195: Pete Carroll on Winning with Meaning and Purpose
The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman
Release Date: 05/07/2020
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.
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Today it’s great to have Coach Pete Carroll on the podcast. One of only three coaches to win a Super Bowl and college football national championship, Pete Carroll is in his 11th season as head coach of the Seattle Seahawks. With his unique “Always Compete” philosophy and relationship-based approach, Carroll has a combined 46 years of highly decorated NFL and collegiate coaching experience.
Carroll is also widely known for his off-field impact — through community initiatives that aim to reduce youth and gang violence; his leadership with the WE organization that focuses on youth empowerment; Compete to Create, the high-performance mindset platform he co-founded; the Performance Science Institute at USC that he co-created to educate and inspire college students; and his New York Times best-selling “Win Forever” book.
In this episode we cover:
- How players are handling a virtual off-season
- Some of Coach Carroll’s goals for the virtual off-season
- How players are coping with the Coronavirus
- Coach Carroll’s definition of “competition”
- The importance of striving to be your best
- What it means to be your best on the sports field
- How coaches are teachers
- When recruiting new players, what are some of the most important characteristics?
- What Coach Carroll was like as a child
- How determination can be more important than talent
- The mission of Compete to Create
- The importance of a culture of love
- What authenticity looks like in a sports context
- Coach Carroll’s belief in the importance of self-belief and self-talk
- The difference between extreme self-belief and narcissism
- How to cultivate creativity among players
- The relationship between expertise and creativity
- Michael Jordan’s greatness
- The distinction between personal philosophy and vision
- The early seeds of vision among those who achieve greatness
- The seeds of greatness that exist all around us
- Without purpose and meaning there is no winning
- How has humanistic psychology influenced Coach Carroll’s personal philosophy
- Why to treat every day as though it’s the Super Bowl
- The role of fun in sports
- Finding what’s most important to you
- Coach Carroll’s pep talk to people who have so much fear right now with the Coronavirus
- What is Coach Carroll’s vision of humans in 5 years if they practice the psychological skills that his practices with his players