The Talks at Google podcast - where great minds meet. Talks at Google brings the world’s most influential thinkers, creators, makers, and doers all to one place. Every episode is taken from a video that can be seen at YouTube.com/TalksAtGoogle. DISCLAIMER: The views or opinions expressed by the guest speakers are solely their own and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of Google, Inc. The comments on this channel belong only to the person who posted them. We do, however, reser ...
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Ep451 - Andrew Skurka | Ultimate Hiking Gear & Skills Clinic
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Renowned long-distance backpacker Andrew Skurka visits Google to discuss the gear, supplies and skills necessary to make hiking fun instead of a chore. Described by National Geographic as “one of the best traveled and fastest hikers on the planet,” and named “Adventurer of the Year” by Outside and “Person of the Year” by Backpacker magazine, Skurka…
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Ep450 - Ali Abdaal | Feel Good Productivity
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Productivity expert, entrepreneur, creator, and bestselling author Ali Abdaal visits Google to discuss his book “Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You.” We often think that productivity is all about hard work, and that the road to success is lined with endless frustration and toil. But what if there’s another way? In this bo…
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Ep449 - Sarah Williams Goldhagen | Welcome to Your World
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Sarah Williams Goldhagen visits Google to discuss how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to the human experience. Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and c…
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Ep448 - Broadway's Water for Elephants
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Jessica Stone, Grant Gustin, Isabelle McCalla, Gregg Edelman & Paul Alexander Nolan visit Google to perform a song and discuss the Tony-nominated Broadway show “Water for Elephants”, which is based on the critically acclaimed bestselling novel that comes to vivid life on Broadway in a spectacle-filled new musical. After losing what matters most, a …
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Ep447 - Chase Iron Eyes | The Indigenous Response to Environmental Assaults
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Chase Iron Eyes visits Google to discuss ongoing efforts to prevent oil pipelines from being built at Standing Rock, recent revelations of corporate infiltration of anti-pipeline protests, and attempts to keep arrested water protectors free from prison. Chase has used his career as an attorney to advocate for Native American civil rights. He has se…
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Ep446 - Dr. Aarathi Prasad | Silk: A World History
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Writer, broadcaster, and researcher Dr. Aarathi Prasad visits Google to discuss her book “Silk: A World History.” In a tale that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, she explores th…
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Ep445 - Gary Small | iBrain
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Gary Small, a leading medical expert on memory and brain fitness, visits Google to discuss his book iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind. Never before has one generation experienced such rapid change in the brain's underlying wiring system, and the full consequences of this evolution has yet to be fully explored until n…
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Ep444 - Samuel T. Wilkinson | Purpose
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Samuel T. Wilkinson visits Google to discuss his book “Purpose: What Evolution and Human Nature Imply about the Meaning of Our Existence.” By using principles from a variety of scientific disciplines, Samuel provides a framework for human evolution that reveals an overarching purpose to our existence. Generations have been taught that evolution imp…
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Ep443 - Amy Larkin | Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy
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Amy Larkin visits Google to discuss her book, "Environmental Debt." For decades, politicians and business leaders alike told the American public that today's challenge was growing the economy, and that environmental protection could be left to future generations. Now in the wake of billions of dollars in costs associated with coastal devastation fr…
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Ep442 - Simran Kaur | Girls That Invest: Your Guide to Financial Independence
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Globally recognized investor Simran Kaur visits Google to discuss her book “Girls That Invest: Your Guide to Financial Independence through Shares and Stocks.” The book is a step-by-step guide to financial independence from the creator of the investing education podcast, Girls That Invest. With only 15 to 25 percent of women investing, Simran found…
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Ep441 - Sarah Miller Caldicott | Innovate Like Edison
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Sarah Miller Caldicott, the great grand-niece of Thomas Edison, visits Google to discuss her book "Innovate Like Edison: The Five Step System for Breakthrough Business Success." Thomas Edison is counted among the greatest innovators in American history. Edison's focus on practical accomplishment set the stage for America's global leadership in inno…
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Ep440 - Bob Sutton & Huggy Rao | The Friction Project
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Professors Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao visit Google to discuss their book “The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder.” This book is a useful guide to eliminating the forces that make it harder, more complicated, or downright impossible to get things done in organizations. Every organization is pla…
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Ep439 - Sara Mednick | Take a Nap! Change Your Life.
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Sara Mednick visits Google to discuss her book, "Take a Nap! Change Your Life." Imagine a product that increases alertness, boosts creativity, reduces stress, improves perception, stamina, motor skills, and accuracy, helps you make better decisions, keeps you looking younger, aids in weight loss, reduces the risk of heart attack, elevates your mood…
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