Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast 00:02:28 John Bolby 00:05:01 Dismissive Avoidant 00:06:11 Fearful Avoidant 00:15:45 Bolster Your Self Esteem 00:18:09 Reconsider Your Boundaries 00:18:38 Part Two reparenting Yourself 00:30:31 Step Five 00:33:50 Part Three transactional Analysis 00:51:40 Eric Byrne's Transactional Analysis Hear it Here - https://adbl.co/3XaytgD • If we want to know who we are now and why we are that way, we ...
Oct 19, 2023•54 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast Hear it Here - https://adbl.co/3KWyCB0 • According to Dr. John Dunlosky, the most effective active learning strategies are: active recalling, testing and evaluating yourself, reflecting and questioning, repeated exposure, and just in time learning. • Each person needs to determine which approach works best for them based on their preferred method of processing information. In order to learn ...
Oct 12, 2023•42 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast 00:04:44 The Law of the Instrument 00:09:05 How to Develop Better Mental Models 00:09:50 To develop your ability to use and create better models, try the following: Expose Yourself to a Variety of Ideas The key is variety. 00:10:40 Always Connect 00:11:24 Cultivate Metacognition 00:16:43 In the Lankavatara (a third- or fourth-century Mahayana Buddhist sutra), there is a passage 00:23:55 How ...
Oct 05, 2023•47 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast 00:10:24 The Miracle Question 00:17:55 Part Two delving into the Shadows 00:23:58 Accepting The Shadow 00:31:08 Technique Three ask for Feedback Hear it Here - https://adbl.co/3XaytgD • Self-therapy is about compassion but also about asking the right questions. The miracle question in particular asks us to imagine that the problem is already solved and to think about what that looks like. Th...
Sep 28, 2023•36 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast Hear it Here - https://adbl.co/3KWyCB0 • Self-learners are able to proactively create their own personal development curriculum, set their own goals, and determine their own syllabus for improvement—whether that’s personally or professionally. • You need to be clear on your goals, figure out what skills are most urgently needing development, then allow the SMART acronym to help you create a ...
Sep 21, 2023•46 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast Hear it Here - https://adbl.co/3XaytgD • The behavioral activation theory approaches the problem on the behavioral level, telling us we need to act to feel better instead of waiting until we feel better to act. Monitor your routine, get in touch with your values and goals, then schedule activities that make you feel good, adjust and reappraising as you go. #ActivityMonitoring #ActivitySchedu...
Sep 14, 2023•18 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast 00:02:58 In 1885, German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus published a groundbreaking study on memory and learning. 00:07:51 Gather and Capture 00:10:51 William James, author of The Principles of Psychology, discussed habits and their importance in achieving happiness and success. 00:14:11 Organize What You’ve Captured 00:32:05 Chapter Takeaways Hear it Here - https://adbl.co/3KWyCB0 • Persona...
Sep 07, 2023•35 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast 00:00:58 Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Motivation 00:09:41 Leveraging Intrinsic Motivation in Your Own Life 00:15:27 Twelve Favorite Problems 00:18:41 In his much-loved book On Writing, Steven King talks about new ideas 00:19:21 How to Generate Your Own Curiosity Engine 00:30:11 Isaac Newton 00:31:03 Pierre Curie 00:31:10 Nineteenth-century German chemist August Kekulé 00:31:21 Jack Parsons 00:...
Aug 31, 2023•50 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast 00:02:40 Meet Clara. 00:04:28 The American Psychological Association (APA) explains that there are three core concepts behind CBT 00:05:56 But CBT has also been proven to help when it comes to •Depression •PTSD •Stress management •Self-esteem issues •Eating disorders •Anger management •Chronic Pain 00:07:24 Using CBT and the other techniques we’ll explore, you will learn 00:09:19 How to Spot...
Aug 24, 2023•20 min
The Science of Self with Peter Hollins- a Newton Media Group production. 00:02:54 Take Advantage of Free Time 00:09:26 Organization Is Everything! 00:20:11 The app Leave Me Alone 00:21:06 LinkedIn Today
Aug 17, 2023•25 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast 00:02:05 Nobel Prize–winning theoretical physicist Richard Feynman is one of the best-known and most-loved scientists of our time. 00:05:22 Think Like a Martian 00:12:11 Consider the example of inventor Martin Cooper 00:14:42 Feynman’s Advice: Play More! 00:24:05 An Unexpected Cure for Burnout 00:29:38 The Scientific Method Hear it Here - https://adbl.co/3OsoIY1 • Feynman was a brilliant sci...
Aug 10, 2023•49 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast Hear it Here - https://adbl.co/3KWyCB0 • It is important to ask the right questions when learning something new, especially if you want to learn it effectively. Empowering questions that are solution-oriented and begin with “how” will help you get started on the right foot. You should also avoid disempowering questions that focus on the negative aspects of a situation and begin with “why.” •...
Jun 29, 2023•33 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast 00:01:04 Abraham Lincoln was perhaps not a genius in the conventional sense 00:01:21 Doris Kearns Goodwin has written Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. 00:07:49 Unconventional Genius 00:11:41 The Power of Mindset http://bit.ly/GeniusHollins • Lincoln’s genius traits included intellectual honesty, morality, non-conventionality, and soft skills such as empathy and commun...
Jun 22, 2023•24 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast 00:02:33 Preferring Simplicity 00:05:52 Relying On Contrast 00:08:16 Avoid All Loss 00:12:46 Reduce Risk 00:16:29 The Resulting Trap 00:21:35 Confirmation Bias 00:25:08 Gambler’s Fallacy 00:27:51 Rosy Retrospection Hear it Here - http://bit.ly/DecisionMakingHollins • Through no fault of our own, there are many ways our brains can actively fool us into suboptimal decisions. • The first cognit...
Jun 15, 2023•38 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast 00:05:26 The WOOP method can help you get through these tough moments. 00:06:24 Created by Dr. Gabriele Oettingen of NYU and the University of Hamburg 00:07:13 The WOOP method helps you plan for the hard moments. 00:07:54 Wish: Figuring Out Ambitions and Setting Goals 00:10:43 Outcome: Understanding What’s to Come 00:15:40 Obstacle: Running into Problems and Visualizing Hurdles 00:19:22 Plan...
Jun 08, 2023•27 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast 00:02:13 To understand Galileo, we must understand Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus 00:10:46 Navigating Rejection 00:12:02 Modern day Japanese authors Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitaki Koga wrote a book called The Courage to Be Disliked. 00:17:40 Have Faith In Yourself 00:22:00 Let's wrap up today's episode with The Takeaways. http://bit.ly/GeniusHollins • Copernicus’s and Galileo’s genius tr...
Jun 01, 2023•25 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast Hear it Here - http://bit.ly/DecisionMakingHollins • We are always battling our laziness in all aspects of life. With decisions, implementing a simple checklist of sorts can help. • First, travel into the future with the 10/10/10 rule. This implores you to consider three different timelines in the future and how you’ll feel about your decisions at those three points—that is, ten minutes, ten...
May 25, 2023•32 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast 00:01:11 In 2018, Daniel Pink released a book entitled Drive. 00:03:45 If I ask you to sum up your life with one sentence only, would you be able to do it? 00:08:19 How to Ignite Your Intrinsic Motivation to Reach Your Passion 00:09:09 The Clear Path 00:09:50 Todd Henry, author of The Accidental Creative and Louder Than Words 00:18:57 That is from Peter Holland's book The Lifelong Learner. H...
May 18, 2023•23 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast 00:01:22 Let's begin with Nikola Tesla 00:03:10 Both Tesla and Edison shared a passion for lateral thinking 00:04:28 Enter young Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla 00:10:41 If Tesla can teach us the power of switching tasks and taking breaks, what can Edison teach us? 00:11:08 Edison might have lacked in humility and intellectual honesty 00:12:53 Alex Osborne, a thinker considered the father of ...
May 11, 2023•23 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast 00:01:16 The Wrap Methodology 00:11:36 The 3 P Technique 00:18:44 The ICE Scoring Model Hear it Here - http://bit.ly/DecisionMakingHollins • The WRAP method was devised to specifically address blind spots. WRAP stands for widen your options, reality-test, attain distance, and prepare to be wrong. As you can see, these are not typical ways to approach a decision, though they can serve you wel...
May 04, 2023•30 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast Hear it Here - https://adbl.co/3KWyCB0 00:05:53 Passion, according to life coach Susannah Newsonin 00:06:59 Karen Putts explained the five steps of passion 00:12:19 How to Increase Intrinsic 00:13:03 Satisfying Our Basic Psychological 00:13:39 Creating an Environment that Promotes Autonomy 00:16:44 Competence • Intrinsic motivation is essential for lifelong learning and fuels the desire to k...
Apr 27, 2023•23 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast Hear it Here - bit.ly/3FooG0d • No man is an island. Your unique thought patterns and habits are in a constant relationship with the unique thought patterns and habits of those around you. Relationships are shared patterns, and there is no such thing as a toxic person, only toxic patterns, behaviors, and relationships. • All relationships are occasionally difficult, but toxic relationships a...
Apr 20, 2023•23 min
Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast Hear it Here - http://bit.ly/GeniusHollins • Descartes’ genius traits included intellectual honesty, curiosity, diverse interests, and non-conventional thinking. • French-born Rene Descartes is widely considered the father of Western philosophy, and greatly advanced many metaphysical concepts still in use today. • Descartes genius was to start, like Socrates, from a point of complete ignoran...
Apr 13, 2023•33 min
Hear it Here - http://bit.ly/DecisionMakingHollins 00:02:26 The white hat is Sherlock Holmes. 00:04:08 The red hat is Sigmund Freud, the psychotherapist. 00:06:25 The black hat is Eeyore, the morose donkey from Winnie the Pooh. 00:08:31 The yellow hat is the cheerleader. 00:09:40 The green hat is Pablo Picasso, the famous artist. 00:10:48 The blue hat is Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company and inventor of the modern assembly line. • Most of us engage in very little with regards to our deci...
Apr 06, 2023•17 min
00:03:14 In fact, it took Milton Hershey years of experimentation before he finally perfected his chocolate-making process. 00:04:45 Elizabeth Day’s book How to Fail: Everything I’ve Learned from Things Going Wrong is a funny, relatable, and ultimately uplifting look at the value of failure. 00:06:47 Steps to Conquer Your Failure 00:07:18 Redefine Failure as a Discrepancy 00:09:39 Distinguish between Real and Imagined Threats 00:12:18 Create Promotion Rather than Prevention Goals 00:14:56 Expect...
Mar 30, 2023•24 min
Hear it Here - bit.ly/3FooG0d 00:05:13 Your Negativity May Be “Hardwired” 00:07:38 But that Doesn’t Mean It’s Written in Stone 00:10:53 Authors, researchers, and neuroscientists Kahneman and Tversky 00:13:15 Countering the Bias for the Negative • We can understand the problem of negativity on different levels, from the physical to the psychological to the spiritual, evolutionary, or cultural. The psychological and emotional level is the easiest for us to change. • The negativity bias is an evolv...
Mar 23, 2023•16 min
http://bit.ly/GeniusHollins 00:01:06 Charlie Munger once said he thought that if Darwin attended Harvard in 1986, he probably would have graduated around the middle of the pack. 00:04:28 “Strong opinions but held lightly." 00:06:59 Internet activist Eli Pariser 00:11:03 Though Darwin was not considered particularly brilliant intellectually, it didn’t matter. 00:11:52 Like Socrates, he was unwilling to let bias and assumption derail or contaminate his efforts, and so made a concerted effort to we...
Mar 16, 2023•15 min
Hear it Here - http://bit.ly/DecisionMakingHollins 00:02:08 Ego Depletion 00:08:48 Combat Decision Fatigue 00:14:40 Impulsive and knee-jerk reactions usually turn out to be very bad or wrong. 00:15:19 Lower Transaction Costs • The concept of ego depletion is important because it leads directly to decision fatigue. With overuse, certain cognitive processes can flag and wane, in exactly the same way that muscles tire with extended exercise. • When you reach decision fatigue, your decisions become ...
Mar 10, 2023•22 min
00:00:17 today we pull from Peter Holland's new book The lifelong learner it contends that Humans have a startling tendency to gravitate toward the mundane, the monotonous, and the known. 00:00:52 Judith Bardwick, a management theorist, used the term "comfort zone" in her 1991 work, Danger in the Comfort Zone. 00:03:37 Abraham Maslow's (1943) theory of self-actualization posits that humans have an innate need to reach their full potential. 00:04:06 Perhaps someone like Thomas Edison, the America...
Mar 02, 2023•33 min
Hear it Here - bit.ly/3FooG0d 00:02:42 Emotional Regulation 00:10:02 The Life Cycle of an Emotion • Keeping a gratitude journal is a great way to create genuine feelings of positivity. • Rather than creating good emotions and getting rid of negative ones, we can practice emotional self-regulation and become conscious masters of our own ever-unfolding emotional experience. • What makes an emotion good or bad is the context and our own goals and values. We regulate when we decide which emotions to...
Feb 23, 2023•27 min
