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087 - Positive Risk with Suzy Madge - The Positive Psychology Podcast

087 - Positive Risk with Suzy Madge - The Positive Psychology Podcast

FromThe Positive Psychology Podcast - Bringing the Science of Happiness to your Earbuds with Kristen Truempy


087 - Positive Risk with Suzy Madge - The Positive Psychology Podcast

FromThe Positive Psychology Podcast - Bringing the Science of Happiness to your Earbuds with Kristen Truempy

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Length:
67 minutes
Released:
Feb 26, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

We are both terrified and fascinated with risk. Today we talk to adventurer-badass Suzy Madge who researched positive risk in ski-mountaineers but also drops out of helicopters to ski remote mountains in places like Afghanistan. Furthermore Suzy works with police forces and is therefore perfectly equipped to illuminate risk from several different perspectives. She talks about how relative the perception of risk is, why calculated risk taking is important and how high-risk situations can lead to transcendent experiences. http://www.suzymadge.com/ http://gum.co/brainwash
Released:
Feb 26, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The science of the good life? Sorry this is not about booze, sex and the contemporary flavour of Rock n’Roll. We talk about the stuff that usually only tree huggers have the courage to embrace: appreciation of beauty, positive emotions, gratitude or positive relationships. However we, that is positive psychology researchers and practitioners bury ourselves in books, set out to experiment and then write it all up in a style that is usually about as engaging as watching an avocado turn brown. And that’s the problem: if you are not an academic you probably want a little bit more excitement than pages and pages of densely written journals can provide. Even if you are an academic who has the time to read everything that is out there? So in an effort to save your eyes from become rectangular-shaped the Positive Psychology Podcast brings the science of the good life to your earbuds. Sometimes we might get quite serious too, for example when discussing topics like post-traumatic-growth or positive parenting.