Royal Society of Arts Videos

Brene Brown is a bestselling author and researcher on the topics of shame and vulnerability.

This is an unedited version of the talk that Michael Pollan did at the RSA yesterday. Unfortunately, due to technical problems the very beginning of the live stream was missed but the usual edited video of our event will be available in a couple of weeks.

In this 30-minute talk from RSA, positive psychologist Martin Seligman talks about how there is much more to human life than reducing suffering.

Broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough presents the 2011 RSA President's Lecture. The dangers facing the earth's ecosystems are well known and the subject of great concern at all levels. Climate change is high on the list. But there is an underlying and associated cause -- population growth.

In 2013 David Graeber, professor of anthropology at LSE, wrote an excoriating essay on modern work for Strike! magazine. "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs" was read over a million times and the essay translated in seventeen different languages within weeks.

Clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has built a following of tens of millions of viewers with his online lectures on topics from ancient mythology to modern relationships.

Alain de Botton asks: what is it that we're really looking for when we watch or read the news - and is it doing us any good?

Many have argued that the world's problems may be ultimately 'spiritual' in nature, and much of the population, atheists and believers alike, claim to have a spiritual dimension to their lives. But what do we really mean by the spiritual?

Gretchen Rubin is a sensationally successful podcaster and author of the bestselling books The Happiness Project and Better Than Before.

Welcome to work in the modern economy, where the climate is cultish and management fads rule. Silicon Valley workplace culture has filtered through to other industries, dehumanising our working practices and putting tech in the driving seat.