Show notes

“You can’t pour from an empty cup”...but what if your cup isn’t empty?

From misreading your cup to questioning learned helplessness, Erica and Erin go beyond individual self-care and discuss the messy (mostly) terrifying context of today’s world—shrinking rights, disappearing resources, and structural chaos–and how we might think about cups in a way that generates some much-needed hope.

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Links & Resources

Arley Nevar’s amazing LinkedIn post

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/arleynevar_i-had-an-interaction-in-the-dms-this-week-activity-7376639338253619200-zupb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAWXISsBrgKoYLsfVHpibEEVDt026Lp2JOQ

Follow Arley Nevar on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arleynevar/

Two of the most recycled pieces of advice—“Get out of your comfort zone” and “Stay in your lane”—sound helpful on the surface. Push yourself! Focus! Hustle! Specialize!

When these concepts collide, the absurdity becomes obvious.

Erin and Erica analyze two cliches that seem at odds, but that also define a new reality in the tension that lives between them.

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Show Notes & Links Selective Attention

https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/neuroscience/selective-attention

The Neuroscience of the Flow State

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.645498/full

Cognitive Load During Problem Solving

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1207/s15516709cog1202_4

What does “work hard, play hard” really mean and why won’t it die?

In this episode of Trash Talk, Erica and Erin sit down with Meghan French Dunbar, author and co-founder of Conscious Company Media, to unpack the cultural myth of “work hard, play hard.”

Drawing on Meghan’s new book, “This isn’t Working,” this conversation explores how play has been commodified, as well as why, despite our best efforts, hustle culture from decades ago still sneaks into modern work.

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Show Notes & Links

Buy Megan’s Book, “This Isn’t Working”

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/meghan-french-dunbar/this-isnt-working/9781541704862/

Visit Megan’s Website https://www.meghanfrenchdunbar.com/

Subscript to Megan’s podcast, “Better Than This”

https://www.meghanfrenchdunbar.com/betterthanthis

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Citations

John Morison, Religious Improvement of the Poorer Classes, London: Fisher, Son & Jackson, 1827, p. 277.

The Normal Instructor and Teachers’ World, Vol. 32, 1923, p. 92.

Quoted in The Rotarian, Vol. 77, No. 3, Sept. 1950, p. 35.