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How to Be a Better Human
Conversations with TED speakers on living better. Listen to How to Be a Better Human online with a synced transcript. Replay sentence by sentence, check translations, get AI explanations, and shadow each line in GoodScriber.
24 audio lessons, 20 h 24 min in total. Levels: Advanced.
Lessons
| # | Title | Length | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why do we like scary stories? (w/ Glynn Washington) | 53:26 | Advanced |
| 2 | Do all my friends secretly hate me? | from Corner Piece | 51:07 | Advanced |
| 3 | The doctor who says to eat your ice cream (w/ Zeke Emanuel) | 55:28 | Advanced |
| 4 | How to reclaim your narrative (w/ Monica Lewinsky) | 63:43 | Advanced |
| 5 | How reading can transform your life (w/ Reginald Dwayne Betts) | 54:04 | Advanced |
| 6 | How to live longer (w/ Keith Diaz) | 52:17 | Advanced |
| 7 | How to navigate complicated family dynamics (w/ Emerson Whitney) | 58:36 | Advanced |
| 8 | Does it Take a Twisted Mind to Write Twisted Stories? | from Better In Person | 51:28 | Advanced |
| 9 | Summer Fridays: How zombies, dragons, and superheroes could make you a better person (w/ Christopher Robichaud) | 44:41 | Advanced |
| 10 | How to be creatively inspired (w/ Hrishikesh Hirway) | 53:33 | Advanced |
| 11 | Summer Fridays: The art of paying attention (w/ Wendy MacNaughton and Laurel Braitman) | 47:32 | Advanced |
| 12 | The last places without human sounds (w/ Matt Mikkelsen) | 53:43 | Advanced |
| 13 | Summer Fridays: Why you should try birding (w/ Christian Cooper) | 44:31 | Advanced |
| 14 | How increasing your happiness can help solve climate change (w/ Jiaying Zhao and Elizabeth Dunn) | 51:53 | Advanced |
| 15 | Summer Fridays: How to clean your house without losing your mind (w/ KC Davis) | 45:29 | Advanced |
| 16 | What trees can teach us about life (w/ Robert Moor) | 51:37 | Advanced |
| 17 | Summer Fridays: Lessons from 102-year-old swimmer Maurine Kornfeld (re-release) | 35:14 | Advanced |
| 18 | Why should you care about animal sex? (w/ Perrin Ireland) | 55:15 | Advanced |
| 19 | Summer Fridays: How to be more joyful (w/ Ingrid Fetell Lee) (re-release) | 48:51 | Advanced |
| 20 | How to understand your family history (w/ Keith Rushing) | 53:13 | Advanced |
| 21 | Summer Fridays: How to find “your thing” (or your many things) (w/ Constance Hockaday) (re-release) | 44:51 | Advanced |
| 22 | What the data shows about youth mental health (w/ Candice Odgers) | 53:13 | Advanced |
| 23 | Summer Fridays: How to get your sense of wonder back (w/ Nate DiMeo) (re-release) | 47:41 | Advanced |
| 24 | How to think fast and talk smart (w/ Matt Abrahams) | 52:08 | Advanced |
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