Podcast appearances and mentions of Emily Balcetis

Are you constantly switching between tasks, juggling a million things, and feeling like you're getting nowhere? What if I told you that multitasking is secretly draining your productivity and costing you more than you realize? In this episode of BUILD, I sit down with Emily Balcetis, a leading researcher on vision, focus, and motivation, to uncover the science of achieving more with less effort. Emily shares groundbreaking research on how top executives and leaders either maximize their time—or sabotage it without even realizing. We dive deep into: - Why most people only focus on tasks for 3 minutes at a time (and how to fix it) - The cognitive cost of task-switching and why it's making your work harder than it needs to be - The simple mindset shift that helped Michael Phelps dominate the Olympics—and how you can use it to level up your life - How to leverage your calendar and schedule your success like the world's top performers - The hidden ways that leadership and emotional intelligence impact trust, morale, and business success If you're tired of feeling stuck in a cycle of distractions, frustration, and unfinished projects, this episode is a must-watch. Emily's research will change how you approach your work, your goals, and your time—forever.

In this conversation, Emily Balcetis discusses how we can embrace the power of visualization to achieve your goals. Emily's research-backed strategies provide a fresh perspective on how we can use our powerful lminds and eyes to create the life we desire. She shares insights on how our visual environment influences our behavior and offers practical tips for setting ourselves up for success. Key Takeaways: How to accurately track progress and use it for motivation The impact of visual focus on our perception of goal achievability When to narrow our focus and when to widen our perspective Practical ways to frame our environment for success The connection between what we see and the actions we take For full show notes, click here! Connect with the show: Follow us on YouTube: @TheOneYouFeedPod Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Follow us on Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Dr. Greg Kelly interviews Dr. Emily Balcetis, a renowned associate professor from New York University, about the intricate interaction between vision, motivation, and behavior. Dr. Balcetis shares insights from her latest book, "Clearer, Closer: How Successful People See the World," shedding light on how visual perception significantly impacts our ability to achieve goals.Sponsored by Qualia NAD+: https://qualialife.com/nad15. Use code nad15 when you shop Qualia NAD+ for 15% off your order. Get in touch. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qualialife/. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/qualialife. Email: support@qualialife.com.com.

(NOTAS Y ENLACES DEL CAPÍTULO AQUÍ: https://www.jaimerodriguezdesantiago.com/kaizen/196-visualizacion-paracaidistas-sin-paracaidas-ahorrar-para-la-jubilacion-y-maratones/)Imagina asomarte desde un avión, al vacío, a 25,000 pies de altitud. Claro, que si eres como yo, no tendrás ni idea de cuánto son 25,000 pies. Son 7620 metros. Es decir, más de 7 km y medio. A esa altitud, los paracaidistas a menudo necesitan usar bombonas de oxígeno. O eso he leído, por lo que sea no lo he comprobado. Ahora que tenemos una idea más o menos clara volvamos al avión. Te decía que imaginaras asomarte. El suelo se ve muy lejos, todo parece muy pequeño y el aire, helador, retumba en tus oídos. Imagina ahora que te dejas caer. E imagina que lo haces sin paracaídas.He echado unos números rápidos y tendrías por delante poco más de dos minutos antes de llegar al suelo.Imagina, y esto te será más fácil de imaginar, que, por lo que sea, tu objetivo no es acabar decorando el suelo con tus entrañas. No. Si te has dejado caer, ha sido con la intención de aterrizar en una red especial, de 30 metros por 30 metros de lado, que te espera allá abajo. Y, de paso, batir el récord del mundo de salto sin paracaídas. Eso hizo Luke Aikins en 2016. 30 metros por 30 metros es una superficie aparentemente grande: son 900 metros cuadrados. Claro, que a 7 kilómetros y medio de distancia, aquello es como enhebrar una aguja. Aikins cuenta cómo, a medida que descendía, podía ver las montañas a su lado, los ríos serpenteando en el suelo… pero que él sólo buscaba una cosa: luces blancas. De hecho, antes de saltar, un amigo le dio un breve consejo en inglés: White, you are alright; red, you are dead. Blanco, Todo bien. Rojo estás muerto. Y es que, para facilitar un poco esta locura, en tierra pusieron luces como las que utilizan las pistas de aterrizaje de los aviones. En rojo la zona alrededor de la red. Vamos, donde más vale no caer. Y en blanco brilla la zona interior de la red. Ese es el objetivo.Cuenta Akins que eso fue en lo único en lo que se enfocó. Que, de hecho, esa fue la clave, ese foco concentrado en algo tan pequeño es lo que le permitió hacer ese salto, hacer lo que parece imposible para cualquier persona, saltar de un avión sin paracaídas y no sólo encontrar, sino enhebrar, una aguja en un pajar. Patrocinador del capítulo: Morfeo.com ¿Te gusta kaizen? Apoya el podcast uniéndote a la Comunidad y accede a contenidos y ventajas exclusivas: https://www.jaimerodriguezdesantiago.com/comunidad-kaizen/

You're a driven leader who is accustomed to setting goals. But let's be honest, they probably don't always pan out. Is it a willpower issue? Are your targets unrealistic? Do you maybe need a new approach? Why does success remain elusive?    To answer these questions, Eleanor sought out the insight of a world-renowned researcher on the topic of setting and achieving goals. Dr. Emily Balcetis is an American social psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at NYU. Her research focuses on people's perception of the world and how our motivations, goals, and emotions influence it, and she's here today to shed light on the science behind setting and achieving goals.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/ai37

Emily Balcetis is a social psychologist and professor of psychology at NYU and author of Clearer, closer, better. She is fascinated by how we look at things and has performed groundbreaking research showing how we can change our perspective to attain our goals. In this episode, we hear how how what we see creates our perception of the world around us. We hear about how much of what we see is in direct focus. How much is in our peripheral vision and the role the brain plays in filling in the gaps, not just in our vision but also in our subjective experience. We learn how this knowledge about our subective focus can be used in the context of health and fitness to enhance performance, simply by changing how we look at a task. Expect to learn about how we can sustain motivation and the importance of factoring in the inevitability of obstacles in the path to a goal. Plus we learn how best to take action that gives us the best chance of sustaining our new years resolutions. https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/emily-balcetis.html Dr Baletis' book : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Clearer-Closer-Better-Successful-People/dp/1524796468

Have you ever felt frustrated when trying to achieve a specific goal? Maybe you need to see success to achieve it. Dr. Emily Balcetis, Professor of Social Psychology at NYU, whose TED Talk has surpassed 4 million views, explains the biology-brain connection between what you see and what you can actually get done, also known as Vision Science. In her recent book, “Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World,” Emily provides insights into how highly successful people tend to see the world differently and how their methods can be replicated. One of the tactics is narrowing your focus of attention. Doing so makes goals seem more attainable. In return, it boosts your psychology, pumping confidence and gearing the body up to the challenge physiologically. To conclude the show, Emily expands on other useful strategies and provides practical suggestions to use these powerful tactics in your business and everyday life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr Emily Balcetis is a social psychologist and Professor of Psychology at New York University, whose research focuses on how our visual perception influences motivation, and how we can leverage the cognitive biases inherent in the human mind in a way that makes us more effective at achieving long term goals. She has written 74 scientific publications, given two TED talks, and is the author of the 2020 book: Clearer, Closer, Better. This conversation provides an introduction into some of the key insights from Dr Balcetis' research, including: — How our everyday perceptions can be thought of as illusions of the mind — Why positive visualisation and vision boards can actually be counterproductive when pursuing goals — How to use “framing”, a narrow focus, “widening the bracket”, and materialisation to achieve goals — How Michael Phelps uses “foreshadowing failure” to succeed and how you can too. — The crucial link between systolic blood pressure and motivation And more. You can learn more about Dr Balcetis pioneering research by going to: https://www.spamlabresearch.com. --- Over the last 20 years, Dr Emily Balcetis has become one of the most sought-after voices on motivation science, researching the factors that contribute to differences in judgments and behaviors among individuals. She delivers lectures, offers training and keynoting hundreds of programs and events at secondary schools, colleges, universities, community organizations, and corporations on the social, cognitive, and motivational mechanisms that lead impact obstacles and successes as people pursue their goals. She is also a frequent commentator on media, blogs, and podcasts, delivering a voice filled with knowledge and respect for the varied challenges people face. --- Interview Links: — Dr Balcetis' website: https://www.spamlabresearch.com — Dr Balcetis' books: https://amzn.to/3SfrUtO

This series, I'm sharing insights from my book Work/Life Flywheel.In this episode, I discuss how combining different techniques will help you with your goal-setting and attainment.Chapter Summary:Materialising your goals - seeing them as real-life things - increases your chances of meeting and exceeding them.Fixing your attention on a single point contracts your perception of distance, inducing a visual illusion that it's nearer.The secret to maximising your chances of success is pairing positive visualisation with ‘foreshadowing failure'.Being specific about how you'll judge success in advance avoids being tricked by your unreliable memory.Setting objective milestones ensures you're always heading towards your ‘north star.'Aiming high and having people to help hold us accountable, pushes us to reach our potential.LINKS:Book Ollie to speak with your teamOllie's LinkedInFuture Work/Life NewsletterWork/Life Flywheel: Harness the work revolution and reimagine your career without fear, is out now. You can order your copy HERE (UK) or HERE (US).Here's what Emily Balcetis, author of Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World, Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University, has said about it:"Work/Life Flywheel offers honest and practical advice from accomplished industry mavens coupled with candid reflections on their real experiences when trying to recreate themselves professionally and personally. A must-read for anyone looking to make bold changes in their career and at home.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Show notes: [0:51] Her journey and how she got into the work she does today [7:44] Effective goal-setting strategies [13:07] Visual hacks and achieving goals [25:00] How do successful people see the world? [31:11] Visualizing and believing in personal goals [40:30] Where to find Dr. Balcetis [41:04] Outro Who is Dr. Emily Balcetis?   Emily Balcetis, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at New York University. She received her PhD from Cornell University in 2006 and is the author of more than seventy scientific publications. Her work has been covered by Forbes, Newsweek, Time, Telemundo, National Public Radio, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Cosmopolitan, and GQ. She has received numerous awards from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, the International Society for Self and Identity, the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. Balcetis has lectured at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago, among other renowned institutions, and she delivered a TEDx New York talk that has been viewed by several million people. She lives in New York City with her husband and their son. Connect with Dr. Balcetis: FB: Emily Balcetis IG: @emilybalcetis   Grab a copy: https://bit.ly/46Wtncr Links and Resources: Peak Performance Life Peak Performance on Facebook Peak Performance on Instagram  

In this enlightening episode of the MindHack podcast, we're joined by Dr. Emily Balcetis, an associate professor of psychology at NYU. Dive into the intriguing world of perception, motivation, and decision-making as Dr. Balcetis shares her groundbreaking research. Learn how your environment can nudge you towards better choices, why cutting out temptations might backfire, and the subtle art of building new habits. Whether you're looking to change your snacking habits or find the motivation to hit the gym, this episode offers actionable insights for everyone.More on Emily Balcetis:Website TwitterInstagramClearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the WorldEmily Balcetis | TEDxNewYorkOther books hereBooks and other interesting mentions:Dr. Anne HoldingJoan Benoit SamuelsonMendiProprioceptionStardust Song - Frank SinatraRethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation by Gabrielle Oettingen | WOOP Method Peter GollwitzerDear Data

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Recommend this show by sharing the link: pod.link/2Pages I remember reading that one of the ways to become luckier is to consider yourself a lucky person. So - whether or not you think of yourself as lucky - if you had to name your lucky break, what would it be? That moment when things tipped in your favor, when you inadvertently unlocked the secret to the next level or noticed a clue to a hidden door; that moment when things changed?  Dr. Emily Balcetis is one of the most sought-after voices on Motivational Science. Her research sees her delving into the differences in judgments and behaviors from person to person. Emily shares what she finds out through her keynote speaking and her writing, and continues to shape and define the cutting-edge research in her role as Director of the Social Perception, Action and Motivation Lab. Get‌ ‌book‌ ‌links‌ ‌and‌ ‌resources‌ ‌at‌ https://www.mbs.works/2-pages-podcast/  Emily reads two pages from ‘How to Change' by Katy Milkman. [reading begins at 14:55]   Hear us discuss:  What to trust in the world, and what to not: “Sometimes what we're going to know, is that we don't know. And what you do know is that you might not be right.” [9:21]  | Navigating failure and being kind to yourself: “It doesn't need to be a failure, the experience can be labeled a learning opportunity.”  [19:55] | The complex relationship between the journey and the reward. [25:15] | How optimism and pessimism affect the pursuit of goals: “The fear of the unknown stands in the way of people hitting the reset button.” [31:01] | Must you say no to the present in order to say yes to the future? [33:48] | “Don't hesitate to seek out additional perspectives.” [38:34]

Jak uspět v práci i v osobním životě Je možné mít čas na kariéru, vztahy, a dokonce i sami na sebe? Všichni své kariéry rozjíždíme s dobrými úmysly. Jak se ale v práci zvyšuje stres a napětí, propadne řada z nás dříčské mýlce. Říkáme si: když ještě trochu přidám, zvládnu to. Ať ale makáme, jak chceme, povinnosti nás vždycky předběhnou. Pracujeme více a spíme méně, v kanceláři problémy řešíme a doma neustále nějaké vytváříme, chodíme na čím dál více schůzek a chybíme u čím dál více rodinných večeří a posezení s přáteli. Předpokládáme, že časem si budeme moci dopřát pauzu a věnovat se zdraví a vztahům. Z „časem“ se ale brzy stane synonymum pro „nikdy“. Jakmile někteří lidé objeví tuto nepříjemnou pravdu, dupnou na brzdu ctižádosti. Za tuhle volbu se ale také platí jistá daň. Skončíme s nevyužitým potenciálem, nižším příjmem a dalšími ztrátami. Stres a šílená pracovní doba nám už nedrtí zdraví ani osobní život, nesplněné profesní sny a ambice nám ale mohou úplně stejně zdrtit duši. Existuje ještě nějaké jiné řešení? Je možné mít čas na kariéru, vztahy, a dokonce i sami na sebe? Možné to je a přesně o tom je tato kniha: jak vyhrát v práci a zároveň uspět v osobním životě. Řekli o knize: „Výjimečná kniha plná inspirace i praktických rad. Zkušenosti, o které se s námi Michael s Megan dělí, získali během mnoha let práce jako jedni z nejvyhledávanějších profesionálních koučů v Americe. Dvojitou výhru vřele doporučuji!“ — CHRIS McCHESNEY, autor bestsellerů, výkonný ředitel společnosti FranklinCovey „Dosáhnout úspěchu neznamená obětovat osobní život a naplněný osobní život není podmíněný obětováním úspěchu. V této silné knize se Michael s Megan podělili o způsoby, jakými se lze dopracovat ke kouzelnému stavu, kdy si i velmi pracovití lidé dokážou opět plně užívat čas strávený s rodinou a přáteli. Velmi doporučuji všem, kdo chtějí zvítězit ve všech oblastech života.“ — LAURA VANDERKAM, autorka knih Off the Clock a Juliet's School of Possibilities „Tato kniha je plná myšlenek, které plodí další nápady, i nástrojů, které pomohou i těm nejupracovanějším profesionálům přetvořit napětí mezi prací a osobním životem v tu pravou dvojitou výhru.“ — JOHN C. MAXWELL, zakladatel společnosti The Maxwell Leadership Enterprise „Všichni se potýkáme s balancováním mezi osobním a profesním životem, které nás stojí spoustu času i energie. Michael Hyatt a Megan Hyatt Miller dokazují, že nemusí jít o Pyrrhovo vítězství. Vyhrát totiž můžete na obou frontách, stačí se řídit jejich jasnými a praktickými radami.“ — JOHN TOWNSEND, PhD, spoluautor knihy Boundaries, autor bestsellerů podle žebříčku New York Times „Strhující a moudrý průvodce proměnou z člověka, na kterého všechno padá, v toho, kdo má svůj život pevně v rukou. Váš pracovní tým i rodina vám tisíckrát poděkují.“ — EMILY BALCETIS, autorka knihy Clearer, Closer, Better, docentka psychologie působící na univerzitě NYU „Michael Hyatt a Megan Hyatt Miller vynalezli systém transformace vlastní výkonnosti i vztahů. Pokud hledáte ten ‚dílek skládačky‘, který, když zapadne, vrátí vám čas a získáte opět kontrolu nad vlastním životem, běžte si (poklusem!) pro tuhle knihu.“ — JULIE SOLOMON, moderátorka podcastu The Influencer Podcast „Výborná a velmi aktuální kniha, která konečně reaguje na humbuk kolem kultury #dření, a to zkušeně a s důkazy v rukou. Jasná připomínka toho, že skutečně existuje jiná (lepší) cesta životem.“ — BRUCE DAISLEY, autor knihy Eat Sleep Work Repeat, bývalý zástupce ředitele Twitteru pro Evropu, Střední východ a Afriku „Michael Hyatt a Megan Hyatt Miller pomohli tisícům lidí zbavit se okovů, které jim bránily nalézt rovnováhu mezi pracovním a osobním životem. A nyní své zkušenosti vtělili do čtivé, promyšlené a velmi užitečné knihy.“ — ALEX SOOJUNGKIM PANG, zakladatel společnosti The Restful Company, autor knih Odpočinek a Shorter „S Michaelem jsem se seznámil před pár desítkami let, kdy jsem pro něj pracoval jako výkonný kouč. Rychle se z nás stali blízcí přátelé a on se vyvíjel z role korporátního vůdce v průvodce myšlenkami o vedení jako takovém a o životě. Mluvím o tom proto, že jsem ho přímo pozoroval, jak spolu se svou neuvěřitelně nadanou obchodní partnerkou a dcerou Megan všechna pravidla nastíněná na stránkách této skvělé knihy skutečně žije. Vyhrát v práci a uspět v osobním životě je možné. Doporučuji vám popadnout tužku a ponořit se do následujících stránek, abyste obojí dokázali.“ — DANIEL HARKAVY, zakladatel společnosti Building Champion „Michaela znám desítky let, a kdykoli něco vypráví, vím, že to rozhodně bude k něčemu. Tato kniha je toho jasným důkazem – praktická jako vždy, navíc ale jde i do hloubky.“ — JOHN ELDREDGE, autor bestsellerů včetně knihy Pozor! Srdce muže „Dvojitá výhra je čtení, které vám změní život.“ — PATRICK LENCIONI, výkonný ředitel a zakladatel The Table Group, autor bestsellerů 5 příčin selhávání týmů a Výhoda Autor: Megan Hyatt Miller, Michael Hyatt Typ knihy: audiokniha, e-kniha, tištěná kniha Překlad: Anna Petráková Vazba: pevná vazba Délka audioknihy: 4:58 h Počet stránek knihy: 208 Původní název: Win at Work and Succeed at Life Audioknihu Nadčasový produkt si můžete koupit v nejlepším obchodě s audioknihami Audiolibrix. Knihu a e-knihu Nadčasový produkt si můžete koupit na webu nakladatelství Audiolibrix

In this series, I'm resharing 12 of my favourite episodes since I launched the Future Work/Life podcast.In today's episode, you'll hear my conversation with Emily Balcetis from April 2022.Find out more HERE.-------------------------You can get in touch or find out more about me using on of the links below:BOOK A KEYNOTE OR ASK-ME-ANYTHING SESSIONLinkedIn | Future Work/Life Newsletter | Future Work/Life WebsiteMy bestselling book, Work/Life Flywheel: Harness the work revolution and reimagine your career without fear, is out now. You can order your copy HERE (UK) or HERE (US). Here's what Emily Balcetis has said about it:“Work/Life Flywheel offers honest and practical advice from accomplished industry mavens coupled with candid reflections on their real experiences when trying to recreate themselves professionally and personally. A must-read for anyone looking to make bold changes in their career and at home”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In my most recent episode, I am joined by top motivation science speaker, author, and associate professor of psychology at NYU, Dr. Emily Balcetis. Emily has over 70 published scientific pieces of writing, her fantastic work has been featured by numerous publications and outlets such as Forbes, Newsweek, Time, and more. She has been a featured speaker of TEDxTalks, various media outlets, podcasts, universities, community organizations, and corporations. Over the course of 20 years, Emily has become one of the most sought-after voices on motivation science.  Most recently, Emily has written and published a fantastic, insightful book, “Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World.” Bill and Emily discuss concepts, practices, and ideas found in her new book.  Here are a few takeaways:  The psychology and science of motivation  How to set goals, follow through, and achieve them  What is visual experience and how can it help?  Multitasking and task-switching  Growing your toolbox to get the job done   As a CIO and Business IT Leader here are More wins you will get by listening: (1:50) Bill: “Everybody listening her has goals and things they're trying to achieve and so I think as we go along there's more science and more research than 20 years ago.”  (3:30) Emily: “The origins of psychology and motivation science from those studies of how frequently we should give little food pellets to pigeons is really the basis for some of the most pressing questions that we're grappling with today as scientists.”  (4:30) Emily: “People have thought vision is special, they think it's the one sense that cannot be influenced by what we're thinking, by our internal world. I disagree. Our visual experiences that we're consciously aware of, that we recognize, are not the same and we don't go about it in the same way.”  (5:30) Emily: “If we are aware of that, we can harness that as a superpower that we have to help us better meet our goals, or to understand why we're struggling in the first place.”  (6:30) Emily: “Mental representation, that is one aspect of visual experience, the image that comes to your mind when you think about a concept. We also study other elements of visual experience like where I orient visual attention. Do I really pay attention to everything that's there or just a subset of what my eyes are focusing on?”  (7:00) Emily: “We study all of that in a controlled sense. Here's a finish line for example, it's in the same place for everyone but we don't see distance the same way. It will look farther to you than me, or vice versa, depending on other factors we throw into that calculation.”  (15:30) Emily: “The way we think about time is what stands in our way of doing our best work and meeting our goals, especially when it comes to something that might need our daily investment or continual investment for something that won't reap results until a far off future.”  (16:00) Emily: “When people feel like something is far away, it is challenging to make that daily sacrifice, and so oftentimes they don't do it or they think they'll work on it tomorrow.”  (16:30) Emily: “If we take that idea of narrowed focus of attention and apply it not so much to literally what our eyes are focused on in our environment but cognitively what am I focusing my thoughts on, my visualizations right now.”  (18:30) Emily: “Why do people give up? Why do they throw in the towel? Why do they not go out to exercise in the first place? Their beliefs about that distance demotivates them from even trying in the first place.”  (20:30) Emily: “Time is an element that can stand in our way, and what can we do to contract time when time is the problem.”  (22:30) Emily: “With visual experience, there's a direct connection between what we see and what we do. And a lot of the times that connection isn't something that we're aware of.”  (27:00) Bill: “So you're making the cognitive load of you're setting yourself up for success because the vision is so powerful that it either can support or it can override depending for motivation.”  (27:40) Emily: “Cognitive psychologists have said, ‘No, there isn't such a thing as multitasking, it's task switching.' It's just how quickly can you ping back and forth between things that might seem incompatible to be doing.”  (29:30) Emily: “A lot of people don't like that experience of multitasking as much as they might like the experience of flow.”  (30:00) Emily: “Rather than trying to figure out is it good or is it bad, can we do it, can we not, let the philosophers figure that one out. Instead, why don't we just think about it as a tool that there are different things that happen to our brain when we multitask or task switch and let's be aware of it and use it to our advantage.”  (32:30) Emily: “Stress isn't always bad. It can jumpstart our neurological architecture that can help us make decisions better, it can think about what is that flight fight response doing.”  (33:30) Emily: “Let's be aware of what multitasking, task switching does to us, and let's be conscientious in how we use it.”   (35:30) Bill: “Goal setting and achievement?”  (35:35) Emily: “Step one is thinking about fresh starts; anything that we give psychological import to can be a fresh start. Choose a moment for a fresh start where people feel like they can put the past in the past and not carry baggage moving forward.”  (37:00) Emily: “The second one is a lot of people like dream board within their businesses that reflects their desired outcome. It is important to know where are we headed? What is our five-year goal or 10-year plan? We need the ebbs and flows.”  (39:00) Emily: “We also need to add foreshadowing obstacles. We need to think about what's going to stand in our way, what are the possible challenges that I might experience, and troubleshoot possible solutions in advance of experiencing them.”  (39:30) Emily: “If you are up against a major obstacle professionally, you're going to be short on time, resources, people, power, and at a heightened level of anxiety which is not going to let us be our most creative selves.”  (41:30) Emily: “Some disciplines, some industries, their brains are better wired, it's more habitual for them to be thinking about risk and mitigating it in advance. Sometimes people don't go through that activity is that they often think that this wouldn't happen to them, bad things don't happen to them.”  (42:30) Emily: “We have this cognitive illusion, this cognitive bias to underweight bad things and overweight the likelihood of good things happening to us.”  (47:30) Emily: “We need to expand our toolbox of tools that are available to us to help us get the job done, I encourage everybody to keep building out that toolbox of strategies that they have to help get their jobs done.”    Resources  Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World: Balcetis, Emily: 9781524796464: Amazon.com: Books  Emily Balcetis' LinkedIn  Dr. Emily Balcetis: Tools for Setting & Achieving Goals - Huberman Lab  Dr. Emily Balcetis | NYU SPAM Lab (spamlabresearch.com)  Follow Emily on Twitter 

In this episode of GODMODE™, William Lam and Michael Mahoney sit down with Dr. Emily Dr. Emily Balcetis, an American social psychologist and associate professor of psychology at New York University. The discussion centers around Dr. Emily Balcetis's research on how people's perceptions of the world are influenced by their motivations, goals, and emotions. Dr. Emily Balcetis shares insights from her lab's work on uncovering tools that people may not be aware of and helping them to develop intentionality and explore their own personal body, mindset, and social environment.William and Michael also highlight Dr. Emily Balcetis's meticulous nature in her work and her compassion for individuals and humanity. Dr. Chavez shares moving stories from her experiences with the Upgrade program, which has transformed people's lives.The conversation also delves into mental construals and how they can affect decision-making. Dr. Emily Balcetis explains a 90-year timeline exercise that helps clients prioritize their goals and focus on achieving what truly matters to them. They also explore the concept of inattentional blindness and its impact on face-to-face communication, referencing the famous gorilla experiment. Dr. Emily Balcetis touches on how filters from past beliefs and conversations can limit human potential, and they discuss the importance of gaining different perspectives to see the bigger picture.Overall, the episode offers fascinating insights into psychology and how we can improve our decision-making and perceptions of the world.About Dr. Emily Balcetis:Dr. Emily Balcetis is an American social psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on people's perception of the world and how their motivations, goals, and emotions influence it, especially with regard to visual perception.She was a recipient of the SAGE Young Scholars Award from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology in 2011. Also in 2011 Her co-authored paper with David Dunning titled Considering the Situation: Why People are Better Social Psychologists than Self-Psychologists was named Best Paper by the International Society of Self and Identity. In 2016, she received the International Society for Self and Identity Outstanding Early Career Award and the Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences. She is also the author of Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World Currently, she is the Lab Director of New York University's - SOCIAL PERCEPTION ACTION and MOTIVATION LAB.---HIGHLIGHTS:Dr. Emily Balcetis discusses her research on people's perception of the world and how their motivations, goals, and emotions influence it.She is working to discover the tools that people are using but are not aware of and to help them uncover other tools that they have within their own personal bodies, mindset, and social environment.She shares her experience of the transformative conversations she had with people who went through the Upgrade program.Dr. Emily Balcetis explains the concept of mental construals and how they can affect decision-making. She discusses a 90-year timeline exercise that can help clients prioritize their goals and focus on what they really want to achieve in life.Inattentional blindness and its relation to the use of mirrors in face-to-face communication are also discussed. The importance of gaining different perspectives to see the whole picture and become aware of what we may be missing is explored.—TIME STAMPS:00:00 - Introduction to the Podcast00:58 - Introduction to the new episode01:40 - Who is Dr. Emily Balcetis?03:10 - The lab takes a science-based approach to their work05:06 - The meticulous nature of Dr. Emily Balcetis' work and careful attention to detail06:39 - The power of encouragement07:36 - Keeping a curious mind and curiosity at the forefront08:40 - Understanding human behavior as a behavioral scientist10:00 - The power of visual motivation11:01 - The single icon that reflects the vision of self12:20 - What is standing in your way of achieving your goals?12:59 - How the difficulty of coming up with 100 things prompts a deeper conversation with oneself and others16:04 - No one right answer for people17:55 - The 90-year timeline18:15 - The high level of mental construal18:44 - The 90-year challenge and its impact20:06 - The 90-year plan puts people in a bigger, higher-level mindset21:12 - Legacy planning21:58 - Getting the brain into the 90-year prompt23:55 - Leveraging the power of visual sparks24:25 - What we see predicts what we do27:06 - Dopamine is a neurotransmitter27:48 - Visual sparks can do the same thing30:18 - Inattentional blindness and the gorilla video31:46 - How to experience it for yourself, inattentional blindness32:32 - The importance of seeing the whole picture33:11 - The importance of a mirror35:56 - What people notice when they face their mirrors38:04 - The power of mirrors at the individual level39:13 - Feedback from Ryan shifted from cooperation to cooperation and away from competition42:29 - What changed the game?43:13 - Fresh starts and goal setting44:25 - The importance of psychologically meaningful events46:36 - Designing a 90-year plan in advance48:38 - ENDThank you for listening to GODMODE™: Win or Win BiggerIf you are interested in UPGRD Your Mind, visit us at: https://upgrd.com to book a call with one of our team members.

Have you ever wondered what sets successful people apart, and how they stay motivated to achieve their goals? What if you could discover the secrets to maximizing your own motivation and achieving the success you desire? In today's podcast, we delve into the surprising science of motivation and accomplishment, uncovering powerful strategies to help you conquer challenges and propel yourself toward your dreams with my guest, Emily Balcetis.Emily is an Associate Professor of Psychology and the director of the New York University Social Perception Action and Motivation research lab. Described as a pioneer in the scientific investigation of behavioral science and motivation, she leads an international team of scholars, writers, artists, and advocates. Her research has uncovered previously unknown strategies that increase, sustain, and direct people's efforts to meet their goals. As a TED speaker and author of Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World, she has become one of the most sought-after voices on motivation science in the world.During this conversation, you'll learn:How our perception of the world shapes our motivation and, in turn, our success.The surprising strategies successful people use to sustain and direct their efforts.The role of self-compassion in overcoming setbacks and maintaining motivation.How to unlock your own inner resources to achieve your personal and professional goals.You can find Emily at: Psychology Today | LinkedInIf you LOVED this episode you'll also love the conversations we had with Lewis Howes about the mindset that propels greatness.Check out our offerings & partners: My New Book SparkedMy New Podcast SPARKED. To submit your “moment & question” for consideration to be on the show go to sparketype.com/submit. Visit Our Sponsor Page For Great Resources & Discount Codes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Motivation comes and goes in waves. But how can you make waves so you can persist when pursuing your goals? In this episode, Terry sits down with NYU Motivation scientist Emily Balcetis to discuss her work on how perception can change our ability to persist in the pursuit of any goal. Also in this episode:How the sense of vision is different from our other senses (and why that matters in the context of goal pursuit). How to get motivated when you're not yet confident or competentThe different ‘frames' we need to adopt at the start, middle, and end of any goal pursuit.A simple strategy for reclaiming your confidence when it feels like you're getting nowhere.Show notes: Click here to see notes on this show and all resources & links mentioned.

Ready to take your goal setting to the next level and achieve even more? Then you're going to love todays conversation. Dr. Emily Balcetis is a social psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at NYU and the author of the bestseller - Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World. Emily's work is to help people understand their motivations and emotions to excel in their goal setting. I came across Emily on Andrew Huberman's podcast and knew we had to have her on Unstoppable to share her wisdom around setting UNSTOPPABLE goals! In this conversation, you'll learn: ⚡ Why multitasking is NOT good for progress ⚡ How to pivot to other tools to achieve your goals ⚡ Why busy isn't good! ⚡ How perspective changes obstacles, like Michael Phelps! ⚡ What concrete action planning is ⚡ And so much more Check out Emily's book - Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World

As an ambitious, high-achieving leader, you're likely in the habit of setting goals. However, it's also highly probable that you don't always achieve them. Why is that? Is it a lack of discipline or motivation? Are you aiming too high or too low? Do you need to be setting different goals altogether?   American social psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at NYU Dr. Emily Balcetis is here to offer her expertise on goal pursuit and her take on striving. She's sharing evidence-based tools for setting and achieving goals, so listen in to hear how the powerful work and research she's done in this area will completely shift how you pursue your goals.   Get full show notes and more information here: https://safimedia.co/1 

“What we see directly predicts what we do” -  Emily BalcetisTUNE IN TO LEARN:- Surprising ways Olympic runners look at things that help them to win; - And how it can help a weekend jogger/exerciser (like myself) to run and do more, better and faster (23% faster and feeling 17% less tired); - How looking at things differently changes our focus and how it can help you achieve your long-term goals - sticking with consistent action and making progress more effectively without feeling exhausted or tired; - How different goals - easy, mid-challenging, and far-out-of-reach - change how energized and ready to go you feel to work on your goals, and what it has to do with your blood pressure; - How the skill of narrow focus and bringing the future into the present will help you to put in consistent effort into your long-term goals that will not happen without that effort - how Emily used it to learn how to play drums at a year-away concert; - How a wider bracket, looking at a bigger picture - can help you to find another path and pivot faster to keep making progress towards your goals VS being stuck and then giving up; - How Vera Wang used the wide bracket concept to transition from figure-skating to wedding dresses design while still pursuing her passion; - How “materializing” helps your brain to always remember your long-term goals that often seem less important than today's urgencies - like long-term health VS saving time while busy and eating whatever; - Framing - how you organize your fridge will make or break your diet; - What you see is what you do, the art and science of designing your habitat that designs your life in a favorable fashion; - How framing might be one sure way to happiness you are 100% in control of - who knows, maybe the mental health epidemic is all about bad framing skills? ... and so many more insights to design your dream life with neuroscience! TUNE IN! Dr. Emily Balcetis BIO As an Associate Professor of Psychology and the director of the New York University Social Perception Action and Motivation research lab, Emily Balcetis has been described as a pioneer of the scientific investigation of behavioral science and motivation. She is the author of "Clearer, Clser, Better: How Successful People See the World" and a TEDx speaker. She leads an international team of scholars, writers, artists, and advocates. In her research, she has uncovered previously unknown strategies that increase, sustain, and direct people's efforts to meet their goals. CONNECT WITH EMILY "Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World" - Book on Amazon LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-balcetis-6b2853165 Psychology Today - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/emily-balcetis-phd Read My Blog/Emily's Book Review - "Goals. Smart is old. Neuroscience-based visual tools to help you ACHIEVE the goals you set." Produced by Angela Shurina, CERTIFIED HIGH-PERFORMANCE, HEALTH, NUTRITION COACH Change in days - not in years! Support the show

Whilst the average successful adult visualizes their goals as within their grasp, the majority of adults play host to a different vision. Award-winning scientist Emily Balcetis joins us in this episode of the podcast to explain how anyone can leverage this “perception gap” to their advantage. Emily argues that if we want to have a better experience in our lives, we must learn how to reframe our perceptions in order to overcome challenges and meet our goals. Emily E. Balcetis is an American social psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on people's perception of world and how their motivations, goals, and emotions influence it, especially with regards to visual perception.She is the author of the famed personal development book titled Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World, and her scientific research has been covered by Forbes, Newsweek, Time, Cosmopolitan, Scientific American, and The Atlantic. To find out more about Emily's book; Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World, please visit: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524796468?tag=psychologytod-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1 

Dr. Emily Balcetis, PhD, is an Associate Professor of psychology at New York University, who dropped by TYP to share some amazing insights, research, ideas and strategies for making our lives better, and ourselves better, in the middle of those lives. Like many great teachers, Emily has a gift for making the potentially-complicated, easy to understand through her use of stories, metaphors and real-life experiences. Enjoy.  @emilybalcetisSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this discussion we revisit goal setting. Talk about previous goal setting models we discuss and add some new ones. We discuss how mindset plays a role in goal achievement and pursuit of goal-directed behaviors and we discuss the "Milkshake study" by Alia Crum and some work of Emily Balcetis to emphasize those points.

Social psychologist Emily Balcetis has devoted her career to understanding how people's perceptions of the world fuel their motivations and life goals. In this episode she goes in-depth on that wealth of research, what she's learned from studying some of the world's most successful people and how they set goals, and how you can get better results in life if you change the way you see the world and where you place your focus.   Balcetis is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University (NYU), focused on how the motivations, emotions, needs, and goals people hold impact the basic ways people perceive, interpret, and ultimately react to information around them. She is also the author of the book Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World, which was released in 2020. -- Want even more? Members get early access, hand-edited transcripts, member-only episodes, and so much more. Learn more here: https://fs.blog/membership/ Every Sunday our Brain Food newsletter shares timeless insights and ideas that you can use at work and home. Add it to your inbox: https://fs.blog/newsletter/ Follow Shane on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/ShaneAParrish Our Sponsors: MetaLab: Helping the world's top companies design, build, and ship amazing products and services. https://www.metalab.com Aeropress: Press your perfect cup, every time. https://aeropress.com House of Macadamias: Nourish your daily routine, and nurture your lifestyle. https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/TKP

Today I'm joined again by Al Dea, the founder of Betterwork Labs, an organization focused on helping companies create cultures where their people can thrive. Al is an author, speaker, podcast host, and researcher on workplace trends and talent development.I had Al back for a second episode so we could go deeper and get Al's perspective on Sustainable Ambition. I love how Sustainable Ambition takes on different meanings for different people, and Al shares that for him it's about having the autonomy and agency to define how and where one wants to be ambitious, defining one's own success. This aligns with the long-term view of Sustainable Ambition that we talk about and managing one's life and work from decade to decade aligned with their own desires and sense of fulfillment.In this conversation, we also talk about how the work world historically hasn't armed people with alternative ways to think about and manage their careers and define their own success, how some companies and thought leaders are innovating to create these new norms, and Al's counsel for stepping into agency to proactively stay on top of one's career.Al - This was another great conversation! Thanks for coming back and sharing your career management wisdom with us.Resources MentionedFind Al on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aldea1/Better Work Labs: https://betterworklabs.com/Al's Podcast, The Edge of Work: https://open.spotify.com/show/3zPq2Q00gcbHCPujpaoFmrRole Share: https://www.roleshare.com/You 2.0: The Mind's Eye with psychologist Emily Balcetis: https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/you-2-0-the-minds-eye/Thanks for Listening!If you liked this episode, please rate, review, and share the episode. Thank you so much!Get show notes for this episode at https://sustainableambition.com/podcast I'd love to hear what's on your mind! Take the Sustainable Ambition Listener Survey: http://bit.ly/sapodcast-survey Submit a question or comment for future episodes at podcast@SustainableAmbition.com Get my curated bi-weekly Sustainable Ambition Forum newsletter. Sign up https://sustainableambition.com/subscribe

The act of visualizing can help you channel your dreams. It conditions your mind and body to take the necessary steps to achieve your goals and claim the life you have always wanted. By visualizing your goals, you will have a clearer vision of what you want to achieve in each area of your life. Is it your dream to start a business? Do you want to travel the world? Do you want to get that promotion you have been eyeing for? Imagining yourself achieving these dreams is the purpose of visualization. Emily Balcetis, an award-winning social psychologist, spills the beans about the secrets of successful people through her book Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People Save The World. As a result of her rigorous research, she emphasizes the importance of taking advantage of our visual experiences in order to see the possibilities in what we can't see now.  In this episode, Darius and Emily talk about vision as a key to achieving goals, key strategies in creating more time and being productive, and the direct connection between perception and action. Topics include: What is a behavioral psychologist and what do they do What inspired Emily to write Clearer, Closer, Better Why vision is a superpower Relationships between perception and action How to turn a big dream into actionable items How a simple exercise can create more time in your week How swapping out visual cues in your life can change your actions Why saving for retirement is so difficult and how to overcome that How to prioritize your time to achieve big goals A plan to remove any obstacles in your way of achieving your goals The explanation behind the blue and gold dress picture on social media And other topics… Connect with Emily: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-balcetis-6b2853165/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilybalcetis/?hl=en  Book: https://www.amazon.com/Clearer-Closer-Better-Successful-People/dp/1524796468  Connect with Darius: Website: https://therealdarius.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dariusmirshahzadeh/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whoompdarius/ YouTube: https://therealdarius.com/youtube Book: The Core Value Equation https://www.amazon.com/Core-Value-Equation-Framework-Limitless/dp/1544506708 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dr. Emily Balcetis is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University and the author of the book, Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World. In today's episode, Dr. Balcetis explains how to best break down, visualize and overcome the challenges we face as we work towards hitting our goals.

In this episode we speak with Dr. Emily Balcetis about the science behind achieving goals. Dr. Balcetis is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University and the author of Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World. Emily Balcetis has been described as a pioneer of the scientific investigation of behavioural science and motivation. She leads an international team of scholars, writers, artists, and advocates. In her research, she has uncovered previously unknown strategies that increase, sustain, and direct people's efforts to meet their goals. She has authored over 70 scientific publications and books. She has appeared as a host for National Geographic and a guest on ABC, MSNBC, and others. Her TED talk has been viewed over 4 million times. She has partnered with GE, Prudential, Lean Cuisine, Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, and other organizations on principals of motivation. Her research has been supported with several large grants from the National Science Foundation and has been featured in hundreds of TV, radio, and print outlets around the world. She has received numerous awards for her work from organizations including the Federation of Association of Brain and Behaviour Scientists, the International Society for Self and Identity, the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology, and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. She received a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Cornell University, where she held a Sage Fellowship. Learning points: How can we set achievable goal parameters? How can changing people's focus of attention, can improve exercise? Why is failing to achieve a goal not always a bad thing? Social Media Handles/Website Address: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/emily-balcetis-phd https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-balcetis-6b2853165

Social psychologist and scientist Dr. Emily Balcetis explains how to use vision and brain science to overcome challenges and achieve our most important goals.

TUNE IN TO LEARN:"Clearer, closer, better: How successful people see the world" - a book written by Emily Balcetis, neuroscientist who studies motivation.Today, with the help of the book I'll answer your question, Why do I procrastinate on some things? How do I get better at not doing this?And I'll give you a very simple exercise to do every time you about to procrastinate. I'll also share with you how I apply the same thinking to keep building my 10-year vision of Brain Training empire, one article, one workshop at a time. My mom thinks it's been my talent since I was a kid.Produced by Angela Shurina,Schedule our call HERE.CERTIFIED NUTRITIONIST,  BRAIN PERFORMANCE COACHNutrition + Neuroscience + Behavior ChangeI help you use nutrition and lifestyle protocols, biohacking and space design as tools to unlock your brain genius and unlimited energy level, off-the-chart!Support the show

Some challenges can feel insurmountable. But psychologist Emily Balcetis says the solutions are often right in front of our eyes. This week, as part of our annual series on personal growth and reinvention, we revisit a favorite 2020 conversation about how we can harness our sight to achieve our goals.If you like this show, be sure to check out our other work, including our recent episode about how to make peace with your negative inner voice. Also, if you'd like to support our work, you can do so at support.hiddenbrain.org. Thanks! 

Huberman Lab Podcast Notes Key Takeaways How you visualize a goal or problem in your mind dictates how well you lean into that goal: whether you will be able to meet the goal, how you feel after, and your capacity to tackle larger goals“Proximity to a goal increases the investment and resources that people use to meet that goal.” – Dr. Emily BalcetisSet goals that are challenging but not impossible – and – not so easy that it's a no-brainer or requires minimal effortOverweight/deconditioned people see the world as more challenging: hills are steeper, finish lines are further – which shifts these people into a state of fatigue and makes it harder to start & overcomeTrouble finishing your run? Focus on intermediate targets along the way which makes the goal feel closer and you push harderVisualization/vision boards alone are not enough! To put visualizations into action: (1) set a plan – break it down into practical day-to-day; (2) think about obstacles that stand in the way of success so they don't surprise you along the wayWhen setting goals you can't tangibly see, don't count on your memory – write down progress along the way or use an app to help you more accurately track & reflect on progressRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgMy guest this episode is Dr. Emily Balcetis, PhD, Professor of Psychology at New York University (NYU). Dr. Balcetis' research focuses on how our perception of the world, particularly our visual perceptions, influences our level and persistence of motivation, how we conceptualize goals, actual goal achievement, and our emotional state as we pursue goals. Dr. Balcetis explains how to best visualize and overcome challenges in pursuit of larger, complex goals. We also discuss the science of how to define goals and intermediate milestones, overcome obstacles, and effectively track progress. This episode highlights science-based, immediately actionable tools that anyone can use to set and achieve physical and/or cognitive goals more effectively. Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman  Thesis: https://takethesis.com/huberman Levels: https://levels.link/huberman ROKA: https://roka.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com Timestamps (00:00:00) Dr. Emily Balcetis, Visualization of Goals & Motivation (00:03:24) Momentous Supplements (00:04:38) Thesis, Levels, ROKA (00:08:08) Vision & Motivation (00:11:37) Tool: Narrowing Visual Focus & Improving Exercise (00:21:39) Adjusting Visual Attention & Perceived Fatigue (00:25:14) Tool: Visual Focus “Spotlight” (00:27:57) Tool: Goal Gradient Hypothesis, Visual Spotlight to Increase Effort (00:33:38) AG1 (Athletic Greens) (00:35:00) Defining Goals vs. Accomplishing Goals, Dream Boards & Goal Lists  (00:41:28) Tool: How to Setting Better Goals & Identify Obstacles (00:46:38) Vision is Unique, Challenging the Visual System, Realistic Goals & Micro-Goals (00:57:12) Do Fit People View the World Differently?, States of Body & Visual Experiences (01:05:54) Caffeine, Stimulants, Visual Windows & Motivation (01:10:13) Tools: Goal Setting & Cognitive (Non-Physical) Goals, Data Collection (01:21:54) Year in Review & Memory (01:26:32) Visual Tools & Mental Health, Depression & Visual Priming (01:31:33) Focusing Attention & Increasing Visual Detail/Resolution (01:36:12) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Neural Network Newsletter, Instagram, Twitter, Momentous Supplements Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac Disclaimer

Huberman Lab: Read the notes at at podcastnotes.org. Don't forget to subscribe for free to our newsletter, the top 10 ideas of the week, every Monday --------- My guest this episode is Dr. Emily Balcetis, PhD, Professor of Psychology at New York University (NYU). Dr. Balcetis' research focuses on how our perception of the world, particularly our visual perceptions, influences our level and persistence of motivation, how we conceptualize goals, actual goal achievement, and our emotional state as we pursue goals. Dr. Balcetis explains how to best visualize and overcome challenges in pursuit of larger, complex goals. We also discuss the science of how to define goals and intermediate milestones, overcome obstacles, and effectively track progress. This episode highlights science-based, immediately actionable tools that anyone can use to set and achieve physical and/or cognitive goals more effectively. Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman  Thesis: https://takethesis.com/huberman Levels: https://levels.link/huberman ROKA: https://roka.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com Timestamps (00:00:00) Dr. Emily Balcetis, Visualization of Goals & Motivation (00:03:24) Momentous Supplements (00:04:38) Thesis, Levels, ROKA (00:08:08) Vision & Motivation (00:11:37) Tool: Narrowing Visual Focus & Improving Exercise (00:21:39) Adjusting Visual Attention & Perceived Fatigue (00:25:14) Tool: Visual Focus “Spotlight” (00:27:57) Tool: Goal Gradient Hypothesis, Visual Spotlight to Increase Effort (00:33:38) AG1 (Athletic Greens) (00:35:00) Defining Goals vs. Accomplishing Goals, Dream Boards & Goal Lists  (00:41:28) Tool: How to Setting Better Goals & Identify Obstacles (00:46:38) Vision is Unique, Challenging the Visual System, Realistic Goals & Micro-Goals (00:57:12) Do Fit People View the World Differently?, States of Body & Visual Experiences (01:05:54) Caffeine, Stimulants, Visual Windows & Motivation (01:10:13) Tools: Goal Setting & Cognitive (Non-Physical) Goals, Data Collection (01:21:54) Year in Review & Memory (01:26:32) Visual Tools & Mental Health, Depression & Visual Priming (01:31:33) Focusing Attention & Increasing Visual Detail/Resolution (01:36:12) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Neural Network Newsletter, Instagram, Twitter, Momentous Supplements Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac Disclaimer

My guest this episode is Dr. Emily Balcetis, PhD, Professor of Psychology at New York University (NYU). Dr. Balcetis' research focuses on how our perception of the world, particularly our visual perceptions, influences our level and persistence of motivation, how we conceptualize goals, actual goal achievement, and our emotional state as we pursue goals. Dr. Balcetis explains how to best visualize and overcome challenges in pursuit of larger, complex goals. We also discuss the science of how to define goals and intermediate milestones, overcome obstacles, and effectively track progress. This episode highlights science-based, immediately actionable tools that anyone can use to set and achieve physical and/or cognitive goals more effectively. Thank you to our sponsors AG1 (Athletic Greens): https://athleticgreens.com/huberman  Thesis: https://takethesis.com/huberman Levels: https://levels.link/huberman ROKA: https://roka.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com Timestamps (00:00:00) Dr. Emily Balcetis, Visualization of Goals & Motivation (00:03:24) Momentous Supplements (00:04:38) Thesis, Levels, ROKA (00:08:08) Vision & Motivation (00:11:37) Tool: Narrowing Visual Focus & Improving Exercise (00:21:39) Adjusting Visual Attention & Perceived Fatigue (00:25:14) Tool: Visual Focus “Spotlight” (00:27:57) Tool: Goal Gradient Hypothesis, Visual Spotlight to Increase Effort (00:33:38) AG1 (Athletic Greens) (00:35:00) Defining Goals vs. Accomplishing Goals, Dream Boards & Goal Lists  (00:41:28) Tool: How to Setting Better Goals & Identify Obstacles (00:46:38) Vision is Unique, Challenging the Visual System, Realistic Goals & Micro-Goals (00:57:12) Do Fit People View the World Differently?, States of Body & Visual Experiences (01:05:54) Caffeine, Stimulants, Visual Windows & Motivation (01:10:13) Tools: Goal Setting & Cognitive (Non-Physical) Goals, Data Collection (01:21:54) Year in Review & Memory (01:26:32) Visual Tools & Mental Health, Depression & Visual Priming (01:31:33) Focusing Attention & Increasing Visual Detail/Resolution (01:36:12) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Neural Network Newsletter, Instagram, Twitter, Momentous Supplements Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac Disclaimer

We're often told we should have clear goals for ourselves. In fact, as we've heard from guests like Marc Effron and Grace Lordan in the past, there is a connection between effective goal-setting and high performance. The thing is, many of us still really struggle with this idea, so I wanted to explore it some more.And I figured if you want to dive deep into a subject, we may as well invite one of the world's leading experts onto the show. Today's guest is Emily Balcetis. She's an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University, where she runs the Social Perception Action and Motivation research lab. Or SPAM for short. Emily and her team have pioneered the scientific investigation of behavioural science and motivation. Their work has uncovered previously unknown strategies that increase, sustain, and direct people's efforts to meet their goals.She also explores these ideas in her excellent book, Clearer, Closer, Better, and with us today on the Future Work/Life podcast.Our conversation starts by examining why materialising goals is crucial to achieving them before digging into the relative benefits of a narrow focus of attention and applying a wide bracket.Along the way, we discuss how to motivate ourselves to pursue big, long-term goals and why, although vision boards can help us discover purpose, used in isolation, they can actually be detrimental to our success.I love the way Emily reframes goal-setting – literally, as her work is all focused on the power of our vision. She gives some fantastic practical examples of visual tactics that can help us meet and exceed our goals, all of which help build a tool kit for success.LINKS:Emily's bookThe Social Perception Action and Motivation research labFuture Work/Life newsletterFuture Work/Life website See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

CLEARER, CLOSER, BETTER Where are you looking to go? What are you looking to achieve? Maybe you've worked really hard for a long time and you are still struggling? Yet, for others, it seems quite easy. Why is that? It may sometimes seem like other people know something you don't. Well, what if you had a way to get to your destination 23% faster, while having 17% less pain about getting there. How? Let's find out together. Our guest on this episode is Professor Emily Balcetis. Emily is the author of the bestselling book: Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World. Emily is a two-time TED speaker whose videos have been viewed millions of times. She is a professor of behavioral science at New York University. Emily is also the director of the New York University Social Perception Action and Motivation research lab, leading an international team of scholars, writers, artists, and advocates to understand how to best direct people's efforts to meet their goals. Website https://www.nyu.edu Book: https://tinyurl.com/ClearerCloserBetter Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-balcetis-6b2853165 Part 1) Achieving Goals 23% Faster with 17% Less Pain Confronting the Best Practices LIE! Why you must get a bigger tool box How Instant gratification makes people risk averse The Maya Angelou, Dan Rather experiment that got young people to save for retirement The Power of the Eye's in Goal Achievement

CLEARER, CLOSER, BETTER Where are you looking to go? What are you looking to achieve? Maybe you've worked really hard for a long time and you are still struggling? Yet, for others, it seems quite easy. Why is that? It may sometimes seem like other people know something you don't. Well, what if you had a way to get to your destination 23% faster, while having 17% less pain about getting there. How? Let's find out together. Our guest on this episode is Professor Emily Balcetis. Emily is the author of the bestselling book: Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World. Emily is a two-time TED speaker whose videos have been viewed millions of times. She is a professor of behavioral science at New York University. Emily is also the director of the New York University Social Perception Action and Motivation research lab, leading an international team of scholars, writers, artists, and advocates to understand how to best direct people's efforts to meet their goals. Website https://www.nyu.edu Book: https://tinyurl.com/ClearerCloserBetter Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-balcetis-6b2853165 Part 1) Achieving Goals 23% Faster with 17% Less Pain Confronting the Best Practices LIE! Why you must get a bigger tool box How Instant gratification makes people risk averse The Maya Angelou, Dan Rather experiment that got young people to save for retirement The Power of the Eye's in Goal Achievement

I know I have heard people claim that bad weather causes aches and pains in their body. Is that real? Can the weather affect your joints or bones in a way that causes it to hurt? Listen as I explore the science regarding the connection to weather and pain. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4105520/Don-t-blame-weather-pain-scientists-discover-no-linktwo.html At least for humans, falling in love seems to be a lot easier than staying in love. Why is that? Social anthropologist Helen Fisher author of the book Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray (http://amzn.to/2EvFAvd) joins me to discuss the inner workings of love between 2 people; what often goes wrong and how to keep the romance alive.  When you create a goal for yourself, there is a tendency to focus on how hard or it is going to be to achieve. Yet, there is some really interesting research that indicates that's about the worst thing you can do. If you change the way you look at the goal, it becomes easier to achieve. One of the people conducting the research is Emily Balcetis a social psychologist and associate professor of psychology at New York University. She is author of the book Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World (https://amzn.to/2RBvUF7) and she joins me to offer you advice on achieving your goals with less struggle. Have you ever watched a sleeping dog twitch and move it's feet like it is running? So, is it just that the dog is dreaming or is there more to it than that? And should you be concerned if your dog does it? Listen and I'll reveal what exactly is going on. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/612590/why-dogs-twitch-in-their-sleep PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! We really like The Jordan Harbinger Show! Check out https://jordanharbinger.com/start OR search for it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen!  Join the Moink Movement today! Go to https://MoinkBox.com/SYSK RIGHT NOW and get FREE filet mignon for a Year! Go to https://Indeed.com/Something to claim your $75 credit before March 31st! Factor makes it easy to eat clean 24/7, with fresh, delicious, prepared meals! Head to https://go.factor75.com/something120 & use promo code Something120 to get $120 off! Check out Squarespace.com for a free trial, and when you're ready, go to https://squarespace.com/SOMETHING to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Masterworks gives everyone the opportunity to invest in blue-chip artwork. To receive exclusive access to their latest offerings go to https://Masterworks.art/SYSK LEVEL UP will give you the confidence & know-how to grow your business and thrive. LEVEL UP, by Stacey Abrams & Lara Hodgson, is now available everywhere audiobooks are sold. Discover matches all the cash back you've earned at the end of your first year! Learn more at https://discover.com/match M1 Finance is a sleek, fully integrated financial platform that lets you manage your cash flow with a few taps and it's free to start. Head to https://m1finance.com/something to get started!  To TurboTax Live Experts an interesting life can mean an even greater refund! Visit https://TurboTax.com to lear more. To see the all new Lexus NX and to discover everything it was designed to do for you, visit https://Lexus.com/NX Use SheetzGo on the Sheetz app! Just open the app, scan your snacks, tap your payment method and go!  https://www.geico.com Bundle your policies and save! It's Geico easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CLEARER, CLOSER, BETTER Where are you looking to go? What are you looking to achieve? Maybe you've worked really hard for a long time and you are still struggling? Yet, for others, it seems quite easy. Why is that? It may sometimes seem like other people know something you don't. Well, what if you had a way to get to your destination 23% faster, while having 17% less pain about getting there. How? Let's find out together. Our guest on this episode is Professor Emily Balcetis. Emily is the author of the bestselling book: Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World. Emily is a two-time TED speaker whose videos have been viewed millions of times. She is a professor of behavioral science at New York University. Emily is also the director of the New York University Social Perception Action and Motivation research lab, leading an international team of scholars, writers, artists, and advocates to understand how to best direct people's efforts to meet their goals. Website https://www.nyu.edu Book: https://tinyurl.com/ClearerCloserBetter Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-balcetis-6b2853165 Part 1) Achieving Goals 23% Faster with 17% Less Pain Confronting the Best Practices LIE! Why you must get a bigger tool box How Instant gratification makes people risk averse The Maya Angelou, Dan Rather experiment that got young people to save for retirement The Power of the Eye's in Goal Achievement . . Curious about how to tap into what drives meaning in your life and create meaningful transformation in the lives you touch? Take a look at DovBaron.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CLEARER, CLOSER, BETTER Where are you looking to go? What are you looking to achieve? Maybe you've worked really hard for a long time and you are still struggling? Yet, for others, it seems quite easy. Why is that? It may sometimes seem like other people know something you don't. Well, what if you had a way to get to your destination 23% faster, while having 17% less pain about getting there. How? Let's find out together. Our guest on this episode is Professor Emily Balcetis. Emily is the author of the bestselling book: Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World. Emily is a two-time TED speaker whose videos have been viewed millions of times. She is a professor of behavioral science at New York University. Emily is also the director of the New York University Social Perception Action and Motivation research lab, leading an international team of scholars, writers, artists, and advocates to understand how to best direct people's efforts to meet their goals. Website https://www.nyu.edu Book: https://tinyurl.com/ClearerCloserBetter Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-balcetis-6b2853165 Part 1) Achieving Goals 23% Faster with 17% Less Pain Confronting the Best Practices LIE! Why you must get a bigger tool box How Instant gratification makes people risk averse The Maya Angelou, Dan Rather experiment that got young people to save for retirement The Power of the Eye's in Goal Achievement . . Curious about how to tap into what drives meaning in your life and create meaningful transformation in the lives you touch? Take a look at DovBaron.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Buy Injured to Elite the Book on AmazonThis solo episode builds off of the last episode # 86 taking the 6 core values for living and playing with IMPACT and putting them into an ordered and specific approach that allows us to build a process to achieve our high performance goals.I am calling this approach "A 3 P Algorithm" for success.Today's Acronym is "APPA"A = AwarnessP = Purpose P = PerspectiveP = Process A = ActionI discuss where to start and how to key in on a process mentioning some interesting research on visualization by Dr. Emily Balcetis at the NYU SPAM Lab: Social Perception Action and Motivation Balcetis lab. Article by Dr. Balcetis et al on "Keeping the Goal in Sight: Testing the Influence of Narrowed Visual Attention on Physical Activity"In this episode I also share a clip from ITE Episode #32 with Daniel BardClick Here to Follow me on Instagram @davemmeyer Visit My Website at: www.drdavidmeyer.com

Dr. Emily Balcetis, associate professor of psychology at New York University and author of Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World. She's directed an international team of scholars for over 20 years conducting behavioral science research to uncover strategies to improve goal setting in individuals, teams, and organizations. She's published over 70 articles and is a TED speaker. Her TED video has been watched by over 4 million people. She collaborates with major companies including GE, Nestle, Prudential, and others. Connect with Emily: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-balcetis-6b2853165/ https://twitter.com/EBalcetis https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/emily-balcetis-phd Join the Inspiration Contagion movement: Subscribe to Inspiration Contagion on your favorite podcast player and share it. Reach out to your host, Holly at https://hollyjeanjackson.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollyjjackson/ email at holly@hollyjeanjackson.com Get your copy of the book: https://www.amazon.com/Inspiration-Contagion-Health-Secrets-Success/dp/1954047444/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2RU20QS7LLPCO&keywords=inspiration+contagion&qid=1680782585&sprefix=inspiration+contagion%2Caps%2C112&sr=8-1

 Dr. Emily Balcetis, associate professor of psychology at New York University and author of Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World. She's directed an international team of scholars for over 20 years conducting behavioral science research to uncover strategies to improve goal setting in individuals, teams, and organizations. She's published over 70 articles and is a TED speaker. Her TED video has been watched by over 4 million people. She collaborates with major companies including GE, Nestle, Prudential, and others. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2t5ItvfT13I (https://youtu.be/2t5ItvfT13I) Follow Emily: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-balcetis-6b2853165/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-balcetis-6b2853165/) @EBalcetis) | Twitter https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/emily-balcetis-phd (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/emily-balcetis-phd) Music Credits: Support this podcast

Emily Balcetis is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University. She is the author of more than 70 scientific publications and her work has been covered in Forbes, Newsweek, Time, National Public Radio, Cosmopolitan, GQ, and many others. She has also received numerous awards for her work. Eric and Emily discuss her book, Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the WorldBut wait – there's more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It's that simple and we'll give you good stuff as a thank you!Emily Balcetis and I Discuss How to Focus and Accomplish Goals and…Her book, Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the WorldHer decision to tackle learning to play drumsThe four tools of accomplishing a goalWhat it means to materialize a goalHow our brains can't be trusted to accurately assess our progress toward our goalThe importance of writing down and tracking progress Figuring out what we want to accomplish AND creating a plan of actionForeshadowing obstacles that might get in our way and how you'll deal with them increases your chances of successThe value of narrowing your focus of attentionHow time is a big determinant of what goals we set and whether we reach those goalsFinding ways to connect your current self with your future self can make it easier to make tougher choices that lead to better outcomes laterHow it sometimes makes sense to have a “wide bracket” or broader perspectiveThe power of framing and how what we see predicts what we doEmily Balcetis Links:Emily BalcetisTwitterWhen you purchase products and/or services from the sponsors of this episode, you help support The One You Feed. Your support is greatly appreciated, thank you!If you enjoyed this conversation with Emily Balcetis, you might also enjoy these other episodes:How to Change with Katy MilkmanBehavior Change with John NorcrossSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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This week I'm talking to social psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University, Emily Balcetis. Emily's research focuses on people's perception of world, specifically visual perception, and how motivations, goals, and emotions influence it. She's also got a fantastic book out - Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World - and it's available anywhere you get books, eBooks and audiobooks. Emily on Linkedin Emily's Book on Amazon.co.uk & on Penguin/RandomHouse Clearer, Closer, Better Workbook Emily's work in Psychology Today -- This episode is sponsored by MANSCAPED. MANSCAPED are the world's champions in men's below-the-waist grooming - get 20% off AND free shipping worldwide at manscaped.com using the promo code SODSPOD - Your balls will thank you! If you'd like to support Sod's Law you can become a Sod's Law patron at patreon.com/sodspod from as little as £1 /$1 a month - there are different tiers including ad-free episodes, giveaways and more!

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Find Emily online: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/emily-balcetis-phd Video of this episode: https://youtu.be/5SrfAxUHLyw Highlights of the show: [00:00:20] Guest Introduction [00:02:40] Where did you grow up and what was it like there? [00:07:09] Is life different now than what you imagined it would be? 00:10:02] At a high level, how does this experience we call site work? Is it just like, seeing things? And that's it, like what's going on in my head when I'm looking at something? [00:14:21] You talk about these four different ways that are our sight helps us achieve our goals. Can you talk about them at a high level? [00:28:13] Once we do find that one thing we want to focus on, like, how do we push ourselves through to the finish line? [00:38:36-00:38:41] Can you help us understand what narrow focus is as knowledge workers? How can we use narrow focus to help us achieve our goals? [00:45:55] how do we concretely identify a definitive moment of success before starting our journey? [01:01:39] Positive feedback can sometimes backfire, right when we're pursuing our goals. What what is it about that? [01:09:30] It is one hundred years in the future. What do you want to be remembered for? [01:10:33] Random Round [01:10:37] What's on your bucket list this year? [01:10:52] What makes you cry? [01:11:09] What's one of your favorite comfort foods? [01:11:27] What's the last book you gave up on and stopped reading? [01:12:08] What are you currently reading? [01:12:45] What song do you got on repeat nowadays? *The Artists of Data Science Social links: * YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheArtistsofDataScience Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theartistsofdatascience/ Facebook https://facebook.com/TheArtistsOfDataScience Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtistsOfData

Emily E. Balcetis is an American social psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on people's perception of the world and how their motivations, goals, and emotions influence it, especially with regard to visual perception. ... 00:00 Intro: Emily and her research Part I of goal setting 12:33 How do you get motivated to get off the couch? 15:18 Confirmation Bias 22:23 Stress Management - Is stress necessary and when is it healthy? 29:00 Side effects of high cortisol levels 31:10 How to pick up and reduce stress after burnout? 39:03 What are the signs of a burnout recovery? 53:30 How to measure cortisol and stress level 59:10 What is heartrate variability Part II of goal setting 01:04:30 Concrete action planning 01:11:20 How to overcome bad habits 01:21:20 Reasons why motivation stops 01:23:47 Short and long term goal setting 01:30:45 How to handle the big question "What comes next?" 01:40:50 Outro: Final words and where to find Emily ... Join Our Facebook Group Community here: http://bit.ly/sfe-community Listen to our SFE podcast - Impact Talks on Anchor or Spotify: https://startupfundingevent.com/podcast/ Created by https://www.lightningvideoeditors.com

Emily Balcetis is an Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University. She is interested in the conscious and nonconscious ways people fundamentally orient to the world. In particular, she focuses on how the motivations, emotions, needs, and goals people hold impact the basic ways people perceive, interpret, and ultimately react to information around them. She advocates for an interactive cognitive system where psychological states constrain the basic manner in which we perceive and react to our worlds. Her work, then, explores motivational biases in visual and social perception and the consequential effects for behavior and navigation of the social world. In doing so, her research represents an intersection among social psychology, judgment and decision-making, social cognition, and perception.

Associate professor of psychology at New York University and author of Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World

https://www.alainguillot.com/Emily-Balcetis/ Emily Balcetis, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology at New York University. Her book is Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World. Get the book here: https://amzn.to/3gRGnJx

On this edition of the Book Club, Emily Balcetis talks about her book Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World. You can learn more about Emily at NYU.edu, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. Get your copy HERE If you’d like to take part in our discussion group, you can learn about it here as well as MoneyAlignmentAcademy.com. Check out the Strive Online Bootcamp We’re on YouTube, check us out! We’re honored to have been named one of the top podcasts from investing! George is honored to be included on Investopedia's list of the Top 100 Financial Advisors for 2020! Have George speak to your organization. You can learn more about the show at GeorgeGrombacher.com, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook or contact George at Contact@GeorgeGrombacher.com.  Check out Money Alignment Academy as well!

Emily Balcetis is a social psychologist, Associate Professor at NYU, and Author of her new book Clearer, Closer, Better. Emily divulges her current research into what successful work cultures embrace, how to set the goldie-locks goal, and why it just could be as simple as changing the optics. Please rate & review below! RSVP for upcoming interviews: https://www.crowdcast.io/realleaderspodcast

Emily Balcetis, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University and author of Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World, joins me on this episode. Emily shares the four powerful visual strategies to reshape the way we see the world and how we can use them to our advantage for setting and achieving goals, the impact of social media on our view of the world, how she reframes failure, and more. Get connected with Emily: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emilybalcetis/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EBalcetis LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-balcetis-6b2853165/ TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/emily_balcetis_why_some_people_find_exercise_harder_than_others Buy Clearer, Closer, Better: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524796468/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_HedKFbA9WQGQ3 Want to learn how you can work with me to build a solid foundation for your business and achieve the results and success you deserve? Visit http://www.jayscherrbusinessconsulting.com/ Enjoy and thanks for listening! To your success, Jay

How do you achieve your goals? What about the one that is not exciting for you, but you know you need to get it done?We hear about Luke Aikins, who jumped out of a plane at 25,000 feet without a parachute and landed safely in a net on the land. Joan Benoit Samuelson is one of the greatest athletes in US history. She won the gold medal for women's marathon in the 1984 Olympic Games, and has one dozens of other major competitions. Both of these elite athletes use a goal hack called Narrow Focus to achieve their goals, and according to New York University professor Emily Balcetis, you and I can use that same strategy to reach out goals as well. Using this "narrow focus" hack not only helps us reach the finish line faster while exerting less energy, we also feel like the finish line is closer when we use this. Listen now and start using this strategy immediately. You can generate tremendous momentum and reach your goals faster than you thought possible. You got this!

Professor Emily Balcetis is a social psychologist from New York University. She has been in her role for over 20 years while studying the factors behind really drives success. In this podcast, we talk through why we don't necessarily follow through with our goals after we commit to achieve them. We discuss how perception and the role of visual cues have a massive impact on behaviour change and formation. Most importantly we explore how to reduce friction and make behaviour change feel less difficult. Not only is this super valuable to the everyday active individual, but also to the practitioner wanting to instil change in their clients. Emily does an amazing job at explaining how you can pick up new habits, particularly in the world we're living in at the moment Check out Emily's book Clearer, Closer, Better for even more gems! Free Trial Free Assessment Instagram

Emily Balcetis -I am interested in the conscious and nonconscious ways people fundamentally orient to the world. In particular, I focus on how the motivations, emotions, needs, and goals people hold impact the basic ways people perceive, interpret, and ultimately react to information around them. I advocate for an interactive cognitive system where psychological states constrain the basic manner in which we perceive and react to our worlds. My work, then, explores motivational biases in visual and social perception and the consequential effects for behavior and navigation of the social world. In doing so, my research represents an intersection among social psychology, judgment and decision-making, social cognition, and perception.

Some challenges feel insurmountable. But psychologist Emily Balcetis says the solutions are often right in front of our eyes. This week, as part of our annual series on personal growth and reinvention, Emily explains how we can harness our sight to affect our behavior. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How can we improve our productivity by literally seeing the world differently than before? Today I talked to Emily Balcetis about her new book Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World (Ballantine Books, 2020) Balcetis is an associate professor psychology at New York University. She received her PhD from Cornell University and has authored over 70 scientific publications in addition to being a TED speaker. Topics covered in this episode include: What are the four general perceptual shifts that research suggest make a huge difference in improving our odds of success in tackling projects and other initiatives. Which emotion or emotions may best fit or spur on each of those four strategies. Of all the research studies that went into this book, which one is Balcetis's favorite. Why did this optical “trick” lead to double-digit growth in the likelihood of making progress. To get a transcript of this episode, click here. Dan Hill, PhD, is the author of eight books and leads Sensory Logic, Inc. (https://www.sensorylogic.com). To check out his “Faces of the Week” blog, visit https://emotionswizard.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How can we improve our productivity by literally seeing the world differently than before? Today I talked to Emily Balcetis about her new book Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World (Ballantine Books, 2020) Balcetis is an associate professor psychology at New York University. She received her PhD from Cornell University and has authored over 70 scientific publications in addition to being a TED speaker. Topics covered in this episode include: What are the four general perceptual shifts that research suggest make a huge difference in improving our odds of success in tackling projects and other initiatives. Which emotion or emotions may best fit or spur on each of those four strategies. Of all the research studies that went into this book, which one is Balcetis’s favorite. Why did this optical “trick” lead to double-digit growth in the likelihood of making progress. To get a transcript of this episode, click here. Dan Hill, PhD, is the author of eight books and leads Sensory Logic, Inc. (https://www.sensorylogic.com). To check out his “Faces of the Week” blog, visit https://emotionswizard.com.

How can we improve our productivity by literally seeing the world differently than before? Today I talked to Emily Balcetis about her new book Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World (Ballantine Books, 2020) Balcetis is an associate professor psychology at New York University. She received her PhD from Cornell University and has authored over 70 scientific publications in addition to being a TED speaker. Topics covered in this episode include: What are the four general perceptual shifts that research suggest make a huge difference in improving our odds of success in tackling projects and other initiatives. Which emotion or emotions may best fit or spur on each of those four strategies. Of all the research studies that went into this book, which one is Balcetis’s favorite. Why did this optical “trick” lead to double-digit growth in the likelihood of making progress. To get a transcript of this episode, click here. Dan Hill, PhD, is the author of eight books and leads Sensory Logic, Inc. (https://www.sensorylogic.com). To check out his “Faces of the Week” blog, visit https://emotionswizard.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Successful People See the World with Emily Balcetis  ----------------- I ran out of laundry detergent last week and couldn't motivate myself to walk 20 steps to the store to buy more. Why? I can lecture for hours, interview an author for the podcast, answer 70+ emails, and spend time with all three of my kids in one day, but the laundry detergent errand felt impossible.  I have periods of manic productivity with breakthroughs at every turn, but other times when the most mundane chores of life are overwhelming. Why? Where does motivation come from? Why does it waver? On this week's podcast, you'll meet a psychologist who can help you find your fuel for life.  Listen & Learn:  How the fantasy of a goal can sometimes create enough pleasure to reduce motivation to actually achieve it  How to avoid under-stimulation without accidentally welcoming overwhelm When it can be helpful to look back and anchor past successes When it makes more sense to focus on the future, the next step    Links & Resources:  Emily's TEDx Talk Emily's Book Emily Balcetis is a social psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University. Her research focuses on people's perception of the world and how their motivations and emotions influence it. She is the author of the new book: Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World.   Nutritional Tip of the Week: Silver for COVID19 Got Questions? Send me a voicemail here: Ask Lucas a Question Or write to us: podcast@yogabody.com  Like the Show? Leave us a Review on iTunes

What if knowing how successful people see the world could help us achieve our goals? When we see people achieving their goals, we may be tempted to give up. We tell ourselves they have advantages we lack, like more time, and maybe even traits we lack, like a better work ethic. While both may be true, what if there's a different reason they succeed, one that has to do with how they see their goals? That's what Emily Balcetis, Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University and author of the book, Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World, set out to discover. For example, in an innovative study of visualizing goals in order to choose which ones to pursue, she asked women to shop in a different kind of store. She explains that, "On the shelves, they saw paper bags with labels...hours for a work week...[number of] kids...compensation packages...all different facets of life that they had thought about in that survey were now made concrete." Emily learned that making deliberate and strategic choices about how we visualize our goals can dramatically improve our chance of achieving them. Her findings reveal four visual tactics we can use to do just that. One of these, "narrow your focus," is something elite runners do. In a study on exercise, Emily taught participants this skill and the results were fascinating. Emily shares that, "People who were taught to narrow their focus of attention...took more steps when they went out for each...walk, they moved faster in the same of time, and they went out more often for walks or runs in the week that followed." Emily's work has been featured in The Atlantic, Scientific American, NPR, and Forbes. She's received awards from organizations like, the International Society for Self and Identity and the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology. The Host You can learn more about Curious Minds Host and Creator, Gayle Allen, and Producer and Editor, Rob Mancabelli, here. Episode Links Anish Kapoor Hal Hershfield Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Control by Pre-Commitment by Dan Ariely Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec Simple Ways to Support the Podcast Subscribe, so you never miss an episode. Rate and review the podcast on iTunes, or wherever you subscribe. Tell one friend or family member about the podcast. If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy: Laura Huang on Finding Your Edge Wendy Wood on the Science of Habits John Zeratsky on Creating Time for Work that Matters Places to Find Curious Minds: Spotify iTunes Tunein Stitcher Google Play Overcast

Today's episode of podcast #BraveByDesign on how successful people see the world with social psychologist, Emily Balcetis.⁠⁠We discuss Emily's new book and lean into:⁠⁠- What social psychology can teach us about the government's response to Coronavirus⁠- How to set long term goals (like retirement) that we can actually achieve⁠- Ways to set up your workspace to reinforce your habits⁠- The truth about multitasking (if you think its bad... you'll be surprised what the research shows)⁠- And so much more!⁠Connect with Emily:Book: CLEARER, CLOSER, BETTER: How Successful People See the WorldWebsiteConnect with Laura Khalil online:instagram.com/forceofbadasseryhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/BraveByDesign/linkedIn.com/in/LauraKhalilGet on Laura’s Newsletter:http://bravebydesign.netInvite Laura to speak at your event http://laurakhalilspeaker.com/speakSupport the show (https://www.paypal.me/bravebydesign)

It’s been said that “sight is a faculty, but seeing is an art,” and New York University social psychology professor, Emily Balcetis, fully concurs. In her new book, “Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World” she says highly successful people tend to view the world differently – and the good news is that […] The post Emily Balcetis: How Successful People See the World appeared first on Mark C. Crowley.

It's been said that “sight is a faculty, but seeing is an art,” and New York University social psychology professor, Emily Balcetis, fully concurs. In her new book, “Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World” she says highly successful people tend to view the world differently – and the good news is that […] The post Emily Balcetis: How Successful People See the World appeared first on Mark C. Crowley.

Tapping into rigorous research & cutting-edge discoveries in vision science, New York University psychology professor, Emily Balcetis, shares four powerful visual tactics that highly successful people have proven to use to set and, most importantly, meet their goals.  In a podcast packed with uncommon insight, she explains how to use these tactics to your full advantage & in what situations each one is best applied. We discuss her new book, “Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World” which is an "Amazon #1 New Release" just this week. It was also chosen as one of the "20 Books All Leaders Should Read In 2020" by the World Economic Forum & by Wharton Professor/Author, Adam Grant.

S5 E12: In this episode, meet co-authors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, Emily Balcetis, and Janice Kaplan. When making a change, sometimes it’s the little things that matter, sometimes it’s the big ones. Step into the recording studio and hear what motivated each of these authors to write and record their audiobooks. Designing Your Work Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/592536/designing-your-work-life/ Clearer, Closer, Better by Emily Balcetis: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/557217/clearer-closer-better/ The Genius of Women by Janice Kaplan: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/598507/the-genius-of-women/

I know you’ve watched a sleeping dog twitch and move it's feet like it is running. So, is it just that the dog is dreaming or is there more to it than that? And should you be concerned if your dog does it? Listen and I’ll reveal what exactly is going on. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/612590/why-dogs-twitch-in-their-sleep People claim to want to find love. Then once they find it, it is hard to keep it alive. Why is that? Social anthropologist Helen Fisher author of the book Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray (http://amzn.to/2EvFAvd) returns to discuss the inner workings of love between 2 people, what often goes wrong and how to keep the romance alive. Helen was a guest on episode 147 talking about how to find love. You can hear it here: http://www.somethingyoushouldknow.net/147the-best-way-to-find-someone-to-love-how-to-come-up-with-better-ideas/How many times have you heard someone complain about the bad weather and claim it causes their aches and pains to feel worse? Listen as I explore the science regarding the connection to weather and pain. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4105520/Don-t-blame-weather-pain-scientists-discover-no-linktwo.htmlWhen you create a goal for yourself, there is a tendency to focus on how hard or even painful it is going to be to achieve. There is some really interesting research that indicates that’s about the worst thing you can do. If you change the way you look at the goal, it becomes easier to achieve. One of the people conducting the research is Emily Balcetis a social psychologist and associate professor of psychology at New York University. She is author of the book Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World (https://amzn.to/2RBvUF7) and she joins me to offer you advice on achieving your goals with less struggle.

Neuroscience experts, practitioners, research and methods for making brain-friendly organizations and healthy individuals. Subscribe to Mind Your Noodles!   This is the sixth episode of the Mind Your Noodles podcast. In this episode our guest is author and neuroscience practitioner Christine Comaford. We discuss her SBM (Safety, Belonging and Mattering) Model, the difficulty of revenue inflection points and two tools to help employees aspire and own their own insights.   Show Notes [00:00:06] Mind Your Noodles Episode 6 [00:01:33] Christine's Story [00:09:21] SBM and the Brain [00:15:55] How the Brain Reacts [00:20:17] Looking for Role Models [00:22:16] Why Organizations Pull for Smart Tribes [00:23:54] Revenue Inflection Points [00:27:34] Two Tools [00:34:00] smartribes.com/ERA [00:35:07] Storytelling and Reframing [00:39:51] Emotional Change Takes Time [00:40:47] Start with the Willing [00:42:42] How to Approach the Organization - Smart Tribes Style   Transcript Tripp: [00:00:06] Take care of the brains that take care of you with the Mind Your Noodles podcast or we keep you up to date on the latest neuroscience research and practices to keep your brain healthy. And strategies to help your organization be brain friendly. Hi I'm Tripp Babbitt host of mine your noodles. My guest today is Christine Comaford. Welcome Christine.   Christine: [00:00:38] Thank you. TRIPP It's awesome to be here.   Tripp: [00:00:40] Well I got to tell you Christine. I've spent the last week like inside your head somehow I've been watching videos of your book The Power your tribe book which is your latest book. I've been to YouTube I read your Web site I got your mission vision values sitting in front of me. And so just kind of introducing yourself to guests and I also know that you're into story so people of of have listened to an episode by park how talks about the importance of story. And by the way it seems to be the only thing people in the neuroscience world seem to agree on is storytelling.   Tripp: [00:01:17] So I thought that maybe you could give us your story and tell us a little bit about you and how how you wound up doing things in the neuroscience world. And I'll I'll just shut up at this point.   Christine: [00:01:33] Got it. Thank you. So you know what we do first. First let me just make sure he understands what we do. So at Smart Tribes Institute what we do is could be considered Applied Neuroscience if you will. We take the latest neuroscience research and the stuff that's useful to leadership and we then map that down to very specific very practical tools and we'll be talking about and sharing some of those tools today. So we are in executive coaching firm organizational development. We do workshops consulting coaching. So we are always looking at what in neuroscience has been discovered recently what have we learned recently that is actually relevant to optimal teams to leading on a new level to applying tools to sales and marketing. So let's just kind of a quick look at context if you will. So. So when I was 13 I started studying different religions because I wanted to understand what's the meaning of all this. And by the time I got to 15 I had studied a bunch of the different religions and I said you know what I think that it's important to start to understand human potential and then it was called human potential. So I went to a program called est Earhart seminars training and they said Come back when you're 18 and I thought you know there's gotta be a way around this. So I got my parents to take EST which is you know a very and which was a very intense personal development multiple weekend deep dive where basically you're totally ripped down so you can then build yourself up internally in a new way. And my parents when they were good sports and then they wrote a letter so I could go.   Christine: [00:03:15] And I learned that life is meaningless. You have to create meaning in your life and you can. And we have full 100 percent responsibility for whatever happens in our life. And I was absolutely fascinated by that and I thought that is so great why don't I just you know take control of my life and run away and start my you know start my career. So it's a totally delusional. So then I was 16 I had a fake I.D. I ran away in New York City.   Christine: [00:03:43] Nobody questioned Tripp. The easiest way to make my fake I.D. was to go from 1962 to 1952 right.   Christine: [00:03:52] Nobody questioned that there was a 16 year old who said she was 26. I mean like there's a huge difference in appearance but nobody bothered. So I got to I got to work in a neuroscience lab then it was called a human potential lab. And so I was totally geeking out on wow what makes people do what they do. How do they form beliefs. Where do behaviors come from you know identity come from all the stuff was super interesting to me. So I started at 16 and I was totally like burnt out with the world and I like being an adult. And at 17 I took my vows as a Buddhist monk. So then I thought you know I'm going to check out the god angle because maybe that's. It's like it's not the religion angle it's actually doing it. You know celibacy vegetarianism you know vouchers.   Christine: [00:04:43] So I did that for seven years but while I was doing that I was teaching myself how to program computers. So I thought wow well this is actually kind of programming the brain which is the coolest computer out there. But let's also learn like how to program computers because sooner or later this month thing might not work out and I'm going to need a job.   Christine: [00:05:00] So because I was like going you know I think we need to go down and they were like No let's go up and out I'm like. I think Buddhism is going the wrong direction you know and they're like Oh   Christine: [00:05:12] So I was you know you know I want to go in and down and in the in the the branch of Tibetan Buddhism I was and they wanted to transcend transcend. I'm like Oh I think we could deal with our stuff first you know. So anyway ultimately I broke my vows and went to a different type of monastery which was Microsoft. And I fit right in. You know. You know socially inept and all that stuff. And so what we what I did was I kind of brought all the the the spirituality stuff and the brain stuff and there how people form their beliefs stuff. And I kept working on it. And you know ultimately I built a bunch of companies sold them or took a public and the whole time I'd been just going Wow. Human beings. There's a there's a vast universe inside of each of us like let's understand it you know cause like that's like the great frontier the Star Trek was talking about. So. So that's how it all how it all started. OK.   Tripp: [00:06:09] So Christina I've written down a couple of things here. One is under achiever and low energy.   Christine: [00:06:18] Slacker.   Tripp: [00:06:18] Oh my God you're killing me. All right. Well this is great. No. That's a great story. I do like that story. So here we go. Go ahead.   Christine: [00:06:29] So I mean that's that so. So now what we do is what's kind of cool is I retired at 40 because I was like OK I've done it I've done business I've done money you know I've done all these other things that I'm done. You know now I'm just going to like chill out and you know hang out with nature and and then my dad got pancreatic cancer and I've been by then I had been a hospice volunteer. I've been volunteering with hospice for 20 years now. Now it's 20 years I've helped 43 people die. That's why volunteer work that I do. And and I really thought you know what all these stories start to come up. So I want to understand my life like my dad is dying. You know I want to understand my life. So I started running stories and ultimately became a book and then it became a New York Times bestseller and then suddenly everyone's calling me and I'm Unruh tired. So I became unretired at it at like 41. So I kind of failed retirement. And I'm like 56 now. And just that's what we do now we help companies help their people perform at new levels with much greater engagement fulfillment satisfaction lower burnout lower stress. And people just get to see how awesome they are and the companies get to thrive and do really well. Everybody's happy the tools work great. And it takes a lot less energy you know. So that's even better. Like why get it done in 60 hours when you could do it in 40 you know.   Tripp: [00:07:58] Yeah. Boy Lot to unpack there. I feel like I haven't lived up to my potential after listen to you tell those stories although I know people like you.   Christine: [00:08:13] Well that was my path. Let me just say that you think it might not fun and glamorous now but it was freaking hard. I'm thinking about your parents at the moment. Yeah. Yeah they were good sports. My mom just passed away in October of 2018.   Christine: [00:08:28] And yeah we use these tools. You know I use these tools with Mom and Dad as they were going through their death process. So some of the tools that we're going to learn today because it just helps us shift into you know a different mindset where there isn't suffering you know. OK.   Tripp: [00:08:43] Well in the beginning of Power Your Tribe you start to get into the brain and this whole thing on SBT and I've read enough books now you know people some people are comparing the importance of social as much as even sustenance and Maslow's hierarchy saying that those are actually equal.   Tripp: [00:09:08] You know they're going so far as to say some things like that. And and you've got to start us out a little bit with the basics of the brain and the whole concept of this SBT and what that acronym is.   Christine: [00:09:21] Yeah. And actually the acronym is SBM safety belonging mattering. Okay. No problem. So. So this is just gonna be a super high level view of the brain in the context of leadership. OK so three key parts of the brain reptilian brain a million brain and neocortex that's where the prefrontal cortex is reptilian brain. This is our brain stem. This is where we have this is basically our stimulus response machine coded for safety. This is where we have life support systems breathing temperature regulation balance the reptilian brain doesn't understand quality of life. So if you touch something hot you'll jump away just automatically right your reptilian brain because it's keeping you not dead. It doesn't think of living or dead it thinks of dead and not dead. So pretty simple really pretty simple pretty darn primal. OK. So concerned primarily with physical life you know physical not deadness. OK next mammalian brain which is more our emotional. Our emotions are our emotional brain concerned with whether somebody is a friend or foe. A little bit more evolved than dead or not definitely but still a stimulus response machine coded for emotional safety.   Christine: [00:10:42] Now the limbic system the debris always talks about the fight flight freeze response is a series of areas of the brain and in my experience the try and brain theory it kind of overlaps the reptilian mammalian so it's not quite so clean as to say it lives there. But here's what's interesting and here's what leaders need to really know. The hippocampus the hippocampus in the mammalian brain which is responsible for learning and memory. It's in the emotional brain. OK so what does this mean. Companies will have like Oh I'll walk into a company. Oh what are your values. Oh just a sec and they'll start digging through their file cabinet I'll be like Wait you don't like. No your values by heart. No. I mean you know they change and they're kind of boring and you know so they're not emotional. So if we want somebody to learn something we want somebody to retain something. We have to attach emotion to it. Why. Because humans are emotional beings emotions to a human are like wings to a bird.   Christine: [00:11:40] They are how we navigate our experience in the world. And if we look at the research from Carnegie Mellon M.I.T. Stanford Harvard NYU UCLA we will see that 90 percent 90 percent Tripp of our decisions of our behaviors are driven are dominated by our emotional brain. This stuff is important we use our intellect and we think our intellect is awesome and it is but it's 10 percent of our decision making is 10 percent of why we respond the way we do. So anyway we got them a million brain and it's saying Friend or foe. All right next we've got the neocortex. Prefrontal cortex is part think of it like a like a bike helmet. Maybe it goes it goes kind of across the top of your head a little bit goes a little bit towards the back and the prefrontal cortex is right behind your head. The prefrontal cortex is where we have decision making vision language skills tool making discrimination that doesn't quite work for me judgment. We have the ability to say I'm here but I want to be there how do I get there.   Christine: [00:12:46] So if the prefrontal cortex could speak it would say What can I create so much more interesting than friend or foe or dead or not. Right. But but what we want then as leaders is all three parts of the brain working well together. So we get innovation creativity we have the level of safety that we need and when we have all three parts working together we call this the smart state. Now what happens though when we have lots of stress changing directives random acts of violence out there in the world crazy political climate you know all sorts of challenges out there in the world we often will go into what we call critter state like a little animal like a little critter stay for not dead or not fight flight freeze. Right. That's when we are in kind of reptilian mammalian brain lockdown. And when anybody listening has been under major stress you might notice that you don't have great ability to envision things. You don't have great ability to make decisions you don't have great ability with language skills et cetera because that part of your brain is shut down. So as leaders we want to get people in and keep them in the Smart State and we'll talk about some tools to do that today. Now to answer your question about SBM if we look at why we do what we do humans don't really buy products or services. You know what we're looking for out there in the world are one of three key emotional experiences safety freedom from fear certainty knowing people have our back belonging knowing that we fit in we have equal value we are loved we are cared for and mattering knowing that we are making a difference uniquely we are not a cog in a wheel we are a unique expression of our unique accomplishments are unique gifts are being recognized and seen.   Christine: [00:14:37] Achievement is here as well. So if you look at a company culture if you look at a country right. If you look at why elections swing to this side or that it's always due to safety belonging and mattering you can look at all the different models the SCAERF model the self-determination model it doesn't matter. It all boils down to three things. Why have seven when you can have three right. It's easier to remember. Okay. All right. Yeah.   Tripp: [00:15:06] So. So I thought that kind of comes into my mind and I guess maybe I start to look at myself. You know I spent my entire career learning things around statistics and a kind of engineering types of things Lean Six Sigma and all those types of things.   Tripp: [00:15:27] And one of the things that I've found over the years is that they can be totally ineffective unless somehow you're connecting. But I didn't have a method. You know what I mean. I didn't have a I didn't have a system to go through to be able to understand that the people I'm talking to needed safety belonging and all those things. Before I could even start talk to them about data and all of that is would you say that that's true. Pretty much across the board.   Christine: [00:15:55] Yep. If somebody is craving safety and they're not feeling safe. Think about when you've had that experience. Right. You're not super open to anything else. You're just trying to be safe. Right. Belonging if you feel like you don't fit in. You've had that we've all had that weird experience of Oh man I don't feel like I fit in I don't feel like I'm part of this group. Right. That's super distracting and unsettling and then mattering if we feel invisible. Gosh that's painful. You know how we're going to perform at work if we're not seen and we're not appreciated right ow ow ow. So as leaders it's really important to notice what somebody is asking for because when they're in critter state remember their prefrontal cortex is off line. So when they're in critter state they're gonna have certain behaviors that will clue you in that they are actually asking you for safety. So when somebody's in Critter state and they want safety because they're not experiencing it they're going to spread gossip and rumors spread fear. Talk about getting the heck out of here talking about exit plans. Right. Because their tribe is back to that adage you know misery loves company company they're trying to they're trying to reconcile how they feel inside and what the world looks like outside. So if everybody else is scared right then OK I'm not nuts. If somebody wants belonging and they're feeling like they don't fit in they will isolate drop communication withhold information. Right. Because they're not feeling that they belong with the other people. So they start to kind of affect belonging in those around them. So important in leadership mattering if somebody is in Critter state makes sense.   Tripp: [00:17:40] Yeah. Oh yes. It just takes me back to when I first time I was a manager I didn't know what I was doing.   Tripp: [00:17:45] You know you know and and you know 42 years ago I mean it was just kind of I don't know Game of Thrones yet to live.   Christine: [00:17:58] Yeah.   Tripp: [00:17:59] Where were you forty two years ago. Don't answer it. You know.   Tripp: [00:18:06] So let's let's finish up with mattering so with mattering if somebody has the behavior of condescension arrogance at the extreme extreme extreme mattering absence of mattering we can see bullying. So I want us to start to have some compassion when we see these challenging behaviors and instead of judging the challenging behaviors say oh wait a sec wait a sec. This person just wants safety. Let me sit down with them. Ask them how they're doing and see how we can give them some experience of safety. This person just wants belonging they're not being a jerk and withholding information they're not feeling connected to us. Let's go bring them back into the tribe mattering this person who is saying I'm doing everything nobody appreciates me this place would fall apart without me they're just looking for some mattering let's say hey wow I really appreciate your unique accomplishments you know you're unique gifts I really see as a thought leader Hey can I run some stuff by you because I really value your opinion. See we don't have to judge each other anymore. We can as leaders as leaders if we if we signed up to be leaders we didn't sign up to be taken care of but we signed up to take care of others and to help others rise up. We signed up to cultivate and elevate others. And if you don't want to do that you know leadership isn't your gig. You know I find so many people get surprised what is the take care by people what cause you signed up to be a leader.   Tripp: [00:19:34] You know that's interesting. It's. And I've been I guess I go back. You. We didn't have back in the day when I was a young manager knowledge of these types this type of thinking. I mean even the neuroscience community really a lot of the research has been done over the last decade. I mean some of that data certainly got more people you know running with those types of things. I wonder if it's how much do you think Christine that it is that maybe people don't want to be leaders because they see the leaders that they have and they said that I want to be like that ever. You know because they don't have a method they don't have this system to be able to break things down.   Christine: [00:20:17] Ok. I think that's a really good point. Yeah. I don't it's not a role model right. Hey well I don't want to be that if that's what leadership is. Give me the heck out. Here right now. Yes. And I think the more I hate to see enlightened look let's say aware conscious the more aware the more conscious we become we can start to look because we do have some good examples of leaders in the world. We have a lot of video kind of counterexamples Well I do want to be that but we have some good examples. You know we have Warren Buffett. You know we have you know we have a handful of people that can just say oh gosh that doesn't work for me. Use discernment instead of judgment. I'm going to go ahead and do this. You know we have a handful of people that are really making a difference. So everyone needs to kind of find who is their role model. And even if your role model is a character in a movie that is fine. No seriously Abraham Lincoln JF JFK I mean you know I think Meg Whitman is a great example of leadership. And you know we've got a lot of examples and I think you know Bill Gates has definitely mellowed over his years. You know back in the 80s he was not a great example of leadership. You know now he definitely is. You know Steve Jobs had his days for sure. You know we're we're hoping that Mark Zuckerberg is going to really turn the corner and you know become a stronger example of leadership. You know the line best is a little bit of a counterexample right now. But when he went along Musk manages his emotional state and gets out a critter state where he seems to spend a lot of time you know he'll be a great example of leadership. OK.   Tripp: [00:21:54] So one of the things I wanted to talk about here. Great conversation though I think this is great foundational stuff to be able to have the rest of these this conversation. But why do organizations. You know maybe just a couple of reasons why people come to Christine or you know Smart Tribes for help. Why do they pull for you.   Christine: [00:22:16] Yes yes. People come to us and one of two scenarios they want to grow and they don't quite know how to get to that next level. I mean they could keep doing it slowly creeping along but they either don't quite know to get all the way that they want to get. And you know if you need a jungle guide if you want to navigate a jungle you've not been through before because we've built companies up to seven billion dollars. And so that's a lot. Knows all that. That covers a big enough landscape for us and we've worked with guys at 1 million. But so how to actually get your people mobilize your people so that they can navigate growth and change. That's kind of the primary reason. And then secondary is when it's a turnaround situation you know or it's a integration situation. Wow. We're changing the direction of the company entirely and people are kind of freaked out or one of our clients. I mean gosh they've been they've been acquiring anywhere between seven and 14 15 companies per year. That integration alone of bringing all those people together. So it's navigating growth and change. You know it's called the executive summary. Now anybody who's doing that needs to help their people get to the next level.   Tripp: [00:23:34] You mentioned one of the things that I caught on it and you called them I think there are inflection points for.   Christine: [00:23:40] Oh yes. Type of thing yes.   Tripp: [00:23:42] Is is this a good place to talk about. Sure. I wasn't sure I didn't get enough. I may be out of the reading of the videos or I got confused so I thought maybe you could share with us what that means.   Christine: [00:23:54] Yeah and we totally geek out on revenue inflection points in our second book which is Smart Tribes. So yeah with power your tribe you're not going to see that much of it. Yeah. Power your tribe is more about human behavior whereas Smart Tribes is more about how to create a company and the structure of it so that people get in and stay in their smart state more. So we found over the past 30 years there are certain points when a company hits this revenue number it's a whole new company. And there are three things we've got to really look at the people and how we're caring for the people and helping them grow and align in a role and engage them the money how we're working through sales and how we're financing the company and how we're structuring operations et cetera. And then model business model you know if the dessert topping is a failure maybe we can make it into a floor wax. You know like how are we actually tweaking and adapting and shifting our business model to match the industry people money and model.   Christine: [00:24:54] So we've found we map it all out in Smart Tribes that revenue inflection points occur really profound ones at 10 million 25 million 50 million one hundred million 250 million five hundred million and then it goes generally with each billion or so. Once you get up to about five billion you know a couple more billion doesn't really change thing that things that much. But I want to I want to notice that anybody listening. What happens is if we don't take care of the people. Money and model components and we have this chart that shows you what you need to do in each of those areas. If you don't take care of those you won't navigate to and through that next revenue inflection point. I cannot tell you Tripp how many companies come to us and they are stuck around 25 30 40 million. They can't get to 50 million and they swirl around below that 50 million revenue inflection point or worst case they start to slide backwards. So you have to have the tools to get to the next level or you're gonna swirl or slide backwards because again how are you going to get somewhere that you've never been before you know if you don't know that the path if you will. So we have sort of four components. There's leadership there's influence there is navigating change and growth and then there's optimal teaming. And for each of those segments if you will and there are a one day workshop in the Smart Tribes methodology there are about seven tools one has six one is nine but there's an average of seven tools per per component. And some companies you know they've got there they're navigating change okay maybe but they aren't they'd navigate a lot better if they had stronger influence with their people or if their leaders were engaging in enrolling people better or their teaming isn't totally working and people aren't coming together and connecting. So there's usually an obvious kind of sign there.   Tripp: [00:26:59] Okay. So on those. So that's why they're swirling around this 25 to 40 million because they're deficient in one of these areas one or more of these areas is is that kind of what you find.   Christine: [00:27:09] Yeah. And it reflects in the people money or model.   Tripp: [00:27:13] Okay yeah. More specifically than that or more generally the people money model piece. Okay. Yep yep yep. Okay. Is there something else you want to say about growth because you're also involved in kind of helping companies with kind of their salespeople and so forth is there.   Christine: [00:27:34] Yeah. There are two things I want to focus on and I want you guys to learn two tools. So for starters what we really need to do in the workplace is we need to help people aspire. So we're cold and hungry now but we're go to the Ritz Carlton 24/7 room service Egyptian cotton sheets. So it's it's hard now but I see how great it's gonna be okay. Aspiration second is we need to help people have their own insights not leaderships insights that are handed down their own insights. So let's talk about a couple of tools then we'll talk about a sales and marketing tool. The first tool that is fantastic to help people have their own insights is called the outcome frame the outcome frame is a series of questions and the outcome frame starts with what would you like. So maybe we're looking at the problem let's start to look at the outcome that we would like. Okay. Oh and we can we can send you these images you can put them on the website so people can have a companion visual to go with this podcast. So question number one what would you like something you can create and maintain. I you know I'd like more strategic time. Okay good. Question number two what will having that do for you. What are the benefits how will you feel. Well I'll feel more engaged more energized like I'm really making a difference to the company I feel peaceful and powerful and proud and it'll be awesome. Question number three How will you know when you have it this is going to be the proof the criteria. Well I have more strategic time when I spend two hours or more each week on strategy and planning when I cut the number of meetings I attend by 25 percent when my direct reports are at leadership level five or greater.   Christine: [00:29:11] Okay great. Number four my favorite question what a value what that you value might you risk or lose what side effects may occur. Well to get more strategic time I might initially feel less important because I'll be less involved in the minutia I'll have to let go of some control maybe resist the temptation to rescue people. I'll have to oh shoot I'll have to invest time and cultivating leadership My people won't magically rise up I'll have to actually cultivate them. So question number 4 is there is the reason you don't have the outcome that you wanted. So because this Leader isn't willing to do these things they don't have more strategic time. Makes sense. Yeah well two more questions. Okay. Question number five where when with whom would you like it what I wanted it work. I want it with my direct reports I want it in 45 days. Okay great. What are your next steps. We've got to get specific here set up recurring meetings on my calendar for one on ones to cultivate leaders leadership and offload work. Determine what you need to skip implement Smart Tribes effective meetings and delegation processes. So we've got to actually spend about 15 minutes on this outcome frame to make sure that we are brain is. Firing the visual auditory kinesthetic possibly olfactory is many of the five senses as are possible. So we are stepping into that glorious future and test driving it. We're not fantasizing about it. We're saying wow what's it like in that cool future where I have this. Oh yeah I want this it's worth it. QUESTION.   Tripp: [00:30:48] Yeah. SO. SO WHAT I SEE built you building here is exactly what you talked about early in our conversation which is you're building this emotional foundation to be able to grow. Is that.   Christine: [00:31:01] Yes. Okay. Yes yes yes. And what's happening in your brain okay neural coupling. OK we're starting to step into this future dopamine Y. Right we're releasing dopamine we're saying oh this feels really good. Yeah. That that's going to start to motivate the reward oriented behaviors. If we're listening to somebody telling us a story you know the person who is hearing the outcome frame they're actually there they're going to start to mirror the behavior of who they're hearing and then cortical activity. You know we're processing facts were we're connecting parts of our brain that are called Broca's and Wernicke's areas we don't need to get on that boat but we're we're actually experiencing those sensory cues of of actually having that outcome so powerful so often I find people just look at the problem and they complain about the problem. Our job as leaders is to help them shift and focus on the outcome so please use the Outcome Frame for that. And we have to also look at how much resistance there is out there so there are seven steps to really BOOT build emotional resilience. First is releasing resistance because that way it makes room for more choice. So start to notice what the heck are we resisting. Resisting takes a tremendous amount of energy and now start to look at use the Outcome Frame. Oh but what what I like. OK. Number two we've got to start increasing rapport with ourselves.   Christine: [00:32:35] I call it antisocial media because it's not really helping people get more connected. What helps people get more connected and we know this from Alexandria Arabians research many many years ago is when we're with people physically we're seeing them we're hearing them we can touch them you know we're connected to them more deeply so increasing report yourself increasing report the others actually getting face time. Number three making new meaning start to notice when you get stressed and when you're on critter state start to notice what stories you're telling yourself oh he's so hard to work with Oh I don't like this and then do an Outcome Frame Well what would I like. We are meaning making machines and the stories we tell ourselves create are reality reality is what you say it is Shakespeare told us this ages ago there's nothing good or bad only thinking makes it so what are you thinking about something and if it's not working shift your reality and look at what you would like and start to create that name before anchoring the outcome that's more complex you're gonna need to empower your tribe to learn how to do that five enrolling and engaging others bring your safety blanket mattering they're six build tribal agility expand and keep that good change going seven. Expanding tribal power so safety belonging mattering we can use a lot four five six and seven.   Christine: [00:34:00] So if we start to notice how often do I feel good versus how often do I feel bad that will help us understand our level of emotional resilience. Everybody write this down go to Smart Tribes Institute dot com SmartTribesInstitute.com/ERA That's an emotional resilience assessment it's going to take you gosh five minutes and here's what's so cool about it as you answer these questions and then you're gonna get your answers displayed on the screen as well as emailed to you right away you're then gonna know what tools to use from power your tribe to give you a better experience.   Christine: [00:34:46] Yeah super cool super effective.   Tripp: [00:34:48] By the way I will put those in the show notes too so that people have a link to it.   Christine: [00:34:52] Okay great. And I will give you the outcome frame image and then the emotional resilience image. OK cool.   Tripp: [00:34:59] All right so we're in growth and we're talking about the outcome frame and you've given us several things to think about there and the resistance.   Christine: [00:35:07] So those are the two things that you need for growth then well releasing resistance helps you then focus on the outcomes that you want. Okay. Okay. It's not it's not quite that simple but that's a starter. Okay. You know Navigating Growth and change You gotta look out for the emotional state right to safety belonging mattering. We want to make sure that we teach everybody to tell to tell news stories that we're telling a story that doesn't feel good. A lot of companies think about this in your experience. Tripp we've all done this. I have definitely done this myself. Think about when you have belonged with somebody around pain when you have belonged with somebody around maybe complaining about something right. That's what you have in common. So you get together and you complain about stuff. So you belong with each other. I want people to start looking at how we create belonging around things that are not actually empowering. So start to look at how do I connect with others around what topics are they expansive and positive and growth oriented or are they contracting and negative and do I feel sort of drained and discouraged afterwards because I want us to start to notice that we can shift that once again. What's the story. Basic reframing. What's the story we're telling ourselves. How does it make us feel. How would we like to feel. What's the story that we would need to change there. So in reframing I want us to start to notice daily as leaders one of our clients will give me an example.   Christine: [00:36:44] One of our clients they they had a really bad quarter who really and they're a public company. So they got smacked by the stock market really bad quarter. Everyone's all freaked out and the CEO gathers every together and says Hey everybody. What an educational quarter we just had. So it's not like gloom and doom. Layoffs are coming blah blah blah. No. Wow what an educational quarter we just had. We learned three key things. We learned that we had lost touch with our customers. They want upgrades to our product more often. We have learned that we have competition that we didn't take very seriously. They're nipping at our heels. We need to innovate faster. We need to increase our expand our product lines. And we learned actually that we have a handful of advocates that we've been ignoring. So in this next quarter we're going to tackle those three areas. We're going to get back on top. How great that we learned these lessons. And yeah it was painful but we got him we got him. Now let's take this next quarter and Rocket. Susie Q is going to own this initiative. Bob's going to own that initiative. Juan is going to own that initiative. Boom everybody knows what team they're on. Let's rocket instead of Oh my God it's a scary bad quarter. We're gonna do layoffs we suck and get.   Tripp: [00:38:08] This is actually a good segue way into kind of my next question which is kind of the purpose of this podcast is I come from a background of systems thinking which I know you're familiar with because I read where you talked about Peter Senge he and why you probably your mission vision and values just together.   Tripp: [00:38:28] And so so one of the things that that is part of actually my method which I call the 95 method is mostly about having method which can be so so in other words if I've got so far as I'm I to you talk you go for these things for growth for innovation there is this mindset that needs that you need to have but when you have that mindset you still need a method correct. I mean in order to.   Christine: [00:39:00] Oh yeah.   Tripp: [00:39:01] So. So from a method standpoint I do a podcast with a gentleman by the name of Doug Hawes worked with Disney and Procter and Gamble and Nike and and companies similar to you actually.   Tripp: [00:39:15] But he just focuses on innovation. He's the he's the big idea guy and an end-to-end system for. For doing it. And you know as I hear you talk. Lot of things I think I'm trying to get to is because I'm so method oriented and you play a method for kind of the brain is how how do we design in some of the stuff to build a brain friendly organization. How how how do y. Yeah you did so so that it's in need into the way that you've got your company designed.   Christine: [00:39:51] Ok well I have to tell you it doesn't happen overnight. And what we do when we do our leadership acceleration program is it's for one day workshops eight webinars. Thirty micro learnings which are a little short baby videos that people share with their teams and it takes about a year and a half. Mm hmm. And then the culture is absolutely transformed and I have to go forward before you know the outliers. Yeah we have had a few enormous companies where it took two and half to three years because it was enormous and we were transforming thousands and thousands of people.   Tripp: [00:40:25] But you still have the mindset began that that I heard and one of your videos I believe. Yeah. You talk about you know sometimes we just go in an organization will start with a team just a game. Yeah. So you see you're kind of breaking you're breaking down the elephant and if I get to you the whole elephant I go to it one by the time. So you're still taking the approach of let's start with an area or something like.   Christine: [00:40:47] Yeah because you've gotta it is sometimes it's too big to eat the elephant right. And so a client will come to us and they'll say OK help us with this you know group leaders and we'll start to see positive change and then everybody else would go Hey what's going on over there. How come you guys are knocking it out of the park and nobody else is you know let's figure this out let's do this. So what matters is that we we take this wherever people are receptive and we start to build a groundswell. So bottom up can often work better than top down you know because if it's top down at a huge organization. So when Procter and Gamble brought us then they had us work on their Latin American sales division. Great. I can get my arms around that. No problem you know. And we taught them a bunch of tools for connecting more deeply with our clients. We talked about safety belonging mattering for the client but we also taught them about Meta programs you know how do we step into the shoes of our client and actually feel and and understand the experience our client has having so we can message to them more effectively so we can connect with them more effectively so we can build trust much more quickly so we can actually have a profound meaningful connection instead of just you know we don't want a one off sale who wants that. You know we want a profound meaningful connection with our clients.   Tripp: [00:42:11] Ok so from your standpoint it's it's a it's kind of these classes that you have in order to to kind of build the brain friendly organization because you are in essence taking them right from where they are today. Yeah I'm trying to say OK. Because that what applies over here to Procter and Gamble isn't going to necessarily apply to Nike because they have different systems if you will. So you have to take them kind of. From that spot.   Christine: [00:42:42] Well we'd just Sec. They have but they have humans. Yeah. So we always look at what the business challenges and you know like the top three business challenges. That's where we know where to start. Okay. We're gonna start with optimal team stuff that optimal teams tools. Oh we're gonna start with the influence tools over here. So we look at what the what the greatest opportunities or challenges are at the company. And that's the tools that with that we start with you know and sometimes they just want transformation in that one area so they'll only get the tools in that area and that will be enough you know or they'll come back to us a year later hey you know we're ready for for some more tools. The way that these really get ingrained and this is why we have the workshops then the webinars in between the workshops and then the micro learnings so everybody in the company can watch a five to 10 minute video for each of the tools and learn that you know there are 30 to micro learnings you know the average bear in the company if they want to learn these tools they can't you know it's a scalable way to do it. And you know it can also be a great tribal thing where people come together in the lunch room and they watch one of the videos and they practice with the tools and then we give our clients all of the graphics and you'll walk through the halls of some of our clients and you'll see or at least in the meeting rooms you'll see our key infographics describing the Outcome Frame or myelin Asian or maneuvers of consciousness or reframing or cultural game plan or safety blocking mattering. You know you'll see our different diagrams. The emotion will you'll see better programs you'll see these these graphics so that people remember to use the tools because it's really helpful to have them in our environment.   Tripp: [00:44:22] All right very good. Let's now get a kind of interim phase here and we call it kind of the hot potato phase which is fitting. So so I am deeply embedded in the philosophy of W. Edwards Deming which we kind of emailed back and forth a little bit about and sectors I wrote some things down and it just there. There are things I'd be curious what your perspective is on. And the first one of that I want to talk about with regards to Deming philosophy is this concept of drive out fear. So one of his 14 points was drive out fear and you write about this in Power Your Tribes which is you know there's a lack of trust in in order to drive out that fear. Can you come in a little bit about how you drive fear out of organizations.   Christine: [00:45:13] Yes and fear. I find that many leaders you know are scaring their people into mediocrity. And we're scaring them and sending them into critter state. Not intentionally but we're scaring them with incomplete information with not making it safe to experiment or fail. Right. Public beheadings. We're creating fear by not having open clear communication having conflict avoidance is a great way to create fear. Having unrealistic perpetually unrealistic deadlines where people just can't do that much work in that short of time. Changing directives. Oh no we're not doing that anymore. We're doing this well nobody told me and I'd been doing that for two months. So we create fear and a lot of ways. But it primarily boils down to communication which is why that's our first corporate value. You know our company if we have if if human beings have clear explicit communication. In my experience you can get through anything. Okay.   Tripp: [00:46:26] All right. Yeah. I like that and obviously there's a ton of stuff in here about how to mitigate that fear in your book. The second one or another one because I got many but it would just get through a few of these. But there is the mindset of that we're all taught in the Deming philosophy ninety four a five percent of performance comes down to the system that you work in and one of the things I had trouble with early on is this kind of. There seems to be there's a component of neuroscience it's very individual the focus is on the individual. They're the problem they're the they're the focus of it as opposed to the system.   Tripp: [00:47:08] Now the system includes the individual. You kind of see where I'm going with this question. So. So I'm trying to reconcile. Yeah. He's from a Deming philosophy standpoint as Deming wrong because I'm open to that you know from a perspective of could have we learned enough to say it really is the individual and not the system and there are there. There's a lot more to that obviously to unpack but I'm not gonna do I just kind of want to hear what your initial reaction is to that.   Christine: [00:47:37] Yeah well but the individual is existing within a system.   Tripp: [00:47:41] True. yes.   Christine: [00:47:43] And that system is affecting the individuals. So so if we look at I mean for us we use six logical levels of change and that's sort of the environment the system that's happening in an organization. And if we look at the symptoms that are occurring we can understand where to change the system got it. So you know the environment physical emotional you know mental space I walked into a company a while ago it was an open floor plan and you just you walked in there and I was I was uncomfortable even breathing. It's like people were so uptight about being absolutely silent. And I was like This is ridiculous. Human beings aren't absolutely silent. You know and people were emailing each other and of just reaching over and talking to each other. It was e-mailing people like right next door to them. So you know there was just kind of this tense weird environment and you can have an open floor plan and do it really well. And so environment behavior what we do a person's or a company's values really define our behavior. That's why it's important up good values that people understand because it's the code of conduct or company values capability. Those are skills our tools are abilities you know how are our capabilities growing by being part of this system. Beliefs decisions you know meaning that we make about things outside of us. They are. It is you know the world is that the market is our customers our identity the decisions that we make about ourself right the meaning that we make about ourself. I am powerful I am valued I am capable I am safe I belong I matter. And then core you know the most sacred thing to the company and you know it's not profits. The most sacred thing to the company is like how that company is making a difference on this planet. Like why should we bother working there.   Tripp: [00:49:38] That's good. No I think that as I've helped organizations you know write Mission Vision Values nowadays. There are three components that I believe that it has to have. And one of them I just added in the last probably eight years which is the first one is customer some concept of customer some concept of innovation because of the rapid pace of change that we're facing in disruption that we face today. And then the third one is the one that you just talked about which is the greater good. How do we get you know how do how do how do we tap into that now. What do you think as you were talking through that kind of made a note and maybe you can help me with a a name for this. You know there's a say in in your your talk about the system I'm thinking in terms of maybe it's more because I have an engineering type of mindset brain which is the mechanical methods the Six Sigma the statistics you know those types of things versus the emotional system. And I you know that kind of you kind of added that by virtue of what I read while I was listening to you and there's probably a better name than mechanical but I'm just trying to come up with some type of label but that you're talking about that if we're going to affect 95 percent of the performance of a system we have to also account for the emotional system.   Christine: [00:51:01] Yeah. And here's the thing. I'm all for measurement yay measurement. But if we don't enroll and engage people they aren't going to use the measurement type systems.   Tripp: [00:51:14] Agreed. Yeah.   Christine: [00:51:15] They'll mock them. They'll skip them et cetera. And they will be all for naught.   Tripp: [00:51:21] So here here's another one that I wrote down that is just you know it's upsetting but is layoffs.   Tripp: [00:51:33] And you talked about in one of your videos you talked about exile and and people being exiled from there you know from organizations or from their countries. Right. That was the worst thing that could happen to you. And now I have this series of layoffs and we're creating did we have this culture now we're going to lay off this this person one of the things that Dr. Deming talked a lot about is you know there are reasons for. Companies have to lay off if you're in the financial dire straits and it's either sink or swim. I get it.   Christine: [00:52:04] You got to do it I guess.   Tripp: [00:52:05] I think where people have difficulty today is they see the dividend go up and oh I was laid off because they were able to build a new building or to raise their dividend or you know do something that a point. And Dr. Deming was a big advocate of before you do layoffs. What's first of all talk about did the leadership take a 10 percent cut in their pay.   Tripp: [00:52:28] You know sometimes where you're having an actual leadership you know what I'm saying that hey oh well we just had to do it and we just. And there seems to be this unemotional or this you know method and having been an executive and had to lay off people I can tell you it's it's very emotional. Oh yes. Not only to you. For you know why you're doing it but. And you're basically giving the marching orders right to took that you're going at the last people but the only reason to be is because you know find out that the CEO wants a new helicopter or once a week or something like that.   Tripp: [00:53:00] I think that's where we're you know as a culture or as a society we're starting to to push back on those types of things. What are your thoughts how do how do you write are you put into situations like that or do you then you get to the point where you're so in the growth and navigating growth and all those types of modes that you don't really come up against this.   Christine: [00:53:24] Oh no we come. We come up against layoffs we come up against terminations you know for non-performance you know or God forbid you know for epic cause you know I mean these are humans right. With humans you get the full spectrum of experience. If there are layoffs we have to have. We have to have. We have to have an explanation that is fair and makes sense. And you know sometimes a division is closed you know a product line is discontinued you know et cetera. But here's the thing when we lay people off we have to have a clear communication about it that actually makes sense. But then we also have to honor their contributions to the firm. You know so you know we're discounting continuing such and such product line. We haven't been able to find an internal job for Joe. So you know Joe Joe and his team you know will we'll be let go and we want to thank them for all the contributions that they made. And we're going to celebrate those contributions are going to do all that we can to outplace them to help them find their next adventure and we're gonna help them with their resumé or whatever you know. But yeah I mean just this is business. So I want to make sure that.   Christine: [00:54:37] We're balancing it's business and we have to run a a profitable healthy business that makes a difference in the world. And that does sometimes mean that people have to be let go for a variety of reasons. You're not going to have a culture with high employee retention and high employee engagement. If you're doing random layoffs that don't have stories that make sense.   Tripp: [00:55:05] Good answer. I'm going to ask one more question then I'll get to my last question. Great which is around who does and rewards one of the things that Dr. Deming railed against was the concept of quotas versus rewards. And as we've seen like with Wells Fargo and a number of other companies over the years Sears I think with their automotive repair business too. But you don't have to look far too tough to find bad behavior with regards to how those drive certain behaviors within organizations. How do you we know rewards people want rewards. Right yeah. I I've I've read in your book where you've talked about the emotional is greater than than the reward that you get. And and people are more involved with winning career path and public recognition that then rewards. But just that this this concept that you know especially in the US to be win because of Deming came back to the U.S. from Japan it's basically boy rewards are killing us here. You know there people are doing dysfunctional things to hit their quarterly goals so that their price will go up. Those types of things how do you how do you what are your thoughts on that.   Christine: [00:56:20] So I do believe in rewards and consequences and consequences just you know if you drop the ball there will be a consequence there won't be a punishment there won't be a shaming you know but there will be a hey you know Are you OK you know and walking through we have four questions that we walk people through. If somebody you know has an accountability challenge and they drop the ball. But but I find you know one of the greatest problems with quotas is that people don't provide what these sales people for example truly need in order to meet their quota or worst case scenario they actually cap it. You can only make so much commission which is insane because if you have a salesperson that wants to sell like crazy let them you know why would you ever want to mess that up. So I think we like to use needle movers that the minimum acceptable performance because you have to tell people what you expect them to perform you know where how you expect them to perform the minimum acceptable. Rawlence The target is what you want them to hit. The mind blower is wow you know if if we can hit this number that's really amazing at NYU. Emily Balcetis actually did some research at NYU where she also used three levels of goals if you will.   Christine: [00:57:34] She called it something like easy moderate and impossible. I don't like the word impossible because I don't think that it's actually Tripp. But what she found was the systolic blood pressure which is our our readiness to act was so so on. Easy OK high on moderate on the middle one that we would call target and then a little bit lower on the one that she called impossible. So what does this mean. This means that our focus and our readiness to act works is stronger when we actually have three goals three levels of a given goal barely acceptable. What we really want and will if we knock it out of the park. Because when you have this you're going to get the what we really want. One of the middle but goals are often set in a binary way achieve this you know or you're in trouble. And the brain doesn't like that the brain can actually we perceive goals as spatial as psychological as physical. The way the brain deals with goals. So when we have these three levels we can actually move. If you look at what's happening with people who use these three levels we actually move the perception of that goal closer it feels easier and we can imagine achieving it more effectively.   Tripp: [00:58:51] Okay. And just that just to come in I know Dr. Deming comment with regards to quotas what is our targets even is, "By what method?" So you know and I think that's you we're getting there. There's probably a longer conversation associated with that but that because that's guess that's a good start. So my last question to you Christine is this Is there anything that you during the course of our conversation that you'd like to make some clarification of. Or is there anything that I didn't ask that you wish I would have more.   Christine: [00:59:22] Good for now. Ok. But the executive summary is leadership is a privilege it is our great good fortune as leaders to have amazing people to work with so please invest in your people look at their emotional experience help them. The better emotional experience so they can give you the performance that you want. Everybody wins.   Tripp: [00:59:43] Fascinating stuff. Please get Christine Comaford's latest book Power Your Tribe. We appreciate you being a guest on Mind Your Noodles.   Christine: [00:59:53] Thank you. And if you guys want to get our regular tools that we send out monthly go to work with s t i. Dot com and you'll get little goodies from us every month. Work with SETI dot com.   Tripp: [01:00:08] Very good and we'll put that in the show notes also. Thank you again Christine.   Christine: [01:00:11] Thank you.   Tripp: [01:00:12] Bye bye.  

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