
Implementation Intentions: Gollwitzer's If-Then Plans and a Spider Test
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Research on goal striving from the late 1980s and 1990s found that intentions account for only a...
28 Loka 23min

Storytelling's Power: Simeulue's Tsunami Lullabies to Homer's Formulas
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake struck, the island of Simeulue sat about 25 miles from the...
28 Loka 21min

Small Talk Decoded: Malinowski, Grice's Maxim and the Comfortable Finns
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1923 anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski published The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Langua...
28 Loka 23min

The Sauna: Neolithic Orkney Pits, Löyly Physics and Heat Shock Proteins
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Archaeologists have found Neolithic structures in Scotland's Orkney Islands from around 4000 BCE...
28 Loka 24min

Financial Independence: Bowen's Family Triangles to Bengen's 4% Rule
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The episode defines financial independence as the point where resources generate enough yield to...
28 Loka 19min

Habit Science: Wendy Wood's 43 Percent, the 66-Day Average and Autopilot
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Research by Wendy Wood found that roughly 43 percent of daily behaviors are performed out of hab...
28 Loka 24min

Situational Leadership: Hersey and Blanchard's Four Styles Put to the Test
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1969 Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard introduced what they first called the Life Cycle Theory of...
28 Loka 21min

Good to Great Under Fire: Circuit City, Fannie Mae and Survivor Bias
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jim Collins published Good to Great in October 2001, just after the dot-com crash, and it sold m...
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