Staying in Touch With the Real World – Virtually
Alison Ledgerwood is a social psychologist who talks about the impact of a negative and positive frame of thinking and gives advice on how to make a conscious shift towards positive thinking. Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist as well and speaks about the impact of body language and posture on our psychology. Both talks are inspirational and may have a very positive impact on your life.
Watch this inspiring talk by writer Emily Esfahani Smith about the pursuit of happiness versus the pursuit of deeper meaning. This talk will raise questions about life and what our focus in life may be. Emily has studied what makes us achieve happiness and our full potential with a sense of accomplishment. She interviewed hundreds …
This is a highly entertaining and insightful TED Talk by Kathryn Schulz, a US American journalist and author who refers to herself as a Wrongologist. She works for the New Yorker and won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2016. (New Yorker) Her book Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error was released in 2010. She recommends not …
This is a very inspiring talk by Julia Galef on the psychological phenomena of motivated reasoning - a very common scenario in conversations, in which you feel strong about an idea and look for any supporting detail to assist your argument, even if you feel you may be wrong. She looks at two mindsets: the …
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