The Importance of Serendipity in Life

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You're much better at accepting a lack of control in life than I am. It's partly due to age. You give up the sense that I can control things, and remember Aaron Antonoski, the sociologist. So it's not that I am in control, but things are under control. We need to look at what in John's life in Joanna's life is the meeting point of her propensities and her predicament of the time,. And that has occupied me for the last 123 years now.

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