Alexandrians with Daniel Karim

Why I Wanted To Learn From Dr. Aziza Yaser

One of the most fun parts of my life is to go online and to connect with people who also want to help individuals to live more meaningful lives - this is precisely how I stumbled over the work of Dr. Aziza Yaser on Instagram.

Yes, ladies and gents - Instagram can also be used productively.

I was scrolling through mental health hashtags while I suddenly found a young but very talented mental health expert who just happened to come from a country I've never been to - Bahrain.

After devouring most of her beautifully written poetic mental health posts I've reached out to her and asked her:

What's it like to be a therapist in the middle east?

That question was the beginning of a curative online friendship between two people who love to bring out the best in others.

What is this episode about?

- What it's like to be a psychotherapist in the middle east

- Her journey from dentist to psychotherapist

- What love not is

- Relationship red flags

- Overcoming trauma

- Secrets to a happy and rich life

The 20th episode of the Psychology Podcast with Daniel Karim features relationship specialist Simon Pelland.

What is this episode about?

-How to recover from a break-up 

-Attachment styles within relationships 

-How to escape the Chaser - Runner dynamic

-His secrets for having a fulfilled relationship 

-His most painful romantic failures 

-How to unlove someone  

-The commonalities of successful and unsuccessful couples

Jeff Kreisler is just a typical Princeton educated lawyer turned author, speaker, comedian and advocate for behavioral science. He uses humor & research to understand, explain and change the world.

Winner of the Bill Hicks Spirit Award for Thought Provoking Comedy, Jeff runs PeopleScience.com, is a executive humor coach for Stanford Business School, shares insights on CNBC, CNN, FoxNews & MSNBC and has toured most of this particular planet.

The 18th episode of The Psychology Podcast with Daniel Karim features the world-leading shopping psychology expert Siemon Scamell-Katz and author of the bestseller The Art of Shopping. 

Why Did I Want To Learn From Siemon Scamell-Katz?

I reached out to Siemon Scamell-Katz shortly after I created my first product - Planniness, a journal that was designed to help people live more balanced and stressfree lives. 

My team and I put a great deal of effort into the invention of this behavior technology and we were excited to get feedback from customers so that we could create an even better journal out of it, so we uploaded it to amazon and waited... and waited... and waited. 

After one entire month, we had one sale, and that sale came from my mother( shout out to you mom for always believing in me x).

That month taught me something - no matter how good the product, people need to learn that it exists. 

I knew that in order to help people to change their behavior at the scale I first need to understand how to reach them. 

Being the lazy bastard that I am, I reached out to one of the foremost authorities in the field of shopping psychology in order to understand why people buy stuff. 

Why learn everything yourself if you can just ask people who already have the answer to your problem right!?🤷🏻‍♂️

That expert was Siemon Scamell-Katz, the author of the bestseller - The Art of shopping.

Siemon was one of the very first practitioners of shopper research, being the first in the world to conduct eye-tracking in-store, to research shopper behavior in Virtual Reality, and to conduct shopper marketing fMRI and eye-tracking studies.

This man isn't an expert, he is a pioneer who invested decades of his life into observing us, filming us, and tracking our eye movements in order to predict when people buy.

Whether you are a producer who sells stuff or a customer who buys stuff, the information that Siemon collected is pure gold and this Podcast is a must-listen.

What Is This Episode About? 

-How to get people to buy stuff

-Siemons journey of success

-His pioneering work in consumer psychology 

-His early entrepreneurial pursuits 

-How to create a bestselling book 

-Why most marketing is a waste of money 

-Why Supermarkets make the life of customers miserable 

-The power of environment and placement

Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, is president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and former administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. A pediatrician by background, Dr. Berwick has served on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, and on the staffs of Boston's Children's Hospital Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He has also served as vice chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force, the first "independent member" of the American Hospital Association Board of Trustees, and chair of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He served two terms on the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) Governing Council, was a member of the IOM's Global Health Board, and served on President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry. Recognized as a leading authority on health care quality and improvement, Dr. Berwick has received numerous awards for his contributions. In 2005, he was appointed "Honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire" by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his work with the British National Health Service. Dr. Berwick is the author or co-author of over 160 scientific articles and six books. He currently serves as lecturer in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.

The world-famous behavior designer Nir Eyal, author of the international bestselling book Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life.

Jay Papasan, vice president of Keller Williams and co-author of the international bestseller The One Thing.

I first stumbled over Dr. Thorndike's work when I was reading Atomic Habits by James Clear, in his book Clear uses a study that Dr. Thorndike and her colleagues conducted which is called "Choice architecture", an intervention where Dr. Thorndike and her colleagues succeeded in changing the habits of thousands of people without boosting their willpower or motivation at all. I reached out to Dr. Thorndike because I wanted to learn about her journey of becoming and discuss with her how we as a society can work together to design for positive behavioral change. What is this episode about Choice Architecture How we can promote healthy habitsHow to quit smoking How Dr. Anne Thorndike designs her environment for successWhat's it's like to teach at HarvardThe price for excellence Her ideas on happiness and success

Why I wanted to learn from Dr. Susan WeinschenkOne thing that tech companies like Facebook, Netflix and Amazon all have in common is that they understand how to get people to do stuff. We check our messages compulsively, watch more videos than we intended and buy things we don't really need.But how does sillicon valley succeed in the manner in which they do?To understand this question I reached out to Dr. Susan Weinschenk, a world-leading expert in the field of behavior psychology.  Dr. Weinschenk has authored many popular and insightful books on the subject of psychology and is consulting Fortune 1000 companies with her behavioral expertise. What's the episode about? How to surf motivational wavesHow to get people to do stuffHow companies like Apple use the "crack" Strategy to convert new customersHow to get people to do something newHer book “How to get people to do stuff”Her Take on happiness and success

Why I wanted to learn from Dr. Art Markman One of the big questions that fascinate me at the moment is: Why is behavior change so hard and what can we do about it? Dr. Art Markman knows a thing or two about this problem, he is a Professor of Psychology and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin, has written numerous books and is by all means one of the foremost authorities in the field of cognitive psychology and habit formation.What do we talk about Why behavior change is hard and what we can do about itHis take on habit formationHis take on happiness and successHow to find Your Passion The story behind his collaboration with Dr. PhilHis new book "Bring Your Brain to Work"