All Episodes
The Happy Scientist — 93 episodes
Extra Episode: Taking Your Scientific Passion to the Wider World
Stop Forcing It: How to Make Progress Without Burning Out
Taking Back Control of Your Attention in a Distracted World
When Experiments Don’t Go as Planned: How to Stay Curious Instead of Frustrated
Extra Episode: From PhD to Life—Building a Career That Fits
Fix It or Start Over? A Scientist’s Guide to Smart Decision-Making
Extra Episode: Will AI Replace the Bench Scientist?
Are You Leaning On a Crutch? Spotting Habits and Routines That Hold You Back
What Are You Avoiding?
Have You Ever Heard of the Consciousness Hard Problem?
How to Stay Sharp in the Lab: Protecting Your Attention Against Distractions
Pain and Suffering. Are Either Necessary to Grow as a Scientist?
Objective Introspection to Strengthen Your Scientific Career
Why Be a Mentor to Other Scientists?
How to Effectively Wield Your Ambition
Getting Dead Practical about To-Do Lists II: Overcoming Task Avoidance
Getting Dead Practical about To-Do Lists I: Aligning Lists with Your Work Style
Does Your Science Box You In?
Patience and Getting What You Want. Are They Compatible?
What Makes it Onto Your To-do List and Why?
What Gets You up in the Morning to Do Science? Why Knowing The Reason Matters
Why Keeping Your Options Open Is Holding You Back
From Scientific Rigor to Mindful Vigor: Tara Nylese's Path to Well-Being
Urgency. How to Keep it From Ruining Your Day, Project, and Career
How to Deal With Challenging People In Your Lab (and Beyond)
How to Earn Respect In Your Lab, and In Your Field
How to Motivate Yourself In Scientific Research
What To Do If Your Love of Science Is Fading
You, Yes YOU, Need To Learn To Accept Praise
Catalysts for Advancement In Your Scientific Career
Focus — Your Lab Superpower
The Most Effective Way to Protect and Expand Your Own Interests
Work and Well-Being in Science
Dropping Grudges Will Change Your Life. Trust Us.
The Importance Of Questioning The Status Quo
The Importance Of Unlinking Your Identity From Your Work
What You Can do to Improve Yourself and Your Science
How to Become Senior Managing Editor for Bitesize Bio
How to Do Labwork with Minimum Stress
How to Hotwire Your To-do List for Maximum Progress
There’s No Such Thing As a Comfort Zone
What Can Science Learn from Other Disciplines?
The Risks of Having to Be Right
I Hate Math (and Organic Chemistry and Applied Physics)
Things to Love About the Lab
Coping With The Parts of Your Job You Hate
How to See Your Blind Spots
How to Reason With the Unreasonable
Can There Be Freedom In Science?
Something Better Than Work—Life Balance
How to Deal with Burnout
Let’s Talk About That Voice In Your Head
Do You Listen?
Does Humility Harm Your Career?
The Difference Between Efficiency and Optimization
What Constitutes a Happy Scientist?
Is the Lab the Only Way to Be a Scientist?
How to Manage Your Boss
When and How to Delegate
How to Handle Disappointment
How to Foster Imagination
When Should I Speak Up
What You Don’t Know You Don’t Know
Giving It All Away
How to Elicit the Help of Others
Going Your Own Way
Why Hope Is Actually Weakening You
The Power of Gratitude
How Scarcity Is Hurting You
Is Unconditionality Achievable?
The Siren Song of Control
Do You Have A Not-To-Do List
The Empirically Supported Benefits of Mindfulness
The Multitasking Myth
Affirmations Don’t Work (and How to Fix It)
Marshalling Dopamine to Let You Accomplish Hard Tasks
You Are Too Busy To Be Busy
The Challenge of Differentiating Between Science & Scientific Opinion
The Difference Between Choosing and Deciding
Don’t Seek Results, Ask Questions
How To Install & Use Habits For Maximum Impact
Managing Your Energy
The Art Of Going Slow
Getting Past Imposter Syndrome
How to Discover And Wield Your Charisma Factors 3
How To Discover And Wield Your Charisma Factors 2
How To Discover And Wield Your Charisma Factors 1
Recognising the Core Mindsets that Control Your World 3
Recognising the Core Mindsets that Control Your World 2
Recognising the Core Mindsets that Control Your World 1
Why You Need to Meet Your Human Needs 3
Why You Need to Meet Your Human Needs 2
Why You Need to Meet Your Human Needs 1