Belonging To One Another with Geoffrey Cohen

How To Human with Sam Lamott

Sam Lamott

Health & Fitness

5 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Geoffrey L. Cohen is a Professor of Psychology and the James G. March Professor of Organizational Studies in Education and Business at Stanford University. He is a social psychologist by training and received his PHD at Stanford and his BA at Cornell. Professor Cohen’s research examines the processes that shape people’s sense of belonging and self-concept, and the role that these processes play in various social problems. He has studied the big and small threats to belonging and self-integrity that people encounter in school, work, health care settings, politics, communities, and relationships. He and others have developed concrete, science-backed strategies to create more welcoming spaces for people from all walks of life. He believes that the development of psychological theory depends not just on descriptive and observational research but on theory-driven intervention. He has long been inspired by Kurt Lewin’s quip, “The best way to understand something is to try to change it.” For more of Georrfey: Website: https://www.geoffreylcohen.com Book: https://www.geoffreylcohen.com/book To become a patron and help this program continue producing this show, and get access to patron-only events, go to www.patreon.com/hellohuman and pledge any amount.

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0:00.0	One of the questions I'm always asking myself is, where does my attention belong?
0:07.2	Where should I be focusing my attention?
0:09.2	For the past several years, my attention has been on several noble causes, healing, becoming a better version of myself, becoming a kinder, more patient loving father, becoming a kinder, loving, more patient friend,
0:24.8	and becoming someone who is better at taking the stuff happening inside of me, the work that
0:31.2	wants to come out of me, and sharing that with the world. And there's been lots of amazing
0:36.6	progress and success.
0:39.7	However, none of the success of the past four years really compares to the past year.
0:47.6	And unfortunately, for my ego and my self-esteem, I can't take much credit for it.
0:56.8	This is by far the happiest, most productive,
1:05.2	most enjoyable year that I can remember. And it has to do less with what I thought, what I did,
1:11.9	and what was happening in my life, and more about how I set up the situations that I was going into.
1:20.1	It all has to do with being part of a community. We've created the book club or study hall club or whatever you want to call it, just a group of listeners and now friends who I meet
1:26.3	with regularly. That really changed the creative process for
1:29.5	me, is get to speak with people who enjoy my work and also get to know them and in a sense
1:35.8	get to know who I'm speaking to when I do a podcast like this. I also invited a business partner,
1:42.9	actually two business partners, to join in on this
1:45.8	endeavor and to do this struggle with me. I got a therapist I love, and I joined more communities and
1:53.5	more groups for all the things that I wanted to do. I'm part of a writer's group. I am a part of
1:59.2	the book club, as I mentioned before. I am a part of the book club, as I mentioned before.
2:03.9	I am a part of recovery groups.
2:11.1	So today, when I'm recording this, I am recently just out of the worst depression of the year, which lasted about seven days, and I would rate it about a seven out of ten in terms of how excruciating and awful it was.
2:22.2	And it had me reflecting about how miraculous that is, that the worst this year got was a seven-day depression.
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