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Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson on How Social Status Affects our Self-Worth

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Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett follow up their seminal work The Spirit Level with new insights into how inequality impacts us as individuals.
Johann Hari on The Rising Depression and Anxiety Crisis

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Bestselling author Johann Hari discovered that, in reality, depression and anxiety are caused largely by crucial changes in the way we are living.
Matthew Walker on The Sleep Deprivation Epidemic

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Award-winning professor of neuroscience Matthew Walker visits the RSA to explain why the sleep deprivation epidemic is one of the greatest public health crises of the 21st century.
Matthew Taylor on The Importance of Good Work

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Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the RSA and Chair of the Government’s Review into Modern Employment Practices, proposes a new national goal of good work for all.
5 Minute Life Lessons with Tiffany Dufu

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Hear about what makes Tiffany Dufu happy, who inspires her, and why she's on the planet!
Mo Gawdat on an Algorithm for Happiness

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Mo Gawdat is Chief Business Officer at [X], an elite team of engineers that comprise Google's futuristic dream factory. In 2011 he proposed an algorithm based on an understanding of how the brain takes in and processes joy and sadness.
Tiffany Dufu on Embracing Imperfection

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Tiffany Dufu offers a new perspective on why the women’s leadership movement has stalled, Dufu urges women to embrace imperfection, to expect less of themselves and more from others.
Jonny Benjamin on Why Mental Health Matters

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Our panel of experts explore mental health issues and discuss how we need to vastly improve mental health care for children and young people.
Rebecca Asher on Breaking Male Rules

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Author Rebecca Asher explores the stereotypes that influence men’s behaviour and what can be done to change them – for the benefit of us all.
Helen Pearson on The Life Project

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Science journalist Helen Pearson reveals insights from the five birth cohort studies begun in 1940s Britain, that form the basis of how we understand inequality and health today.