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How to Be a Better Human

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How To Be A Better Human isn’t your average self improvement podcast. Each week join Chris Duffy in conversation with guests and past speakers as they uncover sharp insights and give clear takeaways on how YOU can be a better human. From your work to your home and your head to your heart, How To Be a Better Human looks in unexpected places for new ways to improve and show up for one another. Inspired by the popular series of the same name on TED’s Ideas blog, How to Be a Better Human will help y...

Episodes (278)

How to make generosity contagious (w/ Chris Anderson)

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Why you should start thinking about death (w/ Alua Arthur)

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How to think critically about history -- and why it matters (w/ David Ikard) (Re...

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Re-release: How to lead a happier, more fulfilling life (with Dr. Robert Walding...

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Re-release: How learning about indigenous foods can open up your worldview (with...

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Lessons from 102-year-old swimmer Maurine Kornfeld

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What do our guests do to be better humans?

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The perks of listening to the sounds of the world (w/ Dallas Taylor)

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How comedy helps us deal with hard truths (w/ Roy Wood Jr.)

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How to solve your problems through drawing (w/ Liana Finck)

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Why you should try birding (w/ Christian Cooper)

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How do I know what my future self wants? (w/ Shankar Vedantam)

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How to build better relationships between kids, parents, and ourselves (w/ Dr. B...

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What vision loss helped Andrew Leland gain

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How labor unions create worker power (w/ Margaret Levi) (Re-release)

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How changing your story can change your life (w/ Lori Gottlieb)

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Why your brain is an unreliable narrator (w/ Aparna Nancherla)

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How to Love Criticism | WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Episode 1: The Internet’s First Main Character? | The Redemption of Jar Jar Bink...

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How To Love Your Face (from Slate's How To!)

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Do we have something to learn from conspiracy theories? (w/ Peter McIndoe)

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How can art hold space for your pain? (w/ Jessie Reyez)

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Why we should rethink what mental health means (w/ Sandy Allen)

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Fixable: “How do I deal with a communication breakdown?"

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How to travel without even leaving home (w/ Saleem Reshamwala)

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Listen to Ten Percent Happier ft. Get Fit Sanely series

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What will you do with your one wild and precious planet? (w/ Bill McKibben)

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How to embrace – and challenge – the idea of “beauty” (w / Elise Hu)

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How to be an adult – and how to raise one (w/ Julie Lythcott-Haims)

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What we can learn from great salespeople (w/ Colin Coggins)

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How to set boundaries and find peace (w/ Nedra Glover Tawwab)

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How to dive into your fears (w/ Jill Heinerth)

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How to stop finding your self-worth through your job (w/ Gloria Chan Packer)

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The secret to making new friends as an adult (w/ Marisa G. Franco)

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The difference between easy and difficult beauty (w/ Chloe Cooper Jones)

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ALOK is microdosing creativity and rejecting norms

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How to keep house while drowning (w/ KC Davis)

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Fixable: Kelli - “How do I deal with a communication breakdown?

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Stephen Satterfield wants his meals to match his ideals

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Julissa Arce on why success isn’t worth her assimilation

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Why Kim Scott thinks you need to ask for feedback

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Cord Jefferson's creativity is fueled by mental health

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Anne Helen Petersen on changing your relationship to work and the guardrails tha...

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Pardon the Interruption… But Did Sports Debate Shows Change the World?

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Why love –and therapy– means going in a direction you don’t yet know (w/ Dr. Orn...

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Jody Avirgan learned everything from sports

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Andrew Marantz doesn’t want you to give up on the internet

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The science of happiness (w/ Laurie Santos)

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How to care for the people who take care of us (w/ Ai-jen Poo)

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There is no “grief starter pack” (w/ Michael Cruz Kayne)

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