The Science of Self

Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast00:02:13 To understand Galileo, we must understand Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus00:10:46 Navigating Rejection 00:12:02 Modern day Japanese authors Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitaki Koga wrote a book called The Courage to Be Disliked.00:17:40 Have Faith In Yourself 00:22:00 Let's wrap up today's episode with The Takeaways.http://bit.ly/GeniusHollins• Copernicus’s and Galileo’s genius traits included intellectual honesty and non-conventionality.• Copernicus was an astronomer who has been credited as being the first to put forward the idea of heliocentrism. It was Galileo who popularized and expanded these ideas after Copernicus’s death, but Galileo also had many other accomplishments, including the invention of a telescope and the discovery of many great ideas in astronomy and mathematics. • Galileo’s ideas directly challenged the predominant religious worldview at the time, earning him scorn and even resulting in him being tried and convicted of heresy. He was forced to retract his statements under penalty of death.• Galileo may have submitted to the church’s persecution, but his ideas were revived by other scientists in non-Catholic countries, until eventually the heliocentric model was taken as fact by the end of the 18th century.• Both Galileo and Copernicus possessed an uncommon originality and independence of thought, and pursued facts and evidence despite resistance from others. They both achieved what they did because they were intellectually honest and wiling to pursue what they knew was right.• We can follow in this spirit by understanding that sometimes success comes with a willingness to be disliked. If we can relinquish ideas of a deterministic fate, own our actions and our agency, and foster self-esteem for who we are, then we are less susceptible to the judgments and criticisms of others. • To be independent thinkers, we need to lower the value we give to social approval and increase the value we place on our own vision.• To cultivate courage in ourselves, we can regularly check in with our own values and principles, and align with them always. Many geniuses are powered by an unflinching commitment to their own path. What is yours? #Adlerian #Copernican #Copernicus #Determinism #Fumitake #FumitakeKoga #Galilean #Galileo #GalileoGalilei #HeavenlyBodies #Ichiro #IchiroKishimi #IsaacNewton #JohannesKepler #Kishimi #Koga #NicolausCopernicus #PopeJohnPaulII #PopePaulIII #Ptolemaic #RussellNewton #NewtonMG #PeterHollins #TheScienceofSelf #ThinkLikeaGenius

Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcastHear it Here - http://bit.ly/DecisionMakingHollins• We are always battling our laziness in all aspects of life. With decisions, implementing a simple checklist of sorts can help.• First, travel into the future with the 10/10/10 rule. This implores you to consider three different timelines in the future and how you’ll feel about your decisions at those three points—that is, ten minutes, ten days, and ten months from now. Ideally, you want all three timelines to be positive; if not, can you live with the informed decision that one timeline might be negative or detrimental? This technique will help you play out decisions in your mind, rather than focusing only on immediate results. • Another mental check-in is to examine whether or not your options are in line with your worldview, and this is accomplished by asking a series of questions that both alleviate you of your blind spots and make clear the reasons you have for engaging in certain actions. There are few absolute, objectively good choices—rather, the right choice is the right choice for us, relative to our values and goals. • Setting your own arbitrary boundaries can help with decisions because they narrow your options. This gives shape and structure to your decision-making process. You can set limits and use deal breakers or requirements—they all work to clarify your intentions and work more quickly.• Look beyond pros and cons. Making pro and con lists is usually inaccurate and too subjective, since there’s no way to weigh up each item, and we may be unconsciously biased one way or another. • Are you satisficing or unknowingly trying to maximize every decision you make? Ninety-nine percent of daily decisions don’t require maximization and suffer greatly from the law of diminishing returns. Satisficing, a combination of satisfaction and sufficing, is the key.#HerbertSimon #Maximization #Pareto #Satisficing #StrategicDecisionMaking #RussellNewton #NewtonMG #PeterHollins #TheScienceofSelf #TheArtofStrategicDecisionMaking

Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast00:01:11 In 2018, Daniel Pink released a book entitled Drive.00:03:45 If I ask you to sum up your life with one sentence only, would you be able to do it?00:08:19 How to Ignite Your Intrinsic Motivation to Reach Your Passion 00:09:09 The Clear Path 00:09:50 Todd Henry, author of The Accidental Creative and Louder Than Words00:18:57 That is from Peter Holland's book The Lifelong Learner.Hear it Here - https://adbl.co/3KWyCB0If I asked you to sum up your life with one sentence only, would you be able to do it?#AmauryGuichon #Compassion #CompassionateAnger #ConstructivePassion #CreativePassion #DanielPink #Guichon #IntrinsicMotivation #KarenPutz #ToddHenry #RussellNewton #NewtonMG #PeterHollins #TheScienceofSelf

Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast00:01:22 Let's begin with Nikola Tesla00:03:10 Both Tesla and Edison shared a passion for lateral thinking00:04:28 Enter young Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla00:10:41 If Tesla can teach us the power of switching tasks and taking breaks, what can Edison teach us?00:11:08 Edison might have lacked in humility and intellectual honesty00:12:53 Alex Osborne, a thinker considered the father of brainstorminghttp://bit.ly/GeniusHollins• Edison’s genius traits included diverse interests, non-conventional thinking, hard work and self-discipline.• Tesla’s genius traits included curiosity, non-conventional thinking, and intellectual honesty.• Edison and Tesla were two inventors engaged in the so-called current wars of the late 1800s. Tesla was an employee of Edison’s, but became his rival when he took new ideas to a competitor, George Westinghouse, and found success there. While Edison had dominated the market with his DC-powered systems, eventually the war was won by Tesla and the new AC electricity. • Edison was a prolific and productive inventor who also manufactured and marketed his products across the country. His approach was to make gradual improvements to things that already existed, and he eventually amassed over 1000 patents to his name.• Tesla’s approach was slightly different, in that he was less prolific but more innovative, and able to seize the AC technology wave where Edison could not. Tesla was said to have had his greatest insights away from work, when he was relaxing or out walking.• Both men were enormously successful individuals, and both possessed many genius traits, including determination, self-discipline, and the willingness to pursue their own interest even when it bucked conventions. Both men were also willing to keep pushing and challenging themselves to be better, rather than settling for mediocrity.• We can cultivate both Edison’s and Tesla’s approaches into our own lives: firstly we can make sure we have a wide range of interests to switch between, and take regular breaks to refresh our minds and change our perspectives. Secondly, we can use the SCAMPER technique to manipulate our subject and arrive at new ideas and solutions step by step.• SCAMPER stands for substitute, combine, adapt, magnify or modify, put to other use, eliminate, and rearrange or reverse.#RussellNewton #NewtonMG #NikolaTesla #Tesla #ThomasEdison #Edison #SCAMPER #substitute #combine #adapt #magnify #modify #puttootheruse #eliminateand #rearrange #reverse #PeterHollins #TheScienceofSelf

Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcast00:01:16 The Wrap Methodology00:11:36 The 3 P Technique 00:18:44 The ICE Scoring Model Hear it Here - http://bit.ly/DecisionMakingHollins• The WRAP method was devised to specifically address blind spots. WRAP stands for widen your options, reality-test, attain distance, and prepare to be wrong. As you can see, these are not typical ways to approach a decision, though they can serve you well because they represent what is likelier to happen in the real world.• The 3P technique was created by poker player Annie Duke. It consists of preferences, payoffs and probabilities. Preferences refer to your goals and what you’re actually hoping to achieve, payoffs are the potential benefits of different outcomes, and probabilities speaks to the confidence you have in certain predictions of the future. It’s these informed predictions that allow us to make good decisions. • The ICE scoring model also rests on considering three key components of any decision. The first is impact (the potential for you a choice, idea, action, or decision to serve your main life goals), the second is confidence (how sure you are that this outcome will follow your action, bearing in mind that luck and chance play a role), and ease (how easy it is to make the particular decision). A subjectively good decision is one in which has a high probability of having a high impact on your goals, whilst being easy to achieve. The bad decision is the opposite.• There is overlap between ICE and 3P, and both have limitations, i.e. they depend on our accurate assessment of the three aspects! #AnnieDuke #ConfirmationBias #GrowthHackers #SeanEllis #ICEScoringModel #StrategicDecisionMaking #WRAP #RussellNewton #NewtonMG #PeterHollins #TheScienceofSelf #TheArtofStrategicDecisionMaking

Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcastHear it Here - https://adbl.co/3KWyCB000:05:53 Passion, according to life coach Susannah Newsonin00:06:59 Karen Putts explained the five steps of passion00:12:19 How to Increase Intrinsic 00:13:03 Satisfying Our Basic Psychological 00:13:39 Creating an Environment that Promotes Autonomy 00:16:44 Competence • Intrinsic motivation is essential for lifelong learning and fuels the desire to keep learning new things, even if it's outside your comfort zone. This innate internal drive is what fuels your passion. Passion itself is a positive energy that you can experience in multiple areas of your life. The most common interpretation of passion in organizational studies is teleological, implying a powerful, purposive motivation to achieve an end goal. • Intrinsic motivation comes from within and is when you do something because you want to, not because you have to. You're driven by a personal interest or enjoyment in the task itself. For example, learning to bake simply because you enjoy it. #CLEAR #DeciRyan #ExtrinsicMotivation #ExtrinsicRewards #Gillard #Hennessey #IntrinsicMotivation #KarenPutz #LifelongLearner #LinsteadBrewis #RyanDeci #SDT #SusanFowler #SusannaNewsonen #RussellNewton #NewtonMG #PeterHollins #TheScienceofSelf #TheLifelongLearner

Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcastHear it Here - bit.ly/3FooG0d• No man is an island. Your unique thought patterns and habits are in a constant relationship with the unique thought patterns and habits of those around you. Relationships are shared patterns, and there is no such thing as a toxic person, only toxic patterns, behaviors, and relationships. • All relationships are occasionally difficult, but toxic relationships amplify and recreate negativity in a way that is destructive and unhealthy for all parties involved. Focus on recurring dynamics and patterns rather than specific isolated behaviors, be accountable, and ask how your core beliefs are manifesting in the relationship. • If you are bringing toxic patterns to a relationship, make a list of the behaviors, understand the function they are serving, put the pattern in context, then commit to making changes internally and externally.

Easily listen to The Science of Self in your podcast app of choice at https://bit.ly/ScienceOfSelfPodcastHear it Here - http://bit.ly/GeniusHollins• Descartes’ genius traits included intellectual honesty, curiosity, diverse interests, and non-conventional thinking.• French-born Rene Descartes is widely considered the father of Western philosophy, and greatly advanced many metaphysical concepts still in use today. • Descartes genius was to start, like Socrates, from a point of complete ignorance, i.e. to begin in absolute doubt and work his way to true knowledge one step at a time, using rational and logical thought. • In 1641 he published his Meditations on First Philosophy, the first three meditations of which are designed as exercises to help a person use the “method of doubt” to discard false beliefs (meditation 1), find those beliefs that could not possibly be false (meditation 2) and devise some rock-solid criteria for what constitutes true knowledge (meditation 3).• This approach is essentially an early form of the scientific method, as it outlines a path to true knowledge by removing everything that can be doubted and focusing on that which cannot logically be false, and therefore must be true. It’s via this path that Descartes believed he built a sound philosophy. • In the first meditation, we use hypothetical doubt to tease out truth from the inaccuracies of our own perceptions, as well as the flaws and limits of our reasoning faculties. We can practice this sentiment by reminding ourselves that we can always be wrong, and to take doubt as a starting point, rather than to make assumptions.• Meditation 2 is about finding out what is true once all that is false is removed from the equation. This is where Descartes’ famous cogito ergo sum proposition comes about, explaining that at the very least, he knew he was in fact thinking, and that proved he existed. • From this we are led to meditation 3, which discusses the criteria for universal knowledge as those things perceived clearly and distinctly. • To take inspiration from Descartes, we needn’t follow his complex philosophy in detail, but we can practice a kind of philosophical doubt, committing never to hold beliefs we know aren’t true, and to have stringent standards for what we consider truth.#AbsoluteCertainty #AbsoluteTruth #AnalyticGeometry #CogitoErgoSum #CognitiveBiases #CriticalThinker #Descartes #Enlightenment #Flèche #ReneDescartes #IntellectualHonesty #IrrefutableEvidence #LaFlèche #Meditation #Philosophy #ScientificMethod #UniversalTruth #RussellNewton #NewtonMG #PeterHollins #TheScienceofSelf #ThinkLikeaGenius #PeterHollins/home/russell/temp/beliefs-justified-base-ultimately-belief-indubitable/beliefs-justified-base-ultimately-belief-indubitable-wood-light-man-person-7219821-MART--PRODUCTION.jpg

Hear it Here - http://bit.ly/DecisionMakingHollins00:02:26 The white hat is Sherlock Holmes.00:04:08 The red hat is Sigmund Freud, the psychotherapist.00:06:25 The black hat is Eeyore, the morose donkey from Winnie the Pooh.00:08:31 The yellow hat is the cheerleader.00:09:40 The green hat is Pablo Picasso, the famous artist.00:10:48 The blue hat is Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company and inventor of the modern assembly line.• Most of us engage in very little with regards to our decisions. A pros and cons list, perhaps. But this still leaves us victims of your blind spots. • The six hats method of decision making implores you to view a fork in the road from six distinct different perspectives. Typically these are represented by colors, but avatars are more illustrative. The six different perspectives to consider are Sherlock Holmes (gather information), Sigmund Freud (emotions), Eeyore the donkey (pessimist), a cheerleader (optimist), Pablo Picasso (creativity), and Henry Ford (information synthesis). #Brainstorming #DontPrioritize #SixHatsMethod #HenryFord #MurphysLaw #OptimisticCheerleader #PabloPicasso #SherlockHolmes #SigmundFreud #StrategicDecisionMaking #SwitchPerspectives #RussellNewton #NewtonMG #PeterHollins #TheScienceofSelf #TheArtofStrategicDecisionMakingPeterHollinsPhoto by Perfecto-Capucine and Pexels

00:03:14 In fact, it took Milton Hershey years of experimentation before he finally perfected his chocolate-making process.00:04:45 Elizabeth Day’s book How to Fail: Everything I’ve Learned from Things Going Wrong is a funny, relatable, and ultimately uplifting look at the value of failure.00:06:47 Steps to Conquer Your Failure 00:07:18 Redefine Failure as a Discrepancy00:09:39 Distinguish between Real and Imagined Threats 00:12:18 Create Promotion Rather than Prevention Goals 00:14:56 Expect a Good Outcome but Do Not Become Attached to It00:17:35 You Are Strong and You Can Prevail 00:20:40 Chapter Takeaways • Leaving your comfort zone and facing new challenges will sometimes guarantee failure. However, it is important to remember that every failure is an opportunity for us to learn and grow. Therefore, define failure as a discrepancy to help reframe your mindset. Start by looking at it as a discrepancy between your expectations and reality. Determine if the threat is real or imagined by evaluating your body's physical response.• Additionally, create promotion goals rather than prevention goals to stay focused on what's important. This development of a goal-oriented growth mindset toward learning not only prepares you for success in your chosen profession, but it also promotes healthy personal development. Expect a good outcome but do not become attached to it, so you can enjoy the journey. Have faith in the outcome, but don't put your entire happiness on the line. #CamachoHiggins #DrTheoTsaousides #ElizabethDays #Failure #LattacherWdowiak #MiltonHershey #NegativeConsequences #NegativeInfluence #PreventionGoals #PromotionGoals #ACompletelyRationalFearOfFailure #RussellNewton #NewtonMG #PeterHollins #TheScienceofSelf