Episodes

You want to make more money but don’t know where to start. You want to save a relationship but don’t know what to do. You made a weight loss plan, but it ended in failure. Why is it so hard …

When you relish design’s convenience in your life, do you ever stop to question the meaning of design? When a beautifully designed object activates all your five senses, do you ever consider if design has any limits? In this ...

The protagonist of this book, Tara Westover, didn’t attend school until the age of seventeen. When she was finally given the chance, she pursued learning with an unusual determination. She went to college at Brigham Young Uni...

If you want your enterprise to go farther, you should not be satisfied with being “good” but should make continuous efforts to achieve “greatness”, so that your company can be more dynamic, more competitive, and last for a re...

Invariably, life presents us with many choices, ranging from what do we have for dinner to where to invest our savings. Each alternative has the potential to bring about significant change. But people often make wrong decisio...

This book is a “novel-style biography” written by American financial journalist Edwin LeFevre. It’s based on the first-person account of the life story of Jesse Livermore, once known as "The Boy Plunger.” Livermore was in his...

Among all countries, Japan has the highest number of Michelin-starred restaurants, making it a mecca for diners worldwide. Its numerous small independent restaurants are places of constant innovation. Ingredients underpin Jap...

Certain skills are very important for a child. Namely, how to deal with difficult feelings, get along with other people, and concentrate. After ten or perhaps twenty years, the knowledge they acquired at a young age may be ou...

Novice writers have doubts when starting a novel: where to begin? Experienced writers might wonder why their finished novels aren’t selling? The book Techniques of the Selling Writer summarizes the experience of professional ...

This amazing book, serving as a core to John Truby's 30-year experience in teaching story creation and writing, has continuously been on sale for more than a decade. It contains a collection of secrets in story writing that h...

In this book, Josh Waitzkin, a famous former chess prodigy and later Tai Chi world champion, uses life stories to share his unique insights into the art of learning. He offers a series of principles for improving performance ...

Because you often see and hear about violent occurrences in the news, are you anxious? Do you think we live in a violent era? In this book, Steven Pinker points out that continuous historical development has led to reductions...

If you've never found a time management tool or method that works for you, try Bullet Journaling, an amazing note-taking technique that is used and shared by more than 10 million people around the world. All you need to resta...

What is the conscious way of parenting? When raising children, parents should accept their child’s essential self with an open and respectful mind, allowing them to enjoy the right to be themselves. At the same time, parents ...

Thanks to today's rapid development of gene sequencing, cloning, and other genetic technologies, the Human Genome Project has completed the sequencing of all human genes. The quest to decipher the human genetic code seems to ...

What is Ebola? Where did it come from? How can humans fight it? This nonfiction book is full of real stories, as the author truthfully tells the tale of Ebola virus. After publication, the book has been at the top …

This book is a selection of pieces from a column written by talk show queen, Oprah Winfrey, in The Oprah Magazine. In the book, Winfrey looks back on her decades of struggling and searching. While doing this, she honestly ask...

When you think of cities, what comes to mind? Is it the high cost of living, traffic congestion, or air pollution? This book navigates through human history to dispel the misconceptions about urban life. Using specific cities...

Natasha's Dance is a study of Russian culture and the origins of the national character. The book explores the difference between European civilization and folk elements in Russian culture, the confrontation between "civilize...

Unlike earlier approaches, in this major work Freud considers sociology through the lens of psychoanalysis. He identifies a connection between the foundation of civilization and human’s most basic instincts. Civilization brin...

We always have a choice. They determine our survival. As an Auschwitz survivor, Edith Eva Eger, author of The Choice: Embrace the Possible, tells us that everyone still has a choice even when imprisoned in that horrendous dea...

When we usually think of philosophy as a problematic and impractical field of study. However, philosophy isn't only the way intellectuals play games with words in their ivory-towers. Philosophers are fully aware of life's pra...

How to build a well-lived, joyful life? You can find the answer in one of the most popular courses at Stanford University––the life design class. The life design class teaches you to make career plans using design thinking, a...

This book emphasizes on describing effective learning rather than explaining it or giving a theory about it. Children have a unique way of learning that fits their condition. It blends in with each of their game and experimen...