23 episodes

A psychological examination of historically significant lives. We will peek into the minds of our subject to answer, what made them tick? Uncovering the personal motivations that drove their public acts and how those acts in turn changed all our lives.

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A psychological examination of historically significant lives. We will peek into the minds of our subject to answer, what made them tick? Uncovering the personal motivations that drove their public acts and how those acts in turn changed all our lives.

    Abraham Lincoln: The Greatest President and Sufferer of Melancholy

    Abraham Lincoln: The Greatest President and Sufferer of Melancholy

    Abraham Lincoln contemplated suicide more than once in his life, he knew suffering and yet he is perhaps histories' greatest leader through a period of time where the nation also wept, the American Civil War.

    • 51 min
    Howard Hughes: A perfectionistic obsession to innovate

    Howard Hughes: A perfectionistic obsession to innovate

    Howard Hughes was one of the most financially successful businessmen of all time, an engineer, a record setting pilot, film producer and philanthropist, his obsessive compulsive disorder drove his ability to stunningly innovate but ultimately it caused great suffering.

    • 51 min
    Marilyn Monroe: From Orphan to Iconic Movie Starlet

    Marilyn Monroe: From Orphan to Iconic Movie Starlet

    Marilyn Monroe had a traumatic upbringing, yet marketed herself into one of the worlds most famous actresses. Despite her many successes she longed to feel truly loved but never found her love adequately requited.

    • 1 hr 16 min
    Ernest Hemingway: Hypomania Drove Writing Genius

    Ernest Hemingway: Hypomania Drove Writing Genius

    Ernest Hemingway was one of the most accomplished writers of the 20th century and also one of the most colorful public figures of his lifetime, underneath that he suffered mightily from bipolar disorder and alcoholism. Unfortunately, the two were inexorably connected.

    • 51 min
    Lenny Bruce: Laugh Till You Cry

    Lenny Bruce: Laugh Till You Cry

    Lenny Bruce invented the genre of satirical comedy against a back drop of depression, substance abuse and constant legal troubles for public obscenity. Original and innovative his diseases ultimately ended his life.

    • 1 hr 11 min
    Marie Curie: The Discovery of Radioactivity Through Deep Depression

    Marie Curie: The Discovery of Radioactivity Through Deep Depression

    Marie Curie discovered two elements and radioactivity while enduring deep clinical depressions, even as the sexism of the time tried to deny her the 2 nobel prizes she won.

    • 52 min

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