191: Transcend with Scott Barry Kaufman
The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman
Release Date: 04/09/2020
206: Chloé Valdary on Love & Race
The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman
Today it is great to have Chloé Valdary on the podcast. After spending a year as a Bartley Fellow at the Wall Street Journal, Chloe developed the Theory of Enchantment, an innovative framework for socioemotional learning, character development and interpersonal growth that uses pop culture as an educational tool in the classroom and beyond.
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205: Robert Sutton on Good Leaders vs. Bad Leaders
The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman
Today it’s great to have Robert Sutton on the podcast. Sutton is Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Professor of Organizational Behavior by courtesy at Stanford. He co-founded the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design which everyone calls the d.school. Sutton received his PhD in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan and has served on the Stanford faculty since 1983.
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204: Chip Conley on Wisdom, Midlife, and Peak Experience
The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman
Today it's great to have Chip Conley on the podcast. Chip is a New York Times best-selling author who helped Airbnb's founders turn their fast-growing tech start-up into a global hospitality brand. In his book Wisdom at Work: The Making of a Modern Elder, he shares his unexpected journey at midlife, from CEO to intern, learning about technology as Airbnb's Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy, while also mentoring CEO Brian Chesky.
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203: Creating a Living Masterpiece with Michael Gervais
The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman
Today it’s great to have Dr. Michael Gervais on the podcast. Dr. Gervais is a world-renowned high-performance psychologist and industry visionary. Over the course of 20 years, working with world leading performers, Dr. Gervais has developed a psychological framework that allows people to thrive in pressure packed environments.
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202: Uncancellable with Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal
The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman
Today it’s great to have Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal on the podcast. Together, Herzog and Signal co-host the Blocked and Reported Podcast.
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201: Keeping it Real with Ayishat Akanbi
The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman
I’m really excited to have Ayishat Akanbi on the podcast today. Ayishat is a writer and fashion stylist based in London. Personal reflection has guided her approach of reminding us of our commonalities instead of our differences. Not just for social awareness but also self-awareness, Ayishat resists the black and white thinking that can lead to divisive socio-political discourse and is comfortable “in the grey”.
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200: Richard Haier on the Nature of Human Intelligence
The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman
Today it’s great to have Dr. Richard Haier on the podcast. Dr. Haier is Professor Emeritus in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. His research investigates structural and functional neuroanatomy of intelligence using neuroimaging.
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199: How Politics Became Our Identity with Lilliana Mason
The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman
Today it’s great to have the political psychologist Lilianna Mason on the podcast. Dr. Mason is associate professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity.
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198: Geoffrey Miller on Signaling, Mating, and Morality
The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman
In this episode, I talk with Geoffrey Miller, an American evolutionary psychologist, researcher, and author about elements of evolutionary psychology such as virtue signaling, altruism, sexual selection, and their role in the evolution of human nature.
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197: From Learned Helplessness to Learned Hopefulness with Martin Seligman
The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman
Today it’s great to have Dr. Martin Seligman on the podcast. Dr. Seligman is a leading authority in the fields of positive psychology, resilience, learned helplessness, depression, optimism, and pessimism.
info_outlineOn this episode of The Psychology Podcast, physicist Sean Carroll chats with Scott Barry Kaufman, host of The Psychology Podcast, about his new book Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization, which is out today!
In this episode we discuss:
- Why studying humans is more complicated than studying the universe
- The importance of having humility as a psychologist
- How Scott’s new book Transcend builds on the work of Abraham Maslow
- How Maslow never actually drew a pyramid
- What Maslow actually meant by his “Hierarchy of Needs”
- The dialectical between security and growth
- Scott’s new metaphor for the hierarchy of needs
- How humans can be greater than the sum of their parts
- Scott’s revised integrated hierarchy of needs
- Why attachment styles are continuums, not types
- Why the need for belonging is not the same as the need for intimacy
- The effects of loneliness on our physical health
- The latest science of introversion
- Healthy self-esteem vs. narcissism
- The “growing tip”
- Psychological entropy
- The need for exploration and information seeking
- The more cosmic aspect of love, or “B-Love”
- The need for purpose
- Why self-actualization is not achievement
- The form of purpose that can lead to transcendence
- Why nothing is absolutely good or bad