How to stop self-deception and narrow minded thinking

Published: Aug. 18, 2023, 8 a.m.

Self-deception and narrow-minded thinking are not only things that happen around us all the time but creep into our own way of thinking.\nThe book "Leadership and self-deception" explains how to break out of inward thinking and develop an outward mindset to help improve your relationships and results at work and at home\nHeather Adams of the Harbinger Institute joins the Growth mindset podcast to explain how they coach leaders to develop an outward mindset for themselves and their employees.\nThis is an insightful episode on the practicalities of humility and empathy and how to uncover our own lies and become aware of our own psychology and flaws.\n- - -\n\nOn the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we explore the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.\nThrough a process of honest self-reflection of what is holding us back and what is driving us forward, we can lose the ego and build awareness of how to be the best we can be.\n- - -\nConnect with Sam Webster Harris\n\U0001f9d8\u200d\u2640\ufe0f Newsletter: https://explosivethinking.substack.com/\n\U0001f426 Twitter: https://twitter.com/samjamharris\n\U0001f4f8 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samjam.zen/\n- - -\nStay up to date: \U0001f913\U0001f913\U0001f913\n\U0001f4a1 Podsite: https://www.growthmindsetpodcast.com/\nEpic books on growth \U0001f4da\U0001f4da\U0001f410\n\U0001f3c3\u200d\u2640\ufe0f Atomic Habits: https://amzn.to/3O1F5MC\n\U0001f9e0 Mindset, psychology of success: https://amzn.to/42nYDzj\n\U0001f4b0 Psychology of Money: https://amzn.to/3nNnXzs\n- - -\nShow: Growth Mindset, psychology of self-improvement\nEpisode: How to stop self-deception and narrow-minded thinking - the outward mindset\n00:00 Empathy and honesty\n01:30 The harbinger institute and Heather Adams\n02:40 Why we focus on ourselves\n09:05 The benefit of learning from others\n12:17 The flaws of an Outward Mindset\n16:27 How to use meditation\n19:18 ADVERT \n20:23 Cycling backward brain processing psychology experiment on youtube\n30:35 Scientific research in mindsets\n30:51 ADVERT\n32:40 Military hospital scientific research experiment of mindsets\n34:00 Inward mindset styles\n39:46 The role of mindsets for business and startup founders\n43:27 Lessons from the psychology of Mindsets interview\n\nTopics\nLeadership and self-deception, Inward and outward mindset, Fixed and growth mindset, psychology of mindset and self-improvement, Building empathy in relationships, Qualities of a leader, Fixing relationships, The biggest problems for teams, Uncovering the ego, building awareness, the science of meditation, how to get benefits from meditation, the benefit of coaching for companies, business coaching, leadership coaching, relationship coaching, positive thinking, Harbinger Institute,\n\n \nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices