Best Mindset Reboot

Want to sharpen your focus or shift your perspective? These will fix your thinking at the tap of a touchscreen

WINNER! Finding Mastery

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Felix Baumgartner started having panic attacks during training, he fell back on the prescriptions of Michael Gervais: a highperformance psychologist whose clients include record-breaking athletes and record-making artists, MVPs and CEOs. Gervais gently prods and probes his guests – such as “Dr Sleep” Matthew Walker, Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph, UFC legend Georges St-Pierre and Olympian marathoner Meb Keflezighi – to identify the mental processes that help them bring their A-game.

RUNNERS UP! Hidden Brain

What goes on in your head? Journalist and author Shankar Vedantam uncovers the science behind why we unconsciously do what we do (including eating, in an episode called, brilliantly, “Hungry, Hungry Hippocampus”). Misguided notions of masculinity, hitting “the empathy gym”, how outrage hijacks our minds and how memories betray us – if you can think of it, you’ll find it here. And if you’d rather not, you’ll find out why.

Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

In case you haven’t seen her TEDx talk “The Power of Vulnerability”, which has clocked up 50 million views and counting, or read one of her five New York Times bestsellers, Doc Brown is a social science rock star who has studied courage, shame and empathy – all the feels. Her Apple chart-topper “unpacks and explores the ideas, stories, experiences, books, films and music that reflect the universal experiences of being human”.