How to handle confirmation bias in your thinking Confirmation Bias is a limitation within our thinking process where we listen to and seek out information that agrees with what we already believe. Confirmation bias is a common phenomena within human perception and ultimately lies at the heart of our beliefs about the world and what’s […]
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#65 – The Problem of Quantification
Dealing with the problem of quantification. We live in a world plagued by a problem that can impact our perceptions, our thoughts, and our choices – it’s a problem of quantification. Now this podcast isn’t to deconstruct science or to criticism empiricism, rather to call to the foreground some of the challenges we inevitably face […]
#64 – The Science Medium
Understanding the Science Medium The science medium is a term which I use to represent the environment of science that surrounds us in our culture and that acts as a lens through which we, and our culture and society in general, make interpretations of the world and what’s happening in it. The idea of the […]
#63 – The Focusing Illusion
Understanding The Focusing Illusion The Focusing Illusion is the tendency we have to misjudge the scale of impact certain circumstances (pay raise, death of a loved one, new job) will have on our actual well-being. Marketers exploit this by inducing the public to believe that the “must-have” product will “greatly impact” their quality of life. […]
#62 – Coping with Information Glut
Coping with Information Glut Neil Postman, in his book Technopoly, characterized information glut as a situation more common now than ever before in history – Information glut happens when there is so much information available for consumption, we can’t process it, we can’t make sense of it, and we don’t know what’s real or true. […]
#61 – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | Dr. Vernard Gant
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A New Approach On this episode, Dr. Vernard Gant shares his approach to the issue of diversity, equity, and inclusion from over 40 years of experience in the civil rights movement and urban ministry. Dr. Vernard Gant is the director of the A.C.E. Student Success Center with the Association of Christian […]
How A Life Of Continual Learning Puts You In Position For Success
A Life of Continual Learning Can continual learning contribute to your success? What would you say the odds are that a person who left college after just one year to take a job for $57 a week as a stock clerk in a department store would one day grow up to become a millionaire at […]
A Nice Person’s Guide To Becoming More Assertive
The Limitations Of Niceness When it comes to our business and personal relationships, I think that a lot of the problems that nice people have can be solved by becoming more assertive. Nice people are great. They are likable. They are fun to be around (for a while, at least). They make you feel better […]
How To Overcome The Threshold of Inconvenience
“Success is gained, not by talent, but by sheer determination.” If you’ve ever watched the television show Shark Tank, you may have noticed something obvious. Not every great idea gets accepted by the sharks. Of all the people applying to get on the show – approximately 45,000 each year – less than 1% ever make […]
#60 – How To Build Your Personal Brand | Cynthia Johnson
Building Your Personal Brand with Cynthia Johnson On this episode, Cynthia Johnson shares about how to build your personal brand. She is an entrepreneur, marketing professional, author, and keynote speaker. She is Co-Founder and CEO at Bell + Ivy, a digital marketing and personal branding agency in Santa Monica, CA. Previously, she was Partner & […]
MFL 59 – How To Get Ahead with Zak Slayback
Zak Slayback is a career expert who works to help individuals and corporations get ahead at work. He was originally on the podcast back in episode #18 speaking about the value of substance over status. He is the author of the forthcoming How to Get Ahead (McGraw-Hill, 2019) and the owner and president of Get […]
3 Critical Strategies to Think Better
Whenever someone talks about having greater success in life, inevitably the first area that needs to be addressed prior to any behavior or action are the strategies to think better. The fact is, we all have destructive thinking patterns that operate outside of our conscious awareness and result in negative outcomes with potentially disastrous consequences for […]