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Finding Direction When You’re Feeling Lost

By Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries — 2021

At a certain point in life, people transition from “time to live” to “time left to live.” This shift creates a new sense of urgency about identifying the purpose of our existence. And as people confront this challenge, they come up against a set of fundamental human needs that collectively define how we experience the meaning of our existence: belonging, purpose, competence, control, and transcendence. Thinking about these five pillars of meaning can help you reinvent your life.

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29 – How to Deal with Being Socially Awkward with Ty Tashiro

Amy interviews Ty Tashiro about how to deal with feeling socially awkward. Ty shares the science behind why some people are socially awkward.

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Bradshaw On: The Eight Stages of Man (1982) E5: Don’t Start the Crisis Without Me!

Episode Five: Don’t Start The Crisis Without Me. Psychologist/Theologian John Bradshaw traces human life through eight stages of psychosocial development (based on the works of Erik Erikson) focusing on the ego needs and strengths of each stage.

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The Happiness Hypothesis: Ten Ways to Find Happiness and Meaning in Life

In The Happiness Hypothesis, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt examines ten Great Ideas which have been championed across centuries and civilisations and asks: how can we apply these ideas to our twenty-first century lives? By holding ancient wisdom to the test of modern psychology, Haidt extracts...

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Cults: Faith, Healing, and Coercion

From the mass weddings of Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church to the ritual suicides at Heaven’s Gate, charismatic cults and their devotees have become facts of American life.

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Finding Meaning