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George Ferguson CBE, PPRIBA, RWA (born 22 March 1947) is a British politician, former architect, and entrepreneur who served as the first elected mayor of Bristol from 2012 to 2016. Ferguson was co-founder of Ferguson Mann Architects in 1979 and the past president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2003–2005) where he was noted for championing the causes of education, the environment and good urbanism. He was also a founding director of The Academy of Urbanism and a founding member of the British sustainable transport charity Sustrans. In this episode, George shared with us the best things happened when pushing against the grain which he calls "The Art of Impossible." Let's find out more how an architect student became to the man he is now. - - - On the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we explore 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. Through a process of honest self-reflection of what is holding us back and what is driving us forward, we can lose the ego and build awareness of how to be our best. - - - Connect with Sam: Creativity Newsletter - Explosive Thinking Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Twitter - @samjamharris Instagram - @SamJam.zen - - - Connect with George: LinkedIn Twitter - - - Show: Growth Mindset, psychology of self-improvement Episode: The Art of Impossible - George Ferguson, CBE, PPRIBA, RWA, First Elected Mayor of Bristol Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

5 Nov 202146min

Jennifer Clamp Jennifer Clamp is the Founder Coach of Aata, who support founders to become CEO and grow their business sustainably. In this episode, Jennifer shared with us the seven conditions that are required for change, and these are: 1. Believing that we can. 2. Establishing a baseline. 3. Establishing a goal. 4. Getting in our way in the right way. 5. Getting out of comfort zone. 6. Exploring different perspectives. 7. Willingness to try new things. Let's find out if people really can change and how we can bring change in the world. - - - On the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we explore 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. Through a process of honest self-reflection of what is holding us back and what is driving us forward, we can lose the ego and build awareness of how to be our best. - - - Connect with Sam: Creativity Newsletter - Explosive Thinking Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Twitter - @samjamharris Instagram - @SamJam.zen - - - Connect with Jennifer: Twitter (https://twitter.com/jenniferclamp) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/aata_coaching) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferclamp) Aata Website (https://www.withaata.com) - - - Show: Growth Mindset, psychology of self-improvement Episode: The 7 Ingredients For Positive Change - Jennifer Clamp Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

26 Okt 202141min

In this episode, Jarie Bolander, host of The Entrepreneur Ethos podcast, talks with Sam about how he became an entrepreneur and the story of his failures and successes as he walks through his entrepreneurship journey. We'll later find out how he was able to manage his life after losing a loved one. - - - On the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we explore 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. Through a process of honest self-reflection of what is holding us back and what is driving us forward, we can lose the ego and build awareness of how to be our best. - - - Connect with Sam: Creativity Newsletter - Explosive Thinking Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Twitter - @samjamharris Instagram - @SamJam.zen - - - Show: Growth Mindset, psychology of self-improvement Episode: Choosing Growth After Grief - Jarie Bolander, The Entrepreneur Ethos Podcast Host Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

19 Okt 202147min

Why Buddhism is True written by Robert Wright 'Why Buddhism is True' looks at the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment. Robert Wright is a devout non-meditating anger prone evolutionary psychologist and writer. He dives headlong into the world of meditation with surprising results, and explain why it works from an evolutionary standpoint. Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed to often delude us, he argued, about ourselves and about the world. And it is designed to make happiness hard to sustain. But if we know our minds are rigged for anxiety, depression, anger, and greed, what do we do? Wright locates the answer in Buddhism, which figured out thousands of years ago what scientists are only discovering now. Buddhism holds that human suffering is a result of not seeing the world clearly—and proposes that seeing the world more clearly, through meditation, will make us better, happier people. In Why Buddhism is True, Wright leads readers on a journey through psychology, philosophy, and a great many silent retreats to show how and why meditation can serve as the foundation for a spiritual life in a secular age. With bracing honesty and fierce wisdom, it will persuade you not just that Buddhism is true—which is to say, a way out of our delusion—but that it can ultimately save us from ourselves, as individuals and as a species. - - - On the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we explore 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. Through a process of honest self-reflection of what is holding us back and what is driving us forward, we can lose the ego and build awareness of how to be our best. - - - Connect with Sam: Creativity Newsletter - Explosive Thinking Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Twitter - @samjamharris Instagram - @SamJam.zen - - - Show: Growth Mindset, psychology of self-improvement Episode: Evolutionary Psychology versus Meditation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

12 Okt 202142min

In this episode, Nick Bradley, host of Scale Up Your Business podcast, the number one UK business podcast on iTunes, talks with Sam about their viewpoints of having a growth mindset in the world of entrepreneurship. KEY TAKEAWAYS Get comfortable being uncomfortable. Acquisitions is not just acquiring products, customers and other things but you can also acquire talent. Most of what we achieve or don’t achieve is connected to our view of ourselves and our identity. You're the sole responsible for your success. You're also the sole responsible for your failure. - - - On the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we explore 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. Through a process of honest self-reflection of what is holding us back and what is driving us forward, we can lose the ego and build awareness of how to be our best. - - - Connect with Sam: Creativity Newsletter - Explosive Thinking Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Twitter - @samjamharris Instagram - @SamJam.zen - - - Show: Growth Mindset, psychology of self-improvement Episode: Entrepreneurial Mindset - Nick Bradley, Scale Up Your Business Podcast Host Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

5 Okt 202156min

This is the conversation I had with a hitman living in India about his life. We discuss the story of how he came to be a hitman and what his life is really like. It is certainly very different to what you see in the movies and be prepared for some big insights. After the interview, we break down what happened and also discuss things like how I manage to get these interviews and other events in my life like staying with a bunch of drug dealers on the border of Mexico. Thanks to Andreas for providing the voice of the Hitman on the podcast and our discussion afterward. And for traveling around the world with me for a year - - - On the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we explore 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. Through a process of honest self-reflection of what is holding us back and what is driving us forward, we can lose the ego and build awareness of how to be our best. - - - Connect with Sam: Creativity Newsletter - Explosive Thinking Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Twitter - @samjamharris Instagram - @SamJam.zen - - - Show: Growth Mindset, psychology of self-improvement Episode: Conversation with a Hitman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

28 Sep 202134min

Mike Winnet who is better known as 'The Contrepreneur' has shared with us lessons and the truth about contrepreneurs. According to Winnet, contrepreneur is a con artist who makes their fortune by fooling wantrepreneurs into thinking they're getting a great deal or coming into some easy money, when the reality is, it's the contrepreneur making the real money. Listen until the end as there are really good points on this discussion. - - - On the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we explore 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. Through a process of honest self-reflection of what is holding us back and what is driving us forward, we can lose the ego and build awareness of how to be our best. - - - Connect with Sam: Creativity Newsletter - Explosive Thinking Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Twitter - @samjamharris Instagram - @SamJam.zen - - - Show: Growth Mindset, psychology of self-improvement Episode: Finding Motivation in Demotivation - Mike Winnet, UK's No. 1 Demotivational Speaker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

21 Sep 202137min

Nicholas Wheeler, OBE, is the founder of Charles Tyrwhitt Shirts Limited, founded in 1986 while he was a student at the University of Bristol. In this episode, he discussed various successes and failures from childhood to the present day. We found out how to have good and bad ideas and the key to making them successful. We'll get to know more tips and his journey on how you too can have a successful business. - - - On the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we explore 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. Through a process of honest self-reflection of what is holding us back and what is driving us forward, we can lose the ego and build awareness of how to be our best. - - - Connect with Sam: Creativity Newsletter - Explosive Thinking Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset) Twitter - @samjamharris Instagram - @SamJam.zen - - - Show: Growth Mindset, psychology of self-improvement Episode: Humility, Focus and Perseverance - Nicholas 'Charles Tyrwhitt' Wheeler, OBE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

14 Sep 202147min