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  • ON WISDOM Podcast – Episode 48: A Joyous Journey from Black-and-White to Grey (with Tom Gilovich) August 14, 2022
  • ON WISDOM Podcast – World After Covid series: Wisdom for Now (Part II) – What’s important, Living in the moment, Social connectedness, and Shared humanity January 25, 2021
  • ON WISDOM Podcast – Episode 30: Emotions, Attention, and Decision Making in the Aging Brain (with Mara Mather) October 1, 2020
  • ON WISDOM Podcast – Episode 29: Charting Pandemic Waters: A Common Wisdom Model for Uncertain Times (with Howard Nusbaum) August 3, 2020
  • ON WISDOM Podcast – Episode 28: Pandemic Happiness (with Sonja Lyubomirsky) May 12, 2020
  • ON WISDOM Podcast – Episode 27: The Wisdom of a Modern Elder (with Chip Conley) April 21, 2020
  • ON WISDOM Podcast – Episode 26: Wicked Problems (with Judith Glück) March 21, 2020
  • ON WISDOM Podcast – Episode 25: ‘This is Basically a Revolution’: Self-Knowledge & The Battle for Better Science (with Simine Vazire) February 12, 2020
  • ON WISDOM Podcast – Episode 24: Misbehavioral Economics: Choosing Irrationality January 16, 2020
  • ON WISDOM Podcast – Episode 23: Antifragility, Gut Feelings, and the Myth of Pure Evil (with Jonathan Haidt) November 25, 2019

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