Discover the science of neuroplasticity and learn how acquiring a second language can physically grow your brain, enhance cognitive function, and even delay dementia. An awe-inspiring look at the brain’s power to change.


Discover the science of neuroplasticity and learn how acquiring a second language can physically grow your brain, enhance cognitive function, and even delay dementia. An awe-inspiring look at the brain’s power to change.

Feeling stuck? Discover if a “fixed mindset” is holding you back. Take our interactive quiz to uncover your core beliefs about learning and challenge, and get actionable tips to cultivate a growth mindset for lifelong success.

Discover the cognitive biases that secretly run your workplace. Learn how Groupthink leads to disastrous decisions, the Curse of Knowledge creates communication silos, and unconscious bias affects hiring and promotions. A must-read guide for leaders and teams.

Ever wonder why small disagreements with your partner blow up? Discover how cognitive biases like the Fundamental Attribution Error and Confirmation Bias shape your relationships, poison perceptions, and distort memories. Learn how to spot these mental traps and build stronger connections.

Why do humans search for meaning? Explore the “God-shaped hole”—the psychological, neurological, and evolutionary reasons behind our innate desire to believe in something greater than ourselves, from religion to science to social causes.

Discover how cognitive biases like the Availability Heuristic and Confirmation Bias secretly influence your health and wellness choices. Learn why we fall for fads, misjudge risks, and how to navigate the complex psychology between doctors and patients for better health outcomes.

Discover how cognitive biases like the Sunk Cost Fallacy, Anchoring, and Survivorship Bias are sabotaging your financial decisions. Learn practical strategies to overcome these mental traps, improve your investing, and protect your wealth from your own brain.

Stop letting hidden biases control you. This practical guide details 5 research-backed “debiasing” exercises like the Pre-Mortem and Designated Dissenter that act as a workout for your brain. Learn how to sharpen your mind, fight Groupthink, and improve your decision-making today.

Struggling with bad decisions or stubborn beliefs? Learn how to fight cognitive bias with our guide. Discover practical techniques like metacognition, decision journaling, and mindfulness to improve your thinking, cultivate intellectual humility, and finally see the world more clearly.

Feeling lost or questioning your purpose? Discover how an existential crisis, while challenging, can be a powerful catalyst for deeper self-understanding, authenticity, and profound personal growth.

Audacity is the word for the move that shouldn’t work but might — for the pitch that’s too big, the ask that’s too much, the step that everyone around you says is a step too far. In this episode, we celebrate the beautiful nerve of the audacious.

You’ve probably been in one. The problem creates the condition that reinforces the problem. Round and round, each turn tightening the spiral. ‘A vicious cycle’ is one of the most precise expressions in English for a particular kind of trap — and this episode explores both what makes cycles vicious and what it takes to break them.

An impediment is something in your way. It slows you down, blocks you, makes the path harder. But in this episode, we ask the more interesting question: what if the impediment is also part of the path?

There’s a specific kind of vertigo that comes with doing something no one has done before — or something no map has prepared you for. ‘Uncharted waters’ is an expression born from the age of exploration, and it speaks directly to one of the most human experiences there is: the moment when the known world runs out.

Tracing the earliest known traces of commercial sex in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond, examining the hotly contested theory of sacred prostitution, the economic realities of the ancient world, and what the archaeological record actually tells us.

Every idea we now take for granted was once heretical. In this episode, we explore the word for dangerous thinking — and ask what heretical ideas of today might be the common sense of tomorrow.