Robert Wright: Robert Wright: The Evolution of Compassion

October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)

Journalist Robert Wright gives a brief sketch of the evolutionary theory of compassion, and talks about the good and bad implications of having compassion wired into the human gene.

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Timothy Ferriss: Smash Fear, Learn Anything

April 1, 2009 (about 15 years ago)

Ferris tells the audience how deconstructing the things you fear can help you overcome them.

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His Holiness the Karmapa: The Technology of the Heart

November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)

In this talk, His Holiness the Karmapa tells us about his life. He also talks about the wonders of design and technology and suggests that we should also have the same advances within our hearts.

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Sherwin Nuland: On Hope

February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)

In this inspiring talk, Doctor and Author Sherwin Nuland gives us his take on the idea of Hope. He makes his definition from the inherent love of humankind by the indominable human spirit.

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Jackie Tabick: The Balancing Act of Compassion

October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)

In this reflective talk, Rabbi Jackie Tabick tells us about the Balancing act of Compassion. She starts by telling us that compassion is a universal theme in all the major religions. She says that we have to have a balance between compassion and justice, this then will enable us to continue doing...

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Malcolm Gladwell: Spaghetti Sauce

February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)

Malcolm Gladwell explains how we could gain happiness by accepting that we all have different notions of it - through spaghetti sauce.

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Chip Conley: Measuring What Makes Life Worthwhile

February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)

Chip Conley shres a story of a king who inspired a whole coutry to count what really matters: happiness.

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