The OptimalWork Podcast
OptimalWork
Hosted by Dr. Kevin Majeres and Sharif Younes, co-founders of OptimalWork, The OptimalWork Podcast will help you learn to challenge yourself in each hour of work according to your highest ideals. We discuss all aspects of Dr. Majeres's approach to work, which he developed in his private practice and teaches at Harvard Medical School, and show how it applies to everyday situations like professional work, study, sleep, and relationships.
For personalized plans to help you put the ideas into practice, visit www.OptimalWork.com.
Please send questions for discussion to team@optimalwork.com.
For personalized plans to help you put the ideas into practice, visit www.OptimalWork.com.
Please send questions for discussion to team@optimalwork.com.
Episodes
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Feb 12, 2024 • 30min
182. Overcoming Anxiety II: Develop Daring
In this podcast, they discuss the second stage of overcoming anxiety: using mindfulness to focus on the alarm of anxiety rather than just the trigger. They explain how this can help flip fear into a feeling of daring and set the stage for peak performance. They also touch on the importance of accepting fear and anxiety and utilizing fear and adrenaline for personal growth.
Feb 5, 2024 • 33min
181. Overcoming Anxiety I: Feel the Fear
The podcast discusses the three stages of overcoming anxiety, with the first stage being to confront the trigger head-on and embrace the fear. It explores the rise of anxiety in today's society, the power of thoughts and imaginal exposures, and the understanding of triggers. Overcoming anxiety involves engaging triggers and harnessing anxiety to achieve safety learning.
Jan 29, 2024 • 29min
180. How to Discipline Your Children While Deepening Your Bond with Them
Discipline children with connection and understanding. Importance of discipline in child development. Discipline as teaching, not punishment. Unique parenting style emphasizing bonding and consistent limits. Connections between parenting and Optimal Work approach.
Jan 22, 2024 • 29min
179. Unleash the Power of Dynorphins
Learn how embracing dynorphins, the intolerable feeling produced in difficult situations, can lead to inner strength and the release of endorphins for improved mood and wellbeing. Discover the relationship between dynorphins and endorphins, building resilience through challenges, cultivating bonds in relationships, and creating virtuous cycles for personal growth.
Jan 15, 2024 • 28min
178. How to Get Energy from Tiredness
Explore how to overcome tiredness and harness it for increased energy. The hosts discuss habit tracking apps, reframing tiredness, boosting endorphins, and embracing fatigue while pursuing one's ideals. Practical advice is provided on reducing fatigue and taking breaks.
Jan 8, 2024 • 32min
[Rebroadcast] A Deeper Dive into Challenge
#177: The goal of OptimalWork is to help people challenge themselves according to their highest ideals in each task. In this episode, we dive deeper into this core concept, showing how challenge is the surest path to growth.
Find more at https://www.OptimalWork.com.
Jan 1, 2024 • 28min
[Rebroadcast] How to Approach Every Challenge With a Sense of Newness
#176: Whenever we do something repeatedly, we’ll tend eventually to do it in a rote, automatic way. This even applies to OptimalWork’s core practices: reframing, mindfulness, and challenge. In this episode we show how curiosity can help you overcome this tendency and bring a sense of newness to every challenge you face.
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Dec 25, 2023 • 28min
[Rebroadcast] How to Broadcast Positive Emotions
#175: Whether we’re aware of it or not, we’re always broadcasting our own inner experience. By shaping our actions according to our ideals, we forget about ourselves and create a positive tone around us. In this episode, we’ll show you psychological strategies for how to do this.
Find more at https://www.OptimalWork.com.
Dec 18, 2023 • 34min
174. The Paradoxes of Mindfulness
Explore the paradoxes of mindfulness, including the balance between acceptance and change. Learn about the concept of mindfulness and its role in attaining human excellence. Delve into the paradox of escape versus engagement in mindfulness. Discover how to practice mindfulness in just a few minutes a day for improved awareness.
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Dec 11, 2023 • 30min
173. From Tolerance to Acceptance to Love
The podcast explores the different ways we relate to challenges, focusing on approach and avoidance. It breaks down approach into three levels: tolerating, accepting, and loving the challenge. The hosts discuss a new course on anxiety work and the stages of anxiety management. They also explore overcoming phobias through exposure therapy and the concept of embracing anxiety and cravings. Finally, they delve into the importance of moving from tolerance to acceptance to love in relationships.
