Cautionary Tales Presents The Dream
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On The Dream, host Jane Marie gets to know the life coaches and gurus who claim they know the secret to living our best lives. Is it all in our mindset? Or our privilege? Or are we all under a spell?
Tim Harford is joined by Jane Marie to talk about who coaching works least well for. Turns out it’s the exact people who could benefit most from it, according to the industry. Dr. Sherman James and Dr. Arline Geronimus discuss the downsides of positive thinking, bootstrapping, and mindset culture. For some people, striving has negative impacts on health and happiness.
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| 1:17.0 | Hello, today I'd like to bring you a cautionary tale from one of the other podcasts in the Pushkin Industries family. It's called The Dream and it's a co-production with Little Everywhere. The host of The Dream, Jane Marie, is with me now. |
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