S3 E8: Striving Is Bad for Your Health

The Dream

Little Everywhere

Health & Fitness, Business, Society & Culture

4.6 • 15.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Who does coaching work 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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1:01.5	Let me say it through one person, I think I call her Diane.
1:05.0	Sits at the back of the thing with me, used to work at Dell, got laid off twice, two or
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