The 3 Best How to Be a Better Human Podcast Episodes
1) Re-release: How to lead a happier, more fulfilling life (with Dr. Robert Waldinger)
What makes YOU happy? Dr. Robert Waldinger is the director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, an 83-year-old project that tracks how life experience across decades affects health and wellbeing...Show More
2) How to think critically about history -- and why it matters (w/ David Ikard) (Re-release)
Have you ever recalled a story only to have someone point out "that's not how it went"? Well, what happens when what we misrepresent are our historical narratives? David Ikard is a Professor of Africa...Show More
3) How to Find the Comedy in A Messed-Up World (with Maeve Higgins)
On a list of the least funny topics imaginable, the global refugee crisis, border disputes, and questions of citizenships are probably close to the top. And yet comedian Maeve Higgins has spent her ca...Show More
4) How to Eat with Awareness and Purpose (w/ Sean Sherman)
If you remove ingredients like dairy, wheat, flour, cane sugar, beef, pork, and chicken from your diet—then what do you eat? For Sioux chef Sean Sherman, excluding colonial ingredients from his cuisin...Show More
5) How to find belonging (w/ Hanif Abdurraqib)
Where do you belong and what does community mean to you? These are the central questions Chris asks poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib while visiting Hanif’s hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Hanif i...Show More
6) Why you need to learn how to fight in a relationship (w/ Dr. Julie and John Gottman)
“All couples fight. In fact, how they fight in the first three minutes predicts with 96% accuracy not only how the rest of the conversation will go, but how the rest of the relationship will go six ye...Show More
7) How to break bad habits (w/ Edith Zimmerman)
Edith Zimmerman is a sketchbook cartoonist and writer of the Substack newsletter, Drawing Links. In this episode, she joins Chris to talk about honesty and self-discovery. From sharing her artwork to ...Show More
8) How to use your muscles — or risk losing them (w/ Bonnie Tsui)
Did you know that you start losing bone AND muscle mass as soon as the age of thirty? Or that your fingers and toes don’t have muscles? Or how women in Scotland are starting to compete in the lighting...Show More
9) How do you stop caring what others think? A filmmaker and a therapist answer | TED Talks Daily
How do you quit people-pleasing? Internet filmmaker Baron Ryan and family therapist Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile unpack the all-too-common fear of rejection and explore the practices necessary to recl...Show More
10) How Texas became America’s biggest producer of wind energy (from Speed & Scale)
This is the surprising story of how Texas – rich in oil and gas – became America's biggest producer of wind energy. For our first episode, Ryan and Anjali talk with Pat Wood, once George W. Bush’s rig...Show More