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Today we look at Brene Brown's tip on how to experience the joy without any of the "foreboding".

Today we look at the pitfalls of giving advice. We discover what we can do to make sure that our advice is wanted, needed and helpful. The tip for today is inspired by the author of The Advice Trap, Michael Bungay-Stanier.

We're starting season 4 with a look at catastrophisation. For those of you who's mind tends to go to the worst case scenario within a beat, this episode is for you. The technique we look at is taken from the book "Tomorrowmind" by Gabriella Rosen Kellerman and Martin Seligman.

Is it harder for you to acknowledge what you do well? You're not alone. This episode takes a technique used by Kristen Neff, a leading expert on compassion, to help make it easier for you to see your own strengths.

This episode was inspired by Jonathan Haidt's The Happiness Hypothesis in particular the work on wisdom by Robert Sternberg. Listen to find out how you can respond to situations more wisely.

Dan Gilbert is a social psychologists and his research has shown that most of us mis-predict our potential. In this episode I explain what that means for us and how we can use it to our advantage.

This episode we take a look at our purpose and how trying to "find" it might not be the best way to get it. For more information you can read the full article on my website emmacrook.com or on my substack emma crook.

When do you keep going and when do you call it a day? Listen to this episode to find how to answer this question.

This episode looks at an idea suggested by Dr Simran Jeet Singh which can help us to match up how we spend our time with our priorities. Enjoy.

We could make things a lot more easier on ourselves and others and, as a bonus, improve our performance if we could learn to effectively manage our expectations. This episode explores why.