952: How Wonder Eliminates Stress and Improves Wellbeing with Monica Parker

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How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Monica Parker discusses the surprising benefits of wonder—and shares easy ways to experience more of it in your life.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How wonder helps us at work

2) Easy ways to experience more wonder

3) How society discourages wonder—and how to overcome that

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— ABOUT MONICA —

A world-renowned speaker, writer, and authority on the future of work, Monica Parker has spent decades helping people discover how to lead and live wonderfully. The founder of global human analytics and change consultancy HATCH, whose clients include blue-chip companies such as LinkedIn, Google, Prudential, and LEGO, Parker challenges corporate systems to advocate for more meaningful work lives. In addition to her extensive advocacy work, she has been an opera singer, a museum exhibition designer, and a homicide investigator defending death-row inmates. A lover of the arts, literature, and Mexican food, Parker and her family split their time between Atlanta, London, and Nice. Her wonderbringers include travel, fellowship with friends, and Trey Anastasio’s guitar.

• Book: "The Power of Wonder: The Extraordinary Emotion That Will Change the Way You Live, Learn, and Lead"

• Website: Monica-Parker.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “A Wandering Mind is an Unhappy Mind” by Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert

• Book: “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea by Steve Callahan”

• Book: "Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole" by Susan Cain

• Book: "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe

• Past episode: 775: Susan Cain Uncovers the Surprising and Uplifting Power of Sorrow and Longing

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.0	We know that one of the challenges that we're confronted with in work environments is something that's known as action bias.
0:14.0	So when we are confronted with a situation where we really don't have control,
0:19.0	we want to feel like we can exert control.
0:22.0	And one of the challenges is that society actually benefits that.
0:25.6	Research shows that we will rate our leaders more positively if they made decisive decisions, even if those decisions later were found to be poor.
0:35.8	And so we have this real desire to act when sometimes we should just pause.
0:41.4	When we have the opportunity to slow down, we should.
0:45.5	That's Monica Parker. She's a renowned speaker who spent decades helping people
0:49.1	discover how to lead and live wonderfully. Her clients include LinkedIn, Google, and LEGO,
0:53.7	and today she's discussing insights
0:55.3	from her latest book, The Power of Wonder,
0:57.8	the extraordinary emotion that will change
0:59.4	the way you live, learn, and lead.
1:01.9	So you'll learn one, how wonder helps us at work.
1:04.0	Two, easy ways to experience more wonder
1:07.0	and three, how society discourages wonder
1:10.0	and how to overcome that.
1:11.0	I'm Pete McChitis, this is how to be awesome at a job and now here's
1:14.4	Monica. Monica welcome. Hi, thanks for having me. Well I'm excited to hear your take on
1:20.8	wonder and how it can help us be more awesome at our jobs.
1:24.6	But for starters, could you tell us what do you mean by wonder?
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