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The science behind spreading Christmas cheer and getting people to like you.
Not only is Elf a wonderfully silly and enjoyable Christmas movie. Its premise is based on a fascinating concept that can be explored using psychology.
What happens when an adult is raised by elves?
Not only do we get to revisit a great story but we can learn about:
Attachment Theory
Identity Development
Social Contagion and spreading good vibes
Family Systems
Nuerodivergence and upbringing effects
The psychology of Jor and Wonder
A great way to learn some science and develop your own sense of curiosity and wonder is to dive headfirst down rabbit holes of psychology and overly analyse movies for the sheer hell of it.
It's a great movie and there's lots to learn about ourselves, Christmas and happiness when we look beyond the candy canes and maple syrup.
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Chapters:
00:00 Diving into Buddy the Elf's Psychology
01:14 Psychological Underpinnings of Elf
04:47 Buddy's Positive Coping Strategies
06:04 Identity, Cultural Adaptation and Stages of Identity Development
09:20 Buddy's Social Interactions
11:43 Social Contagion Theory
13:38 Buddy's Authentic Enthusiasm
16:10 Neurodivergence and Buddy's Brain
21:10 Psychology of Joy and Wonder
24:27 Family Systems and Buddy's Impact
27:04 Lessons from Buddy the Elf
28:14 Conclusion: Spread Joy and Wonder
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What does psychology say about the role of information in building wisdom and lasting change in our lives?
There is an explosion in self-help content. From gurus on Tik Tok to 85,000 self-help books being published a year. But what actually works?
This episode explores the psychology of learning and how to put information into practice:
How to identify time-wasting nonsense?
3 steps to build a healthy content diet
The best forms of content for retention and lasting changes?
Take home strategy to build deeper wisdom
You'll come away with an improved growth mindset that doesn't fall for promises of instant results and is ready to put time and effort into cultivating wisdom instead of consuming it.
Recommended Books:
Slow Productivity - Cal Newport
The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
Replay - Ken Grimwood
Dalai Lama's Cat - David Michie
And The Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
The Mood Of Future Joys - Alastair Humphreys
Siddartha - Herman Hesse
Science References:
Dr Robert Sternberg - What is Wisdom and How Can We Develop It
Dr Patricia Alexander - The Development of Expertise: The Journey from Acclimation to Proficiency
Dr Paul Zak - The Neuroscience of Narrative Transportation: Why Inspiring Stories Make Us React
Dr Keith Oatley - Fiction: The Narrative Simulation of Social Worlds
Dr Richard Nisbett - The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently
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Chapters:
00:00 How to actually help yourself with self-help
01:18 The Paradox of Modern Self-Help
02:36 The Slow Wisdom of Ancient Cultures
03:06 The Harm of Fast Advice & Illusion of Instant Mastery
05:01 Cal Newport's Framework for Personal Development - Three Types of Self-Help Content
06:17 The Candy Bar of Self-Help: Social Media
07:06 The Protein Shake: Longer Form Content
07:50 The Full Meal: Books
10:08 The Power of Narrative Transportation
19:27 The Value of Diverse Perspectives
20:56 Building a House of Personal Growth
22:08 A Balanced Approach to Content Consumption
24:13 The Danger of Overwhelming Amounts Information and Instructions
27:07 Conclusion: Cultivating Wisdom
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Modern technology amplifies our fear and emotions. FOMO is on the rise.
Whether you are worried about being invited to a party, checking social media, or finding it harder to make decisions.
FOMO is increasingly driving our emotions and actions. It is a deeply natural feeling built into us through hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. But it hasn't kept up with our incredible pace of technological change.
Part of the reason we have such a decline in mental health is we can compare ourselves to the perfect lives all around us in the digital world and feel we don't stack up.
This episode will help you understand what's really going on:
The evolutionary roots of FOMO
How our modern world is making us anxious
Why ADHD is on the rise
Where to take back our focus
What to celebrate and look up to.
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Chapters:
00:00 Psychology of FOMO
04:03 Evolutionary Roots of FOMO
08:15 Modern Technology and Social Media's Role in FOMO
10:18 Consumer Culture, Crypto and Parasocial Relationships
14:31 Psychological Costs & Impact on Mental Health
15:50 FOMO and Decision Making
17:17 The Rise of ADHD
18:54 Abundance vs. Scarcity Mindset
21:09 The Joy of Missing Out (JOMO)
21:36 Practical Tips to Overcome FOMO
25:17 Conclusion: Embracing the Present
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The small but very real problems that hold you back in a big way.
Personal finances feel just that, personal. Yet most of our issues are fundamentally quite predictable and universal based on different mindset patterns and beliefs we pick up.
Money isn't a completely natural tool; it is a human invention that helps us overcome trade and resource accumulation problems. Learning the basics of how to think about money and deal with it allows for us to become a master of our own future.
From Lifestyle inflation to investing strategy or the issue of inaction feeling you have to learn more first
This episode covers the 14 biggest mistakes we make when we think about money.
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Chapters
00:00 14 habits that keep you poor
00:24 1st bad habit - Starting tomorrow
00:52 2nd - Starting too many and not finishing any
01:45 3rd - Paying yourself last
02:51 4th - Not investing in yourself
03:34 5th - Reading a lot and not doing
04:27 6th - Not knowing your income or expenses
06:02 7th - Getting comfortable with bad debts
07:28 8th - Not having an emergency fund
08:44 9th - Lifestyle inflation
10:17 Ad break
10:28 10th - Hanging with the wrong crowd
12:02 11th - Blaming your circumstances
12:35 12th - Focusing purely on saving now
13:16 13th - Investing without a strategy
14:38 14th - Waiting for perfect conditions
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The Psychology of the 5 Types of Non-Player Characters - How to Fix Them and Be a Main Character Thinker.
The same story plays out online every day. The same people are getting outraged about the same things again and again. Like Clockwork.
The human brain is highly optimised to rely on heuristics and simplistic decisions. Modern media hijacks this system to control our beliefs and emotions based on the agenda of other people.
This episode helps listeners build autonomy over their beliefs and emotions by learning the different types of Non-Player-Character:
The Conformist NPC - Believes the consensus politically correct ideas
The Contrarian NPC - Believes the opposite of the consensus and seeks conspiracy
The Disciple NPC - Believes their preferred leader
The Tribalist NPC - Follows the tribe and us vs them mentality
The Averager NPC - Seeks the middle ground without understanding the merits of an argument.
Learn the psychology of the processes behind each NPC type and how different types of critical thinking systems or defence systems get turned on and off based simply on who delivers the message.
Building your own worldview is one of the most important things you can do in an increasingly confusing and polarised world.
Sources:
Gurwinder - Why You Are Probably An NPC
People Shot to Death by US Police By Race
FBI Crime Data
USA National Suicide Data
Journal Review: Health of Vaccinated vs Unvaccinated Children
Vaccine Research Overview: The Vaccine Question
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Chapters:
00:00 Psychology of Modern Culture and Predictability of Crowds
01:24 The Brain's Information Processing Shortcuts
03:09 Gurwinder on NPC's
04:48 System One and System Two Thinking
07:08 The Influence of Social Media and Algorithms
07:56 #1 The Conformist NPC
14:38 #2 The Contrarian NPC
21:49 #3 The Disciple NPC
26:03 #4 The Tribalist NPC
30:29 #5 The Averager NPC
36:51 Strategic Cognitive Resource Allocation
38:12 Recap of NPC Types and Strategies
39:31 The Importance of Selective Deep Thinking
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The surprising techniques to be more yourself - that also make you more interesting.
There are endless self-help books and blogs about how to increase your charisma. In the same way you can increase your sales skills by following a checklist but there is something fake about it.
Instead, we look at little-known ways you can naturally get better at being yourself. We can then expand on our own natural tendencies and be more interesting to the people we are inherently interested in.
Some lessons in the episode:
Increasing the depth of your interests
Stop trying to 'fit in' to other peoples standards
Prioritise your areas of effort
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Chapters
00:00 Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
00:59 Create more interesting interests
02:31 The maths of interest - 10x depth = 100x more interesting
03:38 Examples of geeking out that are fascinating
09:10 When to stand out
14:31 When to chill out
16:14 Conclusions
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The Art of War: High School Edition
Mean Girls was one of the biggest movies of 2004 - Twenty years later it still touches the themes that teenagers struggle with the world over.
Navigating cut-throat social hierarchies and the urge to morph our identity to fit in.
Regina George is the villain of the movie. She is always ready to take others down and manipulate anyone around her to retain power. But there is more going on than meets the eye.
In this episode:
Where narcissism comes from
How high-school screws with our morals
Why do we become submissive to mean people
What people get wrong about Mean Girls and Regina George
By revisiting the story of Mean Girls and examining the character of Regina George in detail we can learn a lot about how we navigate the world ourselves.
This movie is full of psychological goodies for those looking for them and totally worth a re-watch for the curious amongst us.
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Chapters:
00:00 Psychology and Writing in Mean Girls
01:27 Relational Aggression in Adolescence
03:34 Regina George: The Rulebook
06:47 Social Dynamics Manipulation Tactics
10:17 Diagnosing Regina George's Personality Disorder
10:51 Antisocial Personality Disorder
11:48 Borderline Personality Disorder
13:27 Histrionic Personality Disorder
14:38 Narcissistic Personality Disorder
17:38 Understanding someone through their Relationships
21:22 The Real Tragedy of Regina George
25:52 Final Thoughts and Trivia
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What are the secret drivers behind the year's biggest shopping day, and why is there so much fighting?
Black Friday has become an inescapable part of life, with a deal notification even popping up as a type this... (thanks Grammarly I don't need 50% off)
But it wasn't always this way.
In the early 1950's Philadelphia after Thanksgiving, a flood of traffic would swell for the local football game and downtown shopping. Cops called the gridlock "Black Friday" as a derogatory term. It was slowly adopted by shops and morphed into the retail phenomenon we know today.
We pull the curtains back on this crazy day:
Psychological levers that get us to spend
Case studies of different fights and drama
How shopping impacts our emotions
What are we really seeking from a deal
Learn about why our rational thinking gets turned off as shops manipulate our minds to get us into a buying frenzy and how it can turn violent. And whose fault is it?
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Chapters:
00:00 The Contradiction of Black Friday
02:20 A Brief History of Black Friday
05:01 The Perfect Storm of Psychological Triggers
07:12 Case Studies of Black Friday Madness
09:29 Deindividuation, Competition, Social Contagion and Polyvagal Theory
11:34 Cyber Monday and Online Shopping
15:41 The Financial Costs of Black Friday
17:45 Global Perspectives on Black Friday
19:31 Human Nature Revealed by Black Friday
20:49 Social Dynamics & the Irrationality of Value
21:32 Final Thoughts on Black Friday
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A 3 part decision framework to understand and solve any frustration.
Ultimately all problems are a perception of the mind. Sometimes there is a way around or through the problem that we can't see.
This episode Sam Webster explores a framework to help us diagnose the problem we are experiencing so we can correctly deal with it.
Problems we want to have - Small problems that are connected to a bigger goal we want (see the last episode)
Problems we can't change - Realities of life we need to accept
Problems we don't want to have - Actual problems we need to creatively and logically solve
This episode covers the whole framework with details on steps 2 and 3. To listen to the full set of ideas for part one see the last episode on real advice to build gratitude that doesn't suck.
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Chapters:
00:00 Problems are illusions of the mind
01:22 3 types of problems you might complain about
02:02 #1 The problem you want to have
02:39 #2 Problems you have to accept
03:56 Our issue with dreaming of what isn't
08:05 #3 - the problems you dont want to have
08:51 The right mindset towards what can and can't be changed
09:58 Priorities to get right in life
11:16 Our plague of too many desires
14:29 Determining if a problem is worth dealing with
15:56 Growing up and wisdom
17:00 Using complaints as tools to reflect, learn about, and improve yourself
18:57 Wise words to leave you with
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Burn the manifestation guide and step away from the affirmations. Here are some unusual but realistic ways to build happiness, wonder and gratitude for the world around you.
We all know we "should" build more gratitude if we want to be happier. You may have heard of gratitude journalling or even be practising it. Today we explore ideas that aren't spoken about but make a difference to your baseline enjoyment of life.
Some themes we highlight:
The recurring problem with goals
Fighting the natural focus on flaws
Building a polymathic curiosity
Raising our baseline everyday gratitude
Zero affirmations
Whether you are highly sceptical of the positive or spiritual aspects of gratitude or just fed up with the endless bad news. It can feel hard to feel grateful when things seem so overwhelmingly difficult but this episode will teach you two ways to fight our focus on flaws and see reality with greater clarity.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Gratitude
01:35 Common Problems with Gratitude
04:12 Recurring theme - great achievements will come with problems
07:05 Planning for Problems
08:46 Gratitude in Relationships
09:31 Break Time
09:40 Contextualizing Gratitude and Building Curiousity
12:42 Appreciating Modern Innovations
13:18 Resources for Building Gratitude
16:01 Recap - Choose to see the positive side of things
17:58 Next Week's Episode
18:06 Outro
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5 practices to adopt and 3 bad habits to avoid to improve mental clarity and decision-making.
This episode covers some of the best lessons from Cal Newport's writing on Deep Work and Slow Productivity. We focus on becoming deeper thinkers who question easy answers and build opinions from a place of deep understanding.
Top lessons:
How to avoid shallow thinking traps
Understand where your opinions come from
Interval Training for concentration
Ways to think like an intellectual
Increase your working memory
Understand ideas from multiple perspectives
Enjoy slower and more purposeful progress
This episode is a blueprint for building wisdom and clarity of thought and we can't recommend Cal Newport's work enough and his ideas shared in this episode.
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Chapters:
00:00 The Erosion of Deep Thinking
01:46 Using Charlie Mungers Inversion Approach for deep thinking
02:22 [Bad Habit #1] - Outsourcing Our Thinking
03:25 [Bad Habit #2] - Prioritizing Fast Emotional Hits
04:19 [Bad Habit #3] - Checklist Mentality
05:02 System One vs. System Two Thinking
06:13 [Deep Habit #1] - Improving Information Quality + Reducing Quantity
07:46 Cal Newport's Timescales of Consumption
09:34 [Deep Habit #2] - Comfort with Boredom
11:03 Sanitizing Your Phone & Building Phone-Free Activities
13:35 [Deep Habit #3] - Cultivating Attention
16:23 Tracking Your Progress
18:00 [Deep Habit #4] - Increasing Working Memory
21:47 [Deep Habit #5] - Practice Being Intellectual
22:13 Pairing Primary and Secondary Sources
23:02 Richard Feynman's Idea Documents
25:46 Adopting Intellectual Curiosity
27:38 Benjamin Franklin's Deep Thinkers Club
28:12 Launching a Book Club
29:02 Rebranding the Podcast to Psychology Vs.
30:15 Starting a Second Podcast - History of Innovation
31:56 Episode Summary and Final Thoughts
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Stop getting in your own way by spotting the lies your mind wants you to believe.
Learn about the psychology behind the hidden biases that blind us from the truth. This episode explains the main reasons behind the biggest mistakes you make in life and how to overcome them.
Takes homes:
The link between IQ and the ability to lie to ourselves
Warning signs that you aren't being truthful
3 biggest mistakes Sam made last decade
3 ways to catch your own ego
This is a deceptively easy listening episode with big take-homes. Host Sam Webster Harris tells us about the 3 biggest mistakes he made in his life and how clearly ego was behind them. These stories show how blinded we can be by our beliefs that we fail to see the obvious answers right in front of us.
We round up the episode with some lessons to take forward to be more aware in our own lives of where we trip ourselves up.
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Chapters:
00:00 Unconscious bias and why we lie to ourselves
02:54 IQ and ego
05:28 How well do you understand information
07:58 Being aware of your flaws
10:44 Mistake 1 - Unscientific scientist
14:01 Mistake 2 - Unbalanced Balancer
18:14 Mistake 3 - Unentrepreneurial Entrepreneur
22:47 Recap
23:05 Tips on how to become an ego detective
24:27 Tip 1 - Write Down 3 Big Errors You Made
25:24 Tip 2 - Nurturing Strategies
26:46 Tip 3 - Find your low ego crowd
27:17 Outro
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How to use AI to avoid lazy thinking traps and think deeper, faster, and with greater perspective.
Tim O'Shea joins the podcast to talk about ways to genuinely improve your thinking with AI.
Employing a self-improvement coach is expensive. As well as a writing coach or a therapist or a coder or an accountant or an SEO strategist.
Generative AI has been heralded as giving us the tools to do all of these things on one simple interface. But the reality of using it can seem clunky and well-limited.
We explore ways to make the most of AI's like ChatGPT and Claude to improve your creativity and problem solve.
How to uncover lost memories
Improve your writing and storytelling
Get an elite advisor on anything
Think bigger and think differently
Generate useful and surprising ideas and connections.
Whether you want Warren Buffet to review your investing choices and teach you to be a better investor or you want Morpheus's advice on finding your purpose in life. With a playful approach you can unlock a lot fo fun and creativity and this episode should give you some ideas you haven't thought of before.
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Chapters:
00:00 Balancing technology and personal growth
03:45 Using AI as a guide
05:40 Creative prompts to spark ideas
08:15 Unlocking hidden memories using AI
10:00 How to ask for help
13:23 Writing and Creativity: A Personal Journey
17:05 Great stories happen to people who tell great stories.
19:13 Using AI for Personal Stories
25:46 Capturing elusive thoughts in real time
27:45 AI and Thought Translation
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Mental models, hard truths & priceless wisdom I wish I knew 10 years ago.
From how to really think about IQ or Money to establishing the point of your life in a confused society.
This episode covers 34 of my favourite and unintuitive lessons this year for getting along in the world without regrets.
Some of the main themes covered:
Pursuing the right things
Working with your emotions
Improving your career and work life
Making the most of your potential
Building your own independent beliefs
Focussing on what truly matters
Creating your own luck
Overcoming ego and identity
Seeing society with a rational viewpoint
If you enjoy psychology, philosophy and contemplating how the world and our minds work this episode will have a few insights for you.
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Growth Mindset Psychology:
Sam Webster explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.
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Chapters:
00:00 34 Lessons for life - Exploring Thought-Provoking Ideas
02:14 The Importance of Understanding Books
03:03 Are You Pursuing a Shadow Career?
03:41 The Reality of Side Hustles
04:23 The Necessity of Exercise
04:56 Doing Your Best Work When Not Working
05:48 Ideas are stepping stones
06:23 Money as a Tool
07:03 Life is Too Short for the Wrong Pursuits
07:45 The Importance of Approach
08:32 Practicing Desired Emotions
09:44 Finding Yourself
10:16 Developing Your Personal Voice
11:13 Discipline Over Talent
11:49 IQ and Success
13:10 Apply Yourself Accordingly
14:17 Making Others Feel Clever
15:07 Think Bigger
16:06 Setting Higher Standards for Yourself
16:26 No One Thinks About You as Much as You Do
17:02 Make Your Life Story Interesting
17:55 First Principles Thinking
19:05 Learn from Others' Mistakes
20:04 Too Much of Anything is Bad
21:07 Society is an Accident
21:44 Embrace Unplanned Opportunities
22:30 The World is Duct Taped Together
24:15 Question What You Take for Granted
26:02 Build Your Own Beliefs
28:04 Keep Your Identity Small
28:51 Understanding Biases
30:41 Empathy Makes the World Nicer
30:51 Life is About Contrasts
31:33 Anger is a Useless Emotion
32:30 Camera Angles and Stories
33:56 Big and Small Things Matter
34:34 Final Thoughts and Birthday Wish
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Conflicted, Confused, and Ready to Vote - Uncovering the discombobulated thoughts of the great undecided who will sway the election.
We dive into the hidden forces in our minds that sway our decisions when we don't know how to decide. From Free Will to Confirmation Bias, Appearances and a Turn of Phrase. What doesn't matter and what could make all the difference in a voters mind.
We cover:
Where do our preferences come from
How we shortcut confusing decisions into simple flawed decisions
The impact of last-minute scandals
What each side doesn't understand?
The irrational nature of sensible people
Who has been overlooked by politics and what are they thinking
The 60th US election coming on November 5th between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has been on the news non stop for a year. Finally, it will all be over and we can move on with our lives.
13% of people remain undecided but with their vote being crucially important in an otherwise 50:50 race, the nuanced factors that sway their thinking have never been more important.
Tune in to uncover the psychology of last-minute voters and the hidden mind games controlling the election.
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Growth Mindset Psychology:
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Chapters:
00:00 Beyond politics - the psychology of elections
02:27 Introduction to Election Tipping Points
03:16 Heuristics and Decision Making behind voter psychology
04:13 Voter Biases and Simplification
05:02 The Role of Vibes in Decision Making
05:39 Campaign Influence and Free Will
07:36 Impact of Random Events
09:00 Trump's Resilience to Scandals
09:26 Comparing Trump and Kamala Harris
15:37 Elon Musk's Influence
16:59 Campaign Strategies for the Final Week
20:43 The Power of Podcasts in Campaigns
23:10 Trump's Podcast Strategy
26:55 Kamala Harris's Debate Performance
27:38 Media Misconceptions About Psychology
33:43 Collective Dissatisfaction in Politics
36:43 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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We celebrate 'hard work" but forget to consider the benefits of thinking "hard thoughts".
This episode teaches how to navigate uncertainty without taking easy options by building a capacity for complexity.
Allow doubt to improve our decisions
Understand multiple causes behind outcomes
Reduce judgement of others
Improve your field of vision
Weight statistics properly
Take ownership of forming opinion without using others
Accept lower confidence and greater accuracy
The mind is full of complexity and it relentlessly tries to optimise and take shortcuts. This serves is well in many aspects but cultivating a practice of taking the harder path in our thinking allows us to see hidden truths behind out assumptions.
To arrive at better decisions we need to learn to balance uncertainty with statistics and see beyond our limited field of view. It isn't easy but the benefits can greatly improve your outcomes and your mindsets.
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Chapters:
00:00 Benefits of thinking hard thoughts
01:12 Optimizing for the wrong things
03:59 1st - Elimination of doubt
06:55 2nd - Single cause explanation to complex events
09:12 3rd - Justification of your own action whilst judging the actions of others
12:02 Morgan Housel - we are blind to the vast majority of what people are thinking
12:12 Lessons from the book 'Evil'
14:20 4th - Your own field of vision is the same as everyone else's
18:05 5th - The desire to prioritize stories over statistics
20:46 6th - Outsourcing our hard decisions to the opinions of pundits, consultants, and experts
24:09 7th - Overconfidence
26:21 Annie Duke - Thinking of bets
28:22 Accepting probabilities and the reality of a situation
29:33 Outro
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A lot of the self-improvement industry and advice is backwards. The more books we read the further away from our goals we become.
Ultimately we want to be happier yet we are accruing more and more things to fix before we are happy with ourselves.
In this episode, we explore the biggest paradoxes where the work we do can make us more brittle and breakable:
Effortlessness Paradox - The harder we try the harder we make it
Happiness Paradox - Pursuing Happiness instead chases it away
Validation paradox - Seeking external validation prevents internal validation
Emotions paradox - Suppressing emotions makes them overwhelm us
The Shadow - Rejecting our flaws makes them worse
Planning Paradox - Overplanning reduces adaptability
Self-Improvement Paradox - The more things you find to fix the more broken you feel
Searching and finding can be different things.
We learn a more subtle approach to self-improvement that spends more time building wisdom and focusing on smaller immediately actionable steps with less chasing and running in circles.
We find answers to the question "How do we balance the art of wanting to improve whilst also wanting to live in contentment in the present?"
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Growth Mindset Psychology:
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Chapters:
00:00 The Effortlessness Paradox
03:08 The Messy Reality of Self-Improvement
04:23 Introduction to the Growth Mindset Psychology Podcast
05:14 The Paradox of Pursuing Happiness
07:49 The Paradox of Validation
10:52 The Paradox of Emotions
12:53 Carl Jung and the Shadow Concept
13:49 Acceptance Over Rejection
15:07 The Planning Paradox
16:29 Understanding Uncertainty Tolerance
16:47 Steve Jobs' Journey of Adaptability
17:27 Embracing the Unexpected
18:06 The Paradox of Self-Improvement
18:44 The Dunning-Kruger Effect in Self-Help
19:49 The Slow Process of Real Change
22:12 Balancing Self-Improvement and Acceptance
25:22 The Timid Cat Analogy for Happiness
26:33 Final Thoughts and Farewell
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A masterclass on showing up as your best self. No toxic overworking or ultra-positive crap, but instead knowing and being yourself.
We learn how to:
Honestly understand our emotions
Resist unnecessary mental time travel
Distinguish our wants and our values
Get a grip on reality and get a grip on yourself with this short episode with no punches pulled, only real and important lessons.
Join host Sam Webster Harris on the Growth Mindset Pyscholgy podcast for an insightful exploration of mental strength and emotional resilience. This episode delves into the differences between mental strength and emotional suppression, and provides practical tips for harnessing mental resources, controlling self-defeating thoughts, and practicing emotional honesty.
Learn about 'mental time travel' and its impact on anxiety and depression, and discover mindfulness, meditation techniques, and grounding exercises to stay present.
Additionally, the episode covers 8 proven habits to build mental toughness, including gratitude, self-compassion, and embracing a growth mindset. Enhance your mental resilience and face life's challenges with greater fortitude with these valuable strategies.
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Chapters:
00:00 Sam: 3 habits to build mental strength
04:25 #1 Be Honest About Your Emotions
06:05 Practical step #1 - Self Reflection
06:15 Practical Step #2 - Naming Your Emotions
06:30 Practical Step #3 - Avoid Judgement
06:47 Practical Step #4 - Seek Some Feedback
07:19 #2 Be Present and Resist Unnecessary Mental Time Travel
09:38 Mindfulness, Meditation &Grounding Techniques
10:36 Schedule some reflections
10:56 Practicing Activities that Require Full Engagement
11:26 Genlty Reminding Yourself
13:20 #3 Distinguish Your Wants and Values
16:00 Reflection, Journaling, Visualization & Accountability
18:30 5 Bonus Habits
18:37 Cultivating Gratitude
19:21 Self Compassion
20:08 Setting and Communicating Your Limits
20:25 Social Support
21:10 Setting Goals and Plans
21:38 Building Growth Mindset = Building Mental Toughness
22:39 Send Off
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Unconventional Strategies to finish important things and ease the overwhelm in your life.
You might have a burning pile of unfinished side projects. For some reason reading another book on productivity doesn't solve the problem.
This episode covers uncommon ideas that actually work even for people with ADHD. This episode will help you:
Let go of baggage - cut the things slowing you down
Stop fighting - Work with your energy and interests instead of against yourself
Identify blockers - stop your projects getting sidetracked
Value your time - spend energy where it means the most
Overcome perfection - turn ideas into stepping stones
From handling creative constipation to finding your calling, understanding the psychology of intentional productivity will provide a kinder way to look at your goals and task list and get your ducks in a row.
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Chapters:
00:00 The Junkyard of Unfinished Projects
02:10 The Myth of Finishing Everything
03:02 The Power of Abandoning Unrewarding Tasks
04:30 Start more of What you Finish
05:51 The 80/20 Rule in Practice
08:22 Identifying and Overcoming Blockers
08:58 The Danger of Perfectionism
11:04 Absolute No Go's - The blockers you can't beat
14:06 When to use Delegation and Collaboration
14:27 The Pitfalls of Incomplete Processes
16:44 Growth Mindset and Leaning into Strengths
17:14 Identifying and Delegating Blockers
18:18 Valuing Your Time
20:12 The Paradox of Finishing Unwanted Tasks
21:35 Framework for Achieving Goals
23:33 The Power of Imperfect Action
26:25 Unblock Creative Constipation
30:05 Questions to Ponder and Final Thoughts
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Win friends and influence people by being yourself, with style
We all have different skills that are worth others knowing about. What isn't so easy is communicating those qualities in a believable, effective, and timely manner.
Today's episode will show you how to build and tell your story whilst crafting a better presence:
Psychology of authenticity
Identifying your real strengths
How to be memorable
Why a little kindness does go a long way
You don't need to change yourself but instead work on the art of uncovering the things you hide behind to help you put your best foot forward.
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Growth Mindset Psychology:
Sam Webster explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.
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Chapters:
00:00 The Power of Perception & Emotional Impact
01:42 Common Mistakes in Self-Presentation
04:58 Being Yourself: The Key to Authenticity
05:35 Developing Your Personal Style
08:12 The Concept of 'Show, Don't Tell'
08:51 The Power of Humor in Self-Presentation
10:07 Actions Speak Louder Than Words
12:09 Crafting Everyday Stories
14:02 Identifying Your Strengths & Turning Strengths into Stories
15:34 Communicating Your Qualities
18:08 Making Your Work Understandable
19:12 The Importance of Kindness
21:57 Sharing Your Cheese
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