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How to recognize when you’re reacting from childhood wounds
Dr. Nicole LePera, the holistic psychologist and NYT bestselling author behind Reparenting the Inner Child, breaks down the six archetypes of childhood trauma.
57mins
“What's really interesting about neural networks is the way that they think or the way that they operate is a lot like human intuition”
1hr 26mins
Instead of treating belief as a private preference, philosopher Alex O’Connor examines how our moral positions shape institutions, obligations, and the ways we justify our choices.
41mins
“Progress happens when we choose to make it happen. It happens through choice and effort. And ultimately, to make progress happen, we have to believe in it.”
1hr 24mins
“There are at least three very much interrelated misconceptions about trauma right now.”
1hr 12mins
“Consciousness is fundamental. It's a fundamental property of the world that we inhabit, a fundamental property of the universe.”
1hr 18mins
“Everyone's image of [Ancient Rome] is based on modern movies. In some ways, I think those were rather impressive, but they got some things terribly wrong.”
1hr
“Let me walk you through the biggest traps that you should be aware of that are a danger to your financial wellbeing.”
59mins
"One of the largest mitigating factors against getting traumatized is who is there for you at that particular time."
1hr 2mins
“There's research showing that people who are curious, who ask questions, are not just happier, they're not just more successful, they also live longer.”
1hr 37mins
“A lot of the trends in the economy, in family life have just been much harder for working class men.”
1hr 13mins
“Nothing about human behavior makes sense except in the light of culture and in anthropology, and we need to understand the cultural component to our behaviors as well.”
1hr 26mins
“I like to say that physics is hard because physics is easy, by which I mean we actually think about physics as students.”
1hr 24mins
“There's a very pervasive belief that human nature is fundamentally selfish, but I know for a fact that that can't be true in part because my life was saved by a stranger a long time ago when I was 19.”
39mins
"One of the ways you can see the Roman Empire is it's the worldwide web of its day."
1hr 8mins
“An equation, perhaps no more than one inch long, that would allow us to, quote, 'Read the mind of God.'”
1hr 1mins
“We can make ourselves more likely to be happy by building a life that includes the conditions that make for happiness.”
1hr 3mins
“The public really doesn't realize that they are much closer to CIA spies than they think they are.”
1hr 18mins
“Could black holes be the key to a quantum theory of gravity, a deeper theory of how reality, of how space and time works?”
1hr 25mins
"Virtually everything we're taught about sexuality for the first two decades of our lives is wrong."
1hr 40mins
“Fraud never sleeps. It's really a global problem. Fraud is a trillion dollar problem, about $5 trillion today, with that number increasingly rising annually.”