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Hidden Brain
Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
Why do I feel stuck? How can I become more creative? What can I do to improve my relationships? If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, you’re not alone. On Hidden Brain, we help you understand your own mind — and the minds of the people around you. (We're routinely rated the #1 science podcast in the United…
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24%Making the Most of Your Mistakes
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22%You Are Not Ordinary
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34%How to Combat Pain
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26%Changing Our Mental Maps
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20%Waking Up Your Spiritual Brain: Part 2
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29%Waking Up Your Spiritual Brain: Part 1
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21%Stepping Out of the Shadows
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29%A Secret Source of Connection
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27%Who Are You, Really?
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35%Unleashing Your Creativity
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31%The Past is Never Dead
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21%The Empathy Gym
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21%The Cowboy Philosopher
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28%Radical Acceptance
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19%Designing a Life that Matters
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20%Do You Feel Loved?
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23%How to Change the World
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27%The Debt Trap
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24%When It's Okay to Lie
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25%Group Think
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21%Rethinking Depression
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23%Yuck! The Science of Disgust
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58%The Secret of Charisma
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34%Do You Feel Invisible?
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26%Why You're Smarter Than You Think
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32%Coming Clean
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20%Keeping Secrets
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77%You 2.0: Trusting Your Doubt
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22%You 2.0: The Practice of Patience
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21%You 2.0: How to Get Out of a Rut
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20%You 2.0: Cultivating Courage
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25%You 2.0: Stop Spiraling!
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58%The Reset Button
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33%The Path to Enough
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33%The Paradox of Pleasure
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37%Murder Mystery
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19%Parents: Keep Out!
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36%The Power of Family Stories
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24%Why Following Your Dreams Isn't Enough
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33%How Nature Heals Us
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49%Reframing the Battle of Wills
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29%Love 2.0: How to Move On
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21%Love 2.0: Reimagining Our Relationships
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32%Love 2.0: How to Fix Your Marriage, Part 2
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28%Love 2.0: How to Fix Your Marriage, Part 1
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24%Passion vs. Paycheck
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79%It's Not My Fault!
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23%Winning the Battle Against Yourself
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23%Escaping Perfectionism
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20%The Trauma Script
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29%How Our Brains Learn
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37%The Best Years of Your Life
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26%Radical Kindness
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33%You 2.0: Change Your Story, Change Your Life
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29%You 2.0: The Wisdom of Stoicism
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32%You 2.0: The Path to Contentment
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25%You 2.0: The Passion Pill
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28%You 2.0: What Is Your Life For?
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70%Win Hearts, Then Minds
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31%Doing it the Hard Way
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53%Ouch! That Feels Great
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28%The Price of Revenge
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21%Do I Know You? (A Hidden Brain-Revisionist History special on facial recognition)
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28%How Much Do We Really Know?
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51%Forget About It!
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25%How to Harness Your Feelings
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21%Relationships 2.0: Keeping Love Alive
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28%Relationships 2.0: Why Did You Do That?
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26%Relationships 2.0: The Power of Tiny Interactions
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26%Relationships 2.0: Become a Better Negotiator
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33%Relationships 2.0: The Price of Disconnection
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33%The Moments that Change Us
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29%Did I Really Do That?
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25%When To Pivot
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30%Dropping the Mask
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24%Marching To Your Own Drummer
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23%The Conversations that Bring Us Closer
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29%We Need to Talk
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28%No Hard Feelings
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19%Wellness 2.0: The Art of the Unknown
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33%Wellness 2.0: When It's All Too Much
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28%Wellness 2.0: Who Do You Want To Be?
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32%Wellness 2.0: Rising to the Occasion
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22%Wellness 2.0: Be Yourself
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29%How to Be More Creative
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65%What Your Online Self Reveals About You
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30%The Secret to Gift-Giving
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30%How Monsters are Made
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37%The Power of Family Stories
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32%Emotions 2.0: The Logic of Rage
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25%Emotions 2.0: What's Better than Being Happy?
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23%Emotions 2.0: The Benefits of Mixed Emotions
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25%Emotions 2.0: The Feeling that Moves Us Forward
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36%Emotions 2.0: When I Feel What You Feel
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36%How to Win People Over
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31%What's Hidden in Your Words
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36%Sitting With Uncertainty
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70%Rewrite Your Money Story
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30%You 2.0: Fighting Despair
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28%You 2.0: Remember More, Forget Less
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26%You 2.0: How To Say No
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32%You 2.0: Taking Control of Your Time
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24%You 2.0: The Gift of Other People
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30%You're Not the Boss of Me!
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31%The Cure for Self-Importance
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25%Where Truth Lies
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27%How To Be Alone
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27%Changing Our Mental Maps
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27%Out of the Rabbit Hole
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20%Befriending Your Inner Voice
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23%Making the World Sparkle Again
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75%Our God-Shaped Brains
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29%Why You Feel Empty
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29%Why Trying Too Hard Can Backfire On You
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25%Innovation 2.0: Do Less
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28%Innovation 2.0: Shortcuts and Speed Bumps
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20%Innovation 2.0: The Influence You Have
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26%Innovation 2.0: Multiplying the Growth Mindset
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25%Innovation 2.0: How Big Ideas Are Born
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23%Parents: Keep Out!
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21%The Curious Science of Cravings
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31%What Is Normal?
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30%The Transformative Ideas of Daniel Kahneman
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20%Are You Listening?
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24%The Ventilator
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20%Escaping the Matrix
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32%Fear Less
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28%US 2.0: Lincoln's Dilemma
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20%US 2.0: Not at the Dinner Table
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37%US 2.0: Living With Our Differences
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21%US 2.0: Win Hearts, Then Minds
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36%US 2.0: What We Have In Common
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22%Are Your Memories Real?
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31%Finding Focus
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23%Where Do Feelings Come From?
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37%Making the Most of Your Mistakes
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27%What Would Socrates Do?
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26%How to Believe in Yourself
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22%The Ugly Side of Beauty
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22%The Mystery of Beauty
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27%Healing 2.0: The Power of Apologies
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30%Healing 2.0: Disrupting Death
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22%Healing 2.0: Life After Loss
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28%Healing 2.0: What We Gain from Pain
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30%Healing 2.0: Change Your Story, Change Your Life
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28%The Enemies of Gratitude
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21%Follow the Anomalies
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28%How to Spot a Scam
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28%Escaping Perfectionism
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33%The Secret to Great Teams
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26%Outsmarting Yourself
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25%How We Live With Contradictions
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23%Being Kind to Yourself
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23%You 2.0: Make the Good Times Last
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24%You 2.0: Slow Down!
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22%You 2.0: Your Future Is Now
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34%You 2.0: How to Break Out of a Rut
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35%The Truth About Honesty
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31%Learning From Your Mistakes
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37%The Path to Enough
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28%The Paradox of Pleasure
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25%How Others See You
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30%The Best Years of Your Life
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36%When to Eat the Marshmallow
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51%Between Two Worlds
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21%Seeking Serenity: Part 2
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23%Seeking Serenity: Part 1
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30%Success 2.0: Getting to the Top and Staying There
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26%Success 2.0: The Psychology of Self-Doubt
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30%Success 2.0: The Obstacles You Don't See
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37%Success 2.0: Getting What You Want
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19%Success 2.0: Taking the Leap
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30%A Secret Source of Connection
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27%Remember More, Forget Less
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69%Crying Wolf
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22%The Snowball Effect
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20%Less is More
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73%How To Make Amends
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24%Made of Honor
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21%Revealing Your Unconscious: Part 2
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77%Revealing Your Unconscious: Part 1
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21%How Your Beliefs Shape Reality
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25%Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button
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28%Happiness 2.0: Surprising Sources of Joy
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23%Happiness 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose
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30%Happiness 2.0: The Only Way Out Is Through
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22%Happiness 2.0: The Path to Contentment
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26%When You Need It To Be True
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22%Persuasion: Part 2
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20%Persuasion: Part 1
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19%Who's In Your Inner Circle?
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20%Who Do You Want To Be?
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25%You, But Better
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24%How to Complain Productively
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32%An Ancient Solution to Modern Problems
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31%The Secret to Gift Giving
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26%Relationships 2.0: What Makes Relationships Thrive
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27%Relationships 2.0: When Did Marriage Become So Hard?
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19%Relationships 2.0: An Antidote to Loneliness
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28%Relationships 2.0: The Power of Tiny Interactions
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26%Relationships 2.0: How To Keep Conflict From Spiraling
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22%A Better Way to Worry
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32%Thriving in the Face of Contradiction
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22%Did I Really Do That?
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21%Watch Your Mouth
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34%Taking Control of Your Time
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31%How to Really Know Another Person
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24%Decoding Emotions
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27%Making the World a Safer Place
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23%You 2.0: How to Open Your Mind
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20%You 2.0: Overcoming Stage Fright
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24%You 2.0: The Mind's Eye
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38%You 2.0: How To See Yourself Clearly
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25%You 2.0: Befriending Your Inner Voice
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19%Reframing Your Reality: Part 2
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26%Reframing Your Reality: Part 1
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32%Separating Yourself from the Pack
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33%What We Gain from Pain
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21%A Founding Contradiction
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34%The Premonition
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32%Why You're Smarter Than You Think
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36%Do Less
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29%Money 2.0: Let's Go Shopping!
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34%Money 2.0: The Rich and the Rest of Us
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21%Money 2.0: Emotional Currency
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31%Money 2.0: Why We Bust Our Budgets
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26%Money 2.0: Rewrite Your Money Story
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31%The Logic of Rage
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34%When Doing Right Feels Wrong
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23%A Conspiracy of Silence
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25%How Rude!
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80%Healing Your Heart
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27%You Don't Need a Crystal Ball
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24%How to Change the World
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20%You Can't Hit Unsend
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34%The Benefits of Mixed Emotions
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31%Putting Our Assumptions to the Test
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29%Mind Reading 2.0: Why Conversations Go Wrong
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31%Mind Reading 2.0: Our Better Angels
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19%Mind Reading 2.0: The Double Standard
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26%Mind Reading 2.0: How others see you
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27%Mind Reading 2.0: Why did you do that?
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31%My Unsung Hero: Sanaa Kerroumi's Story
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20%Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy
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30%What Makes Relationships Thrive
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33%My Unsung Hero: Wendy McDowell's Story
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23%Changing Behavior, Not Beliefs
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20%Choose Carefully
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25%Creatures of Habit
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19%My Unsung Hero: Justin Horner's Story
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28%Bringing Up Baby
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31%The Psychology of Self-Doubt
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25%My Unsung Hero: Leah Bartell's Story
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27%Both Things Can Be True
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19%Work 2.0: The One-Room Commute
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21%My Unsung Hero: Tony Ludlow's Story
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37%Work 2.0: Rebel with a Cause
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35%Work 2.0: Life, Interrupted
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35%My Unsung Hero: Terri Powers' Story
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78%Work 2.0: Game On!
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32%Work 2.0: The Obstacles You Don't See
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25%We Broke the Planet. Now What?
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26%My Unsung Hero: Rick Mangnall's Story
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33%The Halo Effect
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27%Being Kind to Yourself
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31%My Unsung Hero: Jackie Briggs' Story
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28%When You Need It To Be True
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23%Passion Isn't Enough
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28%Group Think
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27%Just Sex
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23%Where Happiness Hides
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21%You 2.0: Regrets, I Have a Few...
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52%You 2.0: Did That Really Happen?
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68%You 2.0: When Did Marriage Become So Hard?
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28%You 2.0: In the Heat of the Moment
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24%You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose
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26%Losing Alaska
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33%Stage Fright
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23%Playing the Gender Card
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25%You, But Better
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26%The Influence You Have
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32%What Twins Tell Us
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52%The Power of Apologies
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21%The Power of Mercy
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29%What are the Odds?
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30%This is Your Brain on Ads
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26%Why We Hold on to Things
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20%Loss and Renewal
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30%Tribes and Traitors
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36%Our Noisy Minds
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30%The Fake Bride
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25%Josh Gitelson: My Unsung Hero
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26%One Head, Two Brains
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27%Deb Pierce: My Unsung Hero
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31%Why Conversations Go Wrong
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26%Unsung Hero: A Cold Nevada Night
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26%Humor Us
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22%An Unfinished Lesson
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22%Useful Delusions
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28%Made of Honor
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