Dr. Wendy Suzuki: Good Anxiety

FranklinCovey On Leadership with Scott Miller

FranklinCovey

Business, Management

4.9 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Learn how to turn anxiety into a force for good with Dr. Wendy Suzuki, a neuroscientist and professor at NYU. Dr. Suzuki joins On Leadership to share insights from her book Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion, discussing how anxiety is a normal human emotion that exists on a spectrum, and how we can harness the "good" aspects of anxiety to become more productive and empathetic. She shares practical tips like turning anxious "what-if" thoughts into a to-do list, as well as the benefits of physical activity in managing anxiety.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Franklin Covey's Twice Weekly podcast on leadership with Scott Miller.
0:15.7	Six years, 450 plus episodes taped, and I'm honored to serve as your host and interviewer on Tuesdays and
0:21.7	Fridays, where each week, twice weekly, we curate great conversations with some of the
0:26.4	world's most influential researchers, academics, and thought leaders to make you a better
0:31.3	leader. Franklin Covey, of course, the world's most trusted leadership firm, loves to shine their
0:36.4	spotlight on people that can actually
0:39.9	improve your life.
0:41.4	Today, our guest is Dr. Wendy Suzuki.
0:44.2	She wrote the book Good Anxiety, Finally, Good Anxiety, Harnessing the Power of the Most
0:52.0	Misunderstood Emotion. Dr. Suzuki serves as the Dean of the most misunderstood emotion.
0:55.0	Dr. Suzuki serves as the Dean of Arts and Science at NYU.
0:59.0	She is an acclaimed neuroscientist and a professor as well.
1:04.0	Dr. Suzuki, welcome to On Leadership.
1:07.0	Thank you so much, Scott. So great to meet you.
1:10.0	It is great to have you here.
1:12.5	Let's see. I'd like you to rewind a couple of decades. You have had a phenomenal academic
1:16.9	and professional career, and I always find, prior talking about your research, it's great for
1:23.2	people to understand. You started where and what happened and then you did what? And would you
1:27.1	take a couple of minutes, literally, and maybe walk us through you were born and then what happened?
1:34.3	And then I went to college. In the very first day of my freshman year I walked into a course called
1:41.3	the brain and its potential and it changed my life because the professor
1:46.2	at the front of that classroom invented, discovered, I should say, brain plasticity in the 1960s.
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