As we get ready for 2023, we’re excited to bring you a conversation Adam had earlier this year with beloved musician Dolly Parton. Adam talks with Dolly about her creative process, how she balances getting things right with getting things done, and how she manages the hefty cup of ambition she pours herself each morning. Her latest project, “Run, Rose, Run” is both a novel coauthored with James Patterson and a full-length companion album. For the full text transcript, visit <a href="http://go.ted.com/T4G26" target="_blank">go.ted.com/T4G26</a>

Arts

WorkLife with Adam Grant

Dolly Parton is burning up, not burning out

American Sirens author Kevin Hazzard tells the story of a community group in a Black neighborhood in Pittsburgh who helped spark a revolution in emergency medicine. As recently as the 1960s, anyone suffering a heart attack or serious injury who called for help might get a response from the police or funeral home employees in a hearse. They could get the patient to a hospital, but couldn't perform CPR or other treatment on the scene. Freedom House trained some of the nation's first paramedics. Critic at-large John Powers shares a list of things he wish he had reviewed in 2022.

History

Fresh Air

The Surprising History Of The First Paramedics

In this episode, I explain how the brain engages in creative thinking and, based on that mechanistic understanding, the tools to improve one’s ability to think creatively and innovate in any area. I discuss how convergent and divergent thinking are essential for generating creative ideas and provide three types of meditation tools (open monitoring meditation, focused attention meditation & non-sleep deep rest; NSDR), which improve our ability to engage in these creative thinking patterns in specific and powerful ways. I also discuss how dopamine and mood contribute to the creative process and describe behavioral, nutritional and supplementation-based approaches for increasing dopamine to engage in creative thought and implementation. I explain how movement and storytelling (narrative) approaches can generate novel creative ideas and how substances like alcohol, cannabis, and psilocybin impact our creative ability. Excitingly, creativity is a skill that can be cultivated and enhanced; this episode outlines many tools to help anyone access creativity and apply creative patterns of thought to different domains of life.
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(00:00:00) Creativity
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(00:08:51) What is Creativity?
(00:11:16) Creativity in Visual Arts, Escher & Banksy
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(00:33:13) Creative Ideas & Divergent Thinking
(00:42:09) Testing Creative Ideas & Convergent Thinking
(00:46:41) Dopamine, Convergent & Divergent Thinking Pathways
(00:58:06) Tool: Open Monitoring Meditation & Divergent Thinking
(01:07:38) Tool: Focused Attention Meditation & Convergent Thinking
(01:11:06) Mood, Creativity & Dopamine
(01:16:00) Tool: Mood Calibrating, Caffeine & Dopamine
(01:23:41) Dopamine Supplementation; L-Tyrosine, Caffeine
(01:30:15) Tool: Non-Sleep Deep Rest, Mesocortical Dopamine & Divergent Thinking
(01:43:13) Serotonin, Psylocibin & Creative Thinking
(01:49:13) Alcohol & Autobiographical Scripting; Cannabis
(01:52:04) Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) & Creativity
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(02:01:02) Tool: Narratives & Storytelling for Creativity
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Science

Huberman Lab

The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation

Prose

Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm

16 - Rapunzel

With the Food Network program “Barefoot Contessa,” Ina Garten became a beloved household name. Although she is a gregarious teacher and presence on television, Garten prefers to do her actual cooking alone. “Cooking’s hard for me. I mean, I do it a lot, but it’s really hard and I just love having the space to concentrate on what I’'m doing, so I make sure it comes out well.” Garten joins David Remnick to reflect on her early days in the kitchen, and to answer listener questions about holiday meals and more. Her latest book is “Go-To Dinners.” Plus, Susan Orlean joins with an installment from her column “Afterword.” She writes about the life of a Texas man who founded a rattlesnake handling business. He liked providing a service for his neighbors, and for whatever reason, he just loved rattlesnakes—a passion that proved fatal.

The New Yorker Radio Hour

Ina Garten: Cooking Is Hard; Plus an Essay from Susan Orlean

Episode No. 580 features artist Sheila Pree Bright. <a href="https://www.sheilapreebright.com/">Sheila Pree Bright</a> is included in <a href= "https://georgiamuseum.org/exhibit/reckonings-and-reconstructions-southern-photography-from-the-do-good-fund/"> "Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund,"</a> which is at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia through January 8, 2023.  The Do Good Fund is a Columbus, Ga.-based charity that collects and makes available to museums photography of the American South made from the 1950s to the present. The exhibition includes artists such as Jill Frank, Baldwin Lee, Deborah Luster, Gordon Parks, and RaMell Ross. Bright's work builds narratives about social, political and historical events through series of pictures of landscape, social justice movements, suburbia, and more. Solo exhibitions of Bright's work have been held at the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, and more. Bright's book "#1960Now: Photographs of Civil Rights Activists and Black Lives Matter Protests" was published by Chronicle Books in 2018. <a href= "https://amzn.to/3FUhN6U">Amazon</a> and <a href= "https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781452170725">Indiebound</a> offer it for $18-30. This episode was taped live at the GMOA. Air date: December 15, 2022.

The Modern Art Notes Podcast

Sheila Pree Bright

Ahead of the release of the next episode of his lecture series on René Girard, Johnathan Bi returns for his second appearance on the show. He and Jim discuss Girard, prestige, innovation, AI, and much more. Enjoy! Important Links: <ul> <li><a href="https://johnathanbi.com">Johnathan’s website</a> </li> <li><a href= "https://twitter.com/johnathanbi?s=21&t=vKmteCq6VwTdw2gXBTBkWQ"> Johnathan’s Twitter</a> </li> <li><a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qu6vBebwwg">Johnathan’s lecture series with David Perell</a> </li> <li><a href="https://substack.com/inbox/post/87143193">Our research note on Johnathan</a> </li> <li><a href= "https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/johnathan-bi-girard-desire-and-modernity-ep116/"> Johnathan’s first appearance on the show</a> </li> </ul> Show Notes: <ul> <li>The Girardian notion of prestige </li> <li>What proof is there for mimesis? </li> <li>The difference between mimesis and status signalling </li> <li>Philosophical critiques of Girard </li> <li>Girard on innovation </li> <li>Historical understandings of innovation </li> <li>A conversation between a pessimist and an optimist </li> <li>AI, progress and the panopticon </li> <li>Could we ban innovation? </li> </ul> Books Mentioned: <ul> <li>The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It; by Will Storr </li> <li>The Alchemy of Finance; by George Soros </li> <li>The Laws of Imitation; by Gabriel Tarde </li> <li>When These Things Begin: Conversations with Michel Treguer; by René Girard </li> <li>The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World; by David Deutsch </li> <li>The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England; by Paul Slack </li> <li>Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future; by Peter Thiel </li> </ul>

Philosophy

Infinite Loops

Johnathan Bi — René Girard and the Philosophy of Innovation (EP.137)

https://bengreenfieldlife.com/sleepwithessentia My guest on this podcast, Jack Dell’Accio, is the Founder and CEO of Essentia, which is the world’s only naturalmemory foam mattress. Jack has dedicated the last 16 years to studying mattresses and...

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60+ min

Ben Greenfield Life

Seven Surprising Reasons Your Sleep Surface & Sleep Environment May Not Be As Optimized As You Think, With Essentia Mattress CEO Jack Dell’Accio.

Clint Smith is a poet and a staff writer for The Atlantic. His most recent book is How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America and his latest feature is “Monuments to the Unthinkable.”
“I've been to a lot of places that carry a history of death and slaughter and murder. I've been on plantations. I've been in execution chambers. I've sat on electric chairs. I've been on death row. But I have never experienced anything like what I experienced walking through the gas chamber in Dachau. I mean, there's reading books about the Holocaust, and then there's that. And that is something that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life: putting my body where these things happen. Because it completely transforms your understanding of what it was like.”
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Smith on Longform

Smith's Atlantic archive

00:00 How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Little Brown • 2021)

01:00 "Monuments to the Unthinkable" (Atlantic • Nov 2022)

17:00 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Matthew Desmond • Crown • 2017)

33:00 The Hemingses of Monticello (Annette Gordon-Reed • W.W. Norton • 2009)

34:00 Counting Descent (Write Bloody Publishing • 2016)

57:00 The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank • 1947)

57:00 Number the Stars (Lois Lowry • Houghton Mifflin • 1989)

1:07:00 "The Stories Tamir Rice Makes Us Remember" (New Yorker • Dec 2015)

1:08:00 Smith's New Yorker archive


1:08:00 "Freddy Adu and the Children of the Beautiful Game" (New Yorker • Mar 2017)

1:09:00 Above Ground (Little Brown • 2023)

1:09:00 Crash Course Black American History



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Episode 515: Clint Smith

In our last episode, we look at how estrangement changes shape over the course of a life: how it can bend or harden, and how it affects new relationships, old memories, and the idea of family. 
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Relationships

Death, Sex & Money

Estrangement’s Alternate Endings

Managing rapid growth is a huge challenge for young businesses. Even start-ups with glowing reviews and skyrocketing sales can fail. That’s because new ventures and corporate initiatives alike have to sustain profitability at scale, according to Harvard Business School senior lecturer Jeffrey Rayport. He has researched some of the biggest stumbling blocks to long-lasting success and explains how to make the tricky transition out of the start-up phase successfully. With professors Davide Sola and Martin Kupp of ESCP Business School, Rayport cowrote the HBR article “The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up.”

Business

HBR IdeaCast

Why Some Start-Ups Fail to Scale

Although many hearing and sighted people imagine DeafBlind life in tragic terms, as an experience of isolation and darkness, the poet John Lee Clark’s writing is full of joy. It’s funny and surprising, mapping the contours of a regular life marked by common pleasures and frustrations. Clark, who was born Deaf and lost his sight at a young age, has established himself not just as a writer and translator but as a scholar of Deaf and DeafBlind literature. His new collection, “<a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324035343">How to Communicate</a>,” includes original works and translations from American Sign Language and <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/deafblind-communities-may-be-creating-a-new-language-of-touch">Protactile</a>. He speaks with the contributor Andrew Leland, who is working <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635964/the-country-of-the-blind-by-andrew-leland/">on a book</a> about his own experience of losing his sight in adulthood.

The poet John Lee Clark Translates the DeafBlind Experience to the Page

<h2>Tonight’s reading comes from Lessons in Chalk Modelling. Written by Ida Cassa Heffron, and published in 1900, this story looks at the new method of Map Drawing, as it was at the turn of the 20th Century.</h2>
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Bore You To Sleep - Sleep Stories for Adults

Sleep Story 227 – Lessons in Chalk Modelling

People in every country and culture mark important milestones, such as births, marriages and deaths, with intricately choreographed scripts. We even appeal to supernatural forces to give our favorite sports teams an extra advantage. This week on the show, anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas explains the psychological power behind the sacred and secular rituals that structure our lives.

Culture

Hidden Brain

An Ancient Solution to Modern Problems

They’re winsome and soft and so fun to cuddle/ With one of Ty’s Beanie Babies, you could never go wrong/ But they were all born from a toxic puddle/ It really was capitalism all along. This week, Jamie Loftus tells us the story of the greatest toy fad of the 90s, and liberates us from our tiny plastic boxes.   Here's where to find Jamie: <a href='http://www.jamieloftus.xyz/'>Jamie's Website </a> Support us:<a href='https://www.patreon.com/yourewrongabout'>Bonus Episodes on Patreon</a><a href='https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/yourewrongaboutpod'>Donate on Paypal</a><a href='https://www.teepublic.com/stores/youre-wrong-about'>Buy cute merch</a> Where else to find us:Sarah's other show, <a href='https://www.podpage.com/you-are-good/'>You Are Good </a>[YWA co-founder] Mike's other show, <a href='http://maintenancephase.com/'>Maintenance Phase</a> Links: http://www.jamieloftus.xyz/ http://patreon.com/yourewrongabout https://www.teepublic.com/stores/youre-wrong-about https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/yourewrongaboutpod https://www.podpage.com/you-are-good http://maintenancephase.com<a href='http://patreon.com/yourewrongabout'>Support the show</a><a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/yourewrongabout">Support the show</a>

You're Wrong About

Beanie Babies with Jamie Loftus

Today, I am talking to Dr. Ramani Durvasula, a licensed clinical psychologist in Los Angeles, CA, Professor Emerita of Psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, and the Founder and CEO of LUNA Education, Training & Consulting. She is an author of several books including Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving A Relationship with a Narcissist, and “Don’t You Know Who I Am?”: How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility. The focus of Dr. Durvasula’s clinical, academic and consultative work is the etiology and impact of narcissism and high-conflict, entitled, antagonistic personality styles on human relationships, mental health, and societal expectations.

Psychology

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

Dr. Ramani ON: How to Spot a Narcissist & 3 Signs of Gaslighting in Any Relationship

In this week’s bonus episode, leading functional medicine expert Dr. Will Cole sits down with his functional medicine team for a discussion on the latest hot topics - starting with an Oscars night that will be remembered for years. By understanding what alopecia is, the different kinds of alopecia, triggers, and symptoms, we can begin to understand how those diagnosed with this condition are physically and emotionally impacted. We also look at the negative effect mold has on depression and our mental health as a whole, how to get deep restorative sleep, unhealthy ingredients we should avoid in our snacks and how meditation helps brain health. Learn more: www.drwillcole.com/podcast   Sponsored: publicgoods.com/willcole or use code WILLCOLE at checkout for $15 off your first public goods order Oseamalibu.com code WILLCOLE for 10% off your first order Justthrivehealth.com code WILLCOLE for 15% off Cariuma.com/beingwell to get 15% off   Produced by Dear Media. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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The Art of Being Well

Alopecia, Mold-Depression Connection, Deep Sleep Science, Healthy Snacks + How Meditation Helps Your Brain (Ask Me Anything Episode! Special Guests: Functional Medicine Team)

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Education

This Teacher Life

How to Get Kids Talking, Connecting, and Learning with One EASY Idea (A Must Listen for Every Teacher)

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How To Resolve Your Irregular Periods, Mood Swings, And Sleepless Nights

Ryan speaks with professor of moral philosophy, author, and activist Peter Singer about the 10th anniversary edition of his book The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty, how Peter’s views on charitable giving have changed throughout the years, the connections between Effective Altruism and Stoicism, applying ethical philosophy to issues in our daily lives, and more.

Peter is an Australian professor of moral philosophy who specializes in applied ethics. He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and the founder of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University. He is the author of numerous books and essays focusing on ethics, bioethics, global poverty, and animal rights, including The Most Good You Can Do, "Famine, Affluence, and Morality," and Animal Liberation. Peter is most known for developing and promoting Effective Altruism, the argument that effective giving involves balancing empathy with reason. In 2021, he won the esteemed Berggruen Prize for his work in the field of philosophy, and was awarded one million dollars, all of which he donated to charity.

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