It's the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

Hello, everybody. How we doing? In an era of rising perfectionism, so many of us are holding ourselves back from taking risks and running experiments because we're afraid of failing.

My guest today says that's a huge mistake, and she's got a whole framework to help you change your mindset so you can get over yourself and get over

the hump. Sue Ashford is a professor at the University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of

Business, where she focuses on helping people to be maximally effective in their work lives.

She's got a book called The Power of Flexing, How to Use Small Daily Experiments to Create Big,

Life-Changing Growth. In this conversation, we talk

about the concept of flexing what it is exactly, the pernicious role of fear and anxiety, the crucial

difference between a performance mindset and a learning mindset, practical tools for changing your

mindset, what it means to unleash your inner scientist, the importance of getting

feedback and why some people struggle asking for it, the concept of restoring, reframing negative

perspectives, why we should savor successes instead of letting them, you know, pass by and

rushing to the next thing, how to be more interpersonally successful and much more.

Just to say this is part of an occasional series we do here on the pod called Sainly Ambitious.

We've got three new episodes we're dropping this week.

Coming up on Wednesday, it's Wall Street lawyer turned popular podcaster Jordan Harbinger,

who's going to talk about how to network without being gross and many other success tips.

And then come out up on Friday. It's another great podcaster, Jonathan Fields.

But today it's Sue Ashford, and she's coming right up.

Before we get started, I just want to make sure you know about all the cool stuff we've got going on over at Dan Harris.com.

That is my new-ish online community built with substack, where paid subscribers can now listen

to this podcast ad-free.

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