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Murray Gell-Mann presenting his TED talk on the ancestor of language

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The Ancestor of Language

A screen grab from the Garbage Island documentary by Vice

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Garbage Island

A calendar and notepad to be used for the Don't Break the Chain technique for motivation and habits

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Don’t Break the Chain!

The title for the Crash Course video on the power of motivation

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Crash Course: The Power of Motivation

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Screened Out

A man wearing a virtual reality headset — an example of a recent gadget.

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Own your gadgets — don’t let them own you.

The cover of the DVD of the film Pearl Jam Twenty

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Pearl Jam Twenty

The cover of the Plastic Pollution Primer and Action Toolkit, a free resource from the Earth Day Network

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Plastic Pollution Primer and Action Toolkit

Max Strom presenting his TED talk on how there is no app for happiness — the effect of technology on happiness and relationships

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There is No App for Happiness

Writing paper and a fountain pen

Blog Post

I’m writing my own 2017

A screen grab from the The Vegan Ironman Diet of Cro-Mags' John Joseph documentary by Fuel

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The Hardcore Punk Vegan Ironman

The cover of The War that Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan

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The War that Ended Peace

The cover of the DVD for The Fountain, a film by Darren Aronofsky

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The Fountain

A visual representation of Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics, with the green area representing sufficiency

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Introducing Doughnut Economics

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Anki

The cover of the book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari

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21 lessons for the 21st century

An open study book, laying on a table with pencil on top and notes to the right

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4 insights on learning from Josh Waitzkin

ShaoLan Hsueh presenting her TED talk on learning to read Chinese

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Learn to read Chinese… with ease!

Emilie Wapnick presenting her TED talk on why some of us don't have one true calling

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Why some of us don’t have one true calling

The cover of the book Silence Your Mind by Dr Ramesh Manocha

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Silence Your Mind