John Ratey, MD, best-selling author and doctor of psychiatry, shares common everyday practices that bring a natural sense of well-being. 

Show Notes:
Harvard Article on Exercise Can Boost Your Memory and Thinking
Healthy Habits Inventory

Personal leadership for success and happiness requires personal accountability.  Stryder Spillane, CEO of Leader Prep, explains the crucial step of problem-solving – owning the situation. 

Show Notes:
Meet Stryder Spillane, recently featured in HR Tech Outlook magazine, to reflect on how owning your current situation can bring a higher level of success and happiness. 

HR TECH Outlook

They say life is no picnic...but what if it was? What if every day we scheduled time for ourselves to relax, reflect, and rejuvenate.  Discover how a new mindset and habits can lead to better results with less work. This is the first of five parts of Season 3:  Taming the Modern Day Sabertooth

Imagine your children waking each day, knowing what they are going to do and how they need to go about doing it. You've prepared them and the environment so well, they hum along in their work driven by curiosity and fueled by discovery.  They tackle the “boring stuff” with patience and overcome challenges with optimism.  They learn things you never even knew or may have forgotten.  These are the characteristics of self-determined learners.  

Today we discuss the purpose and function of learning and how to let go of the edge of outdated conventional practices to swim in the waters of self-determined learning. 

Follow your heart, use your head, trust your gut.  Which is a person to do? 

The neuroscience behind mBraining and Multiple Brain Integration Techniques (mBiT) tells us to do them all. A discussion with Lisa Blackett, certified mBIT coach and trainer, tells us how.  

Connor Swenson discusses the Make Time Framework to manage the forces that compete for our time. 

Scott Schimmel, Founder, and CEO of You School walks us through the process of identifying what success looks like and explains why it is different for everyone.  "Where do you go to figure yourself out?" 

Dr. Yong Zhao, award winner and author of hundreds of articles and thirty books on education, talks about the need for a new paradigm for assessment, technology, and the purpose of education.

Play is self-determined learning at its best, Peter Gray author of Free to Learn states, nature does not turn off our desire and capacity to learn when children turn five or six, we turn it off with our coercive system of schooling. In this episode, Terri speaks with Dr. Gray on the history and value of play, parenting styles, his definition of play, and the concept of learning loss.

Resources:
Free to Learn

Social Media
Peter Gray Facebook

Blog:
Psychology Today Blog

Four new collections of essays:
Tipping Points Press

More and more research is showing there is a correlation between play deprivation and depression. Dr. Stuart Brown, who we will hear today is the founder of the National Institute for Play, and the author of the national best-selling book Play, How It Shapes the Brain Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul. His decades of work have proven play to be a biological drive as integral to our health as sleep and nutrition. 

For the next three episodes, we're going to focus on play, what it is, why it's important, and how to ensure we engage regularly.


Recommended Links:

https://www.playcore.com/drstuartbrown

Dr. Stuart Brown TED talk. https://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_brown_play_is_more_than_just_fun/transcript?language=en#t-958746

Kevin Carroll TED talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pz72Wygg8c