09 Mar What Your Clothes Reveal About You
Does what you wear to a meeting actually change the outcome, or do we just tell ourselves it does?...
Popular Culture
09 Mar Why Some People Are Always Late
Is being late actually a personality flaw, or is it closer to a biological trait you were born with?...
09 Mar How Red Bull Makes Money Selling Nothing
Does Red Bull actually make anything, or is it just a very expensive logo on a racing car?...
02 Mar Facial Recognition- the good, the bad and the ugly
Does your face already exist in a database you never consented to?...
28 Feb How Do the Olympics Make Money? The Olympics Business Model Explained
Do you actually know where most Olympic revenue comes from, or do you just assume it's ticket sales?...
27 Feb why does Japan work so hard?
Is "dying for your company" a metaphor in your culture, or a literal risk in someone else's?...
03 Feb Explainer: What is the ‘metaverse’?
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in B1 - Intermediate, Business, Complete Lesson Plan, Other, Popular Culture, Science, Technology
Greg McKeown saw first-hand how success can lead straight to professional and personal failure, during his career evaluating and coaching Silicon Valley executives. The heart of the problem, he says, is the insidious idea that we can do it all. As entrepreneurs and executives find...
03 Feb NFTs Are Fueling a Boom in Digital Art. Here’s How They Work
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in Art, B2 - Upper-intermediate, Business, Economics, Partial Lesson Plan, Popular Culture, Technology, WSJ
Greg McKeown saw first-hand how success can lead straight to professional and personal failure, during his career evaluating and coaching Silicon Valley executives. The heart of the problem, he says, is the insidious idea that we can do it all. As entrepreneurs and executives find...
03 Feb 3 Great Untruths to Stop Telling Kids
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in B2 - Upper-intermediate, Big Think, Popular Culture, Problem Solving, Psychology, Science
Do you actually know which three "truths" you were raised on that researchers now call actively harmful?...
03 Feb The happiness formula?
Can you actually define what makes you happy, or do you just know it when you feel it?...