Fresh Air

Malala Yousafzai

I know that these things sound quite basic, like climbing a rooftop or hanging out with friends or staying up late. These are not like some big, crazy things. But to me, it felt like I was climbing a mountain, that this was something huge that I was doing in my life because I was making my own choices and I felt that nobody was watching me.

Daily Stoic Podcast

What To Do When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned | Jim Collins on the Daily Stoic Podcast

When he was there, he didn't know. He didn't know if this would be the end of his life, right? I mean, he didn't know for certain if he would get out.

Radiolab

The Builders

Few mammals have a bigger positive impact on the planet than the beaver. With its bright orange buck teeth, the creature is an expert engineer that brings life wherever it waddles and even fights fires.

TED Idea Search

Which Idea Wins Over 4,000 People? | Amman | TED Idea Search

Once you see that there's great things on the other side of fear, you never want to go back.

The New York Times

What Another War in the Middle East Means for Military Families

The Marine Corps taught me how to be numb, but at the same time, I'm a mom. It takes a lot out of you.

The Prof G Pod

Everyone’s Wrong About AI and Jobs, ft LinkedIn’s Aneesh Raman | Office Hours

I think anyone that's feeling safe, you shouldn't. Uh it just means you have more time uh to get ready for the change before it hits you.

TBPN

FULL INTERVIEW: Thomas Laffont’s Journey From Hollywood Assistant to Legendary Tech Investor

What I realized what she was doing was she was kind of testing my conviction, right? And she probably got a lot of calls from people who said, "Oh, I want to do this. I want to do that." And she's like, "Well, if you have the conviction in yourself to move out with no job, that shows you really kind of want it."

Fresh Air

Humorist Annabelle Gurwitch faces stage 4 cancer, finds ‘unexpected joys’

I can't go on. I'll go on. And I really did not know how I could go from I can't go on to I'll go on. And that's when I started thinking about this idea of devoting myself to everyday joys or like cultivating these tiny victories, like just having a different metric for what would make me happy or also how I could stay engaged in life?

Radiolab

Life in a Barrel

we undo the seeming order of the living world and try to make some music out of the wreckage.

Fresh Air

Humorist Annabelle Gurwitch faces stage 4 cancer, finds ‘unexpected joys’

I felt like it was a story I could understand. And it was a way I could feel kind towards myself. The language of battling and fighting made me also feel at war with my own body, which I don't find helpful.

TED

Is Luck Random — or Can You Cultivate It? | Christian Busch | TED

Serendipity is the active luck that depends on how we engage with the unexpected. Blind luck happens to us, and active luck, serendipity, can be cultivated.

The Origins Podcast

The Science Behind Drinking To Get Sober | Katie Herzog & Lawrence Krauss

Professionally my cancellation was the best thing that has ever happened to me. I I feel like I need to send my critics a fruit basket sometime. They they were they made my my career.

Office Hours

What to Do if AI Comes for Your Job, ft. LinkedIn’s Aneesh Raman | Office Hours

Old math isn't going to work for the new equations coming to work. You're going to have to start over a bit, redefine yourself, learn again, push yourself, get uncomfortable.

Book of the Day

Andy Weir reveals his fun and frantic creative process behind 'Project Hail Mary'

I think we all to some degree feel this way as we go through life, like unprepared, unqualified, and reluctant yet important things are relying on me. So, I have to come through.

EconTalk

The Match That Lit the Flame: Hannah Senesh and the Creation of Modern Israel (with Matti Friedman)

a 23-year-old Hungarian poet who traded her Budapest life for a kibbutz, then traded the kibbutz for a parachute and a near-certain death sentence--and whose poems, scribbled on scraps of paper in forests near the Hungarian border, became some of the most famous texts in modern Hebrew

The Daily Stoic Podcast

Arthur Brooks' Ultimate Philosophy Masterclass | The Daily Stoic Podcast

A man can bear any what as long as he has a why. His whole point was that meaning is everything.

The Origins Podcast

The Science Behind Drinking To Get Sober | Katie Herzog & Lawrence Krauss

Personally, it was more difficult. So, I lost a lot of friends, a lot of old friends, and that will never stop being painful to be abandoned by people who I'm sure that you have.

Daily Stoic

I explained Stoicism to the Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks

The stoics believe that there was really no such thing as obstacles. There was only opportunities. Right? This thing is presenting you an opportunity to do something.

Daily Stoic

Stoic lessons from baseball

The obstacle is the way. Right? Everything is a chance for excellence. That's what the Stoics mean when they say the obstacle is the way.

The Business of Tech

How AI is transforming the classroom, with Nadim Nsouli

I had suffered a personal tragedy in my life which made me reexamine what I wanted to do, and I decided that I wanted to try and build a school group.

It's Been a Minute

The morbid lifelessness of modern beauty

Aging is another word for living. Anti-aging is anti-life. Death is sort of like a natural ending point for that.

The Origins Podcast

The Science Behind Drinking To Get Sober | Katie Herzog & Lawrence Krauss

One can take this pill a few hours before drinking and behaviorally produce over time a lost craving for alcohol that allows at least some users to have a reasonable alcohol consumption for the rest of their life without having to abstain forever.

EconTalk

The Match That Lit the Flame: Hannah Senesh and the Creation of Modern Israel (with Matti Friedman)

Hannah Senesh, a 23-year-old Hungarian poet who traded her Budapest life for a kibbutz, then traded the kibbutz for a parachute and a near-certain death sentence--and whose poems, scribbled on scraps of paper in forests near the Hungarian border, became some of the most famous texts in modern Hebrew.

EconTalk

The Match That Lit the Flame: Hannah Senesh and the Creation of Modern Israel (with Matti Friedman)

a 23-year-old Hungarian poet who traded her Budapest life for a kibbutz, then traded the kibbutz for a parachute and a near-certain death sentence--and whose poems, scribbled on scraps of paper in forests near the Hungarian border, became some of the most famous texts in modern Hebrew.

Prof G Markets

The 35% Recession Warning Markets Are Ignoring | Prof G Markets

I realized I was walking around walking around sort of alone. It was either like I need to go deep in the pain and get drunk and get a lot more social or I need to go home.

Prof G Markets

The 35% Recession Warning Markets Are Ignoring | Prof G Markets

I realized I was walking around sort of alone. It was either like I need to go deep in the pain and get drunk and get a lot more social or I need to go home. And I just had sensory I was just overstimulated and decided to pull the rip cord and actually went home fairly early.

Fresh Air

Jill Scott is in her ‘auntie’ era

You're not even choosing what you actually like. There's a widely circulated essay from a writer named Jasmine Kanik, who said that pressure lands as a recognition for grown women, and she used that term specifically. And I want to read an excerpt. She writes, What Jill Scott offers in Pressure is something rare. She names the weight grown women carry quietly, the pressure to be everything, hold everything, absorb everything, and will still make it look graceful.

CEO Signal

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol on Leading Through Turnarounds | The CEO Signal

In the customer service business is is tough but in the end you know you can have a real influence on people um on you know the experience you ultimately provide and how you choose to react to the situation.

Fresh Air

The Blitz, romance, and time-traveling fascists

For everyone in London, whether you lived through the night was, therefore, a matter of luck. The odds were long, only one in 20,000 chances of being hit, said the papers. But still, every bomb landed somewhere. Each bomb might be that one. You couldn't know it wasn't till it hadn't fallen on you.

Fresh Air

Best Of: Delroy Lindo / Tayari Jones on ‘Kin’

When there are no words for some things, that's where the blues comes in, that's where the music. And yet another affirmation for me, in terms of how people have received this work, it's incredibly affirming that audiences, many audiences, have made the connection between the pain of what I was experiencing and the birth of the music.

TED Radio Hour

Curious stories of coexistence

So they came back. And now we have lots of otters all over Singapore... If you're an otter, being an otter is pretty cool in Singapore because, you know, you wake up, you fish, you roll around in the dirt, you play and then you go back to sleep.

TED

"FEEL LOVE" / "POSER" | PARTYOF2 | TED

We made to combat imposter syndrome, which is something I think we all kind of deal with

The Knowledge Project

[Outliers] J.W. Marriott: Building an Empire Without a Master Plan

his refusal to rely on forces he couldn't control allowed him to expand during the Great Depression while his competitors folded

Daily Stoic

How a Stoic Handles Change

You will get knocked off course. You will lapse on a resolution. You will fall off the wagon. You will get out of sorts. That's unavoidable. What matters is how quickly you return, how fast you find the rhythm again.

Fresh Air

Jamilah Lemieux on the complicated beauty of being a ‘Black. Single. Mother.’

I realized there's nothing wrong if I am a black single mother for life. I've lived a great life as a black single mother. I had a great black single mother. It may not be my preference, but it's not a death sentence. It's not doom.

Fresh Air

Jamilah Lemieux on the complicated beauty of being a ‘Black. Single. Mother.’

I was afraid that if I wrote that book, I was going to be a black single mother for the rest of my life. But also, as I wrote this book, I realized there's nothing wrong if I am a black single mother for life. I've lived a great life as a black single mother. It may not be my preference, but it's not a death sentence, it's not doom.

Book of the Day

In new memoir, Gavin Newsom reflects on his political rise | NPR's Book of the Day

I'm just offering a glimpse of some of the things that people may not see, of sweaty hands, of anxiety, insecurity, of trying to be someone I'm not, of making mistakes, learning from those mistakes.

Daily Stoic

How to Reset Your Life (According to the Stoics)

It's not about now. It's not about what's happening now. It's not about what it's taking out of you now. It's about what it's giving you. Right? Before it happened, you were scared. Before it happened, you were sheltered. Before it happened, you were soft. Before it happened, you were dependent. You were all these things and more. But after, right, after the breakup, after the bankruptcy, after the pandemic, after those rough couple years, after things didn't go your way, well, now you're something different. Now you're something new. You are more. You are stronger. You are braver.

It's Been a Minute

The end of the Civil Rights "superhero" | It's Been A Minute

We need group centered leadership. We need people centered leadership. And I think that's a much harder effort to thwart than it is when you just have one individual who has to represent all interests of all people.

Fresh Air

Best Of: ‘Hamnet’ star Jessie Buckley / Documentarian Morgan Neville

The thing that this story offered me, that brought me into this next chapter of my life as a mother was tenderness, you know? And that was a word and a feeling that I think I didn't know was what I was looking for.

TED

“Stripped of the emotional component, fear is simply information” @MichelleKhare #TEDTalks

Stripped of the emotional component, fear is simply information. It tells us exactly what we need to know in order to progress.

What would you do if your bank, your supplier, and your government all turned against you at the same time? Phil Knight didn't have to imagine it. He lived on the edge of insolvency for nearly two decades.