What's it about? Passport to Success (2022) takes you on a global journey through the eyes of a man whose comfortable life has completely collapsed, forcing him to re-evaluate everything. Through his travels and encounters, you discover powerful principles for taking ownership of your circumstances, moving from a passive spectator to an active participant in your own life. It provides a blueprint for chipping away the nonessential to reveal the masterpiece that is you. Have you ever experienced moments in your busy life when you look up and feel a strange sense of detachment, as if you’re a spectator watching your own story unfold? The days fold into one another, and while everything seems fine on the surface, there’s often a quiet accumulation of overlooked details and missed signals. These are the important clues about your relationships, your career, and your own well-being that get lost in the noise of routine. They sit there in plain sight, waiting for you to notice that the ...

What's it about? The Science of Revenge (2025) explores how the desire for vengeance functions like an addictive behavior, hijacking the brain’s reward system much like drugs do. It combines neuroscience, psychology, and real-life stories to explain why people become consumed by revenge – and how they can break free from its grip. Revenge is one of the most intense emotions people experience. It can feel urgent, justified, even necessary. But what starts as a response to being hurt often leads to more damage – both for the person seeking revenge and those around them. From minor grudges to large-scale violence, the craving to get even follows a recognizable psychological pattern – one that can take over your thoughts and behavior. In this lesson, you’ll learn how revenge functions like an addiction, how it rewires the brain through cycles of pain and craving, and how it has shaped violence throughout history – from personal conflicts to mass atrocities. You’ll also see how forgi...

What's it about? Abroad in Japan (2023) follows the experiences of an Englishman who, with no teaching experience and limited knowledge of the language, embarks on a life-changing adventure in rural Japan. It explores a decade of cultural clashes, humor, and personal growth, offering a look at the complexities of life in one of the world’s most fascinating cultures. In a chandelier-lit room at the Japanese Embassy, one anxious applicant sat beside a grammar test he’d probably flunked, trying not to sweat through his suit. Chris Broad wanted a teaching job in Japan. All that stood in his way were two interviewers: a polite Japanese man and a sterner British one. Neither looked thrilled to be there. He tried to come across as upbeat, eager, and genki – a word he’d learned meant lively or energetic, though no one had ever used it to describe him. He smiled too hard. He answered “no” when asked how his Japanese was, then panicked and backtracked. He said he’d live “anywhere in the co...

What's it about? Richard III (1593) follows the ruthless Duke of Gloucester as he manipulates, murders, and schemes his way to the English throne. Through deception and violence, Richard eliminates rivals including his own brothers and the young princes, but his tyranny ultimately sparks rebellion. The play culminates in Richard's defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth Field, where Henry Tudor claims victory and establishes the Tudor dynasty. William Shakespeare's Richard III remains startlingly relevant in our age of political manipulation and authoritarian leaders. Written around 1593, this historical drama has become a timeless exploration of how charismatic demagogues rise to power and the inevitable consequences of unchecked tyranny. The play follows Richard, Duke of Gloucester, a physically deformed but intellectually brilliant nobleman who uses his wit, charm, and ruthless cunning to manipulate his way to the English throne. Set during the final phase of the Wa...

What's it about? The Deep Learning Revolution (2018) tells the story of how a small group of researchers transformed artificial intelligence by studying how the human brain actually learns. It explores the shift from rule-based programming to data-driven neural networks, revealing how this biological approach created the AI technologies that now power everything from voice assistants to self-driving cars. When you observe a toddler learning to recognize faces, it’s easy to see they’re not following complex rules in their brain about eye spacing or nose shape. They absorb thousands upon thousands of images, gradually building up their awareness. For decades, computer scientists tried the opposite approach, they wrote endless rules to teach machines what a face looks like – but the results were disappointing. Then a small group of researchers had a radical idea: What if computers could learn like babies do? Instead of programming intelligence, what if we could grow it from data? T...

What's it about? Value(s) (2021) examines how we’ve allowed economic value and social values to become fatally blurred, transforming from a market economy into a market society where essential workers and environmental protection are systematically undervalued while financial speculation is rewarded. It demonstrates how embedding sustainability, solidarity, and responsibility into all decision-making can channel market dynamism to turn society’s greatest challenges into opportunities. Ever wondered why we live in a world where essential workers earn poverty wages while financial speculators command fortunes? Well, what you’re really thinking about is one of society’s most perplexing contradictions: how we’ve systematically inverted our understanding of value. Drawing on insights from Aristotle and Adam Smith to contemporary behavioral economics, this lesson reveals how our embrace of subjective value theory has created a system that routinely undervalues care work, environment...