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🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Fiona Murden is a psychologist, executive coach and an author.
We might think we're sovereign beings with independent will & agency, but the examples set by those around you are constantly shaping your behaviour, let's find out how much...
Are you really the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with? How important is your teacher in primary school? What impact do your parents' beliefs have on you when you reach adulthood? How useful are bad actors at identifying behaviour you should avoid?
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0:00.0 | Hi friends, welcome back. |
0:02.1 | I guess today is Fiona Morden, executive coach, psychologist and author. |
0:07.1 | You might have heard that old wives tale, your mum told you or you've seen on the internet |
0:10.8 | about you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. |
0:14.4 | But just how true is that? |
0:16.2 | We might think that we're sovereign beings with independent will and agency, but the example |
0:21.2 | set by those around you are constantly shaping your behaviour. |
0:24.5 | So today we get to find out just by how much. |
0:27.9 | How important is your teacher in primary school? |
0:30.6 | What impact your parents beliefs have on you by the time you've reached adulthood? |
0:34.9 | How useful are bad actors that identifying behaviour that you should avoid? |
0:38.8 | And how can we use role models to actually expedite our progress? |
0:42.4 | There's some pretty big implications here, especially if you're someone who has children |
0:46.0 | or is looking to have children in the near future, you really should be taking a lot of |
0:50.1 | notice of what Fiona says today. |
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