Episodes
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In this episode, Sukh shares some thinking on how we're getting praise and appreciation wrong. We are conditioned to think that we don't deserve to hear praise and appreciation regularly, and it's only meant to be given infrequently. There's a lot of misconception about praise and appreciation, as well as little development in how to give praise and appreciation in good regular ways.
You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.
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In this episode, Sukh explores his thinking and writing on positive thinking, and what he's called the positive continuum. One end of the continuum is what he calls "Helpful Reframing", the middle is where we have "Toxic Positivity", and at the other end "Relentless Positivity".
He mentions work from the following sources:
https://positivepsychology.com/toxic-positivity-in-psychology/
https://www.managers.org.uk/knowledge-and-insights/article/toxic-positivity-its-on-the-rise-and-its-dangerous/
https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/news/susan-david-beware-toxic-positivity
You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.
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In this short episode, Sukh discusses how we're allowed to give ourselves permission to plan for good things that are healthy and fulfilling for us. We might normally call this self-care, and it's a good antidote for all the regular hard stuff we hear in the news, and through social media.
You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.
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In this episode, Sukh talks about apologies, shame and guilt. He explores how we have many missed opportunities to be empathetic, and as a result we can't share our vulnerabilities with others. He discusses the impact of social media on our ability to be empathetic, and instead we have to be right. As a result of being right, when something is sharing something we often have to balance a sense of being right vs valuing the other person for who they are and what they're saying. He ends by discussing how apologising should be about expressing shame and guilt, but shouldn't be laden with self-loathing language or about blaming others.
You can follow Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.
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In this episode, Sukh reflects on shares his experience of completing a Coursera MOOC on Resilience. It was with Dr Karen Reivich from the University of Pennsylvania.
Key things that are talked about in this episode are:
definition of resiliencevariables of resiliencethinking trapsreal time resiliencebuilding positive emotionstrengthening relationshipsYou can complete the strengths survey here "VIA Survey of Character Strengths" https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/testcenter
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In this episode, Sukh reviews the best-selling book Sapiens by author and historian Yuval Noah Harari.
The book is a dispassionate and relentless look at human history through the lens of three significant events for the development of Homo Sapiens as a species - 1. The Cognitive Revolution 2. The Agricultural Revolution and 3. The Scientific Revolution.
It's not an easy book to consume, because it is challenging to what we think we know of human history, and forces you to examine your own insights.
You can buy the book from Amazon here.
You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.
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In this episode, Sukh welcomes back guest Gemma Dale. They discuss the problem of calling this working from home, when the reality is we wouldn't choose to work from home under these circumstances - no social connections, no meetings in-person, having to homeschool if you're a parent or care for those in need.
They talk about the challenges of exiting lockdown without a clear plan of what a new working model will look like, and how there's opportunity to really seek out and explore what the workforce needs and wants, and balancing that with the needs of the organisation.
They also talk about the impact of lockdown on mental health and how we won't really know the impact for months (or maybe longer) due to lockdown causing people to experience trauma.
You can connect with Gemma on Twitter @hr_gem.
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References in the episode.
Flexible working post Covid-19: Myth busting https://hrgemblog.com/2021/02/02/flexible-working-post-covid-19-myth-busting/
It's not about working from home https://hrgemblog.com/2021/03/07/its-not-about-working-from-home/
World Economic Forum article - 6 charts that show what employers and employees really think about remote working https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/coronavirus-covid19-remote-working-office-employees-employers
BBC article - Goldman Sachs: Bank boss rejects work from home as the 'new normal' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56192048
Spotify HR Blog - Introducing working from anywhere https://hrblog.spotify.com/2021/02/12/introducing-working-from-anywhere/
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In this episode, Sukh takes a look at boundaries and the importance of boundaries on personal effectiveness. He discusses the impact of Covid on blurring our normal and regular boundaries. He also discusses how personal effectiveness can be impacted negatively by not establishing clear boundaries. And Sukh also discusses how a lack of boundaries can affect personal relationships.
You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.
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In this episode, Sukh talks with friends Fiona McBride and Mark Gilroy and they get all geeky about the Marvel Cinematic Universe! They talk about their favourite characters in the movie saga, their favourite actors, favourite cameos and their favourtie scenes!
Be warned, this is full of spoilers!
You can connect with Fiona on Twitter @fionamcbride
You can connect with Mark on Twitter @thatmarkgilroy
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All clips are property of Marvel and if they need to be removed, Sukh will do this with ease.
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Sukh discusses one of the unexpected things to arise from the situation with Covid which is the personal spotlight on the discomfort people have in being with their own thoughts, and the impact this has on our personal thinking capacity and capability.
Sukh also explores how we've been reliant on others, and how this may have reduced our capability to understand our own resilience and what we can survive.
He also presents a focus to allow people to recognise that just by living through the last 10 months, we have displayed for ourselves exactly what kind of resilience we have and the strength we've needed to get through.
You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.
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In this episode, Sukh talks about research on resilience and what we can learn from the different papers.
Resilience under conditions of extreme stress: a multilevel perspective - Dante Cicchetti https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2948722/
The Impact of Hope and Resilience on Multiple Factors in Neurosurgical Patients: Devika Duggal, Amanda Sacks-Zimmerman and Taylor Liberta https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5120968/
Positive mental health and its relationship with resilience - Kalpana Srivastava https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530291/
You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial
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After a 3 month hiatus, Sukh returns to 3 Good Podcast to talk about happiness.
He talks about how we are asking the wrong questions when it comes to being happy. There are a range of things which influence if we feel happy or not: how we express our emotions, the language we use for appreciation, what kind of meaningful things we're doing, the impact of money, and the quality of our relationships we have.
You can follow Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial
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Sukh takes time at the beginning of the episode to discuss his self-care routine in the face of COVID-19. He shares how for the first few weeks of working from home he was almost paralysed by doing very little for his self-care, and then took time to examine what he could do.
The main part of the episode is a book review of Grit by Angela Duckworth. The book answers the question, is talent enough for success to take place? Angela's research is fascinating and raises important insight into what enables success. Spoiler alert, talent alone isn't enough. The book's subtitle, The Power of Passion and Perseverance, gives an indication of what the book covers.
You can buy the book from Amazon here.
You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.
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In this episode, Sukh starts by addressing some myths about positive psychology:
- That if you cultivate positivity it means dismissing or not feeling negative emotions
- That if you are facing a physical health or mental health condition and aren't thinking positively, then you're causing your own problems
- That if you're feeling a 'negative' emotion, you can control it
He also talks about how to build positivity by paying attention to certain types of activity, and making them a more regular part of our daily habits.
You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.
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In episode 34, Sukh discusses the everyday boring, routine stuff we should be doing, but don't, that would lead to a better life. He put out a tweet on Twitter asking the question: "What are the boring/routine things that people should do, but don't, that would enable a good life to be had?"
He's incorporated many of the responses and reads them out as part of the episode. You can read the thread here https://twitter.com/sukhpabial/status/1233838493484363777
You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.
The book reference was Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker.
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In this episode, Sukh focuses on why we talk about self-awareness as doing 'the work'? What does self-awareness actually help us with? How can some people be self-aware and yet awful people? What can we do to have a stronger moral and ethical compass after self-awareness has been raised?
You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.
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In this episode, Sukh discusses why it's so difficult to find empathy with others. What are the things at play that challenge empathy? Why is it difficult to create the time, energy, and personal space for empathy to be more readily available?
If you enjoy this episode, be sure to let Sukh know by liking and leaving a review on Apple Podcasts, or right here on Podbean!
You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial.
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In this episode, Sukh discuss if it's ok to be angry, how we understand anger, and what we can do to release our anger in healthy and appropriate ways.
The podcast episodes Sukh talks about, are:
Freakonomics Radio Ep 316 - A conversation with PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi http://freakonomics.com/podcast/indra-nooyi-update/
Freakonomics Radio Season 8 Ep 14 - Who Decides How Much a Life is Worth? http://freakonomics.com/podcast/who-decides-how-much-a-life-is-worth_radio/
Brene Brown TED talk - The power of vulnerability https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability
Brene Brown TED talk - Listening to shame https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame
Under the Skin podcast - Russel Brand and Brene Brown - Vulnerability and power https://www.russellbrand.com/podcast/85-vulnerability-and-power-with-brene-brown/
Brene Brown - The Call to Courage - Netflix Special https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81010166
The Learning and Development Podcast with David James https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-learning-development-podcast/id1466927523
You can connect with Sukh on Twitter @sukhpabial
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