Is a fine really just a price set to allow bad behavior? Barry Schwartz explains the downside of incentives and how they eliminate the idea that doing the right thing is a responsibility.

Is a fine really just a price set to allow bad behavior? Barry Schwartz explains the downside of incentives and how they eliminate the idea that doing the right thing is a responsibility.

The best-selling author of The Paradox of Choice and Why We Work, this eminent psychologist and leadership guru returns to help you tackle the biggest decisions of your life. His life-changing series weaves vivid case examples, research-based psychological insights, and deep wisdom. You’ll find vital takeaways you can use every day.

You’ll investigate fundamental questions: How can we find the best career path for ourselves? Why do so many smart leaders fail to create flourishing workplaces? What is wisdom, and how does it help make happiness possible?

Through this masterful course, you will discover that practical wisdom is the key to happiness. Dr. Schwartz goes one step further, suggesting what is true of work is also true of love. Gain the wisdom you need to become a better worker, manager, friend, romantic partner, and parent today.

The best-selling author of The Paradox of Choice and Why We Work, this eminent psychologist and leadership guru returns to help you tackle the biggest decisions of your life. His life-changing series weaves vivid case examples, research-based psychological insights, and deep wisdom. You’ll find vital takeaways you can use every day.
You’ll investigate fundamental questions: How can we find the best career path for ourselves? Why do so many smart leaders fail to create flourishing workplaces? What is wisdom, and how does it help make happiness possible?
Through this masterful course, you will discover that practical wisdom is the key to happiness. Dr. Schwartz goes one step further, suggesting what is true of work is also true of love. Gain the wisdom you need to become a better worker, manager, friend, romantic partner, and parent today.

The Happiness Formula

The best-selling author of The Paradox of Choice and Why We Work, this eminent psychologist and leadership guru returns to help you tackle the biggest decisions of your life. His life-changing series weaves vivid case examples, research-based psychological insights, and deep wisdom. You’ll find vital takeaways you can use every day.

You’ll investigate fundamental questions: How can we find the best career path for ourselves? Why do so many smart leaders fail to create flourishing workplaces? What is wisdom, and how does help make happiness possible?

Through this masterful course, you will discover that practical wisdom is the key to happiness. Dr. Schwartz goes one step further, suggesting what is true of work is also true of love. Gain the wisdom you need to become a better worker, manager, friend, romantic partner, and parent today.

The best-selling author of The Paradox of Choice and Why We Work, this eminent psychologist and leadership guru returns to help you tackle the biggest decisions of your life. His life-changing series weaves vivid case examples, research-based psychological insights, and deep wisdom. You’ll find vital takeaways you can use every day.
You’ll investigate fundamental questions: How can we find the best career path for ourselves? Why do so many smart leaders fail to create flourishing workplaces? What is wisdom, and how does help make happiness possible?
Through this masterful course, you will discover that practical wisdom is the key to happiness. Dr. Schwartz goes one step further, suggesting what is true of work is also true of love. Gain the wisdom you need to become a better worker, manager, friend, romantic partner, and parent today.

Why Incentives Don’t Work

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Is intelligence fixed, or can you improve your intellect over time?  Your answer to that question impacts how you deal with challenges at work and in your personal life. Plus, in our final episode of this series, Barry asks us to live by the wise words…of Bruce Springsteen.

Is intelligence fixed, or can you improve your intellect over time?  Your answer to that question impacts how you deal with challenges at work and in your personal life. Plus, in our final episode of this series, Barry asks us to live by the wise words…of Bruce Springsteen.

Higher Ground

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Why do people feel so unsatisfied on the job? It’s because the modern institution of work is based on the assumption that people are motivated solely by money.  But research shows they’re not. Barry explains what really engages workers to love their jobs and where we got this idea about money in the first place. 

Why do people feel so unsatisfied on the job? It’s because the modern institution of work is based on the assumption that people are motivated solely by money.  But research shows they’re not. Barry explains what really engages workers to love their jobs and where we got this idea about money in the first place.

Work Is More Than Money

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When it comes to finding meaning in your work, is there a way to turn a bad job into a better one? Barry says yes. He calls it “job crafting” and there are three ways to do it: by changing what you do, who you do it with, and how you think about the work. 

When it comes to finding meaning in your work, is there a way to turn a bad job into a better one? Barry says yes. He calls it “job crafting” and there are three ways to do it: by changing what you do, who you do it with, and how you think about the work.

Job Crafting

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