2017-03-02

The RSA (videos of the past month: 01/30-02/28/17)

source: The RSA
1:06:06 Architecture, Faith and Community | John McAslan CBE | RSA Replay Spiritual and religious spaces are fundamental features of a place, signifying the value and importance of faith and connection at the heart of a community. In a changing global context, the design...
2:14 Simon Sinek on Millennials The millennial, or ‘jilted’ generation make up a quarter of the UK’s population, and yet they are frequently derided as narcissistic, tech-dependent and lazy. But are these epithets fair? They are ...
7:00 The History of our Present Moment with Pankaj Mishra Renowned author and essayist Pankaj Mishra revives the Kierkegaardian term ‘ressentiment’ to help explain the age of frustration and division we find ourselves in. Against a backdrop of technologic...
57:19 How to Resist the Self-Improvement Craze | Svend Brinkmann | RSA Replay The pace of modern life is accelerating, and the self-help shelves are groaning with advice on how to keep up – and stay positive in the process. But the demands of life in the fast lane come at a ...
1:08:25 Mission Oriented Innovation | Jeffrey Sachs | RSA Replay Politics fractures when policy fails - as events of the last year have shown. Nine years on from the global financial crisis, policymakers are still struggling to find convincing answers to the eco...
59:23 How Play Made the Modern World | Steven Johnson | RSA Replay If you want to know where technology is headed next, you should be playing close attention to the way we play. In describing a vivid history of innovation, international bestseller and so-called ‘D...
6:57 The Truth About Lies with Daniel Levitin We are bombarded each day with bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies in amongst the facts. But how can we know if we are being sold mistruths? Neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling ...
1:03:39 The Entrepreneurial Audit | Frances O’Grady | RSA Replay Self-employment is once again on the rise. The number of people working for themselves has grown by 40 percent since 2000, and is set to reach a record 5 million by the end of the decade. A debate ...
7:08 How Stories Shape What We Believe with Alex Evans In this time of global crisis and transition – mass migration, inequality, climate change – Alex Evans believes it is only by finding new myths that we will navigate our way to a better future. It...
1:01:51 The Age of Anger | Pankaj Mishra | RSA Replay We are living in an age of anger: from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media. Renowned author and essayi...
6:57 The Role of Luck with Robert Frank ** Apologies for the audio quality at the beginning of the edit! **
The Role of Luck with Robert Frank. Is luck as important as hard work in becoming successful? In recent years, social scientists ...
6:48 The Innovation Illusion with Bjӧrn Weigel The Innovation Illusion with innovation strategist Bjӧrn Weigel. Is it still possible to be truly innovative, or has the innovation boom had its day? At a time of low growth and increasing income i...

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