Learning to Care: Lavin Speaker Jamil Zaki Challenges Us to Exercise Kindness
Can human beings teach themselves to become kinder? According to science, all signs point to yes. Stanford psychologist and author of The War For Kindness Jamil Zaki has designed a week-long kindness challenge to push people outside of their comfort zones—and into connection with each other.... Continue Reading →
How Perception Drives Adaptibility: Introducing New Lavin Speaker Beau Lotto
In order to thrive in a changing world, we must constantly adapt. Neuroscientist Beau Lotto helps us identify—and overcome—our evolutionary biases and step into the unknown. His talks feature the principles of perception as a catalyst for organizational change: sparking creativity, innovation, and... Continue Reading →
Can We Unite Society Through Empathy? Jamil Zaki Explores for The Economist.
How can empathy counteract political discord and alienation? According to Jamil Zaki, the answer is building it into our institutions and interactions. The Economist’s Open Future Initiative spoke with Zaki on how we can begin to heal our fractured society, starting with his new book The War for... Continue Reading →
How Do We Build Empathy in a Fractured World? Learn From Jamil Zaki’s The War for Kindness—Out Today.
As a child stuck in the middle of his parent’s contentious divorce, Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki had his first lesson in empathy. “That two people’s experiences could differ so drastically, yet both be true and deep is maybe the most important lesson I’ve ever learned,” he writes in his new... Continue Reading →
These Speakers—Behavioral Scientists, Grit Experts, and Psychologists—Help Audiences Stick to Their Goals
It’s a month into 2019, do you know where your New Year’s resolutions are? These speakers—behavioral scientists, grit experts, and psychologists—help audiences define and stick to their goals, both at work and at home. Angela Duckworth is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grit—her... Continue Reading →
Lavin Speaker Lera Boroditsky Had the Most Popular TED Talk of 2018
Lavin speaker Lera Boroditsky had the most popular TED talk of 2018. Millions have watched her explain how language shapes the way we think. Watch it below. In her funny and fascinating breakdown of how language shapes the way we think, cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky draws on examples from... Continue Reading →
Empathy is a Skill. New Speaker Jamil Zaki Can Teach You How to Practice It.
Jamil Zaki is Director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab, which aims to unpack, understand, and ultimately teach empathy: “empathetic practice becomes empathetic habits becomes empathetic people,” says Zaki in his acclaimed TED Talk. It’s a skill, he explains. We just have to start seeing it... Continue Reading →
In His Brand New TED Talk, Steven Pinker Argues that the World is Getting Better. But, We Must Adjust Our Perception to See It.
“You can always fool yourself into seeing a decline if you compare bleeding headlines of the present with rose-tinted images of the past,” says speaker Steven Pinker in his just-released (and standing o-garnering) TED Talk. But, he goes on to ask, what does the trajectory of the world look like... Continue Reading →
“An intellectually exhilarating book.” Raves Pour In For Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now, His Masterpiece on Human Progress
Compelling speaker, bestselling author, and Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker has already received the ultimate book review from Bill Gates: “It’s my new favorite book of all time.” Now, a week after the publication of Enlightenment Now—a masterfully argued and timely defense of reason,... Continue Reading →
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