Episode 4 : Free Topic

Happiness

https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_waldinger_what_makes_a_good_life_lessons_from_the_longest_study_on_happiness?language=en

http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-waldinger-says-3-things-are-the-secret-to-happiness-2015-12

Episode 5 : Donald J Trump

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/us-china-trade-reform

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/tax-reform

Interesting Podcasts

http://blog.ted.com/45-great-podcast-picks-from-the-ted-staff/?utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=ted-blog&utm_term=technology

Episode 3 : Failure

As a failure, I've learned to appreciate the little things 

http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/as-a-failure-ive-learned-to-appreciate-the-little--38186

How important is failure really?

https://medium.com/@garyvee/how-important-is-failure-really-29f5da05803e#.pe9s1taf8

When failure is useful or not :

https://hbr.org/2014/05/when-we-learn-from-failure-and-when-we-dont/

 

When and why people do want to fail: not an article but a good wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-handicapping

 

Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Anne Enright, Howard Jacobson, Will Self and Lionel Shriver reflect on their own disappointments in life, love and work.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/22/falling-short-writers-reflect-failure

Learning from Mistakes on the Way to Tomorrow - Professor Daniel Kahneman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1X2hPcLga4

Failure is your friend

http://freakonomics.com/2014/06/05/failure-is-your-friend-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/

The gift of failure 

http://www.jessicalahey.com/the-gift-of-failure/

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/books/review/the-gift-of-failure-by-jessica-lahey.html?_r=1&referer=

A whole TED event 

http://failure-lab.com/events/pittsburgh-2015/

 

Live TV Fail :)

http://mashable.com/2016/01/07/reporter-powerball/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link#hOjYecGpuuqx

My kid is reading this :)

 

Episode 2 : Team

TED speakers unravel ideas behind the mystery of mass collaborations that build a better world.

http://play.podtrac.com/npr-510298/npr.mc.tritondigital.com/NPR_510298/media/anon.npr-mp3/npr/ted/2015/07/20150715_ted_whywecollaborate.mp3?orgId=1&d=3195&p=510298&story=418905333&t=podcast&e=418905333&ft=pod&f=510298

Not all fit into the team

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/opinion/sunday/the-rise-of-the-new-groupthink.html?_r=0

 

And, sometimes the team approach can yield unexpected results….

http://www.forbes.com/sites/amymorin/2014/07/25/study-shows-the-power-of-social-influence-5-ways-to-avoid-the-herd-mentality/

Or worse!

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/03/crowd_psychology_people_are_friendly_altruistic_happy_in_large_gatherings.html

Episode 0 and 1 :Genesis + Mindfulness

The Lexicon Book Club

Episode 0: The Genesis

Episode 1: Mindfulness

What We Think About When We Run by Kathryn Schultz. The New Yorker

https://hbr.org/2014/03/mindfulness-for-people-who-are-too-busy-to-meditate/

https://hbr.org/2015/08/is-something-lost-when-we-use-mindfulness-as-a-productivity-tool

On the topic of meditation (from google meditation alternative) there’s more ways to zen without running and formal meditation – my favorite is the cleaning zen

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/6-alternative-forms-meditation-for-people-who-hate-doing-nothing.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-clover/5-meditation-alternatives_b_7596656.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-stabile/meditation-alternatives_b_5546103.html

This approach is thought to be super effective: (and fun)

http://www.higherperspectives.com/psychologists-say-coloring-is-the-best-alternative-to-meditation-1429984821.html

Serious investment from the big guy in coloring:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/11/10/news/companies/crayola-adult-coloring/

From NIH: Complementary, Alternative, or Integrative Health: 100 million in R$D from NIH funding in the last decade, serious science now.

https://nccih.nih.gov/health/integrative-health