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    • Episode 23: Antifragility, Gut Feelings, and the Myth of Pure Evil (with Jonathan Haidt)
    • Episode 22: The Epistemic Tightrope: Walking The Line of Doubt (with Scott Lilienfeld)
    • Episode 21: The Art & Science of Knowing You Don’t Know (with Mark Alfano)
    • Episode 20: The Science of Awe (with Dacher Keltner)
    • Episode 19: The Individual and The Culture (with Adam Grant)
    • Episode 18: The End of the World is Nigh: Polarised Tribes, Passionate Words, and the Partisan Brain (with Jay Van Bavel)
    • Episode 17: The Metaphysics of Email & The Perils of Productivity (with Oliver Burkeman)
    • Episode 16: Beware the Intelligence Trap! (with David Robson)
    • Episode 15: Wisdom, Bullshit & Beliefs (with Gordon Pennycook)
    • Episode 14: Wisdom & Social Norms (with Michele Gelfand)
    • Episode 13: Can Wisdom Be Taught?
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    • Episode 6: Wisdom, Class & Inequality (with Michael Kraus)
    • Episode 5: The Foolish Sage (with Eranda Jayawickreme)
    • Episode 4: Yoda vs Spock (with Stéphane Côté)
    • Episode 3: On Death (with Laura Blackie)
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  • 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
  • ON WISDOM Podcast – Episode 22: The Epistemic Tightrope: Walking The Line of Doubt (with Scott Lilienfeld) October 31, 2019

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