Latest Podcast Episodes
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Good Life Project
The Midlife Curiosity Tour That Changed Everything
After 25 years as an NPR health and science reporter, Allison Aubrey underwent biological-age testing that prompted her to question parts of her own life and embark on what she calls a “curiosity tour.”
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10% Happier
The Real Reason You Can’t Break A Bad Habit
Originally aired in 2024, this conversation explores what decades of happiness research can teach us about getting happier.
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Office Hours
How to Make Your Personality Work FOR You (and Not AGAINST You) In Life
Arthur Brooks explores the relationship between personality and happiness, examining the research on introversion and extroversion and how understanding our natural tendencies can help us develop habits that support greater connection and happiness.
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The Happiness Lab
Stop Doing Things the Hard Way
As a start to the special new “back to school” season of The Happiness Lab, Dr. Laurie hits the new season with an informative session with Dr. Angela Duckworth about how changing our surroundings can make achievement easier and help bring out our best selves.
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Good Life Project
Why Grit Alone Doesn’t Cut It
Jonathan Fields and Angela Duckworth explore a broader idea behind grit: lasting change isn’t only an “inside game” of mindset and effort.
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Feel Better, Live More
How To Find Purpose In An Age Of Emptiness
Why can achieving something you desperately wanted leave you feeling surprisingly flat?
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Live Happy Now
Why Telling the Truth Is Harder (and More Important) Than Ever
Dr. Sasha Hamdani joins Paula Felps to reframe emotional sensitivity as a potential strength rather than a weakness, exploring the science behind deep feeling and how understanding sensitivity can help people use it more effectively.
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Good Life Project
How to Make Better Decisions
Good decisions aren’t simply the result of thinking harder in the moment.
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Office Hours
Why We Drift From Faith & How We Find Our Way Back
Dr. Arthur Brooks examines why worldly rewards lose their pull with age, drawing on the Hindu framework of Ashramas and offering five practical steps for beginning or rebeginning a spiritual journey.
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10% Happier
The Real Reason You Can’t Break A Bad Habit
Duhigg breaks down the mechanics of habit formation, live-coaches Dan on his late-night procrastination problem, and explores how GLP-1 medications may be opening a new kind of behavior-change window.
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10% Happier
Why Ruminating About Your Boss Is Unpaid Overtime — And How to Stop
Ambition and self-destruction do not have to go hand in hand.
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Good Life Project
The Caregiving Conversation Everyone Puts Off Until It’s Too Late
Sixty-three million Americans are caregivers right now. Nearly one in three is in the sandwich generation, caught between caring for aging parents and raising children of their own.