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Why you will fail to have a great career
– Larry Smith

Why you will fail to have a great career Professor Larry Smith @ TEDxUW A professor of economics at the University of Waterloo in Canada, Larry Smith coaches his students to find the careers that they will truly love. Why you should listen Larry Smith is a professor of economics at University of Waterloo. A […]

Can You Make Yourself Smarter?
– Dan Hurley

Can you make yourself, your kids, and your parents smarter? Expanding upon one of the most-read New York Times Magazine features of 2012, Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power penetrates the hot new field of intelligence research to reveal what researchers call a revolution in human intellectual abilities. Shattering decades of dogma, scientists began publishing studies in […]

On Becoming a Person – Carl Rogers

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”  The late Carl Rogers, founder of the humanistic psychology movement, revolutionized psychotherapy with his concept of “client-centered therapy.” His influence has spanned decades, but that influence has become so much a part of mainstream psychology that the ingenious […]

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
– Oliver Sacks

“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self – himself – he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”  In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of […]

The Surprising Science of Happiness
– Dan Gilbert

From TED.com Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong — a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly funny book, Stumbling on Happiness. Why you should listen Dan Gilbert believes that, in our ardent, lifelong pursuit of happiness, most of us […]

The Empowerment Dynamic (TED)
– David Emerald

The Power of TED* provides a uniquely hopeful way of responding to challenging times. This fable explores the shift from a Victim Orientation focused on the drama triangle roles of Victim, Persecutor and Rescuer to a Creator Orientation and its antidote roles of Creator, Challenger and Coach. How to make this shift happen elicits hope […]

Thrive – Brendan Brazier

Featuring a long-term eating plan that may help you achieve optimal health through stress-busting plant-based whole foods, this title includes: the best whole foods; over 100 easy-to-make recipes with raw food options that are wheat, gluten, soy, corn, refined sugar, and dairy free; and, an easy-to-follow exercise plan. [From: Goodreads.com] The thrive diet is a long-term […]

What’s wrong with what we eat
– Mark Bittman

From TED.com In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it’s putting the entire planet at risk. Mark Bittman is a bestselling cookbook author, […]

The key to success? Grit!
– Angela Lee Duckworth

From TED.com Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of “grit” as a predictor of success. At the […]

A Doctor’s Touch
– Abraham Verghese

From TED.com Modern medicine is in danger of losing a powerful, old-fashioned tool: human touch. Physician and writer Abraham Verghese describes our strange new world where patients are merely data points, and calls for a return to the traditional one-on-one physical exam. In our era of the patient-as-data-point, Abraham Verghese believes in the old-fashioned physical exam, […]

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