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In this excerpt from The Intimate Animal, Justin Garcia shows why curiosity and self-disclosure — not attraction alone — help build intimacy and sustain it over time.

In this excerpt from Flourish, Daniel Coyle shares how stillness, presence, and attention help people build meaningful connections.

Psychologist Chris Moore reveals why guilt and anxiety lead us to the compassion necessary to earn forgiveness.

16mins
"Being connected to another person makes us feel safer and keeps our bodies at a kind of physiologic equilibrium that promotes health."

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

1hr 42mins
“Why would adding shame and blame help me improve my behavior?”

21mins
“The idea is that we move from a place of wanting the world to conform to what we like [towards] not needing other people to be different from who they are.”

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“No matter what their gods were, what they did for a living, what they wore, the songs they sang, everything varies except love, and everybody loves.”

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Is gratitude to a deity different from gratitude to other people? Psychology and neuroscience professor Sarah Schnitker explains.

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Empathy and cooperation are essential for success, as the quality of personal and professional lives hinges on the complexity of relationships, which require effective listening, communication, and conflict management from both parties, according to Todd Davis of FranklinCovey.

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This class, featuring insights from Michael Strahan and Ginni Rometty, emphasizes learning from failure, building resilience through relationships, and fostering a growth mindset, ultimately equipping participants with strategies to thrive amidst uncertainty and embrace personal and professional growth.

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This class teaches participants to actively engineer professional networks for career development, offering strategies from experts like Christakis, Hidary, and Grant to build meaningful connections, leverage social dynamics, and foster mutually beneficial relationships.

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A neuroscientist, a psychologist, and a psychotherapist discuss how emotions are stories built from old experiences.
Unlikely Collaborators

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Happiness researchers Robert Waldinger MD, Tal Ben-Shahar PhD, and Peter Baumann explain why the happiest people aren’t happy all the time.
Unlikely Collaborators

Fund manager and writer John Candeto is on a mission to decode the hidden patterns that drive extraordinary outcomes.

Harvard Kennedy School professor and author Arthur C. Brooks guides us through the give-and-take of feedback — even when it is negative.

6mins
“What did you win? You won awkward silence. You won their contempt. You won the first to apologize. When you win an argument, you will lose their confidence, you will lose their respect, you will lose the connection.”

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Your body language sends messages before your mouth does. Author Robert Greene and negotiation expert Daniel Shapiro PhD explain the key characteristics of nonverbal power and emotional presence that shape how others perceive you.
Unlikely Collaborators

The investment advisor and host of the Talking Billions podcast explores childhood curiosity, building networks through kindness, and more.

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“We can make ourselves more likely to be happy by building a life that includes the conditions that make for happiness.”

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

We manipulate constantly — but few of us want to be called “manipulative.” Here, ex-Google executive Jenny Wood redefines an unfairly maligned trait.

People who've never been partnered tend to be less extraverted, less conscientious, and more neurotic.

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“Most of us aren't sure what to think about everything, but we don't really see that modeled anywhere, right? You're supposed to know for sure, and there's very little intellectual humility on social media or on TV.”

Does Platonic love actually exist?
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