Podcast appearances and mentions of Timothy D Wilson

How psychologist Dan Gilbert went from high school dropout to Harvard professor, found the secret of joy, and inspired Steve Levitt's divorce. SOURCE:Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard University. RESOURCES:"What the Data Says (and Doesn't Say) About Crime in the United States," by John Gramlich (Pew Research Center, 2020).Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, by Stephen Pinker (2018)."Mistakenly Seeking Solitude," by Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder (Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2014)."Just Think: The Challenges of the Disengaged Mind," by Timothy D. Wilson, David A. Reinhard, Erin C. Westgate, Daniel T. Gilbert, Nicole Ellerbeck, Cheryl Hahn, Casey L. Brown, and Adi Shaked (Science, 2013)."The End of History Illusion," by Jordi Quoidbach, Daniel T. Gilbert, and Timothy D. Wilson (Science, 2013).Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, by Elizabeth Dunn (2013)."If Money Doesn't Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren't Spending It Right," by Elizabeth W. Dunn, Daniel T. Gilbert, and Timothy D. Wilson (Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2011).This Emotional Life, by Daniel Gilbert (2010).Stumbling on Happiness, by Dan Gilbert (2006)."Affective Forecasting," by Timothy D. Wilson and Daniel T. Gilbert (Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 2003). EXTRAS:"Drawing from Life (and Death)," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2023)."Who Gives the Worst Advice?" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2021)."Sendhil Mullainathan Thinks Messing Around Is the Best Use of Your Time," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2021)."Am I Boring You?" by Freakonomics Radio (2015).

Welcome back to the Pyllon Ultra Pod, where we dive deep into the real issues faced by ultrarunners and endurance athletes. I'm Paul, and today, we're exploring a concept that extends far beyond running—attention. Inspired by the work of psychologist Timothy Wilson and other thought-provoking books, we discuss how our focus shapes our training, racing, and ultimately, our lives. Key Segments: The Distraction Dilemma:How modern distractions are costing us more than we realise. The impact of distractions on our running and training. Personal anecdotes about the cost of distractions in our daily lives. Attention and Training:The importance of being present during training sessions. Stories of how losing focus can derail your running goals. The Cost of Misplaced Attention:If you're focusing on things you don't truly value, you're paying with your life. Engaging directly with experiences versus being distracted. Making Better Use of Your Attention:Practical questions to help align your attention with your values. The significance of being mindful and present in everyday activities. Quotes: "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." - Simone Weil "To be everywhere is to be nowhere." - Seneca Book Recommendations: "Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious" by Timothy D. Wilson "4,000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals" by Oliver Burkeman Join Us: Don't forget to join us on the 20th of September for the unmissable Pyllon Contact Information: Social Media: @pyllon @pyllonultra Website: Pyllon Ultra  

Strangers to Ourselves by Timothy D. Wilson asks is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our unconscious selves. If you want to know who you are or what you feel or what you're like, also pay attention to what you actually do and what other people think about you. An eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgments, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show us. Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious "Strangers to Ourselves" by Timothy Wilson - Book Review Book of the Week - BOTW - Season 5 Book 43 Buy the book on Amazon https://amzn.to/3N9nuzN GET IT. READ :) #unconscious #strangers #selfknowledge FIND OUT which HUMAN NEED is driving all of your behavior http://6-human-needs.sfwalker.com/ Human Needs Psychology + Emotional Intelligence + Universal Laws of Nature = MASTER OF LIFE AWARENESS https://www.sfwalker.com/master-life-awareness --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sfwalker/message

Contrary to popular belief, money can actually buy happiness. It's just that many people don't know how to spend it right. There's research to back up this claim. “The correlation between income and happiness is positive but modest, and this fact should puzzle us more than it does. After all, money allows people to do what they please, so shouldn't they be pleased when they spend it? Why doesn't a whole lot more money make us a whole lot more happy?… Wealthy people don't just have better toys; they have better nutrition and better medical care, more free time and more meaningful labor—more of just about every ingredient in the recipe for a happy life. And yet, they aren't that much happier than those who have less. If money can buy happiness, then why doesn't it? Because people don't spend it right.… Money is an opportunity for happiness, but it is an opportunity that people routinely squander because the things they think will make them happy often don't.” — Elizabeth W. Dunn, Daniel T. Gilbert and Timothy D. Wilson. If Money Doesn't Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren't Spending It Right.Many of us weren't born into wealth. Our only model of wealth is a rich uncle who bought a bunch of fancy cars and other toys when he got wealthy. So it's no puzzle that when we get some money of our own, we don't know how to spend it right. As a result, it doesn't result in our lives being meaningfully better. Fortunately, I've got your back. This week, by some stroke of serendipity, I stumbled upon some brilliant advice about the most important things you need to upgrade when you get money to improve the quality of your life. Another thing that struck me this week is that I'm now at that age where people my age get many odd illnesses. This is sad because I'm not that old. A consequence of the sedentary lifestyles we now live, I guess. So while all the advice is great, I want to shine the spotlight on the ones relating to your health. Your health.Health is one of those things that enhances the enjoyment you get from other things in life. The healthier you are, the more enjoyable your money will be. Any hit to your health will massively reduce your enjoyment of life. You won't be able to enjoy your money much if you're in and out of the doctor's office and if you're constantly on medication for all kinds of lifestyle disorders. So the first thing you need to do is change your mindset about your health. That's arguably the most important thing you have and the one thing you should guard and protect ahead of everything else. Fortunately, when you make more money, you can make some changes in your life to improve your physical health. Here are a few simple changes that can reap substantial rewards. Get a trainer.When you get money, spend it on your health without hesitation. Everyone can do a little googling and cobble together a workout program and get a gym membership. That's a good start. But when you can afford it, get yourself a trainer, and let them know what kind of transformation you want. Let them use their expertise to figure out the best exercise routine for you and the best diet for your goals. They'll come to your gym and help you stay accountable and drive you towards your goals. Getting in good shape is a winning play. You will look better, you will feel better and you'll be more confident. Get regular health checkups.Next, you know that odd pain in your back that you've lived with for 15 years. Or that bad knee that you've just accepted. Get that sorted. I don't know about you, but people (especially men) in my culture brave it through what they deem to be minor health problems. They only go to the doctor when they have no option anymore. Time to change that. Go for regular health checkups even when you feel okay. Go for other luxury or specialist treatments. See a chiropractor, go to the spa and schedule some time with a physiotherapist. When you can afford it, there's no need to keep living with those “little” issues in your health. Get it fixed. Sleep well.Statistically, we spend a third of our lives sleeping and if we're not sleeping right, it has an adverse effect on the other two-thirds. So once you have the money, invest in better mattresses and pillows. You know that bed you've been using for 10 years? Get rid of it and invest in a new one. Replace those pillows that give you a stiff neck from time to time and that linen that messes with your sinuses. Time for it to go. Get the one with a high thread count. If you can afford it, then there's no reason you shouldn't feel more rested in your own bedroom than you do in a luxury hotel. You spend a lot of time there, so make it good. Eat well.When we don't have a lot of money, we don't always eat the best food. Our primary concern is being fed and stretching every dollar, so we get the cheapest food. That's fine for its time, but as soon as you have more, upgrade your food immediately. Food is fuel and if you use better fuel, you will get better performance. During your day, you will feel less sluggish. You won't battle lifestyle illnesses like cholesterol and obesity. You'll be more focused and you'll perform better when you meet the personal trainer that you just got. This isn't about getting some restrictive diet and eating salads all the time. The goal is to increase the quality of your food while lowering the quantity. No need to eat at volume anymore and feel bloated afterwards. Get good nutritious food and savour the experience of eating without attempting to fill up your tummy. That's why you won't get a 12-wing platter at a super fancy fine-dining restaurant. Eat for right now and you'll have another meal if you have to. Travel with family.An oft-neglected aspect of our health is the mental health benefit of spending time with people we love. We're profoundly social creatures and anytime we get other people involved in what we are doing, that increases the happiness we derive from it. And sometimes all we need to get through a tough time or to clear the mental clutter is just to be around our people. When you have more money, you will probably take more holidays. You don't need me to tell you that. But when you go for your holidays, make a habit of taking your family members along with you. It's easy to drift apart because of the different experiences caused by disparate net worths. So while you can't always have your family with you everywhere, now and then travel with your sister. Take your parents along with you on your next escape. It may be nothing to you, but it could be life-changing for them and it will do wonders for your relationship. These relationships are valuable, so nature them and you'll be happier. This is a public episode. 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Vào năm 2014, Timothy D. Wilson - giáo sư tâm lý học tại trường Đại học Virginia - cùng các cộng sự của mình đã tiến hành một nghiên cứu rất đáng chú ý về tâm lý con người. Kết quả của nghiên cứu có lẽ không khiến nhiều người bất ngờ. Sự tập trung là vấn đề phổ biến trong xã hội hiện đại. Nhưng phần sau của cuộc nghiên cứu mới là đáng chú ý. ______________ Cùng tìm hiểu cuốn sách "Người Trong Muôn Nghề: Ngành Xã Hội & Nhân Văn có gì?" tại: https://b.link/SP-YT-XHNV Ghé Nhà sách Spiderum trên SHOPEE ngay thôi các bạn ơi: https://b.link/SP-YT-Spiderum ______________ Bài viết: MẠNG XÃ HỘI HỦY HOẠI XÃ HỘI NHIỀU HƠN BẠN NGHĨ Được viết bởi: Ham Học Link bài viết: https://b.link/youtube-MANG-XA-HOI-HUY-HOAI-XA-HOI ______________ Giọng đọc: Isa Quan Editor: Nguyễn Sơn (Smol son) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spiderum/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/spiderum/support

You, dear reader, probably don't come from a rich family. You probably didn't have a trust fund waiting for you when you turned 18 (that's how trust funds work, right?). And there's no long line of generational wealth threading itself through your family history. And now that you're an adult, it's your turn to take a stab at starting the generational wealth in your family. How's that going? Many of us received little meaningful personal finance education from our parents. They had other challenges facing them. And honestly, many of them never figured it out either. The school curriculum didn't help as well. We have to figure things out as we go through trial and error (mostly error, if you're like me).Fortunately, I've done enough of trial and error to have picked up a bit of knowledge about personal finances in my 33 years of life. So, gather round one and all as I share with you my humble model for starting your journey to building wealth. TL;DRIf you want a quick summary, here it is. Regardless of how much you earn, every paycheck must contribute to your long-term financial growth. You do this by saving a portion of your earnings every time and setting up hedges around those savings to protect them from the eventualities of life.Here's how you should split your earnings as soon as they hit your bank: 10% - Growth Fund: This is how you ensure your growth every month. You want this fund to grow each month so you should protect it at all costs. You're building it up to invest it. Everything else after this exists to stop you from dipping into this. 10% - Emergency Fund: This is to rescue you in case something unexpected happens. For example, you lose your job or you need to pay a large sum that you couldn't have expected. 10% - Black tax. If you're like me, you probably have black tax. Parents need to be taken care of, an uncle, a cousin, etc. It's, therefore, a good idea to expect this and put aside some money for it.10% - Personal allowance. You need to enjoy the fruits of your labour to stay motivated. So give yourself some spending money. Buy yourself something nice. 10% - Charity. I strongly believe in giving; we all owe something to humanity beyond ourselves and our families. If that sounds like a lot of gobbledygook, then take this. Research shows that the way to use money to make yourself happy is to use it on others. The remaining 50% should be enough to take care of all your bills and expenses (maybe with a little extra), if it's not enough, you're probably living above your means. Cut down some things.Why you need to saveWhen we talk about personal finance, the conversation usually includes budgeting and other things and stops at saying save something each month. But how much should we save? In fact, why should we save in the first place? What's the end goal?Unless your earnings are very high, you likely won't get rich from saving a percentage of your earnings. So what's the point? Saving will do two things for you. First, it will keep your net worth growing. Your net worth is what's left after we put together all the cash and assets you own and take out the value of all your debt and liabilities. It is the proper measure of your financial position. This is worth stating because sometimes we focus too much on what's coming in and forget all the holes through which it leaks out and leaves us with nothing at the end of the month. A structured saving plan will help keep you growing your net worth even whilst expenses are coming at you from all directions. Second, there's a lot of wisdom in the adage that “luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.” There are many profitable investment opportunities all around us, every day. Unfortunately, most of them either find us without enough “free” money to take part. Saving will ensure that you have some “free” money prepared and ready to pounce at opportunity when it avails itself. Even if you wanted to take a more structured approach and start a business. Any business worth its salt will require some capital. It certainly helps to have some of your own to limit the amount you have to borrow from other people. Unless you're planning to win the lottery, that capital won't just fall on your lap. You need to build it up one brick at a time. Saving is storing up seeds so that when planting season comes around, you can plant them and, hopefully, in due time, reap a huge harvest. This is the reason for the growth fund. The savings mental modelThe core of your structured wealth growth plan is your growth fund. From each of your earnings, put away 10% into your growth fund. Think of this as the centre of your personal wealth growth plan. It's the creamy centre. Every expense that comes in your life is trying to get to this creamy centre and deplete it. Therefore, you need to protect it by building hedges around it. BudgetThe first, and most commonly known hedge is the budget. The budget ensures that regular, expected living expenses don't get to the growth fund. We can spend some time evaluating all our expenses and what we expect them to be and ensure that we don't allow these to grow beyond what we planned. This works pretty well and we should all do it. However, as life would have it, we can't anticipate all costs. Some unexpected things will come that are greater than your budget can bear and will poke through it and deep into your growth fund.Emergency fundYour luggage will get lost while travelling, now you have to dip into your savings to buy clothes. You accidentally dropped your phone and killed it, now you need to dip into your savings to buy another phone because you need it for work. Lost your job because of COVID-19 and the job market is tight. Now, you need your savings to carry you while you look for a new job, meanwhile. Emergencies are going to try really aggressively to deplete your growth savings. You need a hedge to stop them. That hedge is your emergency fund.There are many theories about how to do this. The most popular advice I've heard is to figure out your total monthly expenses, multiply that number by 6 and that gives you how much you should have in your emergency fund. That's your target, but you arrive there by saving 10% of your earnings till you reach that target. When you reach it, you can pause the contributions and direct that 10% to the growth fund until emergencies erode the emergency fund, then you fill it up again. That way, if something happens and you lose your income, you'll be able to live for six months without altering your lifestyle. Of course, if you lose your income you need to downgrade your lifestyle, meaning you have an even longer runway to get yourself back on track. So, even when you lose your income, your emergency fund serves as a hedge to protect your growth fund. Unfortunately, your personal emergencies aren't the only thing trying to poke through. You've budgeted for all your expected expenses. You've accounted for your 6-month runway. But family obligations can emerge and poke through your existing hedges. Family obligationsA common argument is that a major impedance to wealth building for black professionals is “Black Tax.” Some people actually feel the load of black tax so heavy that they're left in the negative every single month. According to Wikipedia, Black tax is “a term that originated in South Africa for money that Black (or other persons of colour) professionals provide to their family every month outside of their own living expenses, usually out of obligation. It is caused by continued economic imbalance that can be traced back to apartheid, colonialism, and slavery. It has been described as Ubuntu, but with an incapacitating twist for the black professional.”This is very much a reality that many of us have to live with and how much of a cost it comes with varies from person to person. Whatever the amount in your circumstance If we don't account for these costs, they also threaten to dip into our growth fund. Therefore, we need to plan for it by building a fund to take care of family obligations. I advise putting aside between 1 - 10% depending on your circumstances. When needs arise, you don't need to stop everything else. You've already made provision. And when the fund is depleted for the month, you can say that you aren't able to help this month with a clear conscience. So if it's a cost that can be deferred, you'll help next month. Would be great if this is where it stops. But threats to our growth aren't all external. Sometimes we are our own enemies. Our own extravagance and indiscipline can threaten to throw the entire plan out the window. Save something for yourselfAll of this saving stuff can steal the joy out of your hard-earned money. To keep yourself happy and excited about your earnings, put something aside for yourself. This is not savings or for bills or any of the other “important” stuff. This is your personal allowance for splurging. You don't have to, but if you want to this gives you the means. You can make small purchases each month. Or you can save the allowances for several months and make a big purchase later. Whatever the case, this is to help you enjoy the fruits of your labour today so that you don't delay all your gratification. My advice is for this to be 10% at most. We as humans all need some meaning in our lives. We are also highly social and the needs of those around us matter to us. As good as this is, if we're not careful, it can also threaten to poke through our hedges and dip into our growth fund. Give away some of itA more appropriate name for this fund would be, “The Happiness Fund”. I recently came across a research paper titled, “If Money Doesn't Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren't Spending It Right.” The primary argument it makes is that money can actually buy happiness, but many people who have money aren't that much happier than people who don't because they don't know how to spend it right. “The correlation between income and happiness is positive but modest, and this fact should puzzle us more than it does. After all, money allows people to do what they please, so shouldn't they be pleased when they spend it? Why doesn't a whole lot more money make us a whole lot more happy?… Wealthy people don't just have better toys; they have better nutrition and better medical care, more free time and more meaningful labor—more of just about every ingredient in the recipe for a happy life. And yet, they aren't that much happier than those who have less. If money can buy happiness, then why doesn't it? Because people don't spend it right.… Money is an opportunity for happiness, but it is an opportunity that people routinely squander because the things they think will make them happy often don't.” — Elizabeth W. Dunn, Daniel T. Gilbert and Timothy D. Wilson. If Money Doesn't Make You Happy Then You Probably Aren't Spending It Right.Drawing on empirical research, the paper proposes eight principles designed to help people with money get more happiness from their money. The second of these principles is, “Use your money to benefit others rather than yourself.” How does this work exactly? We, humans, are very social creatures. As a result, the quality of our social relationships is a strong determinant of our happiness. Because of this, almost anything we do to improve our connections with others improves our happiness as well—and that includes spending money. Several studies support this and the argument is made really well in the paper. The bottom line is making giving or spending money on other people, a regular part of your spending routine will probably make you happier. If you're Christian like me, you're likely already familiar with returning your tithes and offerings. I count these under the same banner of the Happiness fund. So put aside at least 10% to give away. Surrounded by these hedges, your growth fund will have some substantial protection against the torrent of expenses that life throws and should be able to grow every month. The budget, againYou may have noticed that I didn't include a percentage for the budget as I did for every other category. If you maxed all the rest, that should leave you with around fifty per cent of your earnings to take care of your expected bills and expenses. This should be enough to cover all of them with some left over. If this isn't enough to cover your expenses and bills, then you're probably living above your means and you need to make some adjustments to your cost of living. Building the habitFollow these principles, and in no time you should see a nice steady pot grow. If this is the first time you're trying a structured savings plan like this. I advise you to do this for at least a year before thinking about how you can invest your growth fund. This will give it some time to grow without strain while you learn the discipline needed to see all this through. If possible, automate it. Setup debit orders or savings pockets in your bank account. Deduct these categories first when your money lands before doing anything else. There's nothing like knowing you have some good savings stashed up somewhere and that emergencies won't cripple you. But this is about more than just feeling good about your savings. It's about wealth creation, remember? So when your savings have grown, it's time to put them to work in building your generational wealth. And all of this is just step one. So, see you when you've built up your stash. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit justreflections.bhekani.com

Is boredom a negative emotion? It is defined as a feeling of discontent with something that is dull, repetitive, tiresome or tedious. We prefer to stay away from anything that is boring to us. But boredom is largely a complex emotion that can have a very positive impact. It can make us more creative and productive. In episode 41 of The Incrementalist, you will learn:1) In 11 studies, researchers at the University of Virginia and Harvard University found that most participants did not enjoy spending 6 to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do but think.  Participants preferred to do mundane activities like scroll their cell phone.  Some chose pain over boredom by pressing a button to give themselves an electric shock. 2) A  March 2019 article in the Academy of Management Discoveries reported that boredom is a little-known way to boost creativity. Study 1: boredom helped boost individual productivity on an idea-generation task.  Study 2: boredom manipulation increased boredom but did not trigger other negative emotions like anger and frustration, which makes boredom a unique factor in sparking creativity. Study 3: boredom did not always improve creativity for a product development task. The participants needed to have a high learning goal orientation, high need for cognition, high openness to experience, and high internal locus of control to get more creative when feeling bored.  3)  Boredom is a cause of divergence-seeking, exploratory tendencies. Feeling bored will drive you to change and do something different, seek challenges, switch to goals or tasks that better serve you, and motivate you to engage in unusual ways of doing things that are contrary to typical or predictable responses. 4) Doing nothing or sitting with your thoughts is hard when there's so much to do and so much to pull your attention. But if you want to be more creative and productive, it's good to experience boredom. 5) Being bored is not the same as purposeful, relaxation activities, such as yoga and meditation. 6) To experience true boredom, you could sit with your eyes closed, or look out the window, or walk a familiar route and let your mind wander. There is no music, no podcast, and no other stimuli to engage your senses. It's just you and your thoughts.  7) Boredom is not a bad thing if you know how to use it as an opportunity for idea generation and creative breakthroughs.   Read the transcript.Sources cited:  Timothy D. Wilson,, David A. Reinhard, Erin C. Westgate, Daniel T. Gilbert, Nicole Ellerbeck Cheryl Hahn, Casey L. Brown, Adi Shaked, Just think: the challenges of the disengaged mind, Science, July 2014, Volume 345, Issue 6192 Guihyun Park, Beng-Chong Lim, Hui Si Oh, Why Being Bored Might Not Be a Bad Thing After All, Academy of Management Discoveries, March 2019, Volume 5, Number 1 Dyan Williams, The Incrementalist podcast, Ep. 12, Divergent vs. Convergent Thinking Music by:Sebastian Brian Mehr: Album – Olemus; Song – La Nieve (hearnow.com) Check out the book: The Incrementalist, A Simple Productivity System to Create Big Results in Small StepsEmail: dyan@dyanwilliams.comVisit website: www.dyanwilliams.comSubscribe to productivity e-newsletter

We look at three studies on money and happiness to find out when money can buy happiness and when it doesn't. Find the graphs mentioned in the full article by Michael Plant & Julian Hazell: https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/post/2021/06/can-money-buy-happiness-a-review-of-new-data/ Watch the video on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/JLfKZCzkBDs  00:00 - Introduction 00:48 - Kahneman and Deaton study 01:18 - Killingsworth study 03:00 - Killingsworth reformatted 04:40 - Are you spending money right? 05:38 - Spending money on others 06:30 - Conclusion STUDIES MENTIONED: - Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton (2010): https://www.princeton.edu/~deaton/downloads/deaton_kahneman_high_income_improves_evaluation_August2010.pdf - Matthew A. Killingsworth (2021): https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2016976118 - Elizabeth W. Dunn, Daniel T. Gilbert, Timothy D. Wilson (2010): https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/danielgilbert/files/if-money-doesnt-make-you-happy.nov-12-20101.pdf - Elizabeth W. Dunn, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton (2008): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18356530/

Discover the secrets of how mastering your mindset can set you up for success with renowned mindset scholar, Professor Timothy D. Wilson.Why does mindset matter?How to change the stories you tell yourself, and put yourself on the path to success?How to respond to disappointment and setbacks?Professor Wilson is the author of one of my all-time favourite books on mindset and motivation, "Redirect: Changing The Stories We Live By". It's outstanding. I'd highly encourage you to get a copy here: https://geni.us/changeyourstory.SUPERCHARGE YOUR GRADES THIS YEAR: with 1:1 coaching to help you study smarter, not harder, so you can get higher grades with less work and less stress: https://examstudyexpert.com/coaching/Get a copy of Outsmart Your Exams, my award-winning exam technique book, at https://geni.us/exams*As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

Episode 31: Class 2 - What even is a replication? It’s week 2 of Amy’s “Psychology as a Robust Science” course and we are discussing replications. What are they? Is there a distinction between direct and conceptual replications? Do direct replications actually exist? Tune in to (maybe) find out! Related papers and links Open Science Collaboration (2015) Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science https://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716 Nosek and Errington (2017) Making sense of replications https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5245957/ Brian Nosek’s Queensland talk Amy mentioned (roughly between 5:00-15:00): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsRmyW8GmJs Gilbert, Daniel T., Gary King, Stephen Pettigrew, and Timothy D. Wilson. ‘Comment on “Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science”’. Science 351, no. 6277 (4 March 2016): 1037–1037. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad7243. Anderson, Christopher J., Štěpán Bahník, Michael Barnett-Cowan, Frank A. Bosco, Jesse Chandler, Christopher R. Chartier, Felix Cheung, et al. ‘Response to Comment on “Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science”’. Science 351, no. 6277 (4 March 2016): 1037–1037. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad9163. Bishop, Dorothy V. M. ‘BishopBlog: Sowing Seeds of Doubt: How Gilbert et al’s Critique of the Reproducibility Project Has Played out’. BishopBlog (blog), 27 May 2018. http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2018/05/sowing-seeds-of-doubt-how-gilbert-et.html Music credit: Kevin MacLeod - Funkeriffic freepd.com/misc.php

Che cosa è la creatività? Esiste un luogo della Creatività?Il contenuto di questo episodio è tratto dalla mia tesina" Creatività. Una risorsa per l'essere umano" scritta e discussa per il conseguimento della qualifica di Counselor conseguita presso l' Accademia Socratica, scuola di Counseling di Rapallo(Ge). Se volete prendere visione dell'intera tesina potete iscrivervi alla newsletter del mio sito https://vividavoce.jimdofree.com/contatti/ e ve ne invierò una copiaQui sotto la bibliografia di riferimento:Accursio Gennaro, Giusy Bucalo, “La personalità creativa“, ed. Laterza 2006Betty Edwards, “Disegnare ascoltando l’artista che è in noi: guida all’invenzione, all’immaginazione e alla creatività”, ed. Longanesi,1997E. De Bono, trad. di Mario Carelli, “ Il pensiero laterale “, ed. B.U.R. 1981 “Manuale di psichiatria “ vol. terzo, a cura di Silvano Arieti, ed. Bollati Boringhieri 1970J.S.Bruner, “Il Conoscere: saggi per la mano sinistra”, ed. Armando, 1998Alexander Lowen, “ Il piacere: un approccio creativo alla vita”, ed. Astrolabio,1984Lev Vygotskij, “Immaginazione e creatività nell’età infantile”, ed. Riuniti, 1972Marianella Sclavi, “Arte di ascoltare e mondi possibili . Come si esce dalle cornici di cui siamo parte”, ed. B. Mondatori, 2003Francois Ansermet, Pierre Magistretti, “A ciascuno il suo cervello. Plasticità neurale e inconscio”,ed Bollati Boringhieri, 2008Elliot Aronson, Timothy D. Wilson, Robin M. Akeret, “Psicologia sociale”, ed. Il Mulino, 2010Franco Di Maria, Giorgio Falgares,“Elementi di psicologia dei gruppi. Modelli teorici e ambiti applicativi.”, ed.McGraw-Hill, 2004Il laboratorio di danzamovimentoterapia citato è stato condotto da Nicoletta Vaccamorta, pedagogista Anpe e danzamovimentoterapeuta Apid

Jeffrey's questions:  "When you're wanting to make a radical change in your work life or advance your best ideas, how much collaboration do you need, and how much time alone is best for you to generate and then advance your best ideas?”  In her book, The Creative Habit, celebrated choreographer Twyla Tharp suggests that “a clearly stated and consciously shared purpose is the foundation of great collaboration.” What else do you need to facilitate a successful collaboration? What role does solitude play in allowing you to process ideas and make meaningful contributions to the group? And how do we practice solitude in a world where technology conveniently supplies a distraction any time we feel a little uncertainty or discomfort?  Jeffrey is at the roundtable with mindfulness teacher and author Leo Babauta and award-winning author, speaker and business consultant Pam Slim to explore the characteristics of a successful collaboration and the necessity of solitude as a critical part of the process. Pam and Leo both share the radical transformations that led them to become entrepreneurs and their experiences with the collaborative nature of sharing your writing with an online community. They speak to challenge of embracing uncertainty rather than retreating into your cell phone—and the liberation that comes with opening your heart to discomfort.  Key Takeaways [3:57] Pam & Leo’s young genius moments ‘Alive in the magic,’ creating worlds Burying marbles, climbing banyan tree [9:23] Leo’s time of radical change Overweight smoker, deeply in debt Felt badly about self as person, father Picked one thing to change (smoking) Began to change other habits as well Started blog in 2007, year of discovery Achieved with support of others [18:08] Pam’s journey of radical change Working 90 hours/week in 1996 Mentors moved on after merger, lost mojo Also stuck in unhealthy relationship Quit job without plan (huge tolerance for risk) Reached out to old boss for freelance work Realized suited to entrepreneurship [27:18] Pam’s take on successful collaborative efforts As much as you prepare, much is random (human side of business) Open to collaborate with client, mentors or peer network [33:11] The characteristics of optimal collaboration Strong opinions, weakly held Deep listening Mirrored communication Shared purpose, but individual motivation Joint mission, desire to be part of something bigger Acceptance, mutual love and respect Community spirit, shared workload Different perspectives, life experiences Willingness to be changed (beginner’s mind) Leader offering invitation to collaborate, keep it going Create brave spaces [47:46] The significance of solitude Solitude is ‘lost art’ Necessary first step in collaboration Schedule time for solitude Step away from technology to process Can be around people, yet alone with thoughts [56:37] How we use our phones to avoid uncertainty, discomfort Solitude, isolation allows for awareness of patterns Set intention and create boundaries Play with discomfort (critical part of development) Proactively schedule time without distractions [1:03:10] Pam’s advice for executives around allowing for solitude Signals, signs ‘No meeting’ days Design space for needs of team Enforce your own boundaries Connect with Pam & Leo Pam’s Website Escape from Cubicle Nation Leo’s Website Zen Habits Resources The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life by Twyla Tharp “Just Think: The Challenges of the Disengaged Mind” by Timothy D. Wilson, et al. Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude by Raymond M. Kethledge and Michael S. Erwin Solitude: A Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris The Quiet Revolution

I forberedelse til denne episoden har vi lest artikkelen ”Libertarian paternalism” fra 2003, av adferdsøkonomen Richard Thaler, som forøvrig vant årets Nobelpris i økonomi, og juristen Cass Sunstein. Det er en kort liten artikkel på kun seks sider, som vi forsåvidt ikke går så nøye inn på, men som fungerer som inspirasjon for vår samtale rundt statlig styring, regulering, utdanning, helse, ”nudging” og mye mer, tematikker som føyer seg ganske naturlig inn i de tingene vi allerede har snakket om på podcasten. Send oss gjerne innspill til andre tema vi burde ta for oss, kritikk og skryt, og gi oss kanskje en omtale på Itunes. Den letteste måten å nå oss på er via facebooksiden vår, hvor vi forsøker å svare på alle de meldingene vi får. Takk for at dere hører på! Kilder: Daniel Kahneman, Thinking. Fast and slow, 2011 Robert Sapolsky, Behave. The biology of humans at our best and worst, 2017 Richard Thaler og Cass Sunstein, Nudge: Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness, 2008 Richard Thaler, Misbehaving: The making of behavioural economics, 2015 Richard Thaler og Cass Sunstein, “Libertarian paternalism”, American Economic Review, 2003 Baruch Spinoza, Etikken Timothy D. Wilson, Redirect, Changing the stories we live by, 2011   Podcaster nevnt i episoden: Econtalk, intervju med Thaler, fra 2006 http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2006/11/richard_thaler_1.html Waking up, Sam Harris intervjuer Robert Sapolsky, fra 2017 https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/the-biology-of-good-and-evil

In the past few years a new way of changing people's behavior has been discovered: Helping them to revise the stories they tell about themselves and their social environment. Dr. Wilson describes this "story-editing" technique and give several examples of how it has been used to address a variety of personal and societal problems, such as improving educational outcomes, reducing child abuse, lowering the rate of teenage pregnancies, improving inter-group relations, and increasing environmentally-friendly behaviors. Timothy D. Wilson is Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He has published over 100 articles in scholarly journals and edited books, primarily on the topics of self-knowledge, unconscious processing, and the applications of social psychology to addressing social problems. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Russell Sage Foundation. Wilson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. In 2002 Wilson published Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious (Harvard University Press). The New York Times Magazine listed the book as containing one of the best 100 ideas of 2002. In 2011 he published, Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change (Little, Brown). The author Malcolm Gladwell said, “There are few academics who write with as much grace and wisdom as Timothy Wilson. I thought his last book Strangers to Ourselves was a masterpiece. Redirect is more than its equal."

Do you intuitively know that in order for your health to rise to the next level you first must break your bad habits? Today's guest, Nir Eyal, helps companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthy habits in this busy modern world. Nir Eyal is a best-selling author, speaker, and behavior change jedi-master that is educating people on how to build healthy habits in their own lives. He writes for TechCrunch, Forbes, Psychology Today, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and Fortune 500 companies. As the author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products Nir has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School on practical insights to create user habits that stick. Are You Addicted To Technology? How do successful companies create products people can’t put down? Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us? Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model—a four-step process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior. Through consecutive “hook cycles,” these products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back again and again without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging. Why We Do What We Do With technology growing exponentially, it is no surprise that the waterfall of apps, wearables, and the internet of things have become a double-edged sword in our world. On one hand, technology has given rise to advances in human connection, expression, and productivity, while on the other, without mindfulness and intention, it can harm the most important thing we have: our health and wellness. To balance the demands of this attention-grabbing technology while still maintaining our vitality and well-being, Nir's new book profoundly uncovers the how, why, and what makes this addictive technology, well, addictive.   Behavior Change Nir's blog is about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. He calls it “behavioral design.” The topics at Nir's blog encompass user experience, behavioral economics, and a dash of neuroscience. Since 2003, Nir has sold two technology companies and now help teams design more engaging products. For most of his career he has worked in the video gaming and advertising industries where he learned, applied (and at times rejected) the techniques used to motivate and manipulate users.  His life's work in behavioral design has flourished from his writing, speaking, and consulting by helping companies create behaviors that benefit their users, while educating people on how to build healthy habits (and breaking bad habits) in this busy modern world. Links From Today's Show Nir's Book Nir's Blog The Hook Model 7 Cups App Pantry Non invasive glucose monitor "Why Fitness Apps Are making You Fat" "Addiction By Design" by Natasha Dow Schüll "Redirect" by Timothy D. Wilson Ask A Live Question For The Next Episode Click here to leave a voicemail directly to Josh Trent to be read live on air!  Rate & Review Wellness Force Aloha! Josh here. Listen, I deeply value your thoughts, now let your voice be heard! I thrive to serve better based on your words, feedback, and requests for the Wellness Force Community. (including breaking bad habits) Get Your Free Audio Book http://www.wellnessforce.com/FreeBook You May Also Like These Episodes A Personal Trainer For Your Mind With Julianna Raye Healthy, Happy & Harder To Kill w/ Steph Gaudreau of Stupid Easy Paleo Beyond Meditation: How To Get A Better Brain With Ariel Garten Living A Healthy Lifestyle In A Modern World With Dan Pardi  Creating A Life Worth Living With Michael Strasner Get More Wellness In Your Life: Download your free Digital Health Transformation Guide: wellnessforce.com/radio Don't miss next week's show: Subscribe and stay updated Did you like this show? Rate and review Wellness Force on iTunes So nice!  You read all the way to the bottom? That's what I call love! I do the same thing for the people, things, and movements I care about as well. PS: Looks like you and I share the same passion. I'm grateful for you and want to extend you my email address. Write to me and let me know what you'd like to have to get more wellness in your life!

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Education leaders are routinely called upon to help change the minds and feelings of students, parents, administrators, staff and peers. Changing hearts and minds is difficult. Data and logic are note enough. Our guest says that knowing how to change the story playing in the minds of others is the key to getting others to change their mental or emotional positions. Timothy D. Wilson is Sherrell J. Aston Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He has published over 100 articles in scholarly journals, edited books, and published, Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change. Patrick Larkin is the newly appointed Assistant Superintendent for Learning for Burlington Public Schools in Massachusetts. He was recently selected as one of three national Digital Principal Award winner by the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP).