How to Be Awesome at Your Job

Chris Duffy discusses how to find the humor in anything—and why that’s important in the workplace.

— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why to take humor seriously at work
2) The simple habit that makes you more magnetic
3) How to find humor in the most unlikely places

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— ABOUT CHRIS —
Chris Duffy is an award-winning comedian, television writer, and radio/podcast host. Chris currently hosts the hit podcast How to Be a Better Human. You can watch his comedic TED talk, “How to find laughter anywhere” online. He has appeared on Good Morning America, ABC News, NPR, and National Geographic Explorer.
Chris wrote for both seasons of Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas on HBO, executive produced by John Oliver. He’s the creator/host of the streaming game show Wrong Answers Only, where three comedians try to understand what a leading scientist does all day, in partnership with LabX at the National Academy of Sciences.
Chris is both a former fifth grade teacher and a former fifth grade student.
• Book: Humor Me: How Laughing More Can Make You Present, Creative, Connected, and Happy
• Website: ChrisDuffyComedy.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• App: 7 Minute Workout
• Study: “The effect of a pratfall on increasing interpersonal attractiveness.” by E. Aronson, B. Willerman, and J. Floyd
• App: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

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Ashley Herd illuminates under-taught manager skills required of leaders.

— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How build trust with your employees from day one
2) Simple ways to make meetings more effective
3) The key question that helps accelerate your career

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— ABOUT ASHLEY —
Ashley Herd is the founder of Manager Method, a leadership training organization that helps managers drive performance without driving people out the door. A former General Counsel and Head of HR with experience at organizations including McKinsey and Yum! Brands, she’s also a LinkedIn Learning instructor and co-host of the "HR Besties" podcast. Ashley is the author of The Manager Method, and is known for giving practical tools that make leadership feel human and doable.
• Book: The Manager Method: A Practical Framework to Lead, Support, and Get Results
• Website: ManagerMethod.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: A Separate Piece by John Knowles

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Nilofer Merchant debunks some of the pervasive beliefs and practices that keep us from succeeding at work.

— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Striking examples of how hidden norms limit us
2) Why you owe it to yourself to play office politics
3) The mindset that creates more win-win solutions

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— ABOUT NILOFER —
Nilofer Merchant spent over 25 years leading technology companies (Apple, Autodesk, GoLive/Adobe) and personally launched over 100 products and services, netting $18 billion in revenues. She is ranked among the top 50 influential management thinkers in the world (one of her TED Talks has been referenced 300 million times). Our Best Work is her 4th book.
• Book: The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy
• Book: Our Best Work: Break Free from the 24 Invisible Norms That Limit Us
• Website: NiloferMerchant.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver

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Mark Divine reveals his strategies for forging mental clarity, focus, and resilience at an elite level.

— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to fix your broken attention span
2) A simple 20-second breathing protocol for resetting your nervous system
3) How to fuel extreme motivation

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— ABOUT MARK —
Mark Divine is a former Navy SEAL Commander, entrepreneur, and NYT Bestselling author with PhD in Global Leadership and Change who has dedicated his life to unlocking human potential through integrated training in mental toughness, leadership, and physical readiness.
He owns and runs the SEALFIT Training Center in San Diego, California where he trains thousands of professional athletes, military professionals, SWAT, First Responders, SOF candidates and everyday people looking to build strength and character.
• App: Unbeatable Mind Box Breathing
• Book: Unbeatable Mind: Forge Resiliency and Mental Toughness to Succeed at an Elite Level
• Training Program: UnbeatableMind.com
• Website: MarkDivine.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship) by Paramahansa Yogananda
• Book: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

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Nir Eyal provides research-proven strategies for tackling the biggest restraint in our lives: our beliefs.

— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Striking examples of the power of our beliefs
2) How to make the most of placebos
3) Three tools for challenging your limiting beliefs

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— ABOUT NIR —
Nir Eyal writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and human potential. He previously taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. He is the author of the international bestsellers Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products andIndistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, which have sold over 1 million copies in more than 30 languages. Indistractable received critical acclaim, winning the Outstanding Works of Literature Award and being named among the best business and personal development books of the year by Amazon, Audible, and The Globe and Mail. His third book, Beyond Belief, reveals how to identify and replace the hidden beliefs that define our limits. As an active angel investor, Nir has backed multi-billion-dollar companies that implement his methodologies, including Canva, Kahoot!, and others. In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, his writing has been featured in The New York Times and Harvard Business Review, and he is a regular contributor to Psychology Today.
• Book: Beyond Belief: The Science-Backed Way to Stop Limiting Yourself and Achieve Breakthrough Results
• Website: NirAndFar.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Study: “On the Phenomenon of Sudden Death in Animals and Man” by Curt P. Richter
• Study: “Anabolic steroids: the physiological effects of placebos” by Ariel Gideon and William Saville
• Study: “Cognitive influence on the evaluation of wine: The impact and assessment of price” by Charles Spence
• Study: “Longevity increased by positive self-perceptions of aging” by Becca R. Levy, Martin D. Slade, Suzanne R. Kunkel, and Stanislav V. Kasl
• Book: All Marketers are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works--and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All by Seth Godin
• Book: Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense by Rory Sutherland
• Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

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