Why Grit Isn’t Enough to Get What You Want | Angela Duckworth
8 September - 1 hour 18 minsAngela Duckworth, the psychologist who made “grit” a household word, sat down with Lewis and confessed something her research almost missed. Effort alone doesn’t build a great life. The situation you’re in does, and no one shapes that situation more than the person you marry. She traces it back to her own mother, a gifted painter who gave up her art for fifty years married to a man who walked past her paintings without a word.
Then Angela goes further, into a marriage crisis she and her husband Jason never talked about publicly. Both of them were try-harder people who worked themselves into misery during the 2008 crash, until Angela told him on a walk that she cried every night and didn’t w...
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Why You Feel Stuck and How to Actually Change | Dr. Katy Milkman
Dr. Katy Milkman, Wharton School professor, host of Choiceology, and co-director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative with Angela Duckworth, discusses How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. Covers Status Quo Bias, Fresh Start Effect, Temptation Bundling, and If-Then Plans, citing studies with Hengchen Dai, Peter Gollwitzer, Marissa Sharif, Hal Hershfield, Ayelet Fishbach, and Kaitlin Woolley.
1 hour 38 mins
4 September Finished
Money Loves Speed, but Wealth Loves Time | Sharran Srivatsaa
Sharran Srivatsaa, CEO and managing partner of Acquisition.com alongside Alex and Layla Hormozi, is a former Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse investment banker with a Vanderbilt University MBA and former professional tennis coach to Richard Branson and Bill and Melinda Gates. He discusses frameworks including the Four Money Monsters, Four Goods, Wealth Ladder, Golden Stairways, TIGA, and the 70/20/10 Rule, referencing Rich Dad Poor Dad and Vanguard ETFs VOO and VNQ.
1 hour 17 mins
2 September Finished
The Trapped Emotions Blocking Your Love and Health | Dr. Bradley Nelson
Dr. Bradley Nelson, chiropractor with 38 years experience and creator of the Emotion Code, Body Code, and Heart Code, founder and CEO of Discover Healing, discusses trapped emotions, Heart-Wall theory, and muscle testing methodology. He has certified over 17,000 practitioners across 108 countries, authored The Emotion Code, The Body Code, and The Heart Code, and references emotioncodenow.com and Albert Einstein’s frequency medicine concept.
1 hour 14 mins
31 August Finished
Your Body Language Is Telling You You're Not Safe | Amy Cuddy
Amy Cuddy, social psychologist, Harvard Business School lecturer, and former Kellogg School of Management faculty, discusses power posing, postural feedback, self-affirmation theory, and 4-7-8 breathing. Topics include her TED Talk research, meta-analyses of power posing studies, Alison Wood Brooks’s anxiety-reframing research, and her friendship with Alex Wubbels. References include What Every Body is Saying, 12 Rules For Life, and imposter syndrome data from Harvard Business School students.
1 hour 43 mins
28 August Finished
The Real Root of ADHD Isn't Trauma, It's This | Dr. Sasha Hamdani
Dr. Sasha Hamdani, board certified psychiatrist and best-selling author, discusses ADHD, ADD, and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), diagnostic misclassification, and gender disparities in diagnosis age. Topics include her book “Too Sensitive: Rejection, Resilience, and the Science of Feeling Deeply,” medication versus behavioral modification, amygdala hyperresponsiveness, misdiagnosis cycles involving antidepressants, and her personal ADHD diagnosis history.
1 hour 19 mins
26 August Finished
