Archive - Provoked with Dr. Todd Kashdan

Debunking a Beloved Idea About the Brain

A new framework for thinking about your multifaceted self

Oct 10

Why Friends Don’t Come to Your House Anymore

My theories on why hosting has dropped nearly 70% in the past 50 years.

Oct 6

September 2026

Does Your Purpose Have to Transcend the Self?

Thoughts about a controversy in well-being science

Sep 30

Curiosity Questions from Denmark Teens

Part of a series where I give answers to readers.

Sep 27

How to Respond to an Insult

Part of a series on the hard part of being an adult.

Sep 20

How to Predict Whether Someone Wants to Kill Themselves

The most useful research you will read this year.

Sep 17

We Got Too Good at Leaving People Alone

The world is supposedly designed for extraverts.

Sep 13

Alcohol, Weed, or Smartphones? One Has to Go

In my abnormal psychology and Science of Well-Being classes at George Mason University, I asked students to put alcohol, marijuana, and smartphones in…

Sep 10

FIRST LOOK - My Curiosity Productive Inefficiency Model

And the most important curiosity paper published in the past 40 years

Sep 7

Purpose and the Dangers of a Low Capacity to Manage Uncertainty

Full transcript of the last Provoked Community Call.

Sep 4

August 2026

Choose Love Over Glory

What Odysseus's son did that beloved CEO’s valorized in best-selling books suck at

Aug 30

My vote for greatest streak of fantastic research in well-being science

Who has published the most important papers in a 10-year span? Enjoy a disagreement.

Aug 26

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