Hustle culture stole the word excellence and gutted its true meaning | Brad Stulberg: Full Interview

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How your brain builds and edits your identity

From Big Think. We created this video in partnership with Unlikely Collaborators. Bad news: your sense of self is made up. The good news is, you’re able to change it. Neuroscience and psychology explain. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Watch the full Perception Box series ► https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5uULy4b0kV4iomWS7CzqCdOCwj0lFnLr&si=yCY6E e7m6bpj7E-y Perception feels stable. Your…

America’s unhealthy obsession with making pain meaningful | Kate Bowler

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Stop trying to turn your suffering into a success story | Kate Bowler

From Big Think. This interview is an episode from ‪The Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the John Templeton Foundation. Subscribe to The Well on YouTube ► https://bit.ly/thewell-youtube Watch Bowler’s next interview ► How self-help became America’s religion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3tZR1ZY1N8 American culture demands that pain be productive. Historian Kate Bowler…

This Roman ritual made conquered kings beg to die | Mary Beard

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The brain on MDMA can go somewhere CBT has never been able to reach | Rachel Yehuda: Full Interview

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A scientific tour of your dreaming brain

From Big Think. We created this video in partnership with Unlikely Collaborators. Have you ever woken up after a dream and thought to yourself, “That made absolutely no sense”? According to modern neuroscience, there’s a reason why dreams feel so abstract and bizarre. Two sleep experts discuss. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1…

The search for aliens is shifting its criteria | Sara Seager

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The science behind the strangest biological phenomena | David Linden: Full Interview

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Robert Herjavec: The hidden reason smart people stop growing | Big Think+

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Toxic positivity is corrupting America | Kate Bowler

From Big Think. This interview is an episode from ‪The Well, our publication about ideas that inspire a life well-lived, created with the ‪John Templeton Foundation. Subscribe to The Well on YouTube ► https://bit.ly/thewell-youtube Watch Bowler’s next interview ► Why pain doesn’t need to teach you anything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JlOgjf7Y_8 Toxic positivity has become a cultural system…

Modern physics is forcing us to rethink existence | Michelle Thaller: Full Interview

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The major societal consequences of finding alien life | Sara Seager

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1177 BC: The vanishing of the first globalized world | Eric Cline: Full Interview

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Your life needs more ‘existential grit.’ Here’s how to find it | Kate Bowler

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Quantum entanglement and the illusion of time, in 79 minutes | Jim Al-Khalili: Full Interview

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The chemistry on Earth’s sister planet doesn’t add up | Sara Seager

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The idea so strange Einstein thought it broke quantum physics | Jim Al-Khalili

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Lost technologies and the secrets they hold, in 53 minutes | Sam Kean: Full Interview

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You’ve probably met a psychopath and didn’t know it | Abigail Marsh

From Big Think. Become a Big Think member to unlock expert classes, premium print issues, exclusive events and more: https://bigthink.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yt_desc Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg?sub_confirmation=1 Up next, The neuroscience of extremes: Ruthless psychopathy to extraordinary generosity | Abigail Marsh ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK-UfTCGOdU Most of us think we can spot a psychopath from a…