The Evolutionary Case for Kindness | Dacher Keltner
Here's a question: Is there an evolutionary advantage to being kind? Our guest today is Dacher Keltner, an eminent scientist who will make the case that, contrary to popular conceptions of evolution ...
30 Aug 202158min
Optimizing Your Stress | Modupe Akinola
Stress – which many of us despise and try to avoid – does not actually have to be a bad thing. Rather, it's our relationship to stress, our mindset about stress, that determines whether we are helped ...
25 Aug 20211h
The Science of Making and Keeping Friends | Robin Dunbar
Friendship might not necessarily be something you've considered to be an urgent psychological and physiological issue. On this show, we spend a lot of time exploring how the quality of our relationshi...
23 Aug 20211h 3min
Improving Your Relationships - Buddhist Style | Martine Batchelor
This great deep-Dharma episode is all about using an ancient, fascinating, and readily-accessible Buddhist concept as a way to improve your interactions with other human beings. The concept in questio...
18 Aug 20211h 8min
Help, Work Sucks | Cal Newport
A lot of us right now would probably agree that the technologies meant to make our jobs easier are actually stressing us out. (Think: the email and Slack messages that never stop and with which you ca...
16 Aug 20211h 1min
How Do You Love Without Being Attached? | Kevin Griffin
In this episode we're tackling some thorny dharma questions. For example: How do you love someone without attachment? How do you love yourself when the self is allegedly an illusion? Our guest today ...
11 Aug 202156min
How To End The War With Your Body | Sonya Renee Taylor
It is incredibly common for many of us humans, whatever our gender, to be at war with our bodies -- trying to live up to the people we see in the movies, on social media, or even the versions of ourse...
9 Aug 20211h
Escape From Zombieland | Koshin Paley Ellison
Modern life has turned many of us into zombies. We walk around with our noses in our phones, constantly on the hunt. We're not looking to eat people's brains, per se, but we are looking for mindless h...
4 Aug 20211h 21min
