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The Big Think Interview

Jesse Eisenberg: How to rewire your anxiety into authenticity

“The way my mind works is just out of anxiety and catastrophization.”

Jesse Eisenberg

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Fearing death keeps us from living. 3 experts explain.

Biologist Tyler Volk PhD, psychiatrist Bruce Greyson MD, and palliative care physician BJ Miller MD, reveal how confronting mortality can improve the way we live.

Tyler Volk, Dr. Bruce Greyson & BJ Miller

Unlikely Collaborators

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The evolution of laziness: Why humans resist the gym

“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.”

Daniel Lieberman

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Sean Carroll explains why physics is both simple and impossible

“I like to say that physics is hard because physics is easy, by which I mean we actually think about physics as students.”

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The Big Think Interview

How two freak accidents shaped human evolution

“So many things could have happened in a different way that we wouldn't be here at all, both individually, for sure, and certainly as a species.”

Sean B. Carroll

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