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What is your outlook?
Dalia Mogahed
3mins
Perception Box
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2mins
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2mins
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6mins
Perception Box
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8mins
Perception Box
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7mins
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7mins
Perception Box
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Unlikely Collaborators
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6mins
Perception Box
How Olympian Gracie Gold finally stopped striving for perfection
Unlikely Collaborators
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7mins
Perception Box
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7mins
Perception Box
How Byron Katie accidentally discovered joy in the darkest of times
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5mins
Perception Box
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Unlikely Collaborators
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6mins
Perception Box
A neuroscientist’s guide to building a more positive reality
Nicole Vignola
Unlikely Collaborators
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7mins
Perception Box
Navigating autism and loneliness with Kaelynn Partlow
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Unlikely Collaborators
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6mins
Perception Box
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7mins
Perception Box
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6mins
The Well
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7mins
Perception Box
How to navigate loneliness, according to neuroscience
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Unlikely Collaborators

Things can always be improved if human beings make different decisions.

Dalia Mogahed: I’m always very optimistic. As depressing as much of the data I actually analyze tends to be, I have to be optimistic because I believe that in the end, as a human race, we can make different choices and better choices, and that clash is never inevitable.

Things can always be improved if human beings make different decisions. And I believe they can.

Recorded on: July 3, 2007. 

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