Most Self-Help Advice is Bad (at best...) - What's Useful?

Most Self-Help Advice is Bad (at best...) - What's Useful?

Avoid mental masturbation, curate an information diet that works, and learn tried and tested strategies to build resilience, positivity and a Growth mindset. Topics: The flaws of most 'self-improvement' content Reality vs ideal Advice without action Strategies that consistently change people's lives The world is full of knowledge of what to do and people not doing it. It is also full of people telling you what to do that are just selling you something that won't change your life. Learn how to screen high-quality content that will actually impact your life and improve your information diet to build a better growth mindset. Growth Mindset pod Sam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create. Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Mail - GrowthMindsetPodcast(at)gmail.com Insta - SamJam.zen Chapters 00:00 The Problem with Much Self-Help Advice 03:02 Reality's Complexities vs. Simplistic Advice 06:05 Dangers of Rigid thinking 09:12 Principle 1: Be Kind and Helpful 13:12 Principle 2: Spend Time with Those Who Let You Be Yourself 16:52 Principle 3: Take Ownership and Responsibility 20:12 Send Off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The Neuroscience of Growth Mindset: How to rewire your brain

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The human brain is a wonderfully absurd little organ. It powers civilization, invents jazz, and still somehow convinces you that being bad at something once, means you should never try again. In this...

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Are You Thinking Your Thoughts, Or Are They Thinking You?

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You like to think of yourself as someone who thinks for themselves. But what if the ideas running through your head aren't really yours — what if they found you, infected you, and quietly rewrote your...

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The Psychology of Never Feeling Good Enough (Even When You Clearly Are)

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20 Mar 23min

7 Weird Life-Changing Skills that are Strange to Work On

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Nobody tells you that curiosity is a skill. Or that humor can be built. Or that the way you think is quietly deciding everything. Most of us are running on borrowed opinions — System One thinking dre...

17 Mar 59min

Why Having a Backup Plan Is Making You Fail - Burn the boats with Matt Higgins

Why Having a Backup Plan Is Making You Fail - Burn the boats with Matt Higgins

In 1519, Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico and promptly set fire to his own fleet. By any conventional measure of military logistics, this seems profoundly counterproductive. It wasn't. Matt Higgins — S...

13 Mar 44min

Why You Have Great Ideas but Never Actually Do Anything With Them

Why You Have Great Ideas but Never Actually Do Anything With Them

We are spectacularly good at having ideas and remarkably reluctant to do anything with them. It turns out that the distance between "I've got it!" and "here it is" is not a step but a rather long, oc...

10 Mar 22min

You Didn't Choose Your Attachment Style, but Here's How You Can Change It - With Jessica Baum

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Most people think their relationship problems are about the other person. They're not — they're about an 18-month-old version of you who learned the only way to survive. In this episode, psychotherap...

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