HeyJaredThe Connection Effect with Bill Groner
In an era of extraordinary division, we often focus on winning arguments rather than building understanding. But what if the key to our future as a society isn't about who is right, but about how we best connect with one another.
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The Aftershow: #14 The Mattering Instinct (with Rebecca Goldstein) (opens the original)
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In this aftershow episode of The Connection Effect, host Bill Groner reflects on his recent conversation with philosopher Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. Bill is joined by three fellow alumni of the University of Pennsylvania Master of Applied Positive Psychology program: Harry Hofer (Executive Coach), Sonya Looney (World Champion Athlete and Performance Coach), and Ilene Schaffer (Executive Coach). While the main episode laid out Rebecca's "mattering map" in theoretical detail, this conversation —
#14 The Mattering Instinct (with Rebecca Goldstein) (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Connection Effect, Bill Groner sits down with philosopher, novelist, and MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, whose new book, The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us, distills over 40 years spent asking people one question: what makes you feel like your life counts? Rebecca's answer is the "mattering map" — a framework for the different ways we try to earn a sense of mattering, whether through the people in our lives, something tra
The Aftershow: #13 Putting a Number on Happiness (with John Helliwell) (opens the original)
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In this aftershow episode of The Connection Effect, host Bill Groner reflects on his recent conversation with economist John Helliwell on the World Happiness Report. Bill is joined by three fellow alumni of the University of Pennsylvania Master of Applied Positive Psychology program: Harry Hofer (Executive Coach), Ava Shahi (Talent Development, ALO), and Gaia Uman Borrero (Operations Manager). While the main episode explored what the World Happiness Report has learned about trust, generosity, in
#13 Putting a Number on Happiness (with John Helliwell) (opens the original)
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How do you put a number on something like happiness? For John Helliwell, it starts with one deceptively simple question: on a scale of zero to ten, how would you rate your life today? In this episode of The Connection Effect, Bill Groner sits down with John Helliwell , an economist, Rhodes Scholar, and a founding editor of the World Happiness Report. Helliwell spent his early career in the traditional lanes of economics before discovering, in his words, data "economics had been waiting for two c
#12 Special Episode: Practicing Curiosity on a Divisive Topic (with Dan Levin) (opens the original)
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Can you really understand someone's reasoning on a hot-button issue without agreeing with it? In this special edition of The Connection Effect, Bill Groner sits down with Dan Levin — an attorney who has spent decades inside the highest levels of American power, including chief of staff to FBI Director Robert Mueller (starting on 9/11), chief of staff to Attorney General Bill Barr at the Department of Justice, senior associate counsel to President Bush, and legal advisor to the National Security
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