Can AI make us more human? A social psychologist and a business leader answer | Heidi Grant and Barry Cooper
Host Elise Hu introduces a conversation from the TED Intersections series in which social psychologist Heidi Grant and business leader Barry Cooper discuss how AI can support human learning, decision-making, and connection. They explore the importance of a growth mindset in a rapidly changing AI-driven workplace, how AI can transform feedback and training, and the emerging skill of prompt engineering. They also reflect on AI's role in personal habits, social media, and creative content, and where human empathy and shared experience will remain essential.
TIP757: Richer, Wiser, Happier Q3 2025 w/ Stig Brodersen & William Green
Host Stig Brodersen and co-host William Green have a wide-ranging quarterly Richer, Wiser, Happier discussion on universal truths, money and happiness, and the role of books and teachers in living well. They explore epistemic humility, cultural and psychological differences in values, and how these insights apply to investing decisions. They also examine research on income and happiness, how wealth can and cannot improve life, and share their own reading habits and spiritual influences that shape their thinking about how to live.
TIP755: My Process for Finding Great Investments w/ Kyle Grieve
Host Kyle Grieve shares his personal investing philosophy, tracing how early speculative losses in cryptocurrencies led him toward disciplined value investing in equities. He explains his return goals, focus on absolute rather than relative performance, a two-bucket framework (quality compounders and microcap inflection-point stocks), detailed criteria for evaluating management and capital efficiency, and his sell and portfolio management rules. Kyle also covers concepts like circle of competence, behavioral biases, environment design for inaction, and reflects candidly on mistakes of commission and omission to illustrate how he continues refining his process.
(#1) Elise's Top Ten: The psychology of your future self | Dan Gilbert
Host Elise Hu introduces TED Talks Daily's first curated playlist of her top 10 TED Talks and sets up a 2014 talk by Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert. Gilbert explains the "end of history illusion," the tendency for people at any age to underestimate how much they will change in the future in their values, personalities, and preferences. He presents research evidence, illustrates how this illusion distorts long-term decisions, and concludes that change is the one constant in our lives.
(#2) Elise's Top Ten: You don't actually know what your future self wants | Shankar Vedantam
Host Elise Hu introduces a favorite TED Talk by journalist and podcast host Shankar Vandantam about how poorly we understand our future selves. Through personal anecdotes, a powerful medical case, and the Ship of Theseus thought experiment, Vandantam argues that our identities and preferences change far more than we expect, creating an "illusion of continuity." He closes with three recommendations-stay curious, practice humility, and be brave-to better relate to and care for our future selves.
8 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Turned 30
Jay Shetty shares eight psychological and life lessons he wishes he had understood before turning 30, aimed at saving time, energy, and emotional stress. Drawing on research in psychology and human behavior, he explains concepts like the spotlight effect, the effort heuristic, socio-emotional selectivity, decision fatigue, social contagion, burnout, and affective forecasting. He then turns these ideas into practical guidance on how to think about other people's opinions, productivity, friendships, discipline, fear, community, meaningful work, and the unpredictability of future happiness and pain.