Positivity Podcast with Make School
Want to develop more willpower and empathy? Positivity Podcast gives you exercises to develop your character traits. In this series, Positivity Dan will help you think about character development the way you think about professional development--with strategies, advice, best practices, and tools to help you grow. The series covers essential topics like Empathy (#2), Talent (#7), Honesty (#9), Meditation (#6), and Forgiveness (#5), from experts that range from academics to best-selling authors--all of whom have actionable tips to help you become a better, happier, more effective version of yourself. Think of this series as your character development consultant, aimed at helping you succeed in life. Chances are, you’ll be helping your professional career, too. - Produced with love by Make School and Positivity Dan. Join thousands of the world's brightest computer science students at Make School (www.makeschool.com).
Episodes
November 24, 2020 • 63 mins
“The solution isn’t to do away with dreaming ... Rather, it’s making the most of our fantasies by brushing them up against the very thing most of us are taught to ignore or diminish: the obstacles that stand in our way.” - Gabriele Oettingen
Professor Gabriele Oettingen tears through traditional notions of motivation and success. Her 20 years of research focus on the perils of positive thinking, and the science of how focusing on...
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Permission to Feel: Marc Brackett on findings from The Yale Center for Social Emotional Intelligence
November 4, 2020 • 62 mins
This episode focuses on tools of emotional resilience.
I’ve met few people like Marc - he is so open and honest about his emotions that it is refreshing. It’s easy to see why. Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor at Yale University. His research is on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, healt...
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May 16, 2020 • 52 mins
Having more choices is good right? Barry Schwartz thinks otherwise.
"In his 2004 book The Paradox of Choice , tackles one of the great mysteries of modern life: Why is it that societies of great abundance — where individuals are offered more freedom and choice (personal, professional, material) than ever before — are now witnessing a near-epidemic of depression? Conventional wisdom tells us that greater choice is for the greater g...
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October 30, 2018 • 37 mins
What motivates us? How can we motivate ourselves? Our guest today is a legend in the psychology world, Dan Pink. He’s often credited for paving the paved the path for authors of other character trait oriented books, including many of the authors who have been on this podcast. And he’s so well regarded that at this point if I see an amazing education organization I just assume he’s on the board. In his groundbreaking book, "Drive: ...
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Were you ever in a classroom that felt too crowded? Maybe 35 students, 50, 100? One man teaches a lot more students than that - he teaches over 320,000 students. What a headache! But not for one person.
Who is he? Rob Percival. He’s one of the best selling online instructors of all time. His uDemy iOS course has reached hundreds of thousands of students. We discuss why Rob believes his courses caught on, his teaching philosophy, ...
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May 31, 2018 • 51 mins
How can you cultivate a generous attitude?
In this episode, we have Matthieu Richard, a Buddhist monk in Nepal with TedTalks on happiness and altruism that have over 8 million views. In this episode, we deconstruct how to cultivate this urge in our own hearts to be altruistic. We also talk about Matthieu's journey from the intellectual elites in France to a monastery in Nepal, meditation, self-love, how to evaluate the effectiven...
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April 12, 2018 • 59 mins
Today’s episode stars William Ury, author of Getting to Yes. The book is an international bestseller with over twelve million copies in print and publication in thirty-four languages. Ury is also the founder of the Harvard Program on Negotiation and along with Jimmy Carter, founded the International Negotiation Network. And as Ury mentions we are always negotiating so...
His tactics are relevant for job seekers, business deals, an...
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February 22, 2018 • 61 mins
How can we design projects to optimize our learning?
Bob Lenz and the Buck Institute has answers. His name may sound familiar - a previous guest on this podcast, Tom Vander Ark, recommended his work.
This topic of planning projects could be relevant to you in many ways. It could be relevant if you are a manager designing projects for employees, a teacher designing projects for students, or even you designing projects for yourse...
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February 8, 2018 • 43 mins
How do you navigate your quest to live a full life?
How do you prioritize work versus family, stretch yourself while maintaining your wellness?
Acclaimed civil rights activist Noël Gordon Jr has a unique perspective. He’s not trying to optimize for career or happiness. He points somewhere else.
What's most surprising: Noël is incredibly accomplished, and he says his focus on other priorities has driven his success.
At 24, No...
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January 17, 2018 • 76 mins
The right question can change everything. It can turn a friend into a lover, a problem into a solution, confusion into understanding. It finds your answer.
Warren Berger, journalist and author of the book A More Beautiful Question, has been studying questioning techniques for decades, and most recently how questioning was used to spark innovation at companies like Google, Netflix, IDEO, and Airbnb.
In this episode we chat about ...
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December 25, 2017 • 51 mins
Tom Vander Ark is a titan in the world of education technology. Few have experience as wide and deep as he.
His career journey ...
- Superintendent of Federal Way Public schools.
- Managed $3.5 billion dollars and one-on-one with Bill Gates as the Executive Director of Education for the Gates Foundation.
- President of X Prize, an organization that runs multimillion dollar contests for innovation in learning, exploration, energy ...
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December 3, 2017 • 106 mins
Ted Dintersmith is on the forefront of innovation in K-12 education. He has a unique background that’s part venture capitalist, part author, part educator, and part filmmaker. So, he thinks a lot about the future of technology, future of employment, how we prepare students for that future, and how to get the word out.
His latest work is Mostly to Succeed - a book and documentary about the teachers who he believes are truly prepar...
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November 26, 2017 • 48 mins
This episode is on the tactics to build a diversity and inclusion movement at your organization - - everything from convening the first meeting, implementing change, structuring inclusion into the organization’s DNA, what to do when issues inevitably arise, measure diversity ROI as well as growing your own abilities to check your biases and make your community stronger.
And our Guest is Dom Deguzman who has done exactly this at Tw...
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November 6, 2017 • 63 mins
How do you know what’s essential in your life and what’s not?
Greg McKeown has helped top executives answer that question and reach peak performance. His premise is simple – cut out what isn’t useful so you have more time for what is … but the execution is a bit more complex: with all the opportunities, invites, resources, how can we clear our RAM, unclutter the desktop and folders in our head so we have more energy for what is es...
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November 6, 2017 • 43 mins
This episode is about the skill of developing your social-emotional intelligence.
Our guest, Bea Arthur, has become a leader in the field of mental health care and telemedicine. With the goal of transforming traditional therapy into a more affordable and approachable experience, she created In Your Corner which provides instant, expert support when you need it. The Columbia University alum has worked with a variety of demographics...
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December 13, 2016 • 67 mins
Cal Newport has dissected deliberate practice – the methods to improve any skill to the point that you become so good people can’t ignore you. We discuss why Deliberate Practice is so important for job satisfaction - even more so than passion - and what a practice for character development could look like.
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December 13, 2016 • 80 mins
David Allen is a wizard of productivity and the author of Getting Things Done. In this episode we touch on how to get mental clarity, become more effective, and also touch on some nontraditional topics of how productivity relates to ambiguity, introspection, relationships, and mental health.
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February 16, 2016 • 63 mins
This episode goes beyond “I told the truth” to a more difficult place – being honest with yourself, facing your fears, and coming into the world with all your honest hopes and insecurities.
Brad Blanton does exactly that. He curses. He calls you out. He’s been documented farting, unashamedly in front of reporters mid- interview. He’s spent the past 30 years as a psychiatrist and leader of the Radical Honesty movement and wrote a ...
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February 16, 2016 • 39 mins
Daniel Coyle studies talent, particularly the communities that launch a disproportionate number of success stories. Places like a ramshackle tennis court in Moscow, a music academy in New York’s Adirondacks, and a baseball-mad island in the Caribbean. We discuss the environments and coaching strategies that enable talent to thrive.
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February 16, 2016 • 60 mins
Sara Lazar is at Harvard studying if and how meditation can promote focus, creativity and reduce stress.
In this episode Sara and I discuss what she’s learned, meditation techniques, and conduct an impromptu guided meditation session mid-podcast. I’ve been meditating for 7 years and can say this episode has something for both expert meditators and beginners.
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