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Apr 2025
54m 33s

How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed Wo...

TALKS AT GOOGLE
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Award-winning neuroscientist and entrepreneur Anne-Laure Le Cunff joins Google to talk about her book, “Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World.” Her book is a guide for how to live a more experimental life, turn uncertainty into curiosity, and carve a path of self-discovery. Anne shares why we should replace the old, linear model of success with a circular model of growth, where goals are constantly discovered, pursued, and adapted in conversation with the larger world.

Anne is the founder of Ness Labs and writes a weekly newsletter that’s read by more than 100,000 people. Her research at King’s College London focuses on the psychology and neuroscience of lifelong learning, curiosity, and adaptability. She previously worked at Google as an executive on digital health projects.

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