Shoes, Booze and the Pursuit of Happiness (Pt 1)
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
They say the company Zappos is harder to get into than Harvard. Zappos may sell shoes, but its mission is to deliver WOW through a fun-focused company culture, making it one of the most coveted places to work in America. At the centre is CEO Tony Hsieh, obsessed with the hunt for happiness and driven by increasingly bold - and strange - ideas about how to find it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | There are moments in each of our lives that seem to change everything. |
| 0:08.3 | An unexpected diagnosis, the sudden end of a relationship, the loss of a job. |
| 0:13.4 | As our lives fear off course, it can feel like time is dividing into a before and an after. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Dr. Maya Shunker, a cognitive scientist, |
| 0:22.6 | and my new book, The Other Side of Change, |
| 0:25.3 | Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans, |
| 0:28.0 | is all about how we navigate these inflection points. |
| 0:31.2 | The other side of change pairs singular real-life stories |
| 0:34.4 | with scientific insights to help us find meaning in the tumult of change. |
| 0:39.3 | What if we saw the hardest moments in our lives, not simply as something to endure, |
| 0:44.1 | but as an opportunity to reimagine who we can be? |
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| 0:52.4 | reviews, saying, quote, it's impossible not to be moved. The other side of change, one of its coveted starred reviews, saying, quote, it's impossible not to be moved. The other side of change is out now. Get your copy |
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| 1:11.2 | Tony didn't think he needed rehab. |
| 1:19.5 | Some of his friends insisted that he did |
| 1:22.1 | and he had agreed reluctantly |
| 1:24.3 | to check himself into a luxury clinic in Park City, Utah. |
| 1:29.8 | But what exactly had he been doing that concerned those friends? |
| 1:34.5 | He called Tyler from the rehab place and asked him to make a list. |
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