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Greater Good events have featured talks and discussions with some of the world's greatest minds, including Jonathan Kozol, Robert Reich, and Arlie Hochschild.
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The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success
June 2013
Google’s “Jolly Good Fellow,” Chade-Meng Tan, talks about his new book, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace).
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Rep. Tim Ryan on A Mindful Nation
May 2013Representative Tim Ryan (D-OH) discusses how mindfulness can offer an effective—and bipartisan—remedy for problems plaguing our schools, hospitals, veterans, and society at large.
Paul Ekman on Compassion, Love, and the Dalai Lama
October 2008Renowned psychologist Paul Ekman presents highlights from his discussions with the Dalai Lama on the roots of love, compassion, anger, morality, and the bonds that unite us all.
Grand Theft Childhood?
May 2008A panel discussion covering the newest facts about video game play, and what guidelines they suggest for parents, teachers, kids, and the people who create the games.
The 21st Century Family
October 2007Panelists discuss how the definition of family has changed, and that change’s implications for our society.
Altruism, Heroism, and the Psychology of the Bystander
March 2007Panelists including legendary psychologist Philip Zimbardo and Katrina photographer Ted Jackson discuss the bystander effect, altruism, and the potential for heroism in all of us.
Empathy and the Greater Good
January 2006A Greater Good Science Center event on the science and practice of empathy, featuring Arlie Hochschild, Phil & Carolyn Cowan, Lyssa Mudd, and Jason Marsh. Introductions by Deirdre English and Dacher Keltner.
Robert Reich on Social Justice and Social Empathy
May 2004What does empathy have to do with inequality? At this GGSC event, Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labor and a professor at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, discusses how socio-economic inequality contributes to frayed social bonds—and explains what we can do about it.
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