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HOW TO GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY: TASHA EURICH ON SELF AWARENESS

October 10, 2017 by Larry Weeks Leave a Comment

HOW TO GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY: TASHA EURICH ON SELF AWARENESS

Unfortunately in the coming year some of you will be fired, divorced, passed over for promotion, out of business, kicked out by a board, you name it, because you never knew what you were getting wrong – or how you were perceived in the marketplace, at work or at home…. Read More

Filed Under: Business, Business Intelligence, Career, Happiness, Overcoming Adversity, Personal Growth

EP. 15: ON THE IMPORTANCE OF HARD THINGS: CAROLINE MILLER

September 14, 2017 by Larry Weeks Leave a Comment

EP. 15: ON THE IMPORTANCE OF HARD THINGS: CAROLINE MILLER

Caroline is the author of the best selling book Getting Grit (2017) For almost three decades has been a pioneer with her ground-breaking work in the areas of goal setting, accomplishment, grit, happiness and success. She is recognized as one of the world’s leading positive psychology experts on this research and how it can be applied to one’s life for maximum transformation and growth. In 2015 she was named “one of the ten positive psychology coaches to follow.”… Read More

Filed Under: Business, Career, Happiness, Overcoming Adversity, Personal Growth

EP. 14: ON FAILURE PART 2, FAILING WELL: ASHLEY GOOD

September 8, 2017 by Larry Weeks Leave a Comment

EP. 14: ON FAILURE PART 2, FAILING WELL: ASHLEY GOOD

How can a company “fail well” and use failure as a catalyst for innovation? Ashley Good is the CEO and Founder of Fail Forward – the world’s first failure consultancy – that supports people and organizations to acknowledge and adapt to failure in pursuit of innovation.  They do this by offering clients a set of tools and best practices to deal with failure intelligently…. Read More

Filed Under: Business, Business Intelligence, Career, Happiness, Overcoming Adversity, Personal Growth, Team building

EP 13: FAILURE PART 1 : FAIL FAST, FAIL OFTEN: RYAN BABINEAUX

August 28, 2017 by Larry Weeks Leave a Comment

EP 13: FAILURE PART 1 : FAIL FAST, FAIL OFTEN: RYAN BABINEAUX

Ryan Babineaux has Ph.D in Educational Psychology from Stanford and an M.Ed in Psychology from Harvard. He is the co-creator of the popular Stanford course “Fail Fast, Fail Often,” and in his best selling book of the same name, discovered after working with thousands of people, that those who were successful seemed to have had less fear of mistakes.They spent less time planning and more time acting.
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Filed Under: Business, Career, Happiness, Overcoming Adversity, Personal Growth, Team building

EP. 12: HOW TO BOUNCE BACK OVER AND OVER AGAIN: A TALK WITH JAMES ALTUCHER

August 17, 2017 by Larry Weeks Leave a Comment

EP. 12: HOW TO BOUNCE BACK OVER AND OVER AGAIN: A TALK WITH JAMES ALTUCHER

To say James Altucher is an interesting guy may be a gross understatement. He’s a computer programmer, venture capitalist, former hedge fund manager, successful author, financial journalist, serial founder (20 companies), CEO, publisher, popular podcaster, chess master. He doesn’t own anything, lives exclusively in AirBnBs, does stand-up bits on subway trains. He’s been described as …… Read More

Filed Under: Business, Career, Happiness, Overcoming Adversity, Personal Growth

EP.11: HAPPINESS AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE DIGITAL ERA: AMY BLANKSON

August 2, 2017 by Larry Weeks Leave a Comment

EP.11: HAPPINESS AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE DIGITAL ERA: AMY BLANKSON

Tech companies pay big money to UX designers and engineers to create devices and apps that grab and keep your attention. They high want high engagement metrics. They need you to spend time in an app or a video and to come back, over and over. We all know it impacts our productivity but what about … Read More

Filed Under: Business, Career, Happiness, Overcoming Adversity, Personal Growth, Team building

EP. 9: A PHILOSOPHY FOR HARD TIMES: MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI

July 17, 2017 by Larry Weeks Leave a Comment

EP. 9: A PHILOSOPHY FOR HARD TIMES: MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI

If you haven’t noticed, Stoicism is getting popular these days. Google it, and a raft of influencer and popular thought leader articles appear touting the philosophy’s benefits. As Nassim Taleb ascribes to the stoic sage in his book The Black Swan: “…is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into… Read More

Filed Under: Business, Career, Happiness, Overcoming Adversity, Personal Growth

Ep. 8: SUCCESS, FACTS & FICTIONS: ERIC BARKER

July 9, 2017 by Larry Weeks Leave a Comment

Ep. 8: SUCCESS, FACTS & FICTIONS: ERIC BARKER

Is everything you know about “success” wrong? Maybe not everything, but a hell of a lot of what we’ve been taught about achievement may be simplistic at best. Eric’s blog, Barking Up the Wrong Tree, has almost 300,000 subscribers and his recent WSJ best-seller of the same name, subtitled “The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong” is also the topic of this podcast. The good news is, there is …… Read More

Filed Under: Business, Career, Happiness, Overcoming Adversity, Personal Growth

EP. 1: NO ARMS, NO LEGS, NO EXCUSES: KYLE MAYNARD

June 20, 2017 by larryweeks Leave a Comment

EP. 1: NO ARMS, NO LEGS, NO EXCUSES: KYLE MAYNARD

Imagine the challenge everyday tasks become if you were missing just one of your limbs, say an arm or a leg. Now imagine effectively not having any. Now, after you learn to surmount the subsequent complexity and effort in autonomy with personal hygiene, dressing, eating, etc, try to compete in high school football, wrestling, then attempt to …… Read More

Filed Under: Business, Career, Happiness, Overcoming Adversity, Personal Growth, Team building

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Podcast Archive

  • EP. 32: A FRAMEWORK FOR HUMAN EFFORT: J.J. SUTHERLAND
  • EP. 31: THE TECH FALLACY: GERALD KANE ON WHY PEOPLE ARE THE KEY TO DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
  • EP. 30: Learning To Live With Learning Machines: Kartik Hosanagar On Algorithms and Agency:
  • EP.29: WORKING WITH A.I. : ROB MAY ON THE HYPE AND REALITY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
  • EP: 28. MAKING CHANGE HAPPEN: SETH GODIN ON MODERN MARKETING
  • EP. 27: THE WISDOM ASSET: CHIP CONLEY ON AIRBNB, AGE, REINVENTION AND RELEVANCE
  • EP. 26: SECOND CHANCES: CATHERINE HOKE ON REDEMPTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  • EP.25: MELTDOWNS: CHRIS CLEARFIELD ON PREVENTING SYSTEM FAILURES
  • EP.24: MEANING AND WORK: FRED KOFMAN ON THE ROI OF PURPOSE
  • EP 23: MOTIVATION MYTHS: JEFF HADEN ON PROCESS VS. PASSION
  • EP.22: HOW TO THINK IN BETS: ANNIE DUKE ON POKER, PROBABILITIES AND BETTER DECISIONS
  • EP.21: MEDITATION FOR FIDGETY SKEPTICS: JEFF WARREN ON A DIFFERENT WAY OF BEING
  • EP. 20: CHOICE ARCHITECTURE: RORY SUTHERLAND ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ADVERTISING
  • NOT IMPOSSIBLE: SUSANNAH MEADOWS ON MEDICINE, MINDSET AND MOTIVATION
  • EP. 18: HOW TO TALK TO YOURSELF: MARISA PEER ON RAPID TRANSFORMATION
  • SURVIVING ASSHOLES: ROBERT SUTTON ON OUTWITTING JERKS IN YOUR LIFE
  • HOW TO GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY: TASHA EURICH ON SELF AWARENESS
  • EP. 15: ON THE IMPORTANCE OF HARD THINGS: CAROLINE MILLER
  • EP. 14: ON FAILURE PART 2, FAILING WELL: ASHLEY GOOD
  • EP 13: FAILURE PART 1 : FAIL FAST, FAIL OFTEN: RYAN BABINEAUX
  • EP. 12: HOW TO BOUNCE BACK OVER AND OVER AGAIN: A TALK WITH JAMES ALTUCHER
  • EP.11: HAPPINESS AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE DIGITAL ERA: AMY BLANKSON
  • EP.10: AFTER CANCER: DR. WENDY HARPHAM, HAPPY IN A STORM
  • EP. 9: A PHILOSOPHY FOR HARD TIMES: MASSIMO PIGLIUCCI
  • Ep. 8: SUCCESS, FACTS & FICTIONS: ERIC BARKER
  • EP.7: RESILIENT GRIEVING: DR. LUCY HONE TALKS ABOUT LIVING WITH LOSS
  • EP. 6: WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU: A TALK WITH SCOTT CARNEY
  • EP. 5: FEELING GOOD, OVERCOMING DEPRESSION AND DISTORTED THINKING: DR DAVID BURNS
  • EP. 4: HOW GOING BLIND HELPED ME SEE: ISAAC LIDSKY
  • EP.3: WHY THINGS BOUNCE BACK: ANDREW ZOLLI
  • EP. 2: ON CREATING AN UNDEFEATABLE MIND: DR. ALEX LICKERMAN
  • EP. 1: NO ARMS, NO LEGS, NO EXCUSES: KYLE MAYNARD

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