Ep. 14: Agency
Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson
English - April 09, 2018 18:09 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness Education Self-Improvement mindfulness meditation self-help self improvement well being brain mind heart psychology practical psychology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
On today’s episode of the Being Well Podcast, Dr. Hanson begins a new focus on the fourth of the twelve strengths he’ll be covering throughout this series: Grit. Particularly, this episode explores how to grow agency – an aspect of grit where we feel like a cause rather than an effect.
Timestamps:
0:30: What is grit?
0:50: How does physical grit support psychological grit?
4:45: Can we grow grit?
5:45: Why agency is important for growing grit.
6:45: How agency fights against “learned helplessness.”
9:30: How can we “unlearn” learned helplessness?
16:10: What can we do when we ACTUALLY are helpless?
18:00: Being realistic about the amount of power we have over our lives.
19:30: Finding small ways to express agency.
21:00: Focusing on causes rather than effects.
24:55: Recap.