028: Risa Mish | Critical Thinking for Life & Racing

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Risa Mish, an expert in critical thinking, problem solving & leadership teaches at Cornell. In her interview she shares critical thinking tips that apply to life, business and racing. Learn how and when to set aside assumptions, why more experience isn’t always better, why flexibility is important and some concrete ways you can bring these lessons into your life. Mish demonstrates how critical thinking can move us with greater success through a race, business and life.
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Lessons:
1. Mitigate failures by predicting ways you might fail and troubleshooting preemptively.
2. Place yourself around people who are different than yourself as a way checking your biases.
3. Problems always have multiple causes.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to SpartanUp Podcast.com where we study success and everything required to create it.
0:05.7	We interview people from all over the world that are successful, no matter how they define it. and Johnnie Waite in this beautiful Dr. Johnny philosopher Johnny and in
0:26.0	this beautiful barn in Pittsfield Vermont and we are going back to Joe's and
0:31.2	mine that's probably bad grammar.
0:33.0	That's all right.
0:34.0	Our alma mater up to Cornell
0:36.0	to go talk to Professor Risa Misch
0:39.0	and Joe.
0:41.0	Well, I mean it's the same thing.
0:42.0	We want to find out what makes people
0:44.0	successful right how people can persevere how people get things done and there was
0:47.8	no better place to go than then Cornell talked to a couple of professors say hey we're on the
0:52.1	right track what are we on the right track?
0:52.6	What are we missing here?
0:54.1	And this is a great interview.
0:56.9	What's bizarre is when she asked me, you saw in the open
0:59.7	about Donna Summers.
1:00.6	My mother was a huge Donna Summers fan.
1:03.2	Disco Joe. My dad actually owned a disco for a short period of time.
1:07.3	Somebody got shot at the disco and ended after that.
1:10.1	But my mother used to, whenever Donna Summers was playing, she'd go into the living room and make my sister and I dance and at some point on one of these podcasts maybe this one we've got to talk about that because whoops I think not only is grit determination
1:24.7	perseverance all those things important but having the ability to laugh oh sure
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