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59 episodes
since June 12, 2023
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You spend a significant part of every day thinking. But when did you last stop to examine how you think? In this episode of The Better Humans Project, Greg Pfeiffer explores metacognition — the practice of thinking about your thinking. Not the content of your thoughts, but the process: the habits,…

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Are you driving your life — or are you a passenger in it? In this episode of The Better Humans Project Podcast, Greg Pfeiffer explores agency: one of the most fundamental and most underexamined forces in human psychology. What it is, why it matters so profoundly, how much of it we actually have, a…
We are tribal by nature. And right now, that nature is being pushed to its limits. In this episode of The Better Humans Project, Greg Pfeiffer explores tribalism — not just in politics, but everywhere it shows up in modern life: in fashion and sport, in food and social media, in the communities we…
What would make your life feel genuinely worthwhile — not impressive, not successful by someone else's measure, but truly worthwhile? It's one of the oldest questions a person can ask. And most of us are answering it with a scorecard we never consciously chose. In this episode of The Better Human…
What if the most radical thing you could do for your wellbeing isn't another habit, another goal, or another optimisation — but simply slowing down? In this episode of The Better Humans Project, Greg Pfeiffer explores the art and science of living at a slower pace. We go into the psychology of why…
What if the most important kind of intelligence has nothing to do with IQ? In this episode of The Better Humans Project, Greg Pfeiffer goes deep on Emotional Intelligence — what it really is, why the science says it matters more than almost anything else for your relationships, your career, and yo…
We made it. The final chapter. Across this series we've explored happiness through the lens of psychology, spirituality, and biology. Today, in Part Four, we bring it all home — through the most important lens of all: you. Because no framework, no tradition, and no neuroscientist can tell you wha…
Your happiness has a chemistry. A biology. A physiology that is measurable, mappable — and to a significant degree, influenceable. In Part Three of The Pursuit of Happiness series, host Greg Pfeiffer takes us into the science of what is actually happening inside your body and brain when you feel j…
What do the world's greatest wisdom traditions actually say about happiness? And what happens when ancient spiritual insight meets modern science? In Part Two of The Pursuit of Happiness series, host Greg Pfeiffer takes us on an extraordinary journey across six of the world's major spiritual and r…
🎙️ The Pursuit of Happiness — Part One: The Psychology of Happiness | The Better Humans Project Podcast What is happiness, really? Not the Instagram version. Not the greeting card version. The real, complex, scientifically understood, philosophically rich, deeply human version. In Part One of our…
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