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Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist, examines modern happiness through ancient wisdom and contemporary psychology, using the idea of the divided self to explore how enduring insights about human nature can be tested against current understanding.
Michael Heppell, a bestselling author and speaker in personal and professional development, argues that mindset can transform situations: flip your perspective, reject comfortable mediocrity, and pursue the standard of “brilliance” rather than settling for merely good.
Katy Milkman, a behavioral scientist and Wharton School professor, studies the science of change, identifying practical ways to overcome recurring barriers between intentions and goals while sharpening the questions we ask about behavior and willpower.
Don Miguel Ruiz teaches The Four Agreements as a practical code of conduct for personal freedom, peace, and happiness, asking how four clear principles can reshape daily behavior and loosen the patterns that keep people from living freely.
Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard psychologist and author of Stumbling on Happiness, explains why people misjudge what will make them happy, revealing how the mind’s predictions about future emotions can systematically mislead decisions and expectations.
Alex Korb, a neuroscientist and author focused on depression and well-being, shows how small, practical changes can create positive feedback loops in the brain, reframing improvement as an upward spiral built through manageable actions.
Viktor Frankl, an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor, and creator of Logotherapy, argued that the will to meaning is a primary human motivation and that people retain the freedom to choose their attitude amid suffering.
Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist, economist, and Nobel laureate, mapped the tension between fast, intuitive System 1 and slower, deliberative System 2, then examined how cognitive bias and random variability can compromise judgment and decisions.