Spencer: I think what it comes down to is I have this much wider understanding of what constitutes the domain of play. Anna: We should probably be playing a lot more and we should be serious a lot less. But when we need to be serious, we should be really serious, you know? Spencer: Yeah. And we absolutely should be able to. It's definitely worth practicing that. If you like the show, we hope you'll rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts.
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To increase our chances of success (in whatever domain and using definition of success), should we focus on boosting our strengths or shoring up our weaknesses? Are we harsher in our critiques of ourselves than in our critiques of others? What should an ideal inner monologue be like? What are some useful taxonomies of pain? Are there times when irrational, magical, emotionally-driven, and/or delusional types of thinking are useful?
Anna Paley is insatiably curious about how best to live our lives. She is a behavioral scientist and marketing professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She received her PhD from New York University, Stern School of Business in 2017. You can reach her at a.paley@tilburguniversity.edu.
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