57 min
The pursuit of excellence | Positive psychology with Daniel Lerner Psych Mic
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Daniel Lerner, MAPP, is an expert in positive and performance psychologies. His key theme is that developing a healthy psychological state has a profound impact on the pursuit of excellence—a message that he brings to students, established and high-potential performing artists and athletes, and executives at Fortune 500 companies and startups worldwide. Dan is a faculty member at NYU, is on the teaching staff in the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at the University of Pennsylvania, and guest lectures regularly at universities across the country. He co-teaches “The Science of Happiness,” currently the largest and most popular non-required offering at New York University, in great part due to the positive changes that students report throughout the semester. Following a decade at International Creative Management (where he specialized in the representation and development of young performers) and at 21C Media Group (where he was a co-founder and the director of artist development), Lerner studied closely with renowned sports psychologist Dr. Nathaniel Zinsser—a Director of The Center for Enhanced Performance at the United States Military Academy at West Point—focusing on coaching and performance enhancement techniques employed by professional and Olympic athletes. He holds a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and his book U Thrive: How to Succeed in College (and Life), was released in Spring 2017 by Little, Brown, and Company.
In this episode from one of Psych Mic's live events, we cover how Dan's beginnings in music budded into a passion for helping others achieve their potential, how his mentors shaped him and how to find great mentors, the infinite ways to apply positive psychology, how he landed a faculty position without a PhD, his struggle with perfectionism, achieving wellbeing, and so much more.
To submit questions for future speakers, visit @psych_mic on Instagram and visit psychmic.com to sign up for the newsletter, where I will be sending out job opportunities and tips for job searching related to the fields of our weekly speakers.
Music by: Adam Fine
Daniel Lerner, MAPP, is an expert in positive and performance psychologies. His key theme is that developing a healthy psychological state has a profound impact on the pursuit of excellence—a message that he brings to students, established and high-potential performing artists and athletes, and executives at Fortune 500 companies and startups worldwide. Dan is a faculty member at NYU, is on the teaching staff in the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at the University of Pennsylvania, and guest lectures regularly at universities across the country. He co-teaches “The Science of Happiness,” currently the largest and most popular non-required offering at New York University, in great part due to the positive changes that students report throughout the semester. Following a decade at International Creative Management (where he specialized in the representation and development of young performers) and at 21C Media Group (where he was a co-founder and the director of artist development), Lerner studied closely with renowned sports psychologist Dr. Nathaniel Zinsser—a Director of The Center for Enhanced Performance at the United States Military Academy at West Point—focusing on coaching and performance enhancement techniques employed by professional and Olympic athletes. He holds a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and his book U Thrive: How to Succeed in College (and Life), was released in Spring 2017 by Little, Brown, and Company.
In this episode from one of Psych Mic's live events, we cover how Dan's beginnings in music budded into a passion for helping others achieve their potential, how his mentors shaped him and how to find great mentors, the infinite ways to apply positive psychology, how he landed a faculty position without a PhD, his struggle with perfectionism, achieving wellbeing, and so much more.
To submit questions for future speakers, visit @psych_mic on Instagram and visit psychmic.com to sign up for the newsletter, where I will be sending out job opportunities and tips for job searching related to the fields of our weekly speakers.
Music by: Adam Fine
57 min