple question: "Where do I go to get vaccinated?" The po...
How to love parts of yourself you may not like (w/ Heather Havrilesky)
Heather Havrilesky is the author of the book Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage. She’s also the writer behind the advice columns “Ask Polly...
How to learn from your failures (w/ Dawn Burrell)
Dawn Burrell is a celebrated long jumper, an Olympic athlete, and a chef’s whose cooking made her a semifinalist for a James Beard Award — and these a...
Re-release: How peace can persevere (w/ Aziz Abu Sarah)
It’s extremely difficult to move past anger and hurt driving you towards revenge. War, violence, and suffering are driven by that cycle of emotions. P...
How to be a better friend (w/ Rhaina Cohen)
What would it look like if we took friendship as seriously as we take romance? Rhaina Cohen, author of the book The Other Significant Others: Reimagin...
How to see the humanity in everyone — even people you don’t like (w/ Abigail Marsh)
Why is American culture so fascinated with psychopathic people and true crime stories? Why don’t billionaires give more? What makes some people so gen...
How to navigate changes in a relationship without fear (w/ Stephanie Yates-Anyabwile)
What is a romantic relationship “supposed” to look like? How do you feel when your relationship doesn’t check all the boxes? In this episode, licensed...
How you can be more creative by taking a long walk (w/ Craig Mod)
What do we gain from a long walk? Craig Mod is a photographer and writer who has done treks and pilgrimages around the world. From the Camino de Santi...
3 ways to fight climate change without getting overwhelmed (w/ Ayana Elizabeth Johnson)
The future could be amazing, if we get it right. That’s so rarely how we think about it though. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, marine biologist and author o...
Re-release: How to enrich your everyday life with poetry (w/ Sarah Kay)
Roses are red, violets are blue, has poetry ever been intimidating for you? For many people, this art form can feel unapproachable, but poet and educa...
How you can move forward and learn from the past (w/ Clint Smith)
How do you grapple with national history, legacy, and the stories you tell yourself? Clint Smith is the author of the narrative nonfiction, How the Wo...
How to gossip — the right way (w/ Rachelle Hampton)
What makes a story so good you HAVE to tell everyone you know? How do you hook listeners with juicy details and tantalizing conundrums? In this specia...
How to raise emotionally resilient children (w/ Richard Weissbourd)
Happiness, high achievement, or kindness – which is most important to you in your kids? Which do you think your kids think you care about the most? Ri...
How to enjoy poetry — without being a poet (w/ Naisha Randhar)
In honor of National Poetry Month, Chris is speaking with Naisha Randhar. Naisha is the Youth Poet Laureate of Dallas, the author of Roses of Arma, an...
What to do when your beliefs are challenged (w/ Tenelle Porter)
Tenelle Porter’s job is to study humility. Specifically, intellectual humility, the idea that we might be wrong or mistaken about some of our beliefs....
How to trust in times of uncertainty (w/ Rachel Botsman)
Rachel Botsman studies trust. She’s a professor at Oxford University and the author of the books What's Mine is Yours, Who Can You Trust? and the new...
How to get your sense of wonder back (w/ Nate DiMeo)
How do you make sense of the present? Nate DiMeo might suggest you look at the past. Nate is the host of the podcast and book, The Memory Palace. Nate...
Power, purpose, and the American presidency with Jared Cohen | from ReThinking with Adam Grant
What do the most powerful people in the world do after they've achieved success? Jared Cohen is a history buff and a presidential historian. His lates...
How to stop being weird about money (w/ Paco de Leon)
Talking about money can feel confusing and awkward, but it doesn’t have to be. Paco de Leon is a financial planner and author of the book Finance for...
How to make the most of a finite life (w/ Oliver Burkeman)
There’s only so much you can do in a week – or, according to Oliver Burkeman, in the roughly 4,000 weeks the average human lives. Oliver is a journali...
How to believe in God even when the world sucks (w/ Nadia Bolz-Weber)
Nadia Bolz-Weber believes the good and bad in all of us is what makes us human. Nadia has built a career talking about personal failings, recovery, gr...
How to turn climate anxiety into action (w/ Luisa Neubauer) (re-release)
Amidst the multiple devastating fires in Los Angeles, where Chris lives, extreme weather events and shifting climate patterns are occurring across the...