Advice Goddess Radio -- Tonight, 7-8pm PT, 10-11pm ET: Dr. Sian Beilock, How Not To Choke Under Pressure
Amy Alkon's Advice Goddess Radio: "Nerd Your Way To A Better Life!" with the best brains in science.
On this week's show, University of Chicago psychologist and researcher Dr. Sian Beilock explains why we choke under pressure and how we can avoid doing it.
Her book is Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To.
Join us tonight to find out how you can exhibit the sort of grace under pressure that makes for winning performances -- in life, business, sports, public speaking, and the arts.
Listen at this link at 7pm Pacific, 10pm Eastern, or download the podcast afterward:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2013/03/11/dr-sian-bielock-how-not-to-choke-under-pressure
And don't miss last week's show with psychology professor Dr. Gabrielle Principe on the science behind why the overstructured, overscheduled childhood is bad for kids and advice how to naturalize childhood again so a child's environment gels with how the brain was designed to grow.
Her clearly written and dryly witty book: Your Brain on Childhood: The Unexpected Side Effects of Classrooms, Ballparks, Family Rooms, and the Minivan.
Listen here at this link or download the podcast:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon/2013/03/04/dr-gabrielle-principe-parenting-sans-paranoia
Join me and my fascinating guests every Sunday, 7-8 p.m. Pacific Time, 10-11 p.m. Eastern Time, at blogtalkradio.com/amyalkon or subscribe on iTunes.
Enjoyable show.
Sorry you lost her for a few minutes there. It might have changed the conversation.
Jim P. at March 10, 2013 8:02 PM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/03/advice-goddess-102.html#comment-3638157">comment from Jim P.Thanks so much. And what do you mean (about the change in convo)?
Amy Alkon
at March 10, 2013 8:11 PM
The way it went was not quite the same format as usual. The norm is that the guest would present the pro description, the pro's issue, then the solution.
The way this one went is that you/her presented the pro and the issue, but really didn't present her suggested solutions until the end. And in a way they weren't really good ideas as I took them.
Essentially you two did the case studies and then showed the bookcase of pamphlets as the resolution, and none were tied directly to the case study.
Maybe it's my view. I look at everything to do my best not to have a fight/flight reflex as a condition where it is not needed. My boss walking into my office is not bad. A bad guy pulling a gun in a C-Store is -- use a reflex action.
The point is to get get a reflex action into the fight/flight choice and then from there work a decision tree.
Without reading her book, but what she said, she doesn't seem to really have a good solution on breaking that thought.
I did think her points on how the Nobel Laureate teaching freshmen physics would probably be a waste was a cogent thought. That is because I have run into a similar situation being a senior database administrator teaching a newbie. If the student doesn't slow me down, and ask questions, by the time they hit about three hours they are lost.
Jim P. at March 10, 2013 8:34 PM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/03/advice-goddess-102.html#comment-3638185">comment from Jim P.Thanks - going to consider that. But now have to lie down!
Amy Alkon
at March 10, 2013 8:38 PM
I've read Dr Beilock's book and really enjoyed it. Not only did I think the research was well-done, it was also engagingly written. I'll have to remember to download this podcast and listen to you two.
There was another one written about the same time called "Clutch" (you can find it as a link on the Amazon page for "Choke," usually) that wasn't nearly as good. More of a "pop-psych" approach, if that phrase doesn't date me too badly, than a scientific approach.
Grey Ghost at March 11, 2013 6:48 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/03/advice-goddess-102.html#comment-3638719">comment from Grey GhostThanks so much, Grey Ghost. The recommendation to do a show on Choke came from Dr. Barbara Oakley, whose opinions I respect greatly. http://www.barbaraoakley.com
Her next book is amazing -- I've read the intro and a couple of chapters. I'll do a show on it when it's out.
Amy Alkon
at March 11, 2013 8:00 AM
The Grey Ghost is a pansy, he doesnt even know what evil lurks in the hearts of men
The Shadow at March 11, 2013 12:53 PM
Thanks for posting the links. :)
Shannon M. Howell at March 12, 2013 10:54 AM
Amy, I just finished listening to the interview w/ Dr. Principe, and I thought you'd enjoy the book excerpt here http://www.findstuff2read.com/2013/excerpt-good-intentions-by-bob-zeidman/
The book is called "Good Intentions" and the excerpt is sort of the ad absurdum of the over-protective parenting/society.
Shannon M. Howell at March 12, 2013 3:08 PM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2013/03/advice-goddess-102.html#comment-3640392">comment from Shannon M. HowellThanks so much, Shannon. Sounds like something I'd be interested in.
Amy Alkon
at March 12, 2013 4:04 PM
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