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Master your anxiety to unleash your genius, with Jesse Eisenberg

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Jesse Eisenberg

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Adam Grant’s #1 phrase to unlock potential

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It doesn’t matter if you fail. It matters how you fail.

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Gary Vee: Rules of billion-dollar brands

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Gary Vaynerchuk

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Berkeley professor explains gender theory

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The CEO playbook: 3 critical tips from 1,000 interviews

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How to future-proof your career

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A man is walking towards a crate with the number 60 on it.

You probably won’t retire when your parents did—here’s why that’s not all bad news

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Employees over customers.

Work culture in the U.S. is broken. It’s on employers to fix it.

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President Barack Obama delivers a persuasive speech from a podium.

The psychology of persuasion, as told by an Ivy League professor

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The burnout antidote on a yellow background.

The #1 cause of burnout is not what you think

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How to deal with Debbie in HR — and other terrible coworkers

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A Harvard career coach’s “unspoken rules” for getting promoted

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Failure is the key to “ultimate success”

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Kevin O’Leary: I invested in FTX. Here’s the big problem with crypto.

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Kevin O’Leary

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Fix hidden conflict — before it’s too late

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Ask smarter questions in 5 minutes

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Give up on happiness. Go hard at wonder.

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5 “signal emotions” we suppress at work

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Cassandra Worthy

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7 steps to profit hypergrowth

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3 rules of persuasion for empathic leaders

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Stoicism: How to turn your sadness into strength

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The happiness paradox, explained in 7 minutes

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What the Navy’s TOPGUN program really teaches you

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workplace inclusion

“I don’t have imposter syndrome and neither do you”

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Ruchika T. Malhotra

Mind hack: Revive your focus with this 12-minute exercise

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the power of branding

10,000 years of branding explained in 6 minutes

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How to learn from failure and quit the blame game

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flow state

How ‘flow state’ can treat anxiety and depression

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mental chatter

What to do if your inner voice is cruel

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Emotional intelligence: The 4 domains of high performance

“Self-awareness, it’s the least visible part of emotional intelligence, but we find in our research that people low in self-awareness are unable to develop strengths very well in other parts of emotional intelligence.”

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Our population is aging, here’s how to care for it correctly

Americans are getting older, and so are traditional healthcare methods. CEO of Northwell Health Michael Dowling shares his take on how we can develop the best care for our elderly loved ones.

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Michael Dowling

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How your brain works in an emergency, in 9 minutes

“Humans, like most mammals, tend to shut down in really frightening situations for which they have no training or prior experience. Researchers call it negative panic. People do nothing. They shut down.”

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The basics of post-COVID monetary policy, explained by an economist

“Understanding more about monetary policy and the economic regime that you’re living under can help ease some of the fundamental uncertainties [that have been] prevalent since COVID, and help you make better decisions in your day-to-day life.”

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Joseph Politano

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The mystery at the heart of consciousness

“Is it possible that consciousness is a much more basic phenomenon in nature and is essentially pervading everything?”

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