Want to bring nature indoors and experience the thrill of caring for a living thing? This edition of Doing What Works will cheer you on.

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Dr. Nick Morgan would call Katie an infovore.

The prince’s planet was small but it had enough gravity to give him a place to stand.

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

This edition of Doing What Works illustrates the old saying: “If everyone put his problems on the table, you’d probably take yours back.” It’s been quite a winter for a couple of (vintage!) RV dwellers, put it that way.

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You can’t always get what you want.

The Big Leap will help you overcome a universal human tendency to sabotage yourself if things start going “too” well.

Imagine a decades-long relationship you can look back on with zero regrets. Katie and Maureen share the recipe in this edition of Doing What Works.

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Ski Cooper!

The things that go wrong often make the best memories.

What makes you a good mom?

The best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.

Are you into competitive storytelling? Storyworthy’s Matthew Dicks is!

Would you rather work independently or as part of a team? This edition of Doing What Works is a study in why that matters.

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The Tyranny of E-mail.

Job hunting usually means being rejected before accepted.

“Not a good fit” is a perfect reframe for rejection.

Much of life is deeply repetitive. This edition of Doing What Works is a recipe for transcendence.

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Bobby Darin’s “Change.” A piano medley from Rocky. Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind.”

Dogs might need the sniffing more than the walking.

Humans aren’t machines; the goal isn’t to minimize downtime.

Pattern interrupt!

The human heart demands an adventure.

Someone you love dies. A relationship you love ends. One version of you disappears before a new one reveals itself. This edition of Doing What Works will help you cope.

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“It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”

Reverse engineering your life to avoid regret is the personal version of a premortem.

I wish I might go back and do the little things you asked me to.

When you pick a lost cause, you really commit.

The best present to give your high school senior!

Maureen’s career looks more like the route a school bus takes than an expressway to anywhere. But she’s still having fun, learning a lot, and relishing the chance to share it in this edition of Doing What Works.

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Sheryl Sandberg suggests you look at your career as a jungle gym, not a ladder.

Marshall Goldsmith suggests you thank people for their feedback and decide later what to do with that.

Dick Bolles said you’re meant to enjoy your work.

Stories from the office, chores set to music, a love language of spreadsheets. This edition of Doing What Works is an ode to what Maureen cherishes about her childhood.

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Fifth-degree black belt, martial arts instructor, and international karate competitor Malcolm Dell joins Katie for another edition of Doing What Works. He shares what makes a great teacher, how to move through the world, and what you can do to keep conflict at bay.

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Malcolm does Kimura Shukokai.

As a kid, Malcolm Dell wanted to be a roboticist. As a grownup, his career choices are anything but robotic. As Katie’s guest, he’s a delight. You might have fun learning the reason he joined her for this edition of Doing What Works.

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What does a roboticist do?

Adaptability is a superpower, as Suzy Welch points out in Becoming You.

If you’re a design enthusiast, you’ll probably love Cooper Hewitt.