Growth Mindset: Psychology of self-improvement Growth Mindset Psychology

How to improve your clarity of thinking and create effective communication.
Our cognitive biases and ego can muddy the waters of our minds and block the path to clear communication.
Today's episode biulds clarity on how to be a more effective thinker and communicator.
Topics:

Communication problems in relationships, business and writing

Cognitive blockers to clarity

How to identify and maintain a grip on the most important thing

What bundling and unbundling can apply to problem-solving and communication



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Episode prompts - Clarity Problem Solving Worksheet



Growth Mindset pod
Sam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.
Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.

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Mail - GrowthMindsetPodcast(at)gmail.com

Insta - SamJam.zen



Chapters
00:00 The Curse of Overlooking the Obvious
03:13 Romantic Communication
05:38 The Goal of Simple, Clear Communication
11:42 Concept of Bundling and Unbundling Things
15:21 Applying Bundling and Unbundling to Problem-Solving
16:45 Using Bundling and Unbundling for Clear Communication
19:40 Making the Obvious Obvious
20:34 An Invitation to Chat
21:46 Send Off
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Panic less, enjoy more - treat time well and it will treat you well.
Humans have a difficult relationship with time.
It is the medium that gives us all the experiences that make life so great. It also ages us and ultimately robs us of everything we ever have and ever loved.
We cover:

How to think differently about time itself

Learn how to be less frustrated by things we can't control

Questions to diagnose your relationship with time

Experience deeper awareness


Life is short but we can be the pilot of our experiences or dragged along in a rush feeling crushed by the weight of everything.
This episode should help reduce the storm and increase the calm.

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Growth Mindset pod
Sam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.
Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.

Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset)


Mail - GrowthMindsetPodcast(at)gmail.com

Insta - SamJam.zen



Chapters
00:00 How to understand time
03:26 Lessons from '4,000 Weeks' by Oliver Berkman
05:13 How does Aging make you feel?
09:57 How Meditation helps accepting what is
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National Geographic Adventurer of the Year uncovers how to culture a mindset for adventure without breaking the bank.
Alastair Humphreys is the author of my all-time favourite books on the topic of adventure and getting more out of life.
He spent 4 years cycling around the world, and has rowed the Atlantic, ran the Marathon de Sables, and walked across India amongst numerous other adventures.
Perhaps his greatest success, however, is pioneering the concept of micro-adventures, encouraging anyone to experience the outdoors and thrillseeking within an hour of their doorstep.

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Connect with Alastair:

Website - AlastairHumphreys.com


Instagram - @Al_Humphreys


Twitter - @Al_Humphreys



Growth Mindset pod
Sam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.
Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.

Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset)


Mail - GrowthMindsetPodcast(at)gmail.com

Insta - SamJam.zen



Chapters
00:00 Intro
03:10 Quick fire questions
05:11 How do you define success and happiness
06:03 What are your internal measures
07:13 Adventures
07:55 Why should we be adventurous
09:49 What were the things people need to hear on how to start an adventure
11:15 Microadventures
12:19 Hardest part of adventure is daring yourself to get out
13:24 3 biggest questions when it comes to time - calendar, routines, little margins of time
16:12 Money-to-adventure ratio
21:16 Follow up on other advice about money for adventure - Just GO
22:26 How does Alistair help people address those questions on expertise to be an adventurer
25:57 Mindset framework around finding a sustainable adventure and career
29:18 Going back, would Alastair done something different
32:25 Essay - A Thousand True Fans
34:32 Physical Flabbiness
35:02 Mental Flabbiness
35:20 Moral Flabbiness
36:38 How does Alastair deal with Mental Flabbiness
37:27 Habit Calendar
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Decision frameworks and strategies that drive innovation and growth.
Jeff Bezos built Amazon which made him the world's richest man. He's had a lot of luck but has consistently stuck to a core group of philosophies and mental models that drive the decisions behind his incredible success.
Amazon is more than just an e-commerce juggernaut but a builder of entire ecosystems such as the cloud computing industry (AWS), the e-publishing industry (Kindle) and the world of home devices that talk to each other and you (Alexa).
The stories behind these innovations show how to build a culture of growth and inventiveness full of Growth Mindset lessons.

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Growth Mindset pod
Sam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.
Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.

Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset)


Mail - GrowthMindsetPodcast(at)gmail.com

Insta - SamJam.zen



Chapters
00:00 #1 Thinking in Primitives
02:52 The Power of Mental Models
03:48 Story - How AWS began
06:27 #2 Customer-Centric Obsession
08:08 Story - Why they built Amazon Prime
10:06 #3 Long Term Thinking
11:22 Story - Launching the Kindle and e-publishing industry
14:05 Willingness to be Misunderstood
14:45 #4 Team - Single Threaded Leadership
15:53 #5 Team - Employ and Empower Builders
16:59 Culture - Meetings are for Decisions
17:58 #6 High-Velocity Decision making - Reversible vs Irreversible Decisions
20:32 #7 Regret Minimization Framework
22:09 Disagree and Commit
23:19 #8 Embrace Failure
24:01 Total Fails - Amazon Fire Phone, Amazon Wallet, Amazon Destinations, Amazon Restaurants
26:19 Importance of Timing and Competition
28:33 #9 Day 1 Thinking
31:15 Useful Bonus points
31:23 Flywheel effect
31:51 Word of Mouth Marketing
32:48 Opposing Belief - Ignoring vs Crushing Competition
34:56 #10 Opposing Belief - Stubborn and Flexible
35:32 Applied to Growth Mindset thinking
39:30 Wrap up
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Manipulation tactics that work - Irrational behaviours that don't - Prediction Fallacies we fall for.
In this episode, we dive further into our series on cognitive biases and how they cloud our judgement.
Studying applied psychology we can learn how we get manipulated by companies and start to protect ourselves from our own irrationality.
Take homes:

How to protect ourselves against pricing tactics

Reduce irrational decisions

Build awareness of truth

Reduce unpleasant surprises

Make better investments


If you enjoy this episode it's part of a series on cognitive biases worth checking out:


Ego Blindspots: 9 Cognitive Biases to Avoid - [May 7th]

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Discussed links

Trump given 1% chance of Nominate - 2015 report

Forbes - Any Monkey Can Beat the Market


Growth Mindset pod
Sam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.
Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.

Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset)


Mail - GrowthMindsetPodcast(at)gmail.com

Insta - SamJam.zen



Chapters
00:00 SECTION - Framing effects
00:01 #1 Anchoring Bias
02:54 The Opposite Strategy
04:59 #2 Framing Effect
08:06 #3 Decoy Effect
10:45 SECTION - Irrational
10:47 #4 Gambler's Fallacy
16:45 #5 Sunk Cost Fallacy
19:21 SECTION - Bad Prediction Flaws
19:55 #6 Overconfidence Bias
21:30 #7 Information Bias
25:34 Send Off
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Unusual yet important questions you should ask yourself.
We steal some of the best questions and ideas from different domains that you can try applying to your own life.

What is a life worth living

Healthy vs toxic aspirations

How to abandon what doesn't serve you

The illusion of self-importance


Our guest today is Jodi Wellman the author of "You Only Die Once" and a source of positive ideas from her work in Applied Positive Psychology.
Jodi has a morbid fascination with positive ideas from existential psychology to help brighten your day.
As they say "Get busy living, or get busy dying".

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Jodi Wellman

Book - You Only Die Once


Website - Four Thousand Mondays


Quiz - How dead or alive are you?


Insta - @FourThousandMondays



Growth Mindset pod
Sam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.
Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.

Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset)


Mail - GrowthMindsetPodcast(at)gmail.com

Insta - SamJam.zen



Chapters
00:00 Importance of good questions
01:40 Net-promoter score - Would you recommend your life?
07:24 Abandoning What No Longer Serves You
10:33 Consistent Reminders and Psychological Tricks
14:26 Overcoming the Illusion of Personal Specialness
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