873: Dr. Steven Hayes on Building a More Resilient and Flexible Mind

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🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Steven Hayes discusses how our instincts mentally trap us—and shares powerful tools for liberating your mind.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The benefits of psychological flexibility—and how to develop it.

2) Why you need to put your mind on a leash.

3) The key to taking the sting out of negative words.

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— ABOUT STEVEN —

Steven C. Hayes is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. He’s the originator of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). He’s authored 48 books including Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life (which reached #20 on Amazon’s best-seller list) and A Liberated Mind, which explains why psychological flexibility helps us navigate the world. Methods he has developed are distributed worldwide by the World Health Organization and other major agencies, and he is among the most cited psychologists in the world.

• Book: A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters

• Website: StevenCHayes.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.1	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.5	to flourish at work.
0:10.1	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete Makaitas.
0:16.1	Hello and welcome to episode 872 with Dr. Stephen Hayes.
0:23.6	Steve has written one of my all-time favorite books I've discovered this year and it's all
0:28.2	about psychological flexibility.
0:30.3	How to run your mind in a way that provides more joy and peace and goodness and awesomeness
0:37.4	at your job and so much more.
0:39.3	So you'll learn one, the benefits of psychological flexibility and how to develop it, two, why
0:45.5	you need to put your mind on a leash and three, the trick to take you the sting out of
0:50.1	negative words.
0:51.1	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we've
0:53.9	mentioned, please visit us over at awesomeatyourjob.com slash ep872.
0:59.5	Now here's a bit about Steve.
1:00.6	Steve and C. Hayes is a professor of psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno.
1:04.4	He's the originator of acceptance and commitment therapy or act, if you will.
1:08.1	He's authored 48 books, including Get Out of Your Mind Into Your Life, which reached
1:12.8	number 21 in Amazon's bestseller list, and a liberated mind, which explains why psychological
1:17.5	flexibility helps us navigate the world.
1:20.7	As he has developed our distributed worldwide by the World Health Organization to other
1:24.1	major agencies, and he's among the most cited psychologists alive today.
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