Growth Mindset Psychology
Exploring psychology and beyond for practical tools and actionable lessons.
Sam Webster Harris dives through the curious sides of science and questions common advice to find greater wisdom.
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Nov. 15, 2024
How To Increase Your Intelligence and Become A Deep Thinker
5 practices to adopt and 3 habits to avoid that will build your mental clarity and decision making
Nov. 22, 2024
How To Gracefully Deal With Life Problems
A 3 part decision framework to understand and solve any frustration
Dec. 3, 2024
How To Be More Interesting
The surprising techniques to be more yourself - that also make you more interesting
Dec. 13, 2024
The Psychology of FOMO - Why it's Getting Worse and What To Do About It
Modern technology amplifies our fear and emotions. FOMO is on the rise.
Dec. 17, 2024
Self-Help Vs. Real-Help: How to Actually Improve Your Life
What does psychology say about the role of information in building wisdom and lasting change?
Dec. 31, 2024
10 Powerful Stoic Questions: Review Your Year and Refocus your Life
What does it mean to life a good life?
Jan. 3, 2025
The Life-Changing Magic of Actually Doing Stuff - Get 2025 Started Right
Stop Dreaming, Start Doing - Action is more important than planning
Jan. 24, 2025
16 Strange But Beautiful Paradoxes in Life (The hidden keys to fulfilment)
What If Everything You Knew About Success Was Backward?
Jan. 31, 2025
Ego and the Prisoner of Success: 3 Steps to Build Silent Confidence
Insecurity Screams, Confidence Whispers - Lessons from "Ego is the Enemy" that we can apply to real life
Feb. 7, 2025
5 Science-Backed Ways to Stop Disappointing Yourself - Live Gracefully
76% of people regularly break promises to themselves - Why do we keep letting ourselves down?
Recent Episodes
Oct. 26, 2026
A Simple Framework for Solving Any Problem in Your Life
Practical tools for problem-solving, decision-making, and building resilience when life feels complicated. Simply put, You don’t need a better life. You need a better way to deal with the one you’ve got. Most problems feel huge because we meet them all at once. A difficult decision, a relationship issue, money stress, a career wobble—they arrive tangled together, and your brain treats the whole knot as one emergency. This episode gives you a simple framework for solving problems without spira
Oct. 22, 2026
Designing Your Ambition Around A Life You Enjoy - w/ David Meltzer
Rethinking success and our approach to money, happiness and breaking free from a scarcity mindset. You’ve upgraded your goals, your workload and possibly your spreadsheet. Has anyone remembered to upgrade your enjoyment? This episode asks whether your approach to success is delivering a better life or merely a longer to-do list. David Meltzer joins Growth Mindset Psychology to discuss gratitude, priorities and the expectations we place on money. You’ll explore why “enough” can remain frustrat
Oct. 19, 2026
How to Enjoy Your Imperfect Life
Simple mindset shifts to build more gratitude, without reworking your entire personality. We imagine success as a destination where the problems finally stop. But the life we want brings its own friction: the garden needs tending, meaningful work fills the inbox, and intimacy means sharing life with another imperfect person. If we only notice the friction, we can miss the strange fact that some of our frustrations belong to things we once hoped for. This episode considers gratitude as a shift
Oct. 15, 2026
What Your Relationship With Food Is Trying to Tell You - w/ Toni Maranucci
A dietitian explains how to stop food guilt, break the diet-binge cycle, and build habits that last
Oct. 12, 2026
AMA: Accountability and Procrastination, Lasting Enthusiasm and Auditory Processing Issues
Why we procrastinate, lose enthusiasm and struggle to process spoken information—and what actually helps. In this listener AMA, I answer three questions: how auditory processing difficulties affect a child’s willingness to learn, why enthusiasm disappears even when nothing is objectively wrong, and how to stop procrastinating on projects that matter. I share my own experience of struggling with spoken instructions, language learning and getting a podcast off the ground. We look at why “just try
Oct. 8, 2026
How to Make Your Ideas Survive a Changing World
What evolution can teach us about building ideas that adapt, grow and last
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