945: How to Master Your Inner World and Flourish During Stress with Mawi Asgedom

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How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Mawi Asgedom shares four tools anyone can use to master their emotions and thrive.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Easy ways to keep your cool when things go awry

2) The key investment that improves both happiness and success

3) The powerful reframe that makes you feel unstoppable

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— ABOUT MAWI —

Mawi Asgedom is an award-winning author and expert on Social Emotional Learning (SEL) who has inspired over 1000 audiences with his uplifting speeches.

Mawi founded Mawi Learning, an organization that unlocks human potential through evidence-based social emotional learning. Under Mawi’s leadership, Mawi Learning won the prestigious CODiE award for excellence and innovation in educational technology, and achieved CASEL-designation for evidence-based Social Emotional Learning.

In 2023, Mawi launched his newest venture to help youth unlock their potential: Inner Heroes Universe, a media company that helps parents, educators, and therapists equip kids with crucial mental health and social emotional skills.

• Mawi’s company: Inner Heroes Universe

• Book: "Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard"

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: "Nobody Will Play With Me: How To Use Compassionate Curiosity to Find Confidence in Conflict" by Kwame Christian

• Book: "Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential AND HOW YOU CAN ACHIEVE YOURS" by Shirzad Chamine

• Book: "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success" by Carol Dweck

• Book: "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change" by Stephen Covey

• Book: "Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, Book 3)" by Robert Jordan

• Past episode: 001: Communicating with Inspiration and Clarity with Mawi Asgedom

• Past episode: 798: How to Have Difficult Conversations about Race with Kwame Christian

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.0	For Type A folks like us who are used to believing that logic and thought and what our conscious brain can do is the sum game of progress.
0:15.9	It can be difficult to accept that these breathing exercises, regulating our bodies, doing things
0:20.7	like spider fingers, they're as important for the 36 year old,
0:24.4	56 year old as they are for the six year old. Is there an area where you're
0:29.4	currently intimidated or you think you can't learn it or you think it's only for the pros to learn about
0:33.8	and you can't do it, that's a fixed mindset. You should assume even if you don't
0:37.3	have the same knowledge as a lawyer you can get smart enough. One of the most provocative things that I ever heard was when Stephen Covey says the person who
0:46.8	takes action they're not a little bit more effective they're 5,000 times more effective.
0:52.2	It's a massive shift which is a
0:54.5	tall claim to make and I actually have found that to be true that when we're not
0:59.5	acting as agents Pete we lose all access to our intelligence, to our relationships, to our
1:05.4	connections, to our problem solving, because we're thinking about something outside of us
1:08.8	by definition that we don't control.
1:12.2	That's Maui Ascotome. He's one of the world's leading experts on social emotional learning and also one of my very best friends and mentors. Maui helps people develop the skills to live healthy and fulfilling lives.
1:22.9	His latest project is Inner Heroes
1:24.8	Universe.com, which features powerful stories, art, and heroes
1:29.1	who help kids, and to my surprise, me and other grown-ups master their inner worlds to flourish amid
1:35.6	life stresses and challenges.
1:38.0	So you'll learn one easy ways to keep your cool when things go awry.
1:41.6	Two, the key investment that improves both
1:43.7	happiness and success and three, the powerful reframe that makes you feel
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