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Positivity Podcast with Make School
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Want to develop more willpower and empathy? Positivity Podcast gives you exercises to develop your character traits. In this series, Positivity Dan will help you think about character development the way you think about professional development--with strategies, advice, best practices, and tools to help you grow. The series covers essential topics like Empathy (#2), Talent (#7), Honesty (#9), Meditation (#6), and Forgiveness (#5), from experts that range from academics to best-selling authors--all of whom have actionable tips to help you become a better, happier, more effective version of yourself. Think of this series as your character development consultant, aimed at helping you succeed in life. Chances are, you’ll be helping your professional career, too. - Produced with love by Make School and Positivity Dan. Join thousands of the world's brightest computer science students at Make School (www.makeschool.com).
Episodes
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Rethinking Positivity - Inside the New Science of Motivation with Gabriele Oettingen
“The solution isn’t to do away with dreaming ... Rather, it’s making the most of our fantasies by brushing them up against the very thing most of us are taught to ignore or diminish: the obstacles that stand in our way.” - Gabriele Oettingen Professor Gabriele Oettingen tears through traditional...
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Permission to Feel: Marc Brackett on findings from The Yale Center for Social Emotional Intelligence
This episode focuses on tools of emotional resilience. I’ve met few people like Marc - he is so open and honest about his emotions that it is refreshing. It’s easy to see why. Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor at Yale...
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The Paradox of Choice - Barry Schwartz on why more is less
Having more choices is good right? Barry Schwartz thinks otherwise. "In his 2004 book The Paradox of Choice , tackles one of the great mysteries of modern life: Why is it that societies of great abundance — where individuals are offered more freedom and choice (personal, professional, material)...
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Motivation - Daniel Pink on designing routines, self-talk, and projects to increase your drive
What motivates us? How can we motivate ourselves? Our guest today is a legend in the psychology world, Dan Pink. He’s often credited for paving the paved the path for authors of other character trait oriented books, including many of the authors who have been on this podcast. And he’s so well...
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Career Story - Rob Percival - all-time bestselling iOS instructor with Unathi Chonco of Make School
Were you ever in a classroom that felt too crowded? Maybe 35 students, 50, 100? One man teaches a lot more students than that - he teaches over 320,000 students. What a headache! But not for one person. Who is he? Rob Percival. He’s one of the best selling online instructors of all time. His…
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Altruism - Matthieu Ricard on cultivating urge to give
How can you cultivate a generous attitude? In this episode, we have Matthieu Richard, a Buddhist monk in Nepal with TedTalks on happiness and altruism that have over 8 million views. In this episode, we deconstruct how to cultivate this urge in our own hearts to be altruistic. We also talk about...
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Negotiation - William Ury on how to get what you want in business and life
Today’s episode stars William Ury, author of Getting to Yes. The book is an international bestseller with over twelve million copies in print and publication in thirty-four languages. Ury is also the founder of the Harvard Program on Negotiation and along with Jimmy Carter, founded the...
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Project based learning - Bob Lenz on how project design can help you grow
How can we design projects to optimize our learning? Bob Lenz and the Buck Institute has answers. His name may sound familiar - a previous guest on this podcast, Tom Vander Ark, recommended his work. This topic of planning projects could be relevant to you in many ways. It could be relevant if…
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Prioritizing What Matters - Noël Gordon on Rethinking how Work and Life Intertwine
How do you navigate your quest to live a full life? How do you prioritize work versus family, stretch yourself while maintaining your wellness? Acclaimed civil rights activist Noël Gordon Jr has a unique perspective. He’s not trying to optimize for career or happiness. He points somewhere else....
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Beautiful Questions – Warren Berger on The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
The right question can change everything. It can turn a friend into a lover, a problem into a solution, confusion into understanding. It finds your answer. Warren Berger, journalist and author of the book A More Beautiful Question, has been studying questioning techniques for decades, and most...
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Teaching - Tom Vander Ark on agency, self-directed learning, and inspiration
Tom Vander Ark is a titan in the world of education technology. Few have experience as wide and deep as he. His career journey ... - Superintendent of Federal Way Public schools. - Managed $3.5 billion dollars and one-on-one with Bill Gates as the Executive Director of Education for the Gates...
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Learning to Innovate - Ted Dintersmith on teaching creativity and how to face ambiguity
Ted Dintersmith is on the forefront of innovation in K-12 education. He has a unique background that’s part venture capitalist, part author, part educator, and part filmmaker. So, he thinks a lot about the future of technology, future of employment, how we prepare students for that future, and…
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Inclusion – Dom Deguzman on how to create a grassroots diversity movement at your organization
This episode is on the tactics to build a diversity and inclusion movement at your organization - - everything from convening the first meeting, implementing change, structuring inclusion into the organization’s DNA, what to do when issues inevitably arise, measure diversity ROI as well as…
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Essentialism – Greg McKeown on cutting out the unimportant
How do you know what’s essential in your life and what’s not? Greg McKeown has helped top executives answer that question and reach peak performance. His premise is simple – cut out what isn’t useful so you have more time for what is … but the execution is a bit more complex: with all the...
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Therapy - Bea Arthur on practices of self understanding and wellness
This episode is about the skill of developing your social-emotional intelligence. Our guest, Bea Arthur, has become a leader in the field of mental health care and telemedicine. With the goal of transforming traditional therapy into a more affordable and approachable experience, she created In…
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Deliberate Practice - Rapid skill development tactics with Cal Newport
Cal Newport has dissected deliberate practice – the methods to improve any skill to the point that you become so good people can’t ignore you. We discuss why Deliberate Practice is so important for job satisfaction - even more so than passion - and what a practice for character development could...
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Productivity – David Allen on mental drag, indecision, and agile programming yourself
David Allen is a wizard of productivity and the author of Getting Things Done. In this episode we touch on how to get mental clarity, become more effective, and also touch on some nontraditional topics of how productivity relates to ambiguity, introspection, relationships, and mental health....
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Radical Honesty - Big Authenticity with Brad Blanton
This episode goes beyond “I told the truth” to a more difficult place – being honest with yourself, facing your fears, and coming into the world with all your honest hopes and insecurities. Brad Blanton does exactly that. He curses. He calls you out. He’s been documented farting, unashamedly in...
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Talent – Daniel Coyle on Badass Coaches, Learning Velocity and Talent Hotbeds
Daniel Coyle studies talent, particularly the communities that launch a disproportionate number of success stories. Places like a ramshackle tennis court in Moscow, a music academy in New York’s Adirondacks, and a baseball-mad island in the Caribbean. We discuss the environments and coaching...
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Meditation - Harvard Researcher Sara Lazar on how meditation changes the brain
Sara Lazar is at Harvard studying if and how meditation can promote focus, creativity and reduce stress. In this episode Sara and I discuss what she’s learned, meditation techniques, and conduct an impromptu guided meditation session mid-podcast. I’ve been meditating for 7 years and can say this...
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Forgiveness - Fred Luskin on how to forgive for good
Fred Luskin is a Professor at Stanford and has led forgiveness work for 9/11 victims, employees at major tech companies, and survivors of genocide. In this episode, we chat about - The skill of forgiveness and how to improve it - Why our emotions linger - Self-forgiveness - When not to forgive…
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Self Experimentation - AJ Jacobs on designing experiments on the mind, body, and soul
AJ is famous for his year-long experiments on his mind, body and soul, each of which has been turned into hilariously insightful bestselling books and Ted Talks. We chat self-experimentation strategies: -Why we should conduct self-experiments -Best practices for self-experimentation design -How…
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WillPower – 7 ways to get more of it with John Tierney
John Tierney, NYT bestselling author, has previously partnered with Roy Baumiester, leading researcher, to dissect the 7 tactics you can use to strengthen your willpower. In this episode, we cover common misconceptions of willpower, and how tech can hold us accountable, as well as Tierney’s 7...
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Empathy - Roman Krznaric on the extreme sport of understanding others
Roman Krznaric is trying to enable people to walk in others’ shoes. He’s the founder of the Empathy Museum and the author of Empathy: Why It Matters and How to Get It. In this episode Roman describes tactics like: - How to develop empathy - Tactics organizations can use to create empathy between...
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Science of Learning - Peter C Brown
Peter C Brown is the author of the bestselling book Made to Stick. He’s codified the science behind effective learning so that you can get smarter faster. In this episode, Peter's going to show us: - Principles for effective learning - How to remembering things better - How to create your own...
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Want to develop more willpower and empathy? Positivity Podcast gives you exercises to develop your character traits. In this series, Positivity Dan will help you think about character development the way you think about professional development--with strategies, advice, best practices, and tools to help you grow. The series covers essential topics like Empathy (#2), Talent (#7), Honesty (#9), Meditation (#6), and Forgiveness (#5), from experts that range from academics to best-selling authors--all of whom have actionable tips to help you become a better, happier, more effective version of yourself. Think of this series as your character development consultant, aimed at helping you succeed in life. Chances are, you’ll be helping your professional career, too. - Produced with love by Make School and Positivity Dan. Join thousands of the world's brightest computer science students at Make School (www.makeschool.com).
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