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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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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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Are we disciplining ourselves out of happiness?

Many of us wake up each morning with something Oliver Burkeman calls “productivity debt.” The bestselling author and journalist explains this term as “a sense that you’ve got to work […]

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Oliver Burkeman

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How one moment of shamelessness saved Andrew Zimmern’s life

After decades of drug and alcohol abuse, the chef and television personality labeled himself as an ‘irredeemable human being.’ Everything changed when he found the courage to ask for help.

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The surprising data on AI and unemployment rates

“I’m here to argue that AI is not going to cause a rise in unemployment. I think it’s actually increased employment in the United States, not decreased it.”

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Joseph Politano

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The truth about supplements, from a doctor

“The truth is there are very few supplements that have good evidence-based medicine to support them.”

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How record-breaking swimmer Diana Nyad found strength and healing in the water

From anger to awe: How one woman overcame “debilitating trauma” to conquer a near-impossible 53-hour swim at 64.

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