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Episode 047: Bye bye 2022 - recap of key themes
It's been a minute hasn't it? I summarise my favourite themes for the year from the podcast. Hope you'll join me for it. And hang out for the discount code for the empathic discipline course if you want 'stress-less'...
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Episode 046: Why psychiatry sucks. And why it's awesome.
In this episode I share my thoughts about what is wrong with psychiatry and what is right about it.
I hope it helps prospective students and trainees who want to pursue a career in psychiatry.
By the way...stay till...
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Episode 045: Mental models to help you stretch yourself
Episode 044: Parents vs. Doctors. Who is right?
These thoughts are my own. They are my opinion and doesn't constitute medical advice. I share my biased opinion here to generate discussion.
Who gets to make decisions about healthcare?...should it not be patients...
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Episode 043: Simplicity for maximum awesomeness
Simplicity is not basic, but it's basically how we get to awesomeness. Any high level activity or skill requires a deep understanding of fundamental ideas that must be grasped at an advanced level in order to gain...
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Episode 042: Decision fatigue...it's a thing
Another one from my drive home.
This time, decision fatigue...
You feel exhausted and you don't know why. Well you probably do but some people actually don't know.
What are the signs of decision fatigue? How do you...
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Episode 041: The art of learning stuff...simple but not easy
The process of learning is not straight forward. I'm sure anyone reading this who has any experience working on skill acquisition will know the frustration of hitting walls and plateaus in training or learning. The...
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Episode 040: Rando questions from kids that you don't know how to answer!
Me answering parent questions...this time...what if your kids ask you something you can't answer? also...check out...our course which helps you use what you've got to improve your kids emotional discipline...
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Episode 039: Worried about spoiling your kids? Money, entitlement and the power of story.
How do we not spoil our kids? Join me in this conversation with Evana Lithgow - a psychologist and who I consider an expert in helping families with the job of transferring and transition of wealth. Who better than to...
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Episode 038: What is happiness?
Another drive to work episode.
Thoughts about what it means to be happy.
It's not just about the absence of unhappiness.
I talk about external vs internal loci of control; reversion to the mean; values; and things...
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Episode 037: What am I worth?
What is my value? What is my worth?
If you're interested, come and hang out with me on my drive to work (not literally) and I hope that the things I say on this episode will help you work through these important...
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Episode 036: Why intuition might not help you in a zombie apocalypse!
Zombies and Bayes Theorem. What?!
Okay, bear with me. Sometimes, our intuition leads us into perilous situations.
Our brains try to be helpful...but because of mental shortcuts...it doesn't always work out so well for...
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