• The Positive Pod: Your Weekly Fifteen Minutes of Positivity

  • By: Mike Walsh
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The Positive Pod: Your Weekly Fifteen Minutes of Positivity

By: Mike Walsh
  • Summary

  • This incompetently hosted and badly edited (Hey, it's the same guy...and good help is hard to find!) weekly show will explore the positive in our world.   We'll look at new science-based tips on improving our lived experience and we'll have interviews with inspiring and positive folks.  Learn about the science behind positivity and some of the "why's" behind the "what's".  The positive side of life with a scientific spin!  Join us each week for the Positive Pod and Get Some Good in Your Life! Written, Hosted and Produced by: Michael J. Walsh, Ph.D, LPC, CRC Art Direction: Maxie Walsh Final Approvals: Lacey and Sully Walsh
    © 2023 The Positive Pod: Your Weekly Fifteen Minutes of Positivity
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  • Well Nudged is Well Lived: Using Nudge Theory to Live our Best Life (and Prevent Being Duped!)
    Oct 29 2021

    Why are we so vulnerable to misinformation?

    How do we make better choices?

    Do we react to the immediacy of information or the quality of that information?

    Turns out, immediacy carries the day.  Worse yet, if that misinformation confirms our previously held biases or beliefs, we are even more susceptible to its influence.

    It all has to do with Nudge Theory; a breakthrough in Behavioral Economics that was based on the pioneering research of  two Israeli psychologists:  Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in the 1970's that examined why people make the choices that they do.

    Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein developed the human bahevior patterns discovered by Kahneman and Tversky and formed them into a cohesive theory that attempts to explain human decision making in a more complete way than other theories of choice-making.

    In 2017, Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for Nudge Theory.

    Let's look at how we can use the best of what Nudge Theory has to offer to make sure we protect ourselves from misinformation and make the decisions that enhance the quality of our lives.

    Where to learn more:

    Thaler, Richard H. 2018. "From Cashews to Nudges: The Evolution of Behavioral Economics." American Economic Review,  108 (6): 1265-87.

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    12 mins
  • Autonomy: How Helping Others Helps Us
    May 28 2021

    How do we help ourselves to enhance our overall sense of effectiveness and autonomy?  What if I told you that there is data that supports the idea that helping others helps us to do just that?  In this episode, we will take a deeper dive into what Autonomy is and what it isn't.  We'll also look at the idea that Autonomy might be the single basic human need to rule them all.  Finally, we'll examine a number of theoretical connections to autonomy and the larger behavioral research in order to grab a Three Step Method for enhancing our own Autonomy.  Stick around!  It will be a fun ride!

    This episode continues our exploration of Eudaimonia and its six basic constructs.  The first one, Autonomy, is our subject today!

    References:

    Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (2008). Hedonia, eudaimonia, and well-being: an introduction. Journal of Happiness Studies, 9(1), 1–11. https://doi-org.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/10.1007/s10902-006-9018-1

     

    Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2000). Self-Determination Theory and the Facilitation of Intrinsic Motivation, Social Development, and Well-Being. American Psychologist, 55(1), 68. https://doi-org.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/10.1037/0003-066X.55.1.68

     

    Ryff, C. D. (2013). Psychological Well-Being Revisited: Advances in the Science and Practice of Eudaimonia. Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics, 83(1), 10–28. https://doi-org.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/10.1159/000353263

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    12 mins
  • About the Show and a Preview of Season Two!
    May 18 2021

    Just a brief episode on how and why I developed the Positive Pod, and a preview of Season Two!  Check it out!

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    9 mins

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