Dave Mayer, Business Ethics professor at the University Michigan, is an award-winning researcher and highly sought after teacher and speaker.

Dave has published over 60 articles and book chapters in leading management and psychology journals. He’s a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Fast Company, and his research and ideas have been covered in Bloomberg, Business Insider, CNBC, Forbes, Fortune, Huffington Post, LA Times, Newsweek, NPR, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post among others.

Dave earned a B.A. in psychology from UC Davis and a Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of Maryland.

In this episode we discuss the following: 

• How to live a good life: Be good. Feel good. Do good.
• To be good, fill our mornings with rocks, the most important, hard things. And then fill in the rest of our day with pebbles and sand.
• To feel good, be happy and healthy now. Don’t keep pushing off happiness to the future because the happiness may never come. Every stage of life can be celebrated. And friendships and relationships should also be celebrated along the way.
• To do good, think about the three attributes that best describe your role model, and then strive to follow their example. Don’t get so caught up in trying to be good that you forget to do good.
• As Aristotle said, we can improve our virtues the same way we improve our other habits.
• If happiness and meaning are habits, we should prioritize them now, rather than waiting for a day that may not come.
• We need to balance self-acceptance with growth. We don’t want to beat ourselves up for not being perfect, but there’s always space to be better.

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