Best of the Talks at Google

The Talks at Google podcast - where great minds meet. Talks at Google brings the world’s most influential thinkers, creators, makers, and doers all to one place.

In this presentation hosted by Google Talks, psychologist Dr. Ron Siegel discusses how the psychiatric community has adapted meditational practice as a means of coping with stress and depression.

In this video from the @GoogleTalks, Michael Lewis, author of The Blind Side, Moneyball, Liar's Poker, and numerous other books, discusses these works and tells interesting stories about how they all came to be.

In this Google Talk David Allen introduces some of the ideas in his bestselling book and time management system Getting Things Done.

In this free half-hour talk delivered for the Authors@Google program, Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, reads an excerpt from her bestselling book which gives a background to the quest she undertook to Italy, India, and Bali, to explore her competing urges for earthly delights and divine transcendence.

In this hour-long talk delivered at Google, author and brain researcher Dr. Daniel Siegel explains his definition of the what the mind is. He takes us on a quick overview of the functions of the brain, from the spinal cord all the way up to the prefrontal cortex where he argues that the uniqueness of humans stems from.

Ferriss recently delivered this talk at Google, covering The 4-Hour Chef and how he applied his path of accelerated learning to the art of cooking.

Need some motivation to move? Dr. Jordan Metzl is author of The Exercise Cure: A Doctor's All-Natural, No-Pill Prescription for Better Health and Longer Life, and in this talk he delivered at Google he prescribes exercise for many of our society's medical issues from the brain to the body.

Google will be hosting Dong Hyuk Shin, a 26-year-old North Korean defector born and raised in a concentration camp.

In this talk delivered at Google, Dr. Hyman talks about The UltraMind Solution and how to look at brain & mind health through the lens of the health of the whole body.