Talks at Google

Psychotherapist Barry Michels visits Google to discuss his book "The Tools," which he co-authored with psychiatrist Phil Stutz. The book presents a uniquely effective set of four tools that bring about dynamic change in the present and impart a greater understanding of the depth and complexity of the human condition. "The Tools" addresses the most common complaint patients have about psychotherapy...

Psychologist, author and mindfulness performance expert George Mumford visits Google to discuss his book "Unlocked: Embrace Your Greatness, Find the Flow, Discover Success". We all strive to find flow, when our skills, expertise, and mindset are aligned and we can perform at the highest level. George Mumford calls this being "unlocked"—a state anyone can achieve at any time. As a psychologist trai...

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Russell Brand and Bob Roth visit Google to discuss transcendental meditation, commonly referred to as TM, and how it has greatly improved their lives. Comedian, actor, and best-selling author Russell Brand has been practicing Transcendental Meditation for nearly 10 years. He says the technique has been instrumental in fostering creativity, appreciating fatherhood, and maintaining his recovery from...

Songwriter and recording artist Jason Derulo visits Google to discuss his book "Sing Your Name Out Loud: 15 Rules for Living Your Dream." The book tells the remarkable story of Jason's come up, told through the fifteen rules he lives by—like working hardest at what comes easiest, taking calculated risks, sticking to a routine, and respecting the numbers—which he credits with turning his many far-f...

Dominique Roques visits Google to discuss his book "In Search of Perfumes: A Lifetime Journey to the Source of Nature's Scents." The book contains a mix of history, travelog, and memoir from one of the perfume industry's leading scouts of natural ingredients, as he tells the story of the precious plants needed to make our favorite fragrances. Do you know how many flowers it takes to produce a kilo...

Vanessa Van Edwards visits Google to discuss her book "Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People." Do you feel awkward at networking events? Do you wonder what your date really thinks of you? Do you wish you could just decode people? To do this and more, you need to learn the science of people. As a human behavior hacker, Vanessa Van Edwards created a research lab to study the hidden forces...

Tim Spector visits Google to discuss his book "Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well", an easy-to-follow guide on how to eat—for our health and the health of the planet. Tim's book reveals a new approach to nutrition, encouraging us to forget misleading calorie counts and nutritional breakdowns. In "Food for Life", he draws on over a decade of cutting-edge scientific research, along with h...

Eric Ries visits Google to discuss his book ""The Lean Startup"", a guide to help both new and established entrepreneurs and managers do one important thing: make better, faster business decisions. Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. "The Lean Startup" is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. E...

Author Shelmina Babai Abji visits Google to discuss her book "Show Your Worth: 8 Intentional Strategies for Women to Emerge as Leaders at Work". The book provides readers with a toolbox designed to harness the power of intention and strategy to accelerate success—tailor-made for women who are underrepresented in their fields. If you're a woman, especially a woman of color, you know this already: Y...

Author Monica Parker visits Google to discuss her book "The Power of Wonder: The Extraordinary Emotion That Will Change the Way You Live, Learn, and Lead." The book takes readers on a multidisciplinary journey through psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, literature, and business to show us how to become more open to experiencing wonder and to reconnect with a reverence for the world and all the m...

What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give rise to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions today are some of the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philosophers. Now, in his book "The Conscious Mind", philosopher David Chalmers offers an analysis of this heated debate as...