Psychology - Personality

May 4, 2010

Interview with Dennis D. Adams, author of the book Honest, Direct, Respectful: Three Simple Words that will Change your Life

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Mike Carruthers:
Would you consider yourself a passive person or a reactive person?

Dennis Adams:
I think that eighty percent of people in any given population are passive and I think that twenty percent are reactive by nature.
 

Dennis Adams, author of the book, Honest, Direct, Respectful says passive people tend to have a thought process that goes something like this…

January 13, 2010

Interview with Susan Krauss Whitbourne, author of the book The Search for Fulfillment 

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Mike Carruthers:
If you’re an adult you’ve heard all the cliches that, "Youth is wasted on the young,"  that, "Your best years are behind you..." – well it turns out to be completely untrue.

Susan Krauss Whitbourne:
Development continues throughout adulthood. People don’t just not change after you turn 18.

November 2, 2009

Interview with Nicholas Christakis, M.D., author of the book Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

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Mike Carruthers:
We humans are social creatures. We live in communities and networks and we’re all influencing each other.

Nicholas Christakis, M.D.:
We are much more affected by these networks in which we’re imbedded than we are even by media. That is to say whether you gain or lose weight, for instance, has a lot more to do with whether your friends are gaining or losing weight than what the models looks like on the covers of magazines.
 

October 26, 2009

Interview with Nancy Ancowitz author of Self-Promotion for Introverts: The Quiet Guide to Getting Ahead

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Mike Carruthers:
Introverts are an often misunderstood group. What’s an introvert?

Nancy Ancowitz:
An introvert gains her or his energy by being alone – by doing solo activities instead of more social activities. And we’re actually 50% of the population.

October 15, 2009

Interview with Linda Kaplan Thaler author of The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World With Kindness

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Mike Carruthers:
If you want to get ahead, is being nice a good thing or a bad thing?

Linda Kaplan Thaler:
You know, "nice" has been getting a bad rap. "Nice" is defined by people as someone who's milquetoast - you can step all over them. The fact of the matter is, it's probably the toughest four letter word you'll ever learn.

September 10, 2009

Interview with Jonathan Berent author of Beyond Shyness: How to Conquer Social Anxieties

www.social-anxiety.com

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Mike Carruthers:
More people have social or performance anxiety than perhaps anyone realized. You know that fear of giving a presentation or the fear of looking foolish or nervous.

Jonathan Berent:
And I’ve had countless people who have told me things like, “You know I’m thinking of getting into a car accident tomorrow on the way to work because I have to give a presentation and there’s no way I’m going to do it.”

September 9, 2009

Interview with Jonathan Berent author of Beyond Shyness: How to Conquer Social Anxieties

www.social-anxiety.com

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Mike Carruthers:
Social anxiety, like the fear of public speaking or the fear of being in a room full of strangers – it’s a bigger problem than most people realize.

Social and performance anxiety is the biggest mental health problem behind depression and substance abuse.

 August 24, 2009

Interview with Norman Rosenthal, M.D., author of The Emotional Revolution: Harnessing The Power Of Your Emotions For A More Positive Life
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Mike Carruthers:
Your emotions - there's a fascinating topic. Do we create our own emotions or are we subject to them? Maybe both.

Norman Rosenthal, M.D.:
If we, for example, gamble away our money we're going to be pretty unhappy about that. But that isn't something that happened to us, that's something we actually made happen.

July 9, 2009

Interview with Mardi Horowitz, M.D., author of A Course in Happiness   
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Mike Carruthers:
The world is full of people who are unhappy, and it turns out there are two things that tend to produce discontent for these people.

Mardi Horowitz, M.D.:
What I call the "toxic twins" that tend to produce discontent are blaming and entitlement. That is people who feel too entitled and then blame everybody else or something else for what happens bad to them.

 May 20, 2009

Interview with Richard Restak, M.D.author of Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance
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Mike Carruthers:
For your brain to work well you have to take care of it.

Richard Restak, M.D.:
The brain's a very dynamic organ and it's either improving or it's slipping back.

Dr. Richard Restak