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At this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of people who work in media, design, and the arts about how the creative process can lend itself to unlocking solutions. "Creativity is a problem-solving practice," says Anne Libera, director of comedy studies at Second City.
Imagine a pill that would aid cognitive decline, help prevent macroscopic stroke, aid sleep, and add 7 years to your life. How much would you pay for it? Would you take it? It turns out that pill is free, and it's available to all. It's called Purpose.
Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the hardships of others. Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of struggle, while also spinning tales of the courageous people he’s met in the years since.
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Author of 20 inspirational books, Alan Cohen discusses enlightenment and finding your authentic self. Watch his story in this exclusive interview about getting more by doing less.
Being awake, present and aware are goals we can all aspire to. But what does living an awakened life actually mean? Clinical psychologist and author Dr. Shefali Tsabary breaks down this complicated idea to its basic parts.
Within each of us are two selves, suggests David Brooks in this meditative short talk: the self who craves success, who builds a résumé, and the self who seeks connection, community, love—the values that make for a great eulogy. Can we balance these two selves? Perhaps, once we know them both.
Drawing on history’s great and evil Struan explains how Trust is more complicated than you think. Struan Robertson, a New Zealander by birth, is a world-class keynote speaker, facilitator and mind-set specialist working out of the United Kingdom.
“I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it.
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How attention and focus affects creative thinking.