Patrick Fagan
Behavioural scientist, bestselling author, and consultant on influence and psychology. Spent a year doing something new every week to study novelty's effects on happiness and memory.
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Their segments in this episode (18)
- committing to 52 new things and planning challenges
- extending hobbies and pushing beyond comfort
- highlights from cults to cuddle workshops
- how teams and leaders can apply these principles
- incrementalism how to start your own experiment
- introducing patrick fagan and his year of 52 new things
- job swaps and the problem with forced socials
- joining two cults and the liberation of breaking social rules
- letting go of control with a little help from chatgpt
- pleasure vs purpose why struggle creates meaning
- psychics acupuncture and forced reflection
- the back to office debate through a novelty lens
- the marvels framework for experience design
- the melting hug and other takeaways
- the science of experiences vs material things
- top 3 takeaways for leaders
- was patrick actually happier after a year of novelty
- why patrick started his 52 week experiment