The Knowledge Project Podcast
Former NHL player turned mining executive Brent Gilchrist joins me to share the lessons he learned in the trenches of professional hockey.
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Jessica Lahey has spent more than 20 years as a teacher, including five years teaching in a drug and alcohol rehab center for adolescents.
Whether your anger is a big problem or it just leads to the occasional issue, there are likely things you can do to manage your anger better. On this Friday Fix, I share how to get better at calming yourself down and managing those angry feelings in a healthy way.
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The way you respond to uncomfortable emotions establishes patterns in your life. You might not even recognize that you’re doing them, even though you reach for the same go-to solutions every time.
Celeste Headlee is a journalist, speaker, and co-host of Retro Report, a weekly series on PBS. Some of the things she talks about in this episode are how to hold difficult conversations with people, how to become better at making conversation, and how to deliver bad news effectively.
When you put your effort into the things you can control, life gets better. So on today’s Friday Fix, I share how to tell if you’re focusing on things you can’t control and five strategies that will help you stop doing it.
In an attempt to alleviate the awkwardness, we tend to deflect compliments. Consequently, we miss out on the benefits of hearing praise.
Ally Love is the in-arena host of the Brooklyn Nets, and she’s a Peloton instructor. Ally’s successful career path has taught her that it’s important to value progress over perfection.
Katy Milkman is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the host of Charles Schwab’s popular behavioral economics podcast Choiceology.
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You’ve likely seen Matthew McConaughey in one of his movies, like Dazed and Confused, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, or A Time to Kill. In this episode, he talks about his book Greenlights.
Helen Russell is a journalist, author, and happiness researcher. Some of the things she talks about in this episode are the benefits of happiness, the strategies we should stop using when we feel sad, and the coping skills that can help us embrace the sadness so we can ultimately grow happier.
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