Psychologist and psychology professor Gena Gorlin invites you to a SuperSalon with our friend Emily Oster, economist and bestselling author, on how to make data-driven decisions even about our most intimate matters, whether doing so is always good, and how COVID has changed our attitude to facts of science. What can and can't science tell…
Join psychology professor and psychologist Dr Gena Gorlin, venture capitalist and writer Roy Bahat, and Interintellect founder Anna Gát for a discussion of work, rest, and the fully-lived life. Before the Holidays, we will gather for a roundtable-style salon to explore the much discussed but often misunderstood questions around so-called "work/life balance": how does the meaning we derive from our…
In this exciting SuperSalon, the world-renowned Steven Pinker, distinguished cognitive psychologist and bestselling author of books like Enlightenment Now and Rationality, joins clinical psychologist and Interintellect host Gena Gorlin to explore what motivates—or demotivates—human reason, virtue, and progress. Academic psychologists use the term “motivated reasoning” almost synonymously with “irrationality”—as if rational thought only happens in the absence of any motivation.…
Facilitated by Drs. Matt Bateman and Gena Gorlin, UCLA’s Anderson School of Management Professor Cassie Holmes will join our community and friends to discuss her new book, HAPPIER HOUR: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most. If using your time more wisely is something you often think about, come join us! Dr.…
Dr. Gena Gorlin, a clinical psychologist and founder coach, teams up with Dr. Jason Rheins, a scholar of ancient Greek philosophy, to put Stoicism under the microscope: does it live up to its modern-day hype? And if not, what's a better alternative? Stoicism, a byword for quiet emotional endurance, is both an ancient philosophical system…
