Lectures & speaking
Why do societies repeat the same destructive patterns?
Dr. Triolo breaks down the hidden DNA of human behavior and shows how to reclaim independent thought in an AI-driven world.
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Talk topics
Ideas that fill a room and start a conversation.
Each talk draws on chapters of the book and four decades of clinical work.
Chapters 1 and 9
Intelligence is not wisdom
What separates the people who build skyscrapers from the people who enjoy the symphony of life, and why the first does not guarantee the second.
Chapters 2 and 3
The sticky ego and the celebrity sale
Why advertising works on people who swear it does not, and what that says about self-esteem.
Chapters 14, 15 and 19
Passion, attachment and unbinding love
How Mother Nature starts a relationship and what it takes to keep one alive.
Chapters 12 and 18
When smart groups build stupid systems
Statistics, bureaucracy and the Peter Principle, told with humor.
Chapter 21
Artificial intelligence, the brain and free will
How to reclaim independent thought in an AI-driven world.
Chapters 5 to 7
What therapy actually does
Pills, psychotherapy and the three ingredients of lasting change.
The full library
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