Adam Perry: Meaning and manageability need to go hand in hand. He says you can have meaningful, manageable projects that matter to other people. But if they're unrelentingly stressful for you, he says, they won't be sustainable. "If we put it simply, the relative preponderance of positive emotions in your projects is going to make them more sustainable"
Award-winning researcher and pioneering psychologist Brian Little has plenty of accomplishments under his belt. He’s the author of the bestselling books “Me, Myself, and Us” and “Who Are You, Really?” His TED Talk on the science of personality has tens of millions of views and he’s been elected a Favorite Professor multiple times at Harvard. And he’s also Adam’s favorite psychologist – and personal mentor. Brian and Adam talk about how our personal projects shape our well-being, the nuances of introversion and extraversion, when it makes sense to act out of character, and what our daily pursuits reveal about us. Transcripts for ReThinking are available at go.ted.com/RWAGscripts