Active Listening: Carl Rogers, Conversational Narcissism and Gottman
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!People speak at about 125 words per minute while the brain can process about 500, and that gap i...
28 Okt 22min
Zeigarnik Effect: A Forgetful Waiter, the Harden Rule and a 2025 Twist
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 1920s, Gestalt psychologist Kurt Lewin watched a waiter in a busy cafe recall a complicat...
28 Okt 24min
Segmented Sleep: Roger Ekirch's First Sleep to Buckminster Fuller's Naps
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Waking at 3 a.m. may echo an older pattern. Historian A. Roger Ekirch analyzed over 500 referenc...
28 Okt 22min
Financial Literacy Gap: Annamaria Lusardi, Compound Interest and Fraud
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A Canadian survey on financial stress found that choosing investments ranked as more stressful t...
28 Okt 21min
Fundamental Attribution Error: The Castro Essay Coin Toss and Culture
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Someone cuts you off in traffic and you call them selfish; you cut someone off and blame the con...
28 Okt 23min
Virtue Ethics Revived: Aristotle's Golden Mean to Anscombe's 1958 Essay
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Virtue ethics asks what kind of person you are becoming rather than which rule to follow or whic...
28 Okt 23min
The Pomodoro Technique: Francesco Cirillo's Tomato Timer Versus Apps
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the late 1980s, university student Francesco Cirillo was struggling to stay focused, so he gr...
28 Okt 21min
Speed Reading Debunked: Evelyn Wood, JFK's 1,200 Words and a NASA Test
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Speed reading as a modern idea traces to Evelyn Wood, a schoolteacher who coined the term. In 19...
28 Okt 23min
