Personal Growth Book Launches w/ Gary Wolf & June Cohen

About this event

With so much advice about how to sleep, eat, work, connect, and feel better, how can we determine what genuinely improves our lives? Join Gary Wolf, cofounder of the Quantified Self movement, and June Cohen, co-creator of TED Talks, for a conversation celebrating their new books, The Quantified Self: Learning to Observe and The Great Remembering: Powerful Ancient Practices—and the New Science Bringing Them Back. Wolf explores how careful observation and personal data can help us answer questions about our own health and daily lives. Cohen examines the ancient practices that helped humans flourish for millennia—and the emerging science revealing why they still matter. Together, these longtime friends will explore what technology can teach us, what older traditions can help us recover, and how to cut through competing claims to discover what truly works for us. The result is a practical and thought-provoking conversation about paying closer attention, making more deliberate choices, and

Books

• The Quantified SelfBuy on Bookshop.org
• The Great RememberingBuy on Bookshop.org

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Venue

Village Well Books

9900 Culver Boulevard, Culver City, CA

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