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2025 Staff Picks - Best of How to Be a Better Human

12/8/2025 • 28 min

Remember those fun high school superlatives like the “Class Clown” or the “Biggest Flirt”? In this special How to Be a Better Human season finale, you will be hearing from our previous guest Dallas Youth Poet Laureate Naisha Randhar and our team of editors, marketers, producers, fact-checkers and more on their favorite episodes this year. How to Be a Better Hum… Play episode

Pods Fight Poverty: Why Giving Money to Others Makes us Happier | from The…
How to find small delights in an uncontrollable world (w/ Sarah Kay)
How to Eat with Awareness and Purpose (w/ Sean Sherman)
How to find belonging (w/ Hanif Abdurraqib)
Why you need to learn how to fight in a relationship (w/ Dr. Julie and Joh…
How to break bad habits (w/ Edith Zimmerman)
How to use your muscles — or risk losing them (w/ Bonnie Tsui)
How do you stop caring what others think? A filmmaker and a therapist answ…
How Texas became America’s biggest producer of wind energy (from Speed & S…
A practical guide to taking control of your life | TED Talks Daily
How to strengthen your relationships — one airport ride at a time (w/ Kasl…
How to build your kid's confidence — by leaving them alone (w/ Lenore Sken…
How to talk so people will listen (w/ Julian Treasure)
How to communicate better (w/ Charles Duhigg)
How to stop doomscrolling — and what to do instead? (w/ Katherine Cross)
The future of finding love with Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd | ReThinking…
How to rest when life is overwhelming (w/ Katherine May)
How to love your complicated family (w/ Ashley C. Ford)
How to be more joyful (w/ Ingrid Fetell Lee)
How to keep close friendships (w/ Aminatou Sow)
How to find laughter anywhere (w/ Dan Harris and guests)
How to rethink your emotional attachment to clothes (w/ Diarra Bousso)
How to stop devoting yourself to your job (w/ Sarah Jaffe)
Jon Batiste | from Design Matters
How your brain predicts your reality (w/ Anil Seth)
Why stealing other people’s ideas can be a good thing (w/ Austin Kleon)
Why you don't need a personal brand (w/ Debbie Millman)
Information Inoculation: Defending Against Medical Myths: Why we need to f…
How to love parts of yourself you may not like (w/ Heather Havrilesky)
How to learn from your failures (w/ Dawn Burrell)
Re-release: How peace can persevere (w/ Aziz Abu Sarah)
How to be a better friend (w/ Rhaina Cohen)
How to see the humanity in everyone — even people you don’t like (w/ Abiga…
How to navigate changes in a relationship without fear (w/ Stephanie Yates…
How you can be more creative by taking a long walk (w/ Craig Mod)
3 ways to fight climate change without getting overwhelmed (w/ Ayana Eliza…
Re-release: How to enrich your everyday life with poetry (w/ Sarah Kay)
How you can move forward and learn from the past (w/ Clint Smith)
How to gossip — the right way (w/ Rachelle Hampton)
How to raise emotionally resilient children (w/ Richard Weissbourd)
How to enjoy poetry — without being a poet (w/ Naisha Randhar)
What to do when your beliefs are challenged (w/ Tenelle Porter)
How to trust in times of uncertainty (w/ Rachel Botsman)
How to get your sense of wonder back (w/ Nate DiMeo)
Power, purpose, and the American presidency with Jared Cohen | from ReThin…
How to stop being weird about money (w/ Paco de Leon)
How to make the most of a finite life (w/ Oliver Burkeman)
How to believe in God even when the world sucks (w/ Nadia Bolz-Weber)
How to turn climate anxiety into action (w/ Luisa Neubauer) (re-release)

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