Does the Brain Filter out a Wider Awareness? (14:33)

Dr. Marjorie Hines Woollacott has been a neuroscience professor at the University of Oregon for more than three decades and a meditator for almost four. She also has a master’s degree in Asian studies, which she began on a teaching sabbatical and completed at the UO while a full-time professor.  Her master’s thesis was the foundation for her latest book, Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind, which is both a scientist’s memoir and a research survey on human consciousness. As a neuroscientist, Marjorie Woollacott had no doubts that the brain was a purely physical entity controlled by chemicals and electrical pulses. When she experimented with meditation for the first time, however, her entire world changed. Woollacott’s journey through years of meditation has made her question the reality she built her career upon and has forced her to ask what human consciousness really is. 

Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader (1:03:14)

Herminia Ibarra is the Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning, and Professor of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD. Prior to joining INSEAD, she served on the Harvard Business School faculty for thirteen years. She Chairs the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Business School. Thinkers 50 ranked Ibarra #8 among the most influential business gurus in the world. Today’s breakneck pace of change has an immense impact on leaders – and as a result, on the organizations, they run. All too often, people remain stuck in outdated mindsets and modes of operating, even after others recognize the need for change. Herminia Ibbara, author of “Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader”, teaches us about some new and updated leadership qualities and innovative strategies that can help us truly become a “better leader.” 

Language and Tolerance (1:47:30)

Amy Thompson, Ph.D., is the Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of South Florida. Less than 1% of American adults today are proficient in a foreign language that th