Today’s guest is Caroline Webb, CEO of Sevenshift, Senior Advisor to McKinsey and author of How to Have a Good Day.
Caroline is CEO of Sevenshift, a firm that shows people how to use insights from behavioral science to improve their working life. Her book on that topic, How To Have A Good Day, is being published in 16 languages and more than 60 countries. She is also a Senior Advisor to McKinsey, where she was previously a Partner.
Listen in as we discuss ways to improve our performance, the power of implementation intentions, and how to overcome and harness our stress and anxiety in daily life.
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“There are really only a few things you need in your toolkit at the end of the day, you just need to find the ones that really work for you.” – Caroline Webb
Show Notes:
- How Caroline’s economics teacher guided her towards behavioral science
- How science has shaped Caroline’s work, and will shape it in the future
- The three basic tenets of “How to Have a Good Day”
- Why the simplicity of the science made a better book
- The biggest recent developments in how we understand our performance
- The importance of setting our intentions
- What could be a more positive assumption?
- The power of implementation intentions
- Why multitasking takes more energy and creates a worse result
- The simple exercise that shows the efficiency of single tasking
- Why taking walks increases brainpower and reduces stress
- How to reframe perceived threats into challenges, and why it works
- How to gain awareness of unconscious emotional cues
- Why you could substitute generosity for your morning caffeine
“Get yourself focused on what’s possible and what’s positive in the situation you have.” – Caroline Webb
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