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She gave me a book called This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch, in which an Australian author, Tabitha Carvan, spends a few hundred pages talking about how amazing Benedict Cumberbatch is.

I loved the book, it made me think, like, I wonder what all the excitement about Benedict Cumberbatch is.

She's the author of The Last Human Job The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World.

She's the author of The Last Human Job The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World.

George Bonanno is a psychologist at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is the author of The End of Trauma, How the New Science of Resilience is Changing How We Think About PTSD.

He's the author of The End of Trauma, How the New Science of Resilience is Changing How We Think About PTSD, and The Other Side of Sadness, What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss.

Laura Carstensen is a psychologist at Stanford University. She's the author of A Long Bright Future. Happiness, health and financial security in an age of increased longevity.

We saw after the COVID-19 pandemic that globally altruistic behavior went up ... It may seem a little bit paradoxical that if ... it's astonishingly common ... like The Lord of the Flies, where a disaster setting brings out the worst in people and causes them to turn on one another.

Behavioral scientist Max Bazeman offers a different approach. He is at Harvard Business School and author of the book, Negotiation, The Game Has Changed.

In my book, Negotiation of the Game Has Changed, one of the points that I make is that we're now negotiating with more and more people who are different from ourselves, who come from different cultures.

He wrote a book called Perfectly Confident. What Don finds is that when people are in domains where they lack competence, they are even less confident than they should be.

This book was Mountains Beyond Mountains. It was written by Tracy Kidder, who wrote a biography of Dr. Paul Farmer. Paul Farmer famously was a public health advocate who started Partners in Health, started off in Haiti, and then scaled the organization all around the world. And the book at the time when I was 18, it transformed me.

When I was younger and I read it for the first time, I was so focused on what he was doing, the difference that he was making, all the amazing things that he was accomplishing. I wasn't paying attention to all the things that he wasn't describing or all the things that he wasn't doing.

I have changed the way that we think about public health, particularly in lowincome countries, changed the way that we think about tuberculosis care. Like so many things where you see the impact that his organization and his work have had.

Like Paul Farmer, for all the amazing accomplishments that he has had, he wasn't happy. It wasn't like he would ever sit back and say, look at all the amazing things I have accomplished.

I'm always and perpetually dissatisfied because I'm always falling short of the aspiration that I have. And it's something that I think I've internalized now that I've been doing this for a little bit.

Victor Strecker is a public health researcher at the University of Michigan; he's the author of Life on Purpose: How Living for What Matters Most Changes Everything.

Along with David Glasgow, he is co-author of Say the Right Thing, How to Talk About Identity, Diversity and Justice.

There's a story about ... reading Go, Dog, Go for the 10,000th time.

With Stephen Sloman, he is co-author of The Knowledge Illusion, Why We Never Think Alone.

In her book with Jillian Murphy, Memory Lane, The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember, Keira explores all the ways memory can fail us, but also all the ways it can be strengthened.

Kira Green is a psychologist at University College Dublin with Gillian Murphy she's the author of the book Memory Lane The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember.

author Sheila Heen. Along with Douglas Stone, Sheila recently wrote a book called Thanks for the Feedback, The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well.

Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone teach negotiation at the Harvard Law School. They're also the authors of the bestselling book, Thanks for the Feedback.

Dan is going to be a regular on the Hidden Brain podcast. He's the author of Drive to Sell as Human and other books.

That's Sheila Heen. Along with Douglas Stone, Sheila recently wrote a book called Thanks for the Feedback, The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well. One of their chapters focuses on switch tracking, which she describes as when...

Greg Walton is the author of Ordinary Magic, the science of how we can achieve big change with small acts.

She is the author of Emotions Learning and the Brain, Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective Neuroscience.

She found herself swept up in the novel Fifty Shades of Grey. The story, later made into a movie, revolves around a sadomasochistic relationship between a college student and a business tycoon.

I wasn't even sure I knew why I was reading it; the plot and characters didn't matter at all. I was reading it for the sex scenes and rationalized it as a modernday Pride and Prejudice.

I remember it vividly: I was up at three in the morning, reading a scene where the characters were using sadomasochistic sex toys, and I thought, how did I get here? That's not anything I'm into.