Your Elusive Creative Genius
Written the year after Eat, Pray, Love made her famous — on treating genius as something that visits you rather than something you are, and showing up for your part of the job either way.
The Power of Vulnerability
A researcher’s decade of data lands on a conclusion no spreadsheet could have predicted: the people who feel most connected are simply the ones who believe they’re worthy of it. One of the most-watched talks ever given.
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
The most-watched TED talk of all time — the case that we grow out of creativity by being educated out of it, delivered almost entirely through jokes.
Bring On the Learning Revolution!
The sequel, four years later: stop reforming education and transform it — from an industrial model that values conformity to an agricultural one that creates the conditions for people to flourish.
What Makes a Good Life?
Seventy-five years of the Harvard Study of Adult Development in under thirteen minutes. The finding, over and over, for decade after decade: good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period.
How Great Leaders Inspire Action
The golden circle, the Wright brothers, and the idea a thousand mission statements borrowed afterward: people don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
The Paradox of Choice
Why more choice makes us less happy, from jeans to retirement plans — and why the secret to happiness might be lower expectations. He’s only half joking.
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