Ep. 154 Think Big with Grace Lordan

The Calmer You Podcast

Chloe Brotheridge

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Dr Grace Lordan is an Associate Professor in Behavioural Science at the LSE, a director of their new MSc in Behavioural Science, and the founding director of The Inclusion Initiative (TII), a new research centre at the LSE. An economist by background, her research is focused on understanding why some individuals succeed in life and others don’t.

In her book Think Big she draws on her own experiences and challenges as a woman in the stereotypically male-dominated arena of economics, and as a self-identified easily-distracted procrastinator, to layout an easy-to-adopt road map to achieving your goals, whether they be personal, health or career orientated.

We discuss:

How to keep focused when you’re an easily distracted procrastinator
Why are our personal narratives so important
The top cognitive biases that are holding you back at work
The 90-minute weekly commitment that could be a game-changer for you

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Karma You podcast. This is your host, Chloe Brotheridge. I'm a coach, a
0:08.4	hypnototherapist, and I'm the author of The Anxiety Solution and Brave New Girl. And this podcast is all
0:14.9	about helping you to become your calmest, happiest and most confident self. Hello, hello,
0:20.3	hello. Thanks for joining me today. I am joined by
0:24.2	Dr. Grace Laudan today on the podcast. She's the author of Think Big. And basically, the book is all
0:31.1	about the power of medium-term goals. And one of the things we talk about in this episode is how very often we underestimate
0:41.2	what we can do over the long to medium term and we overestimate what we can do in a day.
0:47.9	And then we beat ourselves up because we don't get everything done on our to-do list
0:51.0	on a particular day. And so I love this episode for a real shift in
0:56.6	perspective to help you to set those medium-term goals and start to live the sort of life that
1:02.2	you want to. And Dr. Grace is very much a researcher. She's a lecturer. Dr. Grace is a associate professor in behavioral science at LSE,
1:17.5	and I love that she shares a lot about the science behind behavior change and setting goals
1:25.9	and things like procrastination and motivation. And so there's
1:31.9	tons of this episode that I think you're going to find super interesting. We talk about how to
1:37.0	keep focused when you're an easily distracted procrastinator who Grace admits to being.
1:43.8	We talk about why our personal narratives are so important. So your
1:48.2	personal narrative is how you speak to yourself. And she shares about how we can start to change
1:52.5	this and empower ourselves more. We talk about top cognitive biases that are holding you back
1:58.7	at work. And these are pretty surprising, actually.
2:02.8	These biases are things that we all have as humans that are just running in the background
2:08.3	and causing us to perceive things, you know, in incorrect ways. And if we can be aware of them,
2:15.2	we can stop them from tripping us up. And she also shares the 90-minute weekly commitment that could be a game-changer for you.
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