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Lessons From History

Lessons From History

What the past can teach us about the future

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What can we learn from history? With the right mindset, just about anything! This collection shows us how we can apply lessons from history to understand our society today and where we're heading for the future. From family units to mass movements, each title spotlights a different period in history that could hopefully guide us towards a kinder, fairer, and more stable future.

Lessons From History

What the past can teach us about the future

Psychology: Blame Game
Psychology: Blame Game
Hosted by Malcolm Gladwell
Take a look under the hood of the 2009 Toyota Recall Crisis and understand how it relates to human behaviours
12 min4.8
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels
Ian Morris
How Human Values Evolve
22 min4.0
How to Avoid The Dunning Kruger Effect
How to Avoid The Dunning Kruger Effect
Narrated by Tim Harford
When someone who is the worst at something thinks they’re the best at it, a disaster can loom—learn how to prevent it
12 min4.7
The True Believer
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
12 min3.9
The Great Leveler
The Great Leveler
Walter Scheidel
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
20 min3.6
Humankind
Humankind
Rutger Bregman
A Hopeful History
29 min4.6
Problem Solving: General Chapman's Last Stand
Problem Solving: General Chapman's Last Stand
Hosted by Malcolm Gladwell
Discover how nuances and instincts led this carefully laid strategy to achieve exactly the opposite of what it aimed
12 min4.8
Sapiens
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
A Brief History of Humankind
28 min4.3
Caligula and Nero: The Men Behind the Madness
Caligula and Nero: The Men Behind the Madness
Hosted by Dan Snow
Caligula and Nero—find out the surprising stories behind these emperors' dark reputations from "history guy" Dan Snow
11 min4.1

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