Psychology Life Lessons

Psychology Life Lessons is a podcast where we listen in on conversations with psychology experts and try to extract life lessons, and maybe a little wisdom.

Today we’re joined by Elaine Lin Hering, an expert in communication, collaboration, and conflict management. With a career that spans multiple continents, Elaine brings a wealth of experience. She’s here to discuss her upcoming book, “Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully.” Get ready for an insightful and empowering conversation on harnessing the power of effective communication in every aspect of life.

Unfortunately the Zoom recording software had a hiccup around minute 45, and Dan’s voice sounds like he’s turning into an evil robot for the last few questions. Elaine’s voice sounds fine though.

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Elaine Lin Hering is a facilitator, author, and speaker. She works with organizations and individuals to build skills in communication, collaboration, and conflict management. She has worked on six continents and facilitated executive education at Harvard, Dartmouth, Tufts, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. She is the former Advanced Training Director for the Harvard Mediation Program and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. She has worked with coal miners at BHP Billiton, micro-finance organizers in East Africa, mental health professionals in China, and senior leadership at the US Department of Commerce. Her clients include American Express, Chevron, Google, Nike, Novartis, PayPal, Pixar, and the Red Cross. She is the author of the forthcoming book Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully (Penguin, 2024).

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Psychology Life Lessons is a podcast where we listen in on conversations with psychology experts and try to extract life lessons, and maybe a little wisdom.

In this episode, Dr. Steve Joordens shares his pioneering work in leveraging technology to offer quality education to large classes at the University of Toronto. He passionately discusses his advocacy work, from increasing diversity in DNA databases to combating loneliness among students and challenging the aggressive marketing of sports gambling. Joordens’ innovative approach to education, combined with his commitment to social causes, offers valuable insights into the power of technology and education to drive societal change.

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Steve Joordens is a Professor of Psychology who teaches primarily at the University of Toronto, but also offers several “Massive Open Online Courses” with coursera.ca and a Human Memory Through The Lifespan course with The Great Courses.  He is also Director of the Advanced Learning Technology Labs, and one of the technologies to come from that lab – peerScholar – is now used as an institutional solution for formative peer and self assessment in 10 countries.  A passionate teacher and educational researcher, Steve also advocates for a variety of causes including banning the marketing of gambling, and supporting the GenWell Initiative, a NFP directly taking on the loneliness pandemic.

To learn more about peerScholar, check out the videos at videos.peerScholar.com or visit peerScholar.com.  You could also listen to by the Canadian Psychological Association (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE7CoZ0hh50).

To learn more about Steve’s efforts to support olympian Bruce Kidd and his effort to ban the marketing of gambling, listen to this PodCast hosted by the Canadian Psychological Association (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsuvHirevSg).

To learn more about GenWell and their attempts to spread the gospel of social connection, see: https://www.genwellproject.org/ 

If you’re curious about the indigenous welcome activity that Steve mentions, you can see a video outlining it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ifVnzXqkfo5i7HhuV8oW6wU-C_PiVm1X/view 

You can email Steve with any thoughts, reactions or questions you might have via [email protected]

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Psychology Life Lessons is a podcast where we listen in on conversations with psychology experts and try to extract life lessons, and maybe a little wisdom.

In this episode, Dr. Dan Lannin has a conversation about the mental disciplines in high-end performance with Dr. Eric Potterat and Alan Eagle–coauthors of a new book called Learned Excellence. Eric developed the US Navy SEALs mental toughness curriculum and has worked with thousands of top athletes, elite military personnel, business executives, and first responders. This podcast explores some of the most important principles and practices relevant to being a top performer, and listeners will likely walk away with a few practical tips for improving their lives.

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Eric Potterat, PhD, is a clinical and performance psychologist and a leading expert in individual and organizational performance optimization. Eric retired as a commander from the US Navy after twenty years of service, during which he helped create the mental toughness curriculum used during Navy SEALs BUD/S training. Eric spent several years as the director of specialized performance for the Los Angeles Dodgers and has also worked with Red Bull athletes, the US Women’s national soccer team, the Miami Heat, and numerous Olympic athletes, first responders, business leaders, and NASA astronauts.

Alan Eagle is an author and executive communications consultant, helping leaders and companies shape and tell their stories. He spent 16 years at Google, partnering with executives to communicate the company’s story to clients, partners, employees, and the public. He is the co-author of the books How Google Works and Trillion Dollar Coach, and the author, all by himself, of seven letters-to-the-editor published in Sports Illustrated. He has never won the New Yorker Caption Contest.  

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Psychology Life Lessons is a podcast where we listen in on conversations with psychology experts and try to extract life lessons, and maybe a little wisdom.

In this episode, Dr. Dan Lannin has a conversation about leadership with Dr. Huggy Rao–coauthor of a new book with Dr. Robert Sutton called The Friction Project. Sutton and Rao have studied leaders and organizations for decades and learned valuable lessons about how friction works–to either hinder productivity or enhance it. In our conversation Huggy provides insight into how smart leaders make the right things easier and the wrong things harder. He also shares a few profound life lessons that apply to life, relationships, and work.

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Hayagreeva “Huggy” Rao is Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He studies collective action, and is the author of Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations. Rao has won research and teaching awards, and has published more than 50 research papers and monographs. He often leads workshops and is academic director of several Stanford executive programs including Soul of a Startup: Young Presidents Organization, and with Bob Sutton Customer-focused Innovation. Rao tweets @huggyrao.

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Psychology Life Lessons is a podcast where we listen in on conversations with psychology experts and try to extract life lessons, and maybe a little wisdom.

In this episode, Dr. Dan Lannin has a conversation with Matt Abrahams–a world expert on communication from Stanford University. Matt shares his wisdom about communicating in impromptu settings, and there are multiple practical take-aways from this conversation.

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About MATT ABRAHAMS:

Matt Abrahams is a leading expert in communication with decades of experience as an educator, author, podcast host, and coach. As a Lecturer in Organizational Behavior at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, he teaches popular classes in strategic communication and effective virtual presenting. He received Stanford GSB’s Alumni Teaching Award in recognition of his teaching students around the world. When he isn’t teaching, Matt is a sought-after keynote speaker and communication consultant.

Matt has helped countless presenters improve and hone their communication, including some who have delivered IPO road shows as well as TED, World Economic Forum, and Nobel Prize presentations. His online talks garner millions of views and he hosts the popular, award-winning podcast Think Fast, Talk Smart: The Podcast. He is the author of Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot. His previous book Speaking Up without Freaking Out: 50 Techniques for Confident and Compelling Presenting has helped thousands of people manage speaking anxiety and present more confidently and authentically.

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Psychology Life Lessons is a podcast where we listen in on conversations with psychology experts and try to extract life lessons, and maybe a little wisdom.

In this episode, Dr. Dan Lannin has a conversation with Patricia Ryan Madson–a world expert on incorporating principles of improvisation into everyday life to improve health, well-being, and performance. Patricia shares some of her improv wisdom with the podcast, highlighting four important As: Attention, Acceptance, Appreciation, and Action.

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About PATRICIA RYAN MADSON:

Patricia Ryan Madson is a world authority on improvising in everyday life.  She is the author of IMPROV WISDOM: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up. Random House, Bell Tower Books, 2005.  Her book has been translated into nine languages and is also an Audio and Ebook. Patricia is a professor Emerita from Stanford University where she taught since 1977. In their Drama Department she served as the head of the undergraduate acting program and developed the improvisation program. In 1998 she was the winner of the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Outstanding Innovation in Undergraduate Education at Stanford. She is a frequent speaker for business and educational groups. Her corporate clients have included:  IDEO, Google, Gap Inc.’s Executive Leadership Team, The Lucille and David Packard Foundation, the Banff Centre for Leadership, Sun Microsystems Japan Division, Apple Computers, Adobe Systems, and Price Waterhouse.  She lives in El Granada, California with her husband Ronald and an elderly cat named Lyra.

Web pages:
www.improvwisdom.com    

www.improvwisdom.blogspot.com

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Psychology Life Lessons is a podcast where we listen in on conversations with psychology experts and try to extract life lessons, and maybe a little wisdom.

In this episode, Dr. Dan Lannin has a conversation with Bill O’Hanlon–a renaissance man who has a distinguished career as a therapist, writer, public speaker, and now as a professional songwriter. Among other things, Bill talks about four energies that we can pay attention to for guidance in our lives–blissed, blessed, pissed, and dissed.

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About Bill O’Hanlon:

Bill O’Hanlon has been playing guitar, piano and writing songs for over 50 years. In recent years, he’s gotten more serious about songwriting and has co-written more than 300 songs a year for the past few years and over 1,400 songs total. Bill has gotten over 79+ cuts of his songs with independent artists and several sync (TV, movies and commercials) placements. He writes many different genres of music, from singer-songwriter to country to pop to rock to jazz and even some hip-hop, since his co-writers bring musical influences that aren’t his main strengths or interests. He works with several writing/production teams for sync, including iDO and DOLL.

Bill was chosen as Songwriter of the Year in 2022 by SongTown, an online songwriting community.

He has also written 40 books, the last three of which are about songwriting. Song Building: Mastering Lyric Writing (https://www.amazon.com/Song-Building-Mastering-SongTown-Songwriting-ebook/dp/B07WJWQB78/),The Songwriter’s Guide to Mastering Co-Writing (https://www.amazon.com/Songwriters-Guide-Mastering-Co-Writing-Techniques-ebook/dp/B07N6N4L23/), and Mastering Melody Writing (https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Melody-Writing-Songwriters-Repetition/dp/1098364333/) co-written with hit songwriters Marty Dodson and Clay Mills.

Bill was formerly a psychotherapist and speaker, traveled throughout the world for 30+ years, giving over 3700 talks and workshops before putting his work online and staying put at home most of the time. One of his books (Do One Thing Different) was featured on Oprah.

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Psychology Life Lessons is a podcast where we listen in on conversations with psychology experts and try to extract life lessons, and maybe a little wisdom.

In this episode, Dr. Dan Lannin has a conversation with Dr. James C. Kaufman, Ph.D., about creativity and how it can affect our personal and professional lives. James is one of the world experts on creativity, and it is fascinating to learn from him about how creativity is conceptualized, the ways it can manifest, and the meaning it often provides.

If this topic interests you, please follow up and read more of Dr. James Kaufman’s work. You won’t be disappointed.

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About Dr. James C. Kaufman:

Dr. James C. Kaufman is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. He has written or edited more than 50 books including two books coming out in 2023: The Creativity Advantage (Cambridge) and Lessons in creativity from musical theatre characters (Routledge; with award-winning composer Dana P. Rowe. Kaufman has won awards from Mensa, the American Psychological Association, the National Association for Gifted Children, and many others. He has edited books on pseudoscience and animal cognition with his wife, Allison, tested Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s creativity on CNN, written a book on bad baseball pitchers with his father, and written a musical, Discovering Magenta, which premiered in NYC a few years ago.

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Psychology Life Lessons is a podcast where we listen in on conversations with psychology experts and try to extract life lessons, and maybe a little wisdom.

In this episode, Dr. Dan Lannin has a conversation with the author and educator Clay Drinko, Ph.D., about how to apply principles of improvisation to a person’s everyday life. Performing improvisational theater requires listening, reacting, and living in the moment; learning these skills are also beneficial for bolstering mental health and “getting our of one’s head.”

Today’s podcast explores the process of improv and the many connections with psychology. If this interests you, Clay’s most recent book includes life lessons from improv as well as LOTS and LOTS of exercises to practice these principles.

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About Clay:

Clay Drinko, Ph.D. is an author and educator. He writes for Psychology Today about the intersection between improv comedy, science, and everyday life. He’s also the author of the first academic book connecting improv and cognitive science, Theatrical Improvisation, Consciousness, and Cognition. His most recent book, Play Your Way Sane: 120 Improv-Inspired Exercises to Help You Calm Down, Stop Spiraling, and Embrace Uncertainty (Simon & Schuster) applies his improv research to everyday life.

Links:

Website: www.playyourwaysane.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/playyourwaysane

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/claydrinko/ 

Buy Book: https://www.amazon.com/Play-Your-Way-Sane-Improv-Inspired/dp/1982169222

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Enjoy!

Psychology Life Lessons is a podcast where we listen in on conversations with psychology experts and try to extract life lessons, and maybe a little wisdom.

In this 12th episode, Dr. Dan Lannin has a conversation with Dr. John Pryor, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Illinois State University. John has had a distinguished career studying a host of areas–and notably sexual harassment.

John discusses his research on sexual harassment, and specifically both personality (such as one’s proclivity to engage in such behavior) and environmental factors (such as a leader’s behavior and other social norms) influence whether or not a person will engage in such behavior. He has consulted and/or conducted sexual harassment research for numerous groups, including the National Academy of Sciences, National Institute of Health, and the Department of Defense.

John notes some lessons he’s learned over the course of his research career–looking at actual behaviors, finding a good collaborator, and “following your nose.”

Importantly, in this episode we learn that John would like to have a beer with the late psychologist, Dr. Robert Wicklund.

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Enjoy!