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What do you do when you've already lost the battle with Microsoft? Why would Steve Jobs put his stores in the one place he hated most? And why would Apple build a store that doesn't want to sell you anything? Ron Johnson was recruited by Steve Jobs to do something almost everyone thought was a bad idea: open stores. For his first year at Apple, Steve called him almost every night. Ron went on to create the Apple Store and worked alongside Jobs for more than a decade. Six months into buildi...

A daycare started fining parents for picking up their children late. Instead of arriving on time, parents started arriving even later. Why would a punishment encourage the very behavior it was meant to stop? Stephen Dubner, bestselling co-author of Freakonomics and longtime host of Freakonomics Radio, has spent more than 20 years uncovering the hidden forces behind human behavior. What he's discovered challenges some of our most deeply held assumptions about why people do what they do. In thi...

What separates great communicators from everyone else? It’s not confidence, charisma, or having the perfect words. Matt Abrahams, Stanford Graduate School of Business lecturer, bestselling author of Think Faster, Talk Smarter, and host of the Think Fast, Talk Smart podcast, reveals why many of our instincts before presentations, meetings, and difficult conversations may be working against us. In this episode, we cover: The best way to introduce yourselfHow to interrupt someone politelyWhat ...

What if joy isn’t a reward for when life goes well, but the thing that helps us survive when it doesn’t? Psychologist and Stanford lecturer Kelly McGonigal reveals that joy is not the same as happiness, and that many of us quietly push it away without realizing it. In this episode, you’ll learn: Why happiness needs everything to be good, while joy needs just one thingWhy so many of us protect ourselves from joy, and why anxiety can feel saferHow power and success can make connection, and joy,...

As Arctic ice melts, the struggle for the frozen north is beginning to resemble a new Cold War. Russian submarine activity is rising. China is mapping the seabed and expanding its icebreaker fleet. And Greenland sits at the center of a growing contest over shipping routes, critical minerals, energy, and missiles. Heather Conley, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and one of America’s leading experts on the Arctic, Europe, and transatlantic security, spent years warning that ...