Ep.87 - Reboot Guest episode with Dr Brock Bastian

2024-03-15

In this reboot episode from 2021, The Occupational Philosophers chat with Dr. Brock Bastian - Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne. Brock is a social psychologist whose research focuses on pain, happiness, and morality. His book, The Other Side of Happiness, was published in January 2018. Brock completed his PhD in 2007 and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters since then. His work has been featured in outlets such as The Economist, The New Yorker, TIME, New Scientist, Scientific American, Harvard Bu...

His book, The Other Side of Happiness, was published in January 2018.

Brock completed his PhD in 2007 and has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters since then.

His work has been featured in outlets such as The Economist, The New Yorker, TIME, New Scientist, Scientific American, Harvard Business Review, and The Huffington Post, among many others.

He has delivered popular talks, such as at TEDx StKilda, The Ethics Centre Sydney, and Effective Altruism Australia; and appeared on radio shows such as The Minefield.

In this episode, they explore:

Why pain is good for us
How believing in the role luck plays in life allows you to take more risks
How being curious is really important in managing our emotional world
Why leaders need to share their failures more often
What helps teams build trust
How to lead organisations through tough times

As always, there are some great thought experiments such as:

Guess the source of my pain
Defend, Live, Party! What hybrid animal would you choose?

Links

http://www.brockbastian.com

http://www.brockbastian.com/book/the-other-side-of-happiness

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/aboutus/news/2021/september/lego-rebuild-the-world-2021

https://tim.blog/2021/09/08/henry-shukman/

What Human Animal Hybrid would you rather fight/hang out with/have at home? Read his article https://theconversation.com/wary-of-human-animal-hybrids-its-probably-just-your-own-moral-superiority-72720

https://www.adamgrant.net/book/think-again

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JOHN: https://www.bowlandconsulting.com/

SIMON: www.simonbanks.com.au

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