67 Gabriele Oettingen - Rethinking Positive Thinking

Inquiring Minds

Science, Society & Culture, Neuroscience, Female Host, Interview, Social Sciences, Critical Thinking

4.4 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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On the show this week we talk to Professor of Psychology Gabriele Oettingen about her new book Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation. Oettingen has over twenty years of research on the science of motivation under her belt and in this book she outlines her main findings—and turns the conventional wisdom that focusing on fulfilling our goals will help us realize them on its head. We also welcome back guest host Kishore Hari, who is Director of the Bay Area Science Festival. You can follow him on Twittter @sciencequiche.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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1:01.9	Joining me again as guest host is Kishor Hari. He's the director of the Bay Area Science
1:06.1	Festival and he's a herder of nerds. You can find him on Twitter as at Science Kish, which is kind of awesome.
1:13.1	So Kishore, welcome back to Inquiring Minds. Thanks for having me back. So why are you the science
1:17.1	Kish? My nickname growing up was Kish. It was in 7th grade, Christine Carroll, yes, I'm using her
1:25.7	full name, heard my name cut off on the rolls
1:29.2	from Kishur to KISH and the teacher pronounced it Kish. And she was like, ah, you're a Kish.
1:35.2	And it just kind of stuck from there somehow. You know, seventh grade nicknames just kind of
1:39.8	worm their way into your life. I like it. Well, so if you want to follow them on Twitter, though, Keish is spelled like the breakfast food, not like his name. It's brunchy too. It's brunchy. Brunchy,
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