How to Create Lasting Personal Change & The Best Way to Learn New Things

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Education, Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Science, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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When I smell the scent of fresh cut grass it transports me back to my childhood. It is a great smell. It also turns out to be beneficial to most people. I begin this episode by explaining the scientific benefits of smelling a freshly mowed lawn.( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1209360/Why-mowing-lawn-relieves-stressboosts-memory.html) How do you make real change in yourself and others? That’s the topic of my discussion with Joseph Grenny, a social scientist, speaker and one of the authors of a book Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change (https://amzn.to/2XADNeJ) . Joseph explains just how you can influence and change behavior so it benefits you and lasts a long time. Have you noticed when you go to a party that the more people drink – the louder the party gets? There is actually a fascinating reason why – and it has to do with your hearing. Listen as I explain. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2031886 For your entire life, you learn. Learning is how we grow and improve and find meaning in life. Yet HOW we learn is something that is seldom discussed even though it is critical to how well we learn new skills, facts and ideas. Joining me to discuss how we can all learn anything better is Bradley Staats. He is a professor at the University of North Carolina where his teaching focuses s on how to improve individual learning. He is also author of the book Never Stop Learning: Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive (https://amzn.to/2ImJYN3). This Week's Sponsors -Lively. For $10 off your first order go to www.WearLively.com/something and use promo code: something -LinkedIn. To get $50 off your first job post, go to www.LinkedIn.com/podcast -Capterra. To find the best software solutions for your business for free, go to www.Capterra.com/something -Stroke of Genius Podcast. Subscribe to Stroke of Genius on Apple Podcasts, at www.ipoef.org, or your favorite podcast platform -Fab Fit Fun. To get $10 off your first Fab Fit Fun box go to www.FabFitFun.com and use promo code: something Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on Something You Should Know, do you love the smell of freshly-mode grass?
0:07.8	You should, and I'll tell you why.
0:10.2	Then how to make significant and lasting behavior changes.
0:14.3	You don't change your behavior by taking control of your behavior.
0:18.3	You change it by taking control of the things that control your behavior.
0:21.9	And there are many things that do, many things that shape it, and if you're unconscious of
0:25.3	them, then you're out of control.
0:26.9	Plus, have you ever noticed that cocktail parties get louder and louder the more people drink alcohol?
0:33.6	I'll tell you why that is.
0:35.4	And how to learn anything new in a meaningful and lasting way.
0:40.1	There's real value as we try to learn new things of kind of pushing ourselves past the point of knowing.
0:47.6	In other words, it's not just barely learning the material, but keep reinforcing it, whatever that is.
0:52.8	But this idea of practice, practice, practice.
0:55.7	All this today on Something You Should Know.
1:00.3	You know, I'm always a little hesitant to recommend a podcast because everybody's tastes are different,
1:05.4	but one podcast I recommend a lot is The Jordan Harbanger Show.
1:10.8	Jordan dives into the minds of fascinating people, athletes, authors, scientists, mobsters,
1:16.4	spies, and he does it in his own unique way.
1:19.9	Occasionally, we have the same guests, but our conversations usually go in very different directions.
1:27.1	A couple of recent episodes of The Jordan Harbanger Show I bet you like are Dr. Scott Lianns.
1:33.3	Talking about your addiction or some people's addiction to drama.
1:37.2	We all have people like that in our lives, and it's really helpful to hear Dr. Lianns inside into
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