Barry Schwartz on the Paradox of Choice Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied. Barry

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Michael Merzenich studies neuroplasticity — the brain’s powerful ability to change itself and adapt — and ways we might make use of that plasticity to heal injured brains and enhance the skills in healthy ones. Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich looks at

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Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill – FULL Audio Book This is one of the best-selling self-help books of all time. Written during the Great Depression, against a backdrop of millions of people out of work and a looming

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Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight “I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form, at one with all that is.” – Jill Bolte

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Esther Perel on the secret to desire in a long-term relationship “The very ingredients that nurture love — mutuality, reciprocity, protection, worry, responsibility for the other — are sometimes the very ingredients that stifle desire.” Esther Perel: Sex therapist, Author

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Janine Shepherd: A broken body isn’t a broken person Athlete Janine Shepherd was rendered a partial paraplegic when she was hit by a truck during an Olympic training bike ride. Doctors didn’t expect her to recover. But she not only

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