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Walter Isaacson - The Life of Elon Musk Dec 06, 2023

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Walter Isaacson was the editor in chief of Time magazine and CEO of CNN but he's best known to the public for his incredible biographies - including Leonardo da vinci, Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs. He is the official biographer of Elon Musk and shadowed Musk through the saga of his purchase of Twitter. He joined us in London for a conversation with Matthew d'Ancona.

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Harvard Business School Prof. Amy Edmondson - Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive Dec 01, 2023

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Amy Edmondson is one of the world's most influential organisational psychologists, a professor at Harvard Business School, and an expert on the concept of psychological safety. She joined to answer a simple, provocative question: what if it is only by learning to fail that we can truly hope to succeed?

Her new book Right Kind of Wrong doesn't tell us that failure is a problem; but it doesn't tell us to fail fast, fail often either. It tells us how to fail well. She joined Hannah MacInnes to share more.

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Performance Artist Marina Abramović Meets Tim Marlow Nov 28, 2023

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Marina Abramovic is an artist who for more than fifty years has pushed her mind and body to their limits - whether walking into a fire and almost dying from smoke inhalation, being stripped and attacked while passively allowing the public to manipulate her with tools and weapons, or sitting without interruption in MOMA for more than 700 hours facing the public.

She's currently in London playing Maria Callas on stage at the English National Opera; and she's got a major retrospective of her work at the Royal Academy. We brought her together for a live ons stage interview with the director of the design museum, Tim Marlow, to talk about Nomadic Journey And Spirit of Places - her new book collecting notes, sketches, poetry, and doodles made while travelling.

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Immunologist Luke O'Neill - The Joy of Science Nov 24, 2023

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Luke O'Neill is a Professor of Biochemistry at Trinity College, Dublin and one of the world's most respected immunologists, with 6 major discoveries to his name. He's also an infectiously enthusiastic broadcaster and public advocate for science. He's also a newspaper columnist and now the author of a wildly fun new history of science called To Boldly Go Where No Book Has Gone Before. He joined the How To Acadmey Podcast to tell us about his own career, and share the stories of both the most celebrated and unsung figures in the history of science.

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Stanford Professor Dr. David Spiegel - How Hypnosis Can Change Your Life Nov 20, 2023

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With more than forty years of clinical and research experience investigating the mind-body connection, Stanford psychiatrist David Spiegel is sought out the world over for his expertise on the therapeutic potential of hypnosis – sharing his insights with everyone from world leaders at the WEF in Davos to health podcast superstar Andrew Huberman. Now he joins How To Academy to reveal what self-hypnosis can do for you.

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Astronaut Chris Hadfield Meets Robin Ince Nov 15, 2023

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A global superstar following his legendary cover version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity aboard the ISS, Colonel Chris Hadfield is also an ace fighter pilot, a veteran of two space walks, the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers, the former NASA Director of Operations in Russia, one of the most popular TED talkers of all time, an adviser to SpaceX and Virgin Galactic, and was personally asked by King Charles to help lead a new project to protect the space environment.

He joins the How To Academy Podcast to share out-of-this-world stories from his life to date, including not only his time as an astronaut but his early days as an RCAF pilot intercepting Soviet bombers in North American airspace. His new novel The Defector – the sequel to his million-selling thriller The Apollo Murders – takes us into the world of Cold War fighter pilots in a dizzying game of spies, lies, and a possible high level defection playing out across three continents. It’s a tale sizzling with the kind of detail and authenticity that only one of the world’s best fighter pilots can provide.

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Neuroscientist and Philosopher Iain McGilchrist - The Divided Brain and the Meaning of Life Nov 10, 2023

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Iain McGilchrist’s book The Master and His Emissary was that rare thing: a bestselling classic of modern philosophy with genuine relevance to human life. It’s sequel, The Matter With Things, takes McGilchrist’s core insights into the nature of the mind and brain and explores their relevance for the myriad problems of modern life and civilisation.

Drawing together his insights as a scholar and practitioner of medicine, psychiatry, neuroscience, philosophy, theology and the arts, and directly addressing our contemporary malaise and the future of life on earth, McGilchrist returns to the podcast to articulate a compelling argument for a new philosophy of living.

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Philippa Gregory - 900 Years of Women's History Nov 07, 2023

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For decades, Philippa Gregory has thrilled us with tales of the court and the machinations of kings, queens, and courtiers. Now she turns her attention not to the lives of our rulers but the ordinary women whose lives and accomplishments are missing from the national story: a hidden history of those who had no legal presence, no voice in government and no right to own property – but still ruled, governed, and made fortunes.

Highlighting the drive, ingenuity and vast contribution made, Philippa puts women back where they belong in our history – centre stage.

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Albert Read Meets Will Gompertz - Where Good Ideas Come From (and How to Have More) Nov 03, 2023

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Conde Nast’s MD Albert Read is on a mission to put the imagination back at the forefront of our lives. Albert joins the podcast to examine how the imagination has evolved through the millennia, and how you can nurture and cultivate your own creativity.

His interlocutor Will Gompertz was a Director of the Tate Galleries and is now the Artistic Director of the Barbican. A household name from his time as the BBC’s first ever Arts Editor, he’s the internationally bestselling author of books distilling his insights from a lifetime of working with and learning from the world’s most creative people.

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Werner Herzog Meets Mark Kermode - A Life in Cinema Oct 31, 2023

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From his early movies to his later documentaries, he has made a career out of exploring the boundaries of human endurance: what we are capable of in exceptional circumstances and what these situations reveal about who we really are. But these are not just great cinematic themes. All his life, Herzog would embrace risk and danger, constantly looking for challenges and adventures. He joins Mark Kermode to reveal the influences and ideas that drive his creativity and have shaped his unique view of the world.

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