In this episode we ask "do you have to be ruthless to succeed?”, we examine how compassion is powerfully linked with success, we discuss the essential task of challenging your own world view and seeking evidence you disagree with, learn how to ask great questions, and much more with Dr. Chris Kukk. 

  

 Dr. Chris Kukk is a former counter intelligence agent, now a professor of Political and Social Science at Western Connecticut State University. He is the founding Director of the Center for Compassion, Creativity, and Innovation. He is the author of the newly released book The Compassionate Achiever and has been featured on NPR, NBC, The Economist, and more

  

Social and emotional learning and how Chris is using that to transform early childhood education

How positivity and compassion can spread from the bottom up to change schools

The neuroscience behind how compassion helps children learn more effectively

Why cultivating personal awareness is the first step to mastery

With meditation you catch more than you miss, without it, you miss more than you catch

What did Charles Darwin have to say about how compassion impacts the “survival of the fittest”

How a focus on helping one another moves society forward

Why the conception of compassion as “soft” or “weak” is completely wrong

How compassion is powerfully linked with success

Mother Theresa’s “Ripple of Kindness” 

Do you have to be ruthless in order to succeed?

Compassion enables you to have sustained success

Lessons from Enron

What psychology and neuroscience studies show about extrinsic focus vs intrinsic focus on your achievement

How Utah has saved money by pursuing a policy of compassion in solving homelessness

The “4 step program” for cultivating compassion that you can start implementing right now

The power of “LUCA”

The power of listening to learn instead of listening to reply

The definition of compassion - understanding and taking action

How we can “understand to know” and build a deeper mosaic of understanding to find common solutions to our problems

Connecting to capabilities, reaching beyond yourself to help people with the human potential hidden in plain sight

The essential task of challenging your own world view and seeking disconfirming evidence 

All feedback makes you stronger, ideology fears the truth, wisdom seeks it 

The buddhist concept of “fierce compassion”

Remember, water cuts through rock over time

What are “knownaughts” and “noxxers”?

The power of connection to make your success limitless

How do we ask great questions (and why its so important to do that)?

The great question is like the lens of a camera, the aperture shapes what you see on the other side

The words that you use frame the way you see a problem

How silence can open up doorways for deeper understanding

Lessons from counter intelligence interrogations about how we can become better listeners

The power of "nondoing"

Practical steps you can implement right now to begin walking the path of compassion

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