The Practice Ground | A Self-Improvement Podcast with Ken Li and Kari Watterson

Ken Li and Kari Watterson
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Most of us don't need more information -- we need more experience. Join confidence coach, Ken Li, and mindset and habits coach, Kari Watterson, for conversations that challenge how you think, encourage courageous experimentation, and inspire you to gather experiences that deepen your confidence—and your participation in your own life.

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  1. 1d ago

    Ep. 2 - Three Wins (The Most Important Habit You've Never Heard Of)

    Can taking the time to record three wins each day really make that much of a difference? In this episode of The Practice Ground, we explore an idea from entrepreneurial coach Dan Sullivan and organizational psychologist Dr. Benjamin Hardy: much of our dissatisfaction may be a measurement problem. In their book, The Gap and The Gain, Sullivan and Hardy distinguish between measuring ourselves against an ideal that is always somewhere ahead of us — “the Gap” — and measuring backward from where we are now to where we started — “the Gain.” We explore what can happen when we put that idea into practice by deliberately identifying three wins each day. Rather than continually noticing how far we still have to go, can we train ourselves to notice evidence of progress we've already made? What you'll hear inside the episode: the difference between measuring progress from “the Gap” and measuring from “the Gain”why continually measuring yourself against an ideal can leave you striving without ever feeling like you've arrivedwhy Dan Sullivan recommends identifying three wins each day — and three wins for tomorrowwhat can happen when you practice looking for evidence of progress day after daywhy the timing of the Three Wins practice may create benefits that carry into the next daywhy personally testing an idea can be more persuasive than simply learning about itKen's connection between “Gain thinking” and James Clear's idea of getting 1% better each dayhow the Three Wins practice can change the way we relate to our past, present, and future selveshow to begin turning Three Wins from an exercise into a habit you actually want to repeatCited in this episode: Book | The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever's Guide to Happiness, Confidence and Success by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy Commencement Address | Admiral William H. McRaven - University of Texas at Austin (2014) Ken Li is a confidence coach. Connect with Ken on LinkedIn, where he regularly shares mindset tools, resources, and strategies to help professionals who second-guess themselves feel as confident inside as they look. Kari Watterson is a mindset and habits coach. Connect with Kari on Instagram (@theadhdhabittrainer). where she shares her ongoing series, The Habit Training Diaries.

    Ep. 2 - Three Wins (The Most Important Habit You've Never Heard Of)

  2. Aug 21

    Ep. 1 - Making Decisions

    Why can making a decision feel so difficult — even when we know there may not be one “right” answer? In our first episode of The Practice Ground, we explore why decision-making can feel so complicated — especially when uncertainty, competing priorities, values, and the desire to make the “perfect” choice all enter the equation.  We talk about analysis paralysis, the temptation to keep gathering information, and what can change when we stop treating every decision as something we have to get “right.” Along the way, we explore: why getting clear about what you actually want can simplify a decisionhow uncertainty can keep us searching for more information instead of choosingthe difference between reversible and more consequential decisionswhy choosing not to decide is still a decisionwhat Cate Osborn calls the “Dr. Strange-ian quandary”: the awareness that choosing one path means letting go of other possible versions of our liveshow making decisions — including imperfect ones — can become something we practicethe Gary Parker Rulewhat changes when we consider the possibility that there may be no “wrong” decisionPart of our conversation was inspired by Cate Osborn’s interview with decision scientist Dr. Mark Shrime on the Sorry, I Missed This podcast. We were particularly struck by their conversation about uncertainty, values, and the “Dr. Strange-ian quandary” — and Dr. Shrime’s reframing of what it means to choose one path when we know other possible paths exist. Cited in this episode: Sorry, I Missed This Podcast Episode: Decisions, Decisions: ADHD and the Trap of Analysis Paralysis with Cate Osborn and Dr. Mark Shrime TEDx Talk | Putting Purpose Over Path by Dr. Mark Shrime Song | 100 Bad Days by AJR Find Ken Li on LinkedIn Find Kari Watterson at Instagram (@theadhdhabittrainer)

    Ep. 1 - Making Decisions
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Most of us don't need more information -- we need more experience. Join confidence coach, Ken Li, and mindset and habits coach, Kari Watterson, for conversations that challenge how you think, encourage courageous experimentation, and inspire you to gather experiences that deepen your confidence—and your participation in your own life.

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