In this episode, we talk about Maike’s desire to help driven individuals, leaders, and organisations to flourish. We talk about mental health being so much more than the inexistence of mental illness and how Positive Psychology has gone through multiple waves to reach its current state. Maike shares with us some of the many benefits of this discipline in psychology and we elaborate on self-leadership, self-knowledge and what you need to thrive and flourish. We talk about why there is so much more to setting goals than making them SMART and together, we dismantle motivation and give a perspective that may help you to find some more of it. If you want to live a perfect life according to your terms, the first step is to figure out those terms and gain self-knowledge. We discuss the difference of internal and external assessments of your strengths and why it is so important to be aware of them. Maike explains how your values are acting as a compass and why they are a key component for happiness. We look into the power of asking questions and learn how motivation and mental and physical energy are inseparable. We discuss four different types of extrinsic motivation and their quality. We discuss the danger of “miswanting”, cognitive dissonance and why telling yourself stories that are not true is the most inefficient thing to do if you want to create a life you love. Finally, we learn how to create self-trust and why it is so important before we discuss how you need autonomy, competence and relatedness in regard to motivate yourself to change.

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Links to topics and people discussed in this episode:
Catherine Schoendorff: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherineschoendorff/
Carl Rogers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rogers
Martin Seligman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Seligman
The VIA Survey of Character Strengths: https://www.viacharacter.org/
Gilbert & Wilson - Miswanting: https://wjh-www.harvard.edu/~dtg/Gilbert%20&%20Wilson%20%28Miswanting%29.pdf
Cognitive Dissonance Theory: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/cognitive-dissonance-theory

Additional resources on discussed topics:
Cognitive Dissonance Theory: https://positivepsychology.com/cognitive-dissonance-theory/
Self-leadership: https://positivepsychology.com/self-leadership/
Complete Mental Health, Languishing & Flourishing: https://www.drmaikeneuhaus.com/post/what-does-it-mean-to-languish
Motivation (the different types explained): https://www.drmaikeneuhaus.com/post/how-you-can-develop-intrinsic-motivation-for-something-you-don-t-like-doing-but-want-to-achieve
Motivation (additional aspects): https://www.drmaikeneuhaus.com/post/the-5-aspects-of-motivation-you-should-understand-before-getting-frustrated-with-it
Comprehensive goal-setting: https://www.drmaikeneuhaus.com/post/how-to-set-really-smart-goals
Values: https://www.drmaikeneuhaus.com/post/about-the-value-of-understanding-your-values-and-what-happens-if-you-don-t
Self-knowledge: https://www.drmaikeneuhaus.com/post/self-leadership-starts-with-you-but-what-exactly-is-self-knowledge-and-why-is-it-important
Miswanting: https://www.drmaikeneuhaus.com/post/are-you-miswanting-7-things-people-do-that-unknowingly-makes-them-unhappy

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro - Just Another Mindset Podcast
00:50 What we talked about today
02:00 Welcome Maike and preparing to flourish
05:11 Meet Maike and learn to thrive
11:57 Emergence of Positive Psychology
17:31 Universal components of mental health?
22:43 The time is ready for a more collectivistic approach
26:53 Self-Leadership, Self-Knowledge
30:00 Understanding your Strengths and Values
37:20 The Power of asking questions
39:33 What you need to know about Motivation
49:53 Self-Trust and defining goals
56:38 How to create Self-Assurance
01:02:08 Three ingredients to motivate yourself
01:06:40 Get to know Maike
01:09:24 Final questions for Maike
01:14:03 Outro - Just Another Mindset

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