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