Changemakers

When Arianna Huffington collapsed in 2007 from exhaustion, she recognized a powerful need to reevaluate her priorities. One of the results is her new book, THRIVE: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom and Wonder.

In this event by The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health, Ms. Huffington shared her journey of making room in her life for sleep, mindfulness, health and happiness and explained her vision of "the third metric" — a way to redefine success beyond money and power to live a life of purpose and meaning.

This event was presented in collaboration with The Huffington Post on April 9, 2014.

Watch the entire series from The Forum at Harvard School of Public Health at www.ForumHSPH.org.

THRIVE: A Conversation with Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success | The Forum at HSPH

Seth Godin in conversation with Debbie Millman about courage, anxiety, change, creative integrity,  how to dance with the fear, and more. Background and transcribed highlights: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/05/20/seth-godin-debbie-millman-interview/

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Seth Godin in conversation with Debbie Millman

Recorded at St. John the Divine, November 17, 2014. Background, context, and excerpts from the book here: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/12/05/vanessa-redgrave-blue-nights-joan-didion/

Photograph by Brigitte Lacombe

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Vanessa Redgrave reads Joan Didion's 'Blue Nights'

Virginia Postrel is the author of The Substance of Style and The Future and Its Enemies. She writes the Economic Scene column for The New York Times business section every fourth Thursday. She writes a column for Forbes four times a year and publishes articles on cultural and economic topics in a wide-range of other publications. Writing in Vanity Fair, Sam Tanenhaus described Postrel as "a master D.J. who sequences the latest riffs from the hard sciences, the social sciences, business, and technology, to name only a few sources," while Camille Paglia has called her "one of the smartest women in America."

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Virginia Postrel

Context and transcribed highlights: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/08/anna-deavere-smith-sarah-lewis-nypl-beauty/

Recorded at The New York Public Library, March 2014. Subscribe to NYPL's free podcast here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-york-public-library-podcast/id804982781?mt=2

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Sarah Lewis and Anna Deavere Smith on Inspiring Failures

On this episode of Design Matters, Debbie Millman talks to Steven Heller about his new book "Graphic Style Lab".

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Steven Heller

On this episode of Design Matters, Debbie Millman talks to Julia Turshen about cooking and writing (and how to successfully peel a hard boiled egg).

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Julia Turshen

Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand discuss the The Grid, which uses artificial intelligence to design websites, the history of grids, and the unlikely success of coloring books for adults.

Episode 10: Inside the Lines

Michael and Jessica discuss the Doomsday Clock, Canada‘s anniversary logo, and Tim Geithner’s infographic challenge for MBA students.

Episode 12: 150 Years, 7 Minutes, 6 Seconds

Debbie Millman talks to artist and illustrator Oliver Jeffers, who explains how illustrating and writing children’s books has changed his fine art painting.

Design Matters With Debbie Millman: Oliver Jeffers

Debbie Millman talks to Target’s Chief Creative Officer Todd Waterbury about how technology is changing consumption and about how smart phones have raised our expectations for how companies should interact with us.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Todd Waterbury

Debbie talks to architect Pierluigi Serraino about some of the things creative people have in common.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: 2009-2016

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Pierluiggi Serraino

Debbie talks to Design*Sponge founder Grace Bonney about her new book on women entrepreneurs and makers, and about the necessity and difficulty of mid-career change.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Grace Bonney

Debbie talks to poet Eileen Myles about poetry, fame, and politics.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Eileen Myles

Debbie talks to writer Tim Ferriss about the strategies he has used to change his life.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Tim Ferriss

Maria Popova is the editor of Brain Pickings (http://www.brainpickings.org), an inventory of cross-disciplinary interestingness and curiosity, bringing you things you didn’t know you were interested in — until you are. She has also written for Wired UK, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Nieman Journalism Lab, among others, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow. 

In this audio interview with Debbie Millman, Maria discusses curation, creativity as pattern-recognition, growing up in Bulgaria, and her grandmother following her Google Alerts.

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Maria Popova

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Design Matters with Debbie Millman: Virginia Postrel

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