The Courageous Life

Violence is often regarded as an unavoidable fact of life. The truth however is far more hopeful: violence is a disease that can be cured. Using a bold new approach, Epidemiologist and violence prevention specialist Dr. Gary Slutkin is reclassifying violence as a a disease: One that enters the brain and infects people, communities, and countries via the same process as other epidemics. Gary makes a compelling research-backed case that when: Shootings occur ...

In his new book Flourish, bestselling author, scientific journalist, and leading culture expert Daniel Coyle trains his eye on the groups and people who demonstrate exceptional connectivity, presence, and dynamism. His focus driven by a deep curiosity to better understand some of life’s biggest questions: What is a meaningful life, and how do we make one? And How do certain communities foster closeness, fulfillment, happiness, and energy? To uncover the answers, Daniel spent 5 yea...

There is a primal drive that in our species alone has been transformed into one of our most persistent and universal motivations: The longing to matter. In her revelatory new book: The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us, MacArthur Fellow, National Humanities Medalist, and bestselling author, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Weaves powerful insights from biology, psychology, and philosophy, To persuasively argue that our need to matt...

We all have something we want to change about ourselves. But whether it's quitting smoking, losing weight, or breaking some common bad habit, we feel a sense of failure when we don’t succeed. This can often set off a cascade of negative feelings and discouragement, making it even harder to change. The voice in our head telling us: Why bother? In his profound book, How We Change: And Ten Reasons Why We Don’t Sociologist, pioneering psychotherapist, and author Dr. ...

What sets the most successful people apart? You may think that the answer is hard work (and it’s certainly part of it), but in her interviews of the most accomplished individuals— from entrepreneurs and investors to Olympic athletes and Pulitzer Prize winners— Distinguished Professor of Management, Dr. Laura Huang discovered that what they called their gut feel, the product of their intuition, played the most important role. Laura, who has held faculty positions at Har...