Advice Goddess Radio, LIVE Tonight, 7-8pm PT, 10-11pm ET: Dr. Edward Slingerland On Why The Key To Charisma And Success Is Not Trying Too Hard
Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in therapy and research.
On tonight's show, science gets together with ancient Chinese philosophy and it likes what it finds.
Dr. Edward Slingerland, an internationally renowned expert in Chinese philosophy, draws on both cutting-edge science and ancient Chinese strategies to show how our modern Western approach of striving our guts out doesn't seem to be the way to success or happiness.
In fact, to give one example from his book, it seems that getting practiced enough in something that it comes naturally is the way to avoid forcing things in the moment -- which is actually counterproductive to succeeding.
Dr. Slingerland will talk about this, how achieving that sort of effortlessness is the way to personal charisma, and much more on tonight's show. His book he'll be discussing is "Trying Not To Try: The Art And Science of Spontaneity." Join us and see how we can better our work, relationships, and lives - - if we can just get out of our own way.
Listen at this link from 7-8 pm Pacific, 10-11 pm Eastern, or download the podcast afterward:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2014/03/17/dr-edward-slingerland-why-the-key-to-charisma-success-is-not-trying-too-hard
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Don't miss last week's show with an evolutionary (and revolutionary) understanding of depression -- its causes and possible solutions.
We have a depression epidemic in this country, now affecting more than 15% of the population, and it's striking people at younger and younger ages. It seems clear that our current modes of understanding and treating depression just aren't working.
My guest, psychologist Dr. Jonathan Rottenberg, draws on research to show why we are failing to help depression sufferers and turns to our evolutionary roots to offer a nuanced understanding of why we get depressed, explaining why our modern environment's mismatch with our evolved psychology can drag us depression. All of this leads to insights on how we might help depression sufferers get better, or, at the very least, not lead them to feel defective and broken because they are depressed.
His inspiring and scientifically rigorous book we'll be discussing tonight is The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic.
Listen at this link or download the podcast:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2014/03/10/dr-jonathan-rottenberg-on-depression-an-evolutionary-understanding
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