Participants are guided through a sensory experience with their chosen treat, encouraged to savor it fully before deciding whether to eat more. This exercise underscores the significance of self-discipline and impulse control in everyday decisions, illustrating its impact on overall well-being.

Mark Divine introduces visualization as a key part of his training that helped him excel as a Navy SEAL and in business. He emphasizes its importance in the Unbeatable Mind program and its role in improving performance.

John Elder Robison spoke to Googlers in Mountain View about his book Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers.

Today's episode provides a host of information on what makes us sleepy, sleep soundly, and feel awake and alert. It covers a broad range of tools for anyone wishing to improve their sleep and wakeful state.

In this video, we'll explore all sides of stillness. Not just the still side, but also all the motion it contains. And although it is grounded in both mind and body, this video highlights psychic stillness. Since ancient times, this practice has been with humanity. Unfortunately, with our restless distractions, we seem to have lost what it means to be still. Stillness is engrained in sports, music, art, religion, spirituality... it is everywhere you look. Yet, to truly Be Still is quite the task. So, in all the motion which follows..... Be Still.

Visual perception can be misleading: our brains interpret what our eyes see by imposing meaning that may have been useful historically, but may no longer be the case in today's rapidly changing world. Beau Lotto, Professor of Neurobiology at University College London, discusses how to see differently – including through science and play – and asks how to educate children to thrive in a world that does not yet exist.

Neuroscientists Richard Davidson and Amishi Jha join clinical mindfulness expert Jon Kabat-Zinn to explore the role of consciousness in mental and physical health, how we can train the mind to become more flexible and adaptable, and what cutting-edge neuroscience is revealing about the transformation of consciousness through mindfulness and contemplative practice.

The session introduces the concept of a beginner's mind—seeing situations with fresh eyes rather than through biases. It highlights the cognitive challenges of maintaining this perspective and the benefits of mindfulness training in overcoming these limitations.

Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky lectures on the biology of behavioral evolution and thoroughly discusses examples such as The Prisoner's Dilemma.

Robert Sapolsky continues his two-part series on evolution focusing on individual and kin selection, behavioral logic, competitive infanticide, male/female animal hierarchies, sex-ratio fluctuation, intersexual competition, imprinted genes, sperm competition, inbred-founder populations, group and multi-level selection, and punctuated equilibrium.