Internationally-acclaimed writer Rabih Alameddine shares the few things he’s learned about the elasticity of identity and imagination.

Doctor, educator, professor of medicine, and Pulitzer Prize Award finalist Louise Aronson shares the Five Things She’s Learned about improving our shared healthcare system, aging, and the decades of old...

Bestselling author, editor, and teacher Sari Botton shares the Five Things She’s Learned about getting older by inviting people to share their own personal experiences of aging.

Writer, author, and professor Myisha Cherry shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the essential roles that rage and anger play in public life – and in our principled responses to all forms of...

Writer, speaker, and founder Nina Collins shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the richness and promise that shape the second half of women’s lives.

Author, researcher, nonprofit leader, and MacArthur “Genius” award recipient MT Connolly shares the Five Things She’s Learned about how we underestimate longevity’s challenges and its gifts – and how...

Author and editor Mason Currey shares the Five Things He’s Learned from some of history’s greatest artists and thinkers about how they get their work done – and about the small changes we all can make...

Award-winning cartoonist Liza Donnelly shares the Five Things She’s Learned from a lifetime of drawing and writing, and from the fulfillment that comes with looking inward and observing of the world around...

Entrepreneur, professor, MacArthur Fellow, and President Obama’s first appointment to the National Council on the Arts, Aaron Dworkin shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the life-changing power of...

Acclaimed writer and historian Thomas Dyja shares the Five Things He’s Learned about how we can use our city’s structures and energies to improve our well-being and help create a better place for all.

Writer, editor, speaker, and broadcaster Pauline Frommer and Five Things She’s Learned about the ways in which new places and experiences teach us that the person we are at home isn’t the only being we...

Multi-award winning journalist and author Janine di Giovanni shares the Five Things She’s Learned about understanding and surviving the moral injury individuals suffer when forced to witness an event that...

Best-selling author, essayist, public speaker, lyricist and libretto writer Adam Gopnik shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the mystery of mastery – and about the ways that our humanity is...

Professor Timothy Hampton shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the historic roots of cheerfulness, and about how our control this essential tool of emotional life lies not in our deepest selves but...

Songwriter, singer, recording artist, and Grammy-winning record producer Joe Henry shares the ways he’s found that the process and progress of our lives – like Song – knows more than we do.

Author and senior fellow at the Milken Institute Paul Irving shares the Five Things He’s Learned about how each of us can make the most of the unprecedented potential and possibility that awaits our...

Internationally-acclaimed writer Pico Iyer share the Five Things He’s Learned about opening up space in our heads, and in our days.

Acclaimed writers and interviewers Pico Iyer and Michael Shapiro share the Five Things They’ve Learned from their own experience — and from the experience of the many creative figures they’ve met —...

New York Times bestselling author and Omega Institute co-founder Elizabeth Lesser shares the Five Things She’s Learned about what happens when women trust their instincts, dignify their values, and speak...

Bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims shares the Five Things She’s Learned about deepening her ability to love others, and the practical steps that help her build, maintain, and celebrate her most...

Hospice and palliative care specialist Dr. BJ Miller shares the Five Things He’s Learned anew about living and preparing for death after this year of shared loss, challenge, and renewal.

Singer/songwriter, producer, and author Allison Moorer shares the Five Things She’s Learned about sharing her family’s stories in prose and in song – and about all that taking ownership of our most...

Speaker, researcher, and UCSF Clinical Professor Andrew Penn share the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways that psychedelic-assisted therapy is revolutionizing medical treatment for hard-to-treat...

Doctor, psychiatrist, and medical director Dr. Ken Robbins shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the latest, most effective care for individuals suffering from dementia and similar age-related...

Writer, trainer, life coach, and former cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist Donald J. Robertson shares the Five Things He’s Learned from the wisdom of the ancient Stoics about coping with anxiety and...

Pulitzer-Prize winning art critic and New York magazine columnist Jerry Saltz shares the Five Things He’s Learned about how artists and art lovers become really good at art.

Scholar, writer, translator, and teacher Bob Thurman shares the Five Things He’s Learned about achieving reliable and lasting happiness during his lifetime learning and teaching the Buddha’s curriculum.

Editor and publisher Brooke Warner shares the Five Things She’s Learned during her nearly two decades of leading and championing women-only publishing about the ways that women writers work, collaborate,...