The Life-Changing Magic of Actually Doing Stuff - Start 2025 Right

01/03/25 • 22 min

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Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of Self-Improvement

Stop Dreaming, Start Doing - Action is more important than planning.

We are increasingly addicted to planning yet more and more allergic to doing.

Get your ducks in a row this year as we learn about the psychology behind our goals and dreams and what it takes to knuckle down, make some hard decisions and start taking action.

We discuss some key concepts:

What is our real work
The problem with motivation and aspirations
Waiting for life to blow us in the right direction
4 Burners theory

Sam also shares his own results, including the failures and successes behind taking bigger leaps and focusing on your main goals.

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Growth Mindset Psychology:

Sam Webster explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.

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Chapters:

00:00 Amateur vs Professional goal-seeking

00:38 Growth Minded ambition vs Fixed Minded

01:07 The trap of 'find your calling'

02:29 The real work behind your calling

03:21 "When I feel like it" - means "never"

04:36 Writing as a hobby or a profession

06:16 Podcasting at professional quality

08:12 Making your own path

10:26 Sam's results and reflections

14:40 4 Burners Hypothesis

16:26 Questions to stop dreaming and start doing

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Stop Dreaming, Start Doing - Action is more important than planning.

We are increasingly addicted to planning yet more and more allergic to doing.

Get your ducks in a row this year as we learn about the psychology behind our goals and dreams and what it takes to knuckle down, make some hard decisions and start taking action.

We discuss some key concepts:

What is our real work
The problem with motivation and aspirations
Waiting for life to blow us in the right direction
4 Burners theory

Sam also shares his own results, including the failures and successes behind taking bigger leaps and focusing on your main goals.

Upgrade to Premium:

🏖️ Ad-free listening

🤘 Support the show

🔓 Exclusive AMAs and bonus content

💬 Community Discord

GrowthMindset.Supercast.com

Sponsors:

🎇 Constant Wonder - The podcast for questioning why

Explorations of wonder and awe in science, art, & history

🐏 Unbound Merino - Highest quality Merino wool clothing

10% off with code 'PSYCHOLOGY'
UnboundMerino.com

Get in Touch

👋 Free Call - Schedule Link - https://cal.com/samwebster/mindset

📧 Email - GrowthMindsetPodcast (@) gmail,com

Growth Mindset Psychology:

Sam Webster explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.

📺 Watch - YouTube (Growth Mindset)

🛜 Website - Growth Mindset

Chapters:

00:00 Amateur vs Professional goal-seeking

00:38 Growth Minded ambition vs Fixed Minded

01:07 The trap of 'find your calling'

02:29 The real work behind your calling

03:21 "When I feel like it" - means "never"

04:36 Writing as a hobby or a profession

06:16 Podcasting at professional quality

08:12 Making your own path

10:26 Sam's results and reflections

14:40 4 Burners Hypothesis

16:26 Questions to stop dreaming and start doing

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Previous Episode

10 Powerful Stoic Questions: Review Your Year and Refocus your Life

What does it mean to live a good life?

The Stoics were the masters of asking the right questions to focus the mind on what's important.

At the year's end, it's a perfect time to reflect on who you've been this year and who you want to be going forward.

We juggle multiple priorities and hectic demands, so it's easy to get lost in the day-to-day. Today's episode will combine Psychology with Stoicism as we ask the most important questions we can of ourselves to help direct our lives in the direction we want them to take.

Topics include:

Turning obstacles into opportunity
Overcoming the fears that hold us back
Simplifying our life
Walking the walk
Taking control of our responsibilities.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul: Inner peace comes from self-awareness and reflection"

Upgrade to Premium:

🏖️ Ad-free listening

🤘 Support the show

🔓 Exclusive AMAs and bonus content

💬 Community Discord

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Sponsors:

🎇 Constant Wonder - The podcast for questioning why

Explorations of wonder and awe in science, art, & history

🐏 Unbound Merino - Highest quality Merino wool clothing

10% off with code 'PSYCHOLOGY'
UnboundMerino.com

Get in Touch

👋 Free Call - Schedule Link - https://cal.com/samwebster/mindset

📧 Email - GrowthMindsetPodcast (@) gmail,com

Growth Mindset Psychology:

Sam Webster explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement.

📺 Watch - YouTube (Growth Mindset)

🛜 Website - Growth Mindset

Chapters:

00:00 Connecting Stoic wisdom and growth mindsets

02:36 Am I Practicing What I Preach?

03:59 How can I simplify my life to focus on what's important?

06:02 Will this matter in one year or five years time?

08:20 What is within my control?

10:18 How can I turn obstacles into opportunities?

14:17 What fears are holding me back?

15:32 How am I contributing to my own dissatisfaction?

17:01 To be or to do?

18:34 Are you doing your job?

19:41 What would it mean to live a good life today?

21:13 Send off

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Next Episode

What Are The Top 5 Reasons People Fail To Achieve Their Goals

The psychology of beating procrastination, inaction, and confusion that lets you systematically work towards any goal.

Goal setting is easy - Goal achieving is a very different thing.

We dig into the main causes and the often small but subtle tweaks we can make that keep us in check.

Using ideas from psychology and ancient wisdom we see how humans have dealt with the big hairy ambitious goals over history and how you can too:

Task Initiation Paralysis - Shows us how Charles Darwin overcame the most complex tasks in history.
Ulysses Contracts - Teaches us how Victor Hugo wrote the timeless Hunchback of Notre Dame ahead of schedule by engineering his environment.
Effective vs Fluffy Intentions - How psychologists helped heart surgery patients double their success rates through a simple sentence change.

Sam also lists some of the most effective resources and tools you can access to stay on track to beat the common problems we face.

This episode carries on the mini-series on goals and achievement: