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Something You Should Know about Personality


Where Personality Comes From

August 25, 2011

 

Interview with Dr. Samuel Barondes, author of the book Making Sense of People: Decoding the Mysteries of Personality (FT Press Science)

 

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Mike Carruthers:
What are the elements that make up your personality?

 

Dr. Samuel Barondes:
Personality is defined as the enduring, the enduring of thoughts, feelings and actions that are characteristic of a person.
 


Dr. Samuel Barondes

Your Time Bias & What It Means

August 12, 2011

 

Interview with Dr. Philip Zimbardo, author of the book The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Each of us has our own time bias. That is, some of us are more oriented to the past, some to the present and some to the future. And that helps to shape our personality.

 

Dr. Philip Zimbardo:
If you're future-oriented you always take account of the future consequences but you don't have much fun in life because you never take time out to enjoy the moment.
 


Dr. Philip Zimbardo

How You Became Who You Are

April 22, 2011

 

Interview with Dr. Keith Ablow, author of the book Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Have you ever looked back at your life to see how your earlier experiences have shaped who you are today? Perhaps it's worth a look, because…

 

Dr. Keith Ablow:
We are stories. And those earlier chapters of love, and loss and struggle become alive today as well.
 


Dr. Keith Ablow

Passive People

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 D. Adams

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

 

Positive Change At Any Age

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.


Susan Whitbourne

How We All Influence Each Other

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.
 


Nicolas Christakis, M.D.

Success For Introverts

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.


Nancy Ancowitz

 

Power Of Being Nice

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.

 


Linda Kaplan Thaler

 

Social Anxiety Part 2

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
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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.”

Jonathan Berent

 

Social Anxiety

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.


Jonathan Berent

 

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