Tracks by Shankar Vedantam

You 2.0: Make the Good Times Last

You 2.0: Slow Down!

You 2.0: Your Future Is Now

You 2.0: How to Break Out of a Rut

The Truth About Honesty

Learning From Your Mistakes

The Path to Enough

The Paradox of Pleasure

How Others See You

The Best Years of Your Life

When to Eat the Marshmallow

Between Two Worlds

Seeking Serenity: Part 2

Seeking Serenity: Part 1

Success 2.0: Getting to the Top and Staying There

Success 2.0: The Psychology of Self-Doubt

Success 2.0: The Obstacles You Don't See

Success 2.0: Getting What You Want

Success 2.0: Taking the Leap

A Secret Source of Connection

Remember More, Forget Less

Crying Wolf

The Snowball Effect

Less is More

How To Make Amends

Made of Honor

Revealing Your Unconscious: Part 2

Revealing Your Unconscious: Part 1

How Your Beliefs Shape Reality

Happiness 2.0: The Reset Button

Happiness 2.0: Surprising Sources of Joy

Happiness 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose

Happiness 2.0: The Only Way Out Is Through

Happiness 2.0: The Path to Contentment

When You Need It To Be True

Persuasion: Part 2

Persuasion: Part 1

Who's In Your Inner Circle?

Who Do You Want To Be?

You, But Better

How to Complain Productively

An Ancient Solution to Modern Problems

The Secret to Gift Giving

Relationships 2.0: What Makes Relationships Thrive

Relationships 2.0: When Did Marriage Become So Hard?

Relationships 2.0: An Antidote to Loneliness

Relationships 2.0: The Power of Tiny Interactions

Relationships 2.0: How To Keep Conflict From Spiraling

A Better Way to Worry

Thriving in the Face of Contradiction

Did I Really Do That?

Watch Your Mouth

Taking Control of Your Time

How to Really Know Another Person

Decoding Emotions

Making the World a Safer Place

You 2.0: How to Open Your Mind

You 2.0: Overcoming Stage Fright

You 2.0: The Mind's Eye

You 2.0: How To See Yourself Clearly

You 2.0: Befriending Your Inner Voice

Reframing Your Reality: Part 2

Reframing Your Reality: Part 1

Separating Yourself from the Pack

What We Gain from Pain

A Founding Contradiction

The Premonition

Why You're Smarter Than You Think

Do Less

Money 2.0: Let's Go Shopping!

Money 2.0: The Rich and the Rest of Us

Money 2.0: Emotional Currency

Money 2.0: Why We Bust Our Budgets

Money 2.0: Rewrite Your Money Story

The Logic of Rage

When Doing Right Feels Wrong

A Conspiracy of Silence

How Rude!

Healing Your Heart

You Don't Need a Crystal Ball

How to Change the World

You Can't Hit Unsend

The Benefits of Mixed Emotions

Putting Our Assumptions to the Test

Mind Reading 2.0: Why Conversations Go Wrong

Mind Reading 2.0: Our Better Angels

Mind Reading 2.0: The Double Standard

Mind Reading 2.0: How others see you

Mind Reading 2.0: Why did you do that?

Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy

What Makes Relationships Thrive

Changing Behavior, Not Beliefs

Choose Carefully

Creatures of Habit

Bringing Up Baby

The Psychology of Self-Doubt

Both Things Can Be True

Work 2.0: The One-Room Commute

Work 2.0: Rebel with a Cause

Work 2.0: Life, Interrupted

Work 2.0: Game On!

Work 2.0: The Obstacles You Don't See

We Broke the Planet. Now What?

The Halo Effect

Being Kind to Yourself

When You Need It To Be True

Passion Isn't Enough

Group Think

Just Sex

Where Happiness Hides

You 2.0: Regrets, I Have a Few

You 2.0: Did That Really Happen?

You 2.0: When Did Marriage Become So Hard?

You 2.0: In the Heat of the Moment

You 2.0: Cultivating Your Purpose

Losing Alaska

Stage Fright

Playing the Gender Card

You, But Better

The Influence You Have

What Twins Tell Us

The Power of Apologies

The Power of Mercy

What are the Odds?

This is Your Brain on Ads

Why We Hold on to Things

Loss and Renewal

Tribes and Traitors

Our Noisy Minds

The Fake Bride

Josh Gitelson: My Unsung Hero

One Head, Two Brains

Why Conversations Go Wrong

Unsung Hero: A Cold Nevada Night

Humor Us

An Unfinished Lesson

Useful Delusions

Made of Honor

The Story of Your Life

The Story of Stories

Radically Normal

The Snowball Effect

Creating God

Is It Better to Know?

How They See Us

The Easiest Person to Fool

Afraid of the Wrong Things

Our Brands, Our Selves

The Secret Life of Secrets

The Double Standard

A Creature of Habit

Waiting Games

Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy

Screaming into a Void

A Conspiracy of Silence

Where Gratitude Gets You

When You Start to Miss Tony from Accounting

Between Two Worlds

From Pedestals to Guillotines

Not at the Dinner Table

Moral Combat

Beyond Doomscrolling

The Logic of Rage

Laughter: The Best Medicine

The Halo Effect

Why Nobody Feels Rich

The Fee-for-Service Monster

You 2.0: Empathy Gym

You 2.0: WOOP, WOOP!

You 2.0: Loss And Renewal

You 2.0: The Mind's Eye

You 2.0: Our Pursuit of Happiness

Edge Effect

The Untold Story Of Lyndie B. Hawkins

Romeo & Juliet In Rwanda

The Night That Lasted A Lifetime

The Founding Contradiction

Buy, Borrow, Steal

A Rap on Trial

Playing Favorites

Justifying The Means

The People Like Us

Our Better Angels

The Dramatic Cure

The Choices Before Us

Starving The Watchdogs

A Social Prescription

Sex Machines

Playing Tight And Loose

Close Enough: Living Through Others

An Unfinished Lesson

Panic In The Street

The Bomb That Didn't Explode

The Tale of the Cowboy Philosopher

The Influence You Have

Liar, Liar, Liar

Passion Isn't Enough

When Things Click

Secret Friends

Warnings, Warnings Everywhere

Emotional Currency

On The Knife's Edge

Creatures Of Habit

Why We Love Surprises

Did That Really Happen?

Zipcode Destiny

In The Heat Of The Moment

Counting Other People's Blessings

The Ventilator

Hungry, Hungry Hippocampus

The Talk Market

BS Jobs

The Monkey Marketplace

The Lonely American Man

Screaming Into The Void

Baby Talk

We're All Gonna Live Forever!

We're All Gonna Die!

You Can't Hit Unsend

You 2.0: Decide Already!

You 2.0: Deep Work

You 2.0: Rebel With A Cause

You 2.0: Our Better Nature

You 2.0: Tunnel Vision

You 2.0: The Empathy Gym

Facts Aren't Enough

Finding Your Voice

The Fox And The Hedgehog

I Buy, Therefore I Am

The Lazarus Drug

Our Animal Instincts

Me, Myself, and IKEA

People Like Us

More Divided Than Ever?

Losing Face

What's Not On The Test

Creating God

A Dramatic Cure

Why No One Feels Rich

The Sorting Hat

Radically Normal

Don't Panic!

What Twins Tell Us

Never Go To Vegas

Unreal Sex

For Sale, By Owner

Better Than Cash

Emma, Carrie, Vivian

Close Enough

One Head, Two Brains

Rewinding & Rewriting

The Vegetable Lamb

The Best Medicine

The Cowboy Philosopher

Loss and Renewal

Compassion

Alan Alda Wants Us To Have Better Conversations

Starving the Watchdog

Spoiler Alert!

A Founding Contradiction

The Edge of Gender

Zipcode Destiny

Sounds Like a Winner

The Lazarus Drug

Be The Change

Voting With Your Middle Finger

Red Brain, Blue Brain

Man Up

Why Now?

The Cassandra Curse

Our Better Nature

Bullshit Jobs

You 2.0: Check Yourself

You 2.0: Originals

You 2.0: When Did Marriage Become So Hard?

You 2.0: The Ostrich Effect

You 2.0: Dream Jobs

You 2.0: Rebel With A Cause

Creating God

Snooki and the Handbag

The Edge Effect

Fake News: An Origin Story

Summer Melt

Hungry, Hungry Hippocampus

When Everything Clicks

Kinder-Gardening

Rewinding & Rewriting

Baby Talk

Rap on Trial

The Fox and the Hedgehog

Emma, Carrie, Vivian

Romeo and Juliet in Kigali

Liar, Liar

Tunnel Vision

Crickets and Cannibals

The Lonely American Man

Radio Replay: The Mind of the Village

Think Fast with Daniel Kahneman

Men: 45, Women: 0

Counting Other People's Blessings

Filthy Rich

When Did Marriage Become So Hard?

Why Now?

Lost in Translation

Alan Alda Wants Us To Have Better Conversations

Give Me Your Tired

E Pluribus Unum?

Buying Attention

I'm Right, You're Wrong

Never Go To Vegas

Kinder-Gardening

The Sorting Hat

Money Talks

An American Secret

Eyes Wide Open: Part 2

Eyes Wide Open: Part 1

Check Yourself

Misbehaving with Richard Thaler

The Good Old Days

The Edge of Gender

Be The Change

Just Sex

The Ostrich Effect

Regrets, I Have A Few

Hiding Behind Free Speech

You 2.0: Getting Unstuck

You 2.0: Decide Already!

You 2.0: WOOP, There It Is

You 2.0: Embrace the Chaos

You 2.0: Dream Jobs

You 2.0: Deep Work

Summer Melt

Could You Kill A Robot?

Losing Face

Guessing Games

Is he Muslim?

Rap on Trial

In The Air We Breathe

Broken Windows

Me, Myself, and IKEA

Ep. 71: The Fox and the Hedgehog

Encore of Ep. 45: What Are The Odds?

Ep. 70: Who We Are At 2 A.M

Episode 69: Money Talks

Ep. 68: Schadenfacebook

Encore of Ep. 35: Creature Comforts

Ep. 67: The Hole

Ep. 66: Liar, Liar

Episode 65: Tunnel Vision

Ep. 64: I'm Right, You're Wrong

Encore of Ep. 24: Tribes and Traitors

Ep. 63: I'm Not A Terrorist

Episode 62: On The Knife's Edge

Episode 61: Just Sex

Encore of Episode 20: Remembering Anarcha

Episode 60: Fortress America

Episode 59: The Deep Story

Episode 58: Pedestals and Guillotines

Episode 57: Slanguage

Episode 56: Getting Unstuck

Encore of Episode 15: Loss and Renewal

Encore of Episode 32: The Scientific Process

Episode 55: Snooki and the Handbag

Episode 54: Panic in the Streets

Episode 53: Embrace the Chaos

Episode 52: Losing Face

Episode 51: What Happened?

Encore of Episode 27: Losing Alaska

Episode 50: Broken Windows

Episode 49: Filthy Rich

Episode 48: Men: 44, Women: 0

Episode 47: Give Me Your Tired

Episode 46: Blessings in Disguise?

Episode 45: What Are The Odds?

Update: #AirbnbWhileBlack

Episode 44: Our Politics, Our Parenting

Episode 43: The Perils of Power

Encore of Episode 21: Stroke of Genius

Episode 42: Decide Already!

Encore of Episode 11: Forgery

Episode 41: Defeated

Episode 40: Silver and Gold

Encore of Episode 7: Lonely Hearts

Episode 39: Vacations

Episode 38: Me, Me, Me

Episode 37: Smoke & Mirrors

Episode 36: Science of Deception

Episode 35: Creature Comforts

Encore of Episode 13: Terrorism

Episode 34: Google at Work

Episode 33: Food for Thought

Episode 32: The Scientific Process

Episode 31: Your Brain on Uber

Episode 30: WOOP, There It Is

Episode 29: Traffic

Episode 28: #AirbnbWhileBlack

Episode 27: Losing Alaska

Encore of Episode 16: Misbehaving

Episode 26: Grit

Episode 25: Dream Jobs

Episode 24: Tribes and Traitors

Episode 23: Boredom

Encore of Episode 9: Aziz Ansari on Modern Love

Episode 22: Originals

Episode 21: Stroke of Genius

Episode 20: Remembering Anarcha

Episode 19: Dating and Mating

Encore of Episode 2: Near Victories

Episode 18: The Paradox of Forgiveness

Episode 17: Resolutions

Episode 16: Misbehaving

Encore of Episode 3: Stereotype Threat

Episode 15: Loss and Renewal

Episode 14: Christmas

Episode 13: Terrorism

Episode 12: Humor

Episode 11: Forgery

Episode 10: Thanksgiving

Episode 9: Aziz Ansari on Modern Love

Episode 8: Back Up Plans

Episode 7: Lonely Hearts

Episode 6: The Science of Fear

Episode 5: Compassion

Episode 4: Students and Teachers

Episode 3: Stereotype Threat

Episode 2: Near Victories

Episode 1: Switchtracking

Being Kind to Yourself

How We Live With Contradictions

Outsmarting Yourself

The Secret to Great Teams

Escaping Perfectionism

How to Spot a Scam

Follow the Anomalies

The Enemies of Gratitude

Healing 2.0: Change Your Story, Change Your Life

Healing 2.0: What We Gain from Pain

Healing 2.0: Life After Loss

Healing 2.0: Disrupting Death

Healing 2.0: The Power of Apologies

The Mystery of Beauty

The Ugly Side of Beauty

How to Believe in Yourself

What Would Socrates Do?

Making the Most of Your Mistakes

Where Do Feelings Come From?

Finding Focus

Are Your Memories Real?

US 2.0: What We Have In Common

US 2.0: Win Hearts, Then Minds

US 2.0: Living With Our Differences

US 2.0: Not at the Dinner Table

US 2.0: Lincoln's Dilemma

Fear Less

Escaping the Matrix

The Ventilator

Are You Listening?

The Transformative Ideas of Daniel Kahneman

What Is Normal?

The Curious Science of Cravings

Parents: Keep Out!

Innovation 2.0: How Big Ideas Are Born

Innovation 2.0: Multiplying the Growth Mindset

Innovation 2.0: The Influence You Have

Innovation 2.0: Shortcuts and Speed Bumps

Innovation 2.0: Do Less

Why Trying Too Hard Can Backfire On You

Why You Feel Empty

Our God-Shaped Brains

Making the World Sparkle Again

Befriending Your Inner Voice

Out of the Rabbit Hole

Changing Our Mental Maps

How To Be Alone

Where Truth Lies

The Cure for Self-Importance

You're Not the Boss of Me!

You 2.0: The Gift of Other People

You 2.0: Taking Control of Your Time

You 2.0: How To Say No

You 2.0: Remember More, Forget Less

You 2.0: Fighting Despair

Rewrite Your Money Story

Sitting With Uncertainty

What's Hidden in Your Words

How to Win People Over

Emotions 2.0: When I Feel What You Feel

Emotions 2.0: The Feeling that Moves Us Forward

Emotions 2.0: The Benefits of Mixed Emotions

Emotions 2.0: What's Better than Being Happy?

The Logic of Rage

The Power of Family Stories

How Monsters are Made

The Secret to Gift-Giving

What Your Online Self Reveals About You

How to Be More Creative

Wellness 2.0: Be Yourself

Wellness 2.0: Rising to the Occasion

Wellness 2.0: Who Do You Want To Be?

Wellness 2.0: When It's All Too Much

Wellness 2.0: The Art of the Unknown

No Hard Feelings

We Need to Talk

The Conversations that Bring Us Closer

Marching To Your Own Drummer

Dropping the Mask

When To Pivot

Did I Really Do That?

The Moments that Change Us

Relationships 2.0: The Price of Disconnection

Relationships 2.0: Become a Better Negotiator

Relationships 2.0: The Power of Tiny Interactions + Your Questions Answered: Erica Bailey on Authenticity

Relationships 2.0: Why Did You Do That? + Your Questions Answered: Fred Luskin on Grudges

Relationships 2.0: Keeping Love Alive

How to Harness Your Feelings