251 - Savvy Psychologist’s Top 5 Psychological Takeaways
Savvy Psychologist
Macmillan Holdings, LLC
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Dun-dun-dun-DUN! After 5 years, 250 episodes, 14 million downloads, one book, and lots of corny jokes, Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen presents her top 5 takeaways from researching, writing, and hosting the show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. This is Savvy Psychologist. I'm Dr. Ellen Hendrickson and I'll help you meet |
| 0:09.7 | life's challenges with evidence-based research, a sympathetic ear, and zero judgment. |
| 0:16.0 | I cannot believe it. |
| 0:17.8 | It feels like just yesterday that I sat in my bedroom surrounded by pillows and piles of sound absorbing laundry and yes that |
| 0:25.3 | laundry was clean to record my first hesitant podcast episode. |
| 0:30.4 | Now fast forward 250 episodes and five wonderful years and here we are at my final solo episode. |
| 0:39.0 | Next week your new savvy psychologist Dr. Jade Wu will stop by the show to chat and I am so |
| 0:45.3 | excited for you to finally meet her. But first we have a final episode to |
| 0:51.3 | savor. For five years I have been inspired by your requests. I have combed through the literature. I've read thousands of studies and maybe just maybe gotten sucked into way too many office space clips on YouTube, but I will never confirm nor deny that. |
| 1:06.0 | After all that, this week, here are my five biggest takeaways to help all of us understand the minds of your fellow humans plus your own. |
| 1:16.1 | So here we go, let's get right into it. |
| 1:18.9 | Take-home number one is behavior persists because it's reinforced. |
| 1:24.0 | Or in plain language, people do things for a reason. |
| 1:27.4 | It's easier to wrap your head around someone's quote unquote bad choices |
| 1:31.3 | when you understand what those choices bought them. So for example, |
| 1:35.1 | your best friend stays with a horrible partner. To her, it may be better than being alone. |
| 1:40.1 | Your little brother, couch surfs, and won't get a job. |
| 1:43.0 | To him, at least he's not shooting for the stars, and then failing. |
| 1:47.0 | A customer drives through McDonald's with three monkeys and orders each of them an ice cream cone. |
| 1:51.0 | Well, that's not necessarily a bad choice. Who doesn't like ice cream and happy monkeys? Anyway, my point is that every poor decision, weird preference, or choice that makes you scratch your head can usually be understood through the power of |
| 2:04.0 | empathy. So think, what does this person get out of this? What does this action |
| 2:09.0 | buy them? Usually it buys them something desirable. |
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