Imaginary worlds and creativity with Michele Root-Bernstein
Creativity scholar Michele Root-Bernstein discusses her work exploring the playful imaginative worlds of children and their correlation with creativity.
Beautiful Minds
Insights into intelligence, creativity, personality, and well-being
The Creative Life and Well-Being
The Creative Life is full of new possibilities, discoveries, exploration, experimentation, self-expression, and invention. It’s a habit, a way of being, a style of existing.
Peter Sims Explains How "Little Bets" Spur Big Creative Successes
Award-winning author Peter Sims shares some heartening research on how people like Steve Jobs, Chris Rock and Frank Gehry use small experiments to lay the groundwork for big creative successes...
Is an Optimistic Mind Associated with a Healthy Heart?
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.” — World Health Organization (1946) Many poets, philosophers, and thinkers throughout history have recognized the intimate link between physical and mental health...
How to change your habits with Dr. Art Markman
Dr. Art Markman discusses tools, tips and tricks for editing our behaviors and achieving our goals. It's an incredibly practical episode for those of us who want to lose that weight, write that book and change our lives...
The science of raising happily productive kids with Dr. Dona Matthews
Expert Dona Matthews presents ample research regarding how to help children flourish into happy and successful adults. Scott guides the interview across a wide array of vital domains including creativity, flow, standardized testing, growth mindsets and the many myths about intelligence...
Modern rudeness in Stone Age minds with Amy Alkon
Advice columnist and science writer Amy Alkon sheds light on the evolutionary roots of modern impoliteness. She shares research on how to cure rudeness and make the world a friendlier place...
“What is it like to be a psychopath?”
Cognitive neuroscientist Kent Kiehl discusses his research and personal experience working with "those without conscience." Scott and Kent demystify the historically fascinating illness as it relates to criminal activity, genius, evil, flourishing, the brain, gender and treatment...
Todd Kashdan on dancing with the dark side of your personality
Psychologist Dr. Todd Kashdan shares some unconventional research on how we can harness "negative" psychological characteristics to live whole, successful and fulfilling lives.
The Messy Minds of Creative People
The creative process-- from the first drop of paint on the canvas to the art exhibition-- involves a mix of emotions, drives, skills, and behaviors.
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