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• What is “The Betty Crocker Effect” and what psychological principle explains this phenomenon? What does this say about the perceived relationship between effort and value?
• Why is effort generally thought of as a cost in classical economics and why does this way of thinking about it often get it wrong?
• Thomas Payne stated “that which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.” How does this play out in the case of money that is inherited, or won, versus money that was worked for?
• Do animals also show a preference for rewards they worked for versus those they were just given?
• Why are we so wired for laziness, and conserving energy, even though we derive so much pleasure from hard work?
• Why is our proclivity for energy conservation particularly dangerous in contemporary life?

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• What did Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha, discover when he left his father’s palace and how did this inform his philosophy going forward? What are Buddhism’s “four signs” that he then witnessed and how did this spur on his quest for enlightenment?
• For Proust, what is the only true voyage of discovery and foundation of eternal youth?
• What does mindfulness look like in practice? Also, what have researchers discovered as the constituent parts of mindfulness?
• How do “reappraisal” and “savoring” play into the relationship between mindfulness and meaning in MMT (Mindfulness to Meaning Theory)?
• Try an exercise in mindfulness while listening to today’s show.

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• What can we learn from circus animals about learned helplessness and how can we free ourselves from the chains of a small existence we feel we can’t escape?
• What are the positive and negative implications of habituation? How does it serve us evolutionarily and how can it hold us back?
• How does habituation affect the joy we get from our favorite songs and how can we renew this joy when we’ve overplayed a song?
• How can we change things up to disrupt our status quo and tendency for habituation?
• Why is diversifying your experiences, and your life overall, just as vital as diversifying your portfolio?
• What does Existentialist Jean Paul Sartre mean by his example of a waiter who is “playing at being a waiter in a cafe?” What does Sartre mean that he is acting in “bad faith” and how can we think about this in our own lives?

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• What did psychiatrist Dr. Derek Summerfield learn about the importance of treating social circumstances, as opposed to just brain chemistry, during his research in Cambodia on the psychological effects of unexploded landmines?
• What did St. Francis of Assisi, Leo Tolstoy, Winston Churchill and other luminaries have to say about the importance of giving and charitable service?
• What do longitudinal studies show about the mental and physical health benefits gained by those who volunteer on behalf of others?
• Does volunteering make us happier, or are happy people just more likely to volunteer in the first place?
• Why does our will power often diminish when we feel threatened and swell when we focus on contributing to the greater good? How does this play out in psychological research?
• What does Adam Grant’s book, Give and Take, illustrate about the power of focusing on others in the context of telemarketing? How can this lesson be applied more generally to our lives and our careers?

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• Why did François Clemmons not initially want to take on the role of police officer on Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood?
• How does psychological research bear out the fact that relationships are the most succinct route to attaining a purposeful life?
• What are some unique benefits that accrue to those who focus on cultivating meaningful relationships and friendships?
• Is living a purposeful life also predictive of having better relationships?
• What effect does leading a meaningful life have on one’s romantic relationships?
• What is the exact mechanism by which living meaningfully makes our relationships stronger and relationships make our lives more meaningful?
• What does the famous Harvard longevity study show about the power of relationships in both extending our lives and making them more fulfilling?

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• What are Victor Frankl’s 3 paths to a meaningful existence? For Frankl, which of these is the first and most path to meaning?
• How does the French Existentialist, Jean Paul Sartre, further validate Frankl’s emphasis on having meaningful work, or a project?
• Why did Schuller and Seligmann believe that pleasure, meaning and engagement are 3 unique predictors of subjective wellbeing?
• Why is finding purpose and fulfillment in your dayjob so important?
• What are “global” and “domain-specific” types of meaning?
• According to Psychological research, what does meaningful work usually look like?

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• What is “manufactured desire” and what sinister role does it often play in contemporary life?
• Why is our tendency to let others’ influence our decisions a dramatic outlier from much of the Animal Kingdom?
• What is French Theorist René Girard’s Mimetic Theory and why can understanding it help inform the ways in which we make important decisions?
• Luke Burgis, one of Girard’s disciples, categorizes desires as either thin or thick. What distinguishes the two types of desire and why is this delineation so important?
• What are a series of questions you can ask yourself to parse whether the desire in question is thin or thick?

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• What transpired in the apocryphal conversation between JFK and a NASA janitor and what can we learn from this?
• Why is finding meaning in the mundane such an important part of living a fulfilled life?
• Why is chasing intrinsic fulfillment often much more fruitful than chasing monetary gain or career advancement?
• What psychological benefits accrue as a result of seeing your job as a calling rather than a simple means to and end?
• What is Dr. Amy Wrzesniewski’s idea of “job crafting?”
• What is “minimization,” as a psychological principle, and why is it so detrimental?

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• How does Guy de Maupassant’s short story, The Necklace, illustrate the importance of gratitude and how a lack of it can lead to personal misfortune?
• What does contemporary Psychology research show about the transformative power of gratitude in our lives?
• What are some examples of reciprocal altruism in the Animal Kingdom, aside from humans?
• Why is gratitude sometimes called the mother of all virtues?

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• What novel approach did Hungarian Mathematician Abraham Wald utilize to better understand which parts of American planes needed improved armor during WWII?
• What is “survivorship bias” and how did Abraham Wald avoid this?
• Why does professor Scott Galloway suggest that we should follow our talent, or gift, rather than our passion?
• What are the key differences between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset and what do life’s outcomes for each mindset look like, on average?
• Why is effort more predictive of success in romantic relationships than passion?
• Why do we tend to lose intrinsic motivation, or passion, for tasks for which there is an extrinsic reward like a paycheck?

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