447: Psychological Flexibility with Steven Hayes PhD
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Psychological Flexibility
with Steven Hayes, PhD
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The rate of change has accelerated 2-5x in the past year. The job change you were thinking about someday is now your top priority today. Your relationship doubt has flipped into a full blown crisis. Entire governments and industries have been turned on their heads. How are you doing?
The ability to ride the wave of change is something Steven Hayes refers to as Psychological flexibility, and just as we should all be working on our physical health, our mental health needs constant workouts too.
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Dr. Steven Hayes is the author of 44 books including, A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters. He’s published nearly 600 scientific articles and his work focuses on understanding language and cognition to alleviate suffering.
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| 0:00.0 | They say that youth is wasted on the young, I would also say that education is wasted on the young. |
| 0:08.0 | It certainly was for me. I was fortunate to go to a very good high school and in our classes we were assigned |
| 0:15.3 | amazing literature to read and like a lot of teenagers I would get the book and I |
| 0:20.7 | would read just enough of the book to to write an essay or pass the test. |
| 0:24.4 | Surprisingly, I did pretty well even though I didn't really understand what I was reading. |
| 0:27.6 | I don't think at 14, 15, 16 years old I was really in a place to even appreciate what I was reading, what I was being exposed to. |
| 0:35.2 | But hey, maybe that's the way the world works, you know, it takes a little while to figure things out. |
| 0:39.2 | One of the books we read was things fall apart by Chino Achebe and I don't want to even pretend to |
| 0:45.8 | understand this book but I think I understand the title and the title I believe |
| 0:49.8 | was inspired by a poem called The Second Coming, but this idea that things fall apart, you know, |
| 0:54.8 | that the center cannot hold is how the book starts off. It's something that I've come back to |
| 0:59.5 | at least every month since I was 15 years old and it's really been a running |
| 1:04.4 | mantra in my mind for the past year. Strange year in that all around the world |
| 1:09.4 | collectively we've had a lot of shared experiences and a lot of shared loss and a lot of acceleration |
| 1:15.8 | and by acceleration I mean that the relationship stress that you had in your household got |
| 1:22.0 | amplified times five. |
| 1:24.0 | The financial concerns that you have for your retirement |
| 1:28.4 | became realized like yesterday. |
| 1:30.6 | The industry you thought was going to survive for at least another few years is suddenly belly up this acceleration of change |
| 1:36.8 | It's pretty unsettling and the question is do you have the psychological flexibility to manage that? It's an ongoing question. I don't |
| 1:46.6 | think there's an answer but I think this concept of being malleable, being flexible, |
| 1:50.8 | being able to adapt and adjust is something that we're all looking for and I don't |
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