When Willpower Isn’t Enough (Rebroadcast)

David Rubenstein, a product of the old bipartisan D.C., made his fortune in private equity. He’s been spending it on “patriotic philanthropy” and institutions like the Kennedy Center, where Trump fired him as chairman. Now he wonders if the center can hold. SOURCES:David Rubenste ...  Show more

Podcasting started as a niche-nerd pursuit. Now it’s a $9 billion industry. Is that a lot? The strange economics of this thing we do. SOURCES:Jim Bankoff, chairman and C.E.O. of Vox Media.Ben Davis, head of digital at WME.Will Page, former chief economist at Spotify and author of ...  Show more

Sometimes you do everything right, go far and beyond, do more than what is necessary, and things still won’t work out. Or they do, but then they just crumble. Life happens or you are hit by malevolence. 

There are many things in life we think we want, and often because we feel like they'll be good for us. But sometimes we get the things we thought we wanted only to realize that it wasn't that good for us after all. Today's episode is about that. Learn more about your ad choices. ...  Show more

Sometimes, we want something so desperately that it colors everything we do. Sometimes we even get it. When you get down to it, getting what we want and keeping it probably drives most of us, makes us endure circumstances we otherwise might not and accept consequences we never co ...  Show more

Every day we are faced with choices. Sometimes we make bad ones, and sometimes we make the right choice. There is one factor that is affecting your decision-making that shouldn't be. Darren talks about it in this episode and gives you questions to start asking to avoid this decis ...  Show more