Conversations With Samantha &

In this episode Samantha Clarke concludes her conversation with Rick Hanson at the World Government Summit. They discuss the Buddha brain, how to encourage our leaders to support happiness development and what makes Rick happy.

In this episode Samantha Clarke talks to Rick Hanson about helping the brain with emotional learning, making meaningful experiences stick in the mind and how becoming a therapist made Rick a tougher person.

In this episode Samantha Clarke talks to Dasho Karma Ura, the President of the Centre for Bhutan Studies, about gross national happiness. They discuss the differences between using technology and conversation to measure happiness, how it's good to get away from technology occasionally and how London can learn from this research.

In this episode Samantha Clarke talks to Dr Aisha Bin Bishr, the director general of the smart Dubai office. They discuss key thoughts about happiness, smart cities and resident well being and Dr Aisha also describes the ways her team talk to the people of Dubai to make the positive changes that directly affect their lives.

In this episode Samantha Clarke presents two separate interviews from the World Government Summit day on happiness. In the first conversation she talks to Ryan Patel about happiness across different countries and how different governments work to help the happiness of their citizens. In the second conversation Samantha talks to Shawn Achor about the business leading the government on happiness projects and how these should be brought into children's education.

In this episode Samantha Clarke talks to Roman Krznaric about rediscovering the power of empathy and the effects it can have in the workplace and our day-to-day lives. They discuss how to connect with strangers and how to take action without overthinking.

Samantha Clarke talks to Tom Chatfield, author broadcaster and tech philosopher, about using technology to best benefit humanity. They discuss the benefit of being bored exercising will power over your technology and humans acting more like machines.

In this episode Samantha Clarke talks to Oliver Burkeman about a new version of positive thinking. By embracing the power of negative thinking Oliver believes we can live more honest and free lives. Samantha and Oliver discuss how this way of thinking can be used in the workplace and aid time management.

In this episode Samantha Clarke talks to author, speaker and researcher Gerd Leonhard about the interactions between technology and humanity. They discuss Gerd's latest book about the coming clash between humanity and tech and ways we can stay informed about new developments.

Samantha Clarke talks to Pamela Pavliscak about the effect of technology of human emotions and specifically happiness. Pamela started her career believing that technology would solve all problems however after further research she saw that technology was creating negative emotions in users. She's directed her research to look into how technology can affect human emotion and how we can design for happiness.

In this episode Samantha Clarke talks to author, lecturer and entrepreneur Nir Eyal about habit forming technology. Nir explains how products are designed to connect to the users' negative emotions and form a hook to make the user return each time their experience that emotion. Nir looks at ways we can recognise these hooks and explains practical measures we can take to break them.