Gabriele Oettingen

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2015

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to Gabriele Oettingen about rethinking positive thinking.

Gabriele Oettingen is a Professor of Psychology at New York University and the University of Hamburg. She is the author of more than a 100 articles and book chapters on thinking about the future and the control of cognition, emotion, and behavior. She received her Ph.D. from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen, Germany.
Her major contribution to the field is research on the perils of positive thinking and on Mental Contrasting, a self-regulation technique that is effective for mastering one’s everyday life and long-term development. Gabriele Oettingen’s work is published in social and personality psychology, developmental and educational psychology, in health and clinical psychology, in organizational and consumer psychology, as well as in neuropsychological and medical journals. Her findings contribute to the burgeoning literature on life style change and businesses and institutions have increasingly become interested in the application of her research.
Her first trade book, RETHINKING POSITIVE THINKING: Inside the New Science of Motivation was published in October 2014.

In This Interview Gabriele and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable.
How positive thinking can lead to worse results.
How just fantasizing makes it less likely that those fantasies come true.
What mental contrasting is.
Using mental contrasting to increase your likelihood of success.
How envisioning our obstacles can make us more likely to achieve the goals.
What implementation intention is and how to use it in your life.
The WOOP method- Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan.
Using WOOP to bring about success in our lives.
How WOOP works on the unconscious mind.
Eric gets WOOP'ed.

Gabriele Oettingen Links
Woop Main Site
Rethinking Positive Thinking Book
Gabrielle Oettingen Homepage

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0:00.0	you can use positive attitudes to kind of explore in your mind the possibilities of the future.
0:15.6	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:17.6	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:22.2	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:27.7	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:32.0	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:36.7	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:39.6	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:43.0	But it's not just about thinking.
0:45.0	Our actions matter.
0:46.5	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:51.3	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:55.8	how they feed their good wolf.
1:10.3	Hi, it's Elvis Jaran.
1:11.6	On my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Jaran.
1:15.1	I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks
1:19.4	of life. We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life,
1:24.7	love, success, failure, whatever else comes to mind.
1:26.3	But I'll jacked up because after being in this business for as long as I have,
1:30.2	I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.
1:32.7	And listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the iHeartRadio app,
1:37.2	Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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