Belle Liang: ...there are downsides to putting yourself last

Nobody Told Me!

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Our guest on this episode is the co-author of a great book called, "How to Navigate Life: The New Science of Finding Your Way in School, Career, and Beyond". Joining us is Belle Liang, professor of Counseling Psychology at Boston College. Learn more about her work at https://www.purposelabs.org/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:11.1	I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.
0:13.5	Our guest on this episode is the co-author of a great new book called How to Navigate Life,
0:19.0	The New Science of Finding your way in school,
0:22.4	career, and beyond. Joining us is Belle Liang, professor of counseling psychology at Boston
0:28.3	College. Bell, thank you so much for joining us today. I'm so delighted to be here. Thanks for having
0:36.2	me. We love the title of the book, How to Navigate Life.
0:40.6	We could all use that.
0:43.1	Why did you decide to write it?
0:47.3	You know, how to navigate life, I think, really represents this universal desire to figure life out to be able to have some way that makes sense
0:58.6	to make decisions in life, to come to different inflection points in our lives and know
1:04.3	which direction to go.
1:06.0	So we really wanted it to be an accessible title that really spoke to people across the board,
1:12.8	not just students, not just parents, but also professionals, people in the workplace, people
1:18.7	working at all different stages in their lives. And the subtitle of the book you wrote with
1:24.9	Timothy Klein is the new science of finding your way in school,
1:29.6	career, and beyond. So tell us more about this new science. So I work in a at Boston College and
1:37.7	my lab is called the purpose labs. And in that lab for 20 some years, I have been doing research on mentoring young people and particularly mentoring them towards a purpose in their lives.
1:52.5	And so the book comes directly out of the research that I've been doing up to date and also draws on research from, you know,
2:03.6	across the country, beyond my lab.
2:07.6	What's wrong with just doing everything when we're young to try to get into college and work really
2:14.3	hard to get these great grades, be involved in every extracurricular and just
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