Good Life Project

Today's  Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Daniel Lerner and Gabra Zackman . This is session 3 in their three-week residency. Dan Lerner  is a leading expert on elite performance, excellence and the realization of unique potential, working with musicians, athletes, and numerous Fortune 500 companies and executives. He's on the faculty at both New York Univer...

Ever hear of the 10,000 rule? The idea that it takes 10,000 hours to become world-class at anything? Well, what if it wasn't true? And, what if the research it was based on actually said something very different? Something that somehow got "lost in translation" when the data went mainstream. In today's conversation, we sit down with K. Anders Ericsson, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Florida State...

Today we're featuring a very special GLP Guest Riff with  Melissa Ambrosini . Melissa Ambrosini is the bestselling author of Mastering Your Mean Girl , an entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and self-love teacher. In her signature straight-talking style, Melissa teaches women how to master their inner Mean Girl, smash through limiting beliefs, and ditch the self-doubt so that they can start t...

Today, I’m excited to be talking to Emily Heyward, co-founder of white-hot, Brooklyn-based branding phenomenon,  Red Antler . While attending Harvard, Emily took a deep dive into the study of pop culture, ethical philosophy, and what drives people at the core. After college, she entered the advertising world where her career began to take off. After realizing she loved being in control, Emily...

This week's guest:  This week, our in-depth conversation features David Burkus , dad, author, speaker, researcher, and associate professor of management at Oral Roberts University. He teaches courses on organizational behavior, creativity and innovation, and strategic leadership and has made it his purpose to facilitate the transfer of good ideas. THe is the author The Myths of Creativit...

Funny thing about competence. With rare exception, we so often look at others and think they've got it so much more together than us. They're more skilled, smarter, more established, more connected, better able to do the thing we most want to do. Except, it's almost always a lie. We're all in that same "looking at the person ahead of us and wishing" boat. Thinking someday we'll get there. Or, mayb...

Today's  Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Daniel Lerner and Gabra Zackman . This is session 2 in their three-week residency. Dan Lerner  is a leading expert on elite performance, excellence and the realization of unique potential, working with musicians, athletes, and numerous Fortune 500 companies and executives. He's on the faculty at both New York Univer...

Today's guest,  Amy Koppelman , is a three-time novelist (so far), mom and an incredibly insightful human being. Her latest novel is  Hesitation Wounds . Amy's second book,  I SMILE BACK, was turned into a movie starring Sarah Silverman that premiered at the 2015 Sundance, Toronto and Deauville Film Festivals. I wanted to sit down with Amy, because I was drawn in by her im...

In Buddhism as well as in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, you'll find a conversation about four virtues known as the four immeasurables. These are qualities that we might seek to both cultivate and then embody in the name of service. But, they're also known to have a profound affect on the way we experience challenge, stress, relationships, work and pretty much all of life. Wondering what they...

Alec Ross is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and the author of The New York Times bestseller The Industries of the Future . He recently served for four years as Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Prior to his service in government, Alec was a social entrepreneur and served as convener from technology, media & telecommunications poli...

Caroline Paul is the New York Times best-selling author of four books, including her memoir about being a San Francisco firefighter, called Fighting Fire , and the illustrated Lost Cat, A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology.  In her latest book, The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure , she shares her greatest escapades—as well as those of other girls and wom...

I'm not a big surfer, but I grew up on the water and around the water. Over the years, I've noticed a number of powerful parallels between surfing and entrepreneurship. And, sitting at the beach one day, I started to think about what surfing might teach you about launching and growing a venture. I distilled these ideas into a short essay, which I'm sharing as spoken word in today's short and sweet...

Today's  Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Daniel Lerner and Gabra Zackman . This is session 1 in their three-week residency. Dan Lerner  is a leading expert on elite performance, excellence and the realization of unique potential, working with musicians, athletes, and numerous Fortune 500 companies and executives. He's on the faculty at both New York Univer...

Today's guest,  John O'Leary , has lived through worse than most can imagine. At age nine, a fire burned 100% of his body. He spent five months in the hospital, underwent dozens of surgeries, lost all of his fingers to amputation and had to relearn to walk, write, and feed himself. He endured, persevered, and survived – largely because others emerged, served and inspired. He now lives to...

Today's Guest Riff is brought to you by Katie Dalebout . She’s the author of the book Let It Out: A Journey Through Journaling. Katie helps people develop a positive image of their bodies by embracing their creativity and personality outside of their physicality. She’s on a mission to share journaling tools that invoke deeper authenticity and self-awareness. And, today's short and sweet GLP Riff i...

Today's  Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Susan Piver  and Lodro Rinzler . This is the last session in their three-week residency. Susan is a New York Times bestselling  author , teacher, and founder of the international mindfulness community, The Open Heart Project . Working to create a good human world, one breath at a time. Lodro is a teacher in the...

Today's guest is Arianna Huffington, co-founder, president, and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, and author of fifteen books. In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet. In 2012, the site won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Huffington ha...

Finish what you start. Don't be a quitter. When the going gets tough, the tough get going. It's a lesson we all learned from well-intended advice-givers somewhere along the way. It's all about character. Life's hard, things get hard, the people who survive and do great things in business and life are the ones who keep going, no matter what the road throws in our way. But, what if that was wro...

Today's  Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Susan Piver  and Lodro Rinzler . This is session 2 in their three-week residency. Susan is a New York Times bestselling  author , teacher, and founder of the international mindfulness community, The Open Heart Project . Working to create a good human world, one breath at a time. Lodro is a teacher in the Shambh...

Today's conversation features Krista Tippett , a Peabody-award-winning broadcaster, New York Times bestselling author, and National Humanities Medalist. As the creator and host of public radio’s On Being, she takes up the great questions of meaning amidst the political, economic, cultural, and technological shifts of 21st century life. In 2013, Krista took On Being and its emergent Civil Conv...

Spend 3 ½ days with us at the end of August at our "summer camp for grown-ups." Drop the facade, revel in new friendships, play, create, move, relax and learn powerful strategies for work and life.  Learn more now! +This week's GLP Guest Riff comes from Productive Flourishing founder and process/growth maven, Charlie Gilkey . Charlie read Jonathan's original essay, The Content Delus...

Today's  Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Susan Piver  and Lodro Rinzler . This is session 1 in their three-week residency. Susan is a New York Times bestselling  author , teacher, and founder of the international mindfulness community, The Open Heart Project . Working to create a good human world, one breath at a time. Lodro is a teacher in the Shambh...

Today's conversation features Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome  series, three time Webby Award winner, Harvard MBA grad, former Director of Leadership Development at Walmart, and husband, father, son, and brother. He is the author of a new book, The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything , which started as a letter to...

There’s this unfortunate delusion that’s gaining credibility in the world of entrepreneurship and careers. The road to growth is paved with "content." Write, film, record and produce content and the world will rush to your doorstep. You don’t have to put your “self” out there anymore, just put your content out there. Problem is, it preys on a particular fear, and it’s based on a lie. At least, in...

Today's  Good Life Project Roundtable™ is the third and final week for our current guests-in-residence  Emiliya Zhivotovskaya , MAPP and and  Bob Gower . Emiliya is a leading voice in the world of positive psychology  and the science of flourishing, and is the founder of the Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology program, which is the largest in the worl...