Episode Notes [03:47] Seth's Early Understanding of Questions [04:33] The Power of Questions [05:25] Building Relationships Through Questions [06:41] This is Strategy: Focus on Questions [10:21] Gamifying Questions [11:34] Conversations as Infinite Games [15:32] Creating Tension with Questions [20:46] Effective Questioning Techniques [23:21] Empathy and Engagement [34:33] Strategy and Culture [35:22] Microsoft's Transformation [36:00] Global Perspectives on Questions [39:39] Caring in a Challenging World Resources Mentioned The Dip by Seth Godin Linchpin by Seth Godin Purple Cow by Seth Godin Tribes by Seth Godin This Is Marketing by Seth Godin The Carbon Almanac This is Strategy by Seth Godin Seth's Blog What Does it Sound Like When You Change Your Mind? by Seth Godin Value Creation Masterclass by Seth Godin on Udemy The Strategy Deck by Seth Godin Taylor Swift Jimmy Smith Jimmy Smith Curated Questions Episode Supercuts Priya Parker Techstars Satya Nadella Microsoft Steve Ballmer Acumen Jerry Colonna Unleashing the Idea Virus by Seth Godin Tim Ferriss podcast with Seth Godin Seth Godin website Beauty Pill Producer Ben Ford Questions Asked When did you first understand the power of questions? What do you do to get under the layer to really get down to those lower levels? Is it just follow-up questions, mindset, worldview, and how that works for you? How'd you get this job anyway? What are things like around here? What did your boss do before they were your boss? Wow did you end up with this job? Why are questions such a big part of This is Strategy? If you had to charge ten times as much as you charge now, what would you do differently? If it had to be free, what would you do differently? Who's it for, and what's it for? What is the change we seek to make? How did you choose the questions for The Strategy Deck? How big is our circle of us? How many people do I care about? Is the change we're making contagious? Are there other ways to gamify the use of questions? Any other thoughts on how questions might be gamified? How do we play games with other people where we're aware of what it would be for them to win and for us to win? What is it that you're challenged by? What is it that you want to share? What is it that you're afraid of? If there isn't a change, then why are we wasting our time? Can you define tension? What kind of haircut do you want? How long has it been since your last haircut? How might one think about intentionally creating that question? What factors should someone think about as they use questions to create tension? How was school today? What is the kind of interaction I'm hoping for over time? How do I ask a different sort of question that over time will be answered with how was school today? Were there any easy questions on your math homework? Did anything good happen at school today? What tension am I here to create? What wrong questions continue to be asked? What temperature is it outside? When the person you could have been meets the person you are becoming, is it going to be a cause for celebration or heartbreak? What are the questions we're going to ask each other? What was life like at the dinner table when you were growing up? What are we really trying to accomplish? How do you have this cogent two sentence explanation of what you do? How many clicks can we get per visit? What would happen if there was a webpage that was designed to get you to leave? What were the questions that were being asked by people in authority at Yahoo in 1999? How did the stock do today? Is anything broken? What can you do today that will make the stock go up tomorrow? What are risks worth taking? What are we doing that might not work but that supports our mission? What was the last thing you did that didn't work, and what did we learn from it? What have we done to so delight our core customers that they're telling other people? How has your international circle informed your life of questions? What do I believe that other people don't believe? What do I see that other people don't see? What do I take for granted that other people don't take for granted? What would blank do? What would Bob do? What would Jill do? What would Susan do? What happened to them? What system are they in that made them decide that that was the right thing to do? And then how do we change the system? How given the state of the world, do you manage to continue to care as much as you do? Do you walk to school or take your lunch? If you all can only care if things are going well, then what does that mean about caring? Should I have spent the last 50 years curled up in a ball? How do we go to the foundation and create community action?…
Prof Sophie Scott, Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, discusses life and science and careers with her colleagues from the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL, and beyond. The aim of the show is to highlight some amazing scientists, and explore their journeys through science and life, and find out what works for them.
Prof Sophie Scott, Director of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, discusses life and science and careers with her colleagues from the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL, and beyond. The aim of the show is to highlight some amazing scientists, and explore their journeys through science and life, and find out what works for them.
This episode was recorded early in 2020, and then the whole podcast enterprise was tanked as I was trying to cope with COVID19 and the lockdowns. I am realising this now as Vince is retiring at the end of 2024, and we're going to miss him a lot, and it was a really interesting interview. Transcript Speaker 1 Because I. One of the. The waggon I had a double espresso and I'm ashamed of myself. Speaker 2 Do you know what I'm in a good place with my coffee dictionary. Do you know I'm? I'm fine. I gave up. Nicotine largely gave up alcohol. I'll. I'm good. I'm good. I accept. I'm completely addicted. Speaker I. Speaker 2 I gave up. Speaker 1 For eight years. Bloody hell. And then somebody gave me a double espresso. So. And it's like cocaine. It's fantastic. Speaker 2 I got when I came back from sanity leave because I I stopped drinking not through choice, but just to kind of. I kind of lost the taste for it and for a couple of years I haven't had any and I came back. Eternity leave. And I was like, oh, this is fantastic. This is like I completely get it. Yeah, right. I think that's a good level. My fricatives keep sounding awful, but that's on me, not on you. Speaker 1 I've moved away from it. Do you want me to? Do you want to test again? Speaker 2 Just tell me. I mean, I'm not very loud. Just tell me again your chia seeds or coughing water? Speaker 1 Yeah, disgusting. My healthy breakfast. I. Speaker 2 Think that'll be fine. Thank you very much. Let's. On it. Brilliant. I'll move it slightly closer. 'cause you have more important people, right? I'm just going to start, weirdly by introducing the whole. We are recording. Yes, it's recording. Excellent. Welcome to what works. This is a UCL PALS podcast where I, Sophie Scott, get to talk to my colleagues about what works for them and how they got into really doing what they're doing and how they manage their work and their life and all the other things we don't normally talk about with colleagues, and it's an absolute pleasure today to introduce my colleague Vincent Walsh, who has been at the ICN since the inception of the ICN. Speaker 1 Almost. Speaker 2 OK, but let's go back a bit further. So what I'd like to start with, if that's OK, Vince, if you could tell us a little bit about how you ended up getting into science at all. Can you remember like you know anything, perhaps even when you were a kid that now when you look back on it, you think that was a bit of a sign, this is where I was going. Speaker 1 No, I I. It's funny that you ask what works. I have no idea what works, and I honest to God, it's not an affectation of no idea. I would how I got to do this. I wasn't a nerdy kid. I didn't play with electronics. Umm, I left school at 16 with 4G CSESI never knew I was any good at anything. Definitely never read a book until I was at least 16, possibly 18. If it didn't have pictures of a sports person or a music person in it. So I always get irritated and slightly suspicious about these people who are reading Tolstoy when they're 4. And I think just wasn't. It wasn't wasn't my my track at all. So no. About science. Until people, what my students don't believe me. But until my mid 30s. No idea about science career, so yeah, just left school at 16. To work in a record shop. Speaker 2 Which one? Speaker 1 Jazzling records in Oldham loved it. And then. Speaker 2 Excellent. Speaker 1 Some of my friends. 2 girls were applying to be nurses. And it wasn't a degree then, so you could do it with O levels. Which were Cs, by the way. Didn't get any As. And as I remember it we we put an application in for me as a kind of a joke, why don't why don't why don't we do it? And and then I ended up being a full time nurse for five years and part time for three years. And specialised after I qualified in Psychiatrics. So I discovered my career progression from wiping ***** to kissing them and I and I know which is most useful. And I loved it. And it was when I was at nursing school that I I met a guy called John Hart. And it was funny because he was the first person any of us had ever met who got a degree, who wasn't a doctor or a teacher. We thought it was a freaking genius. But he was also the first person I met who I kind of wanted to be like, if you like. So it was. It was him who got me into, fell in love with him. Totally. It was him who got me into reading. And I think it was when I was 20. We chatted and he suggested I might try and go back to night school. And do some exams. Umm, so I did that. Still no idea. About about science. I'm 23 by this time. Speaker 2 So what did you do? Speaker 1 So I did. I did psychology at Sheffield but. Even at that time, like most psychology undergraduates, now you imagine you're going to be a clinical psychologist. And I mean, I don't like listening to people. I learned that pretty quickly. And I guess in the first year then we had. We had Dawkins selfish gene on our and that was the kind of, if you like, Damascene conversion and had some great tutors, Ian Mitchell and Peter Eggrave and John Frisby. Speaker 2 Remember Frisby? Yeah. Speaker 1 Yeah. And then I started getting obsessed. It was then that I started getting obsessed still. Because people, you know, people got all these A levels that I didn't have, I just thought they were cleverer for a a long time. I mean a long time. And I had no idea what to do for a for a PhD. Really wanted to do 1. Speaker 2 I realised I've made you miss a bit out, so you went back to night school and you took exams. When you say that, did you mean like more 0? Speaker 1 Uh. Speaker 2 Levels or A levels was it like? Speaker 1 I did. I did. I did O levels and A levels. Yeah, I still. Yeah. Yeah. The only thing I was ever good at school was maths. Speaker 2 At night. Speaker Yeah. Speaker 1 So I went back and did maths and some other things. I always remember finding maths really easy. That's the only thing I remember. Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. So you've gone back and when you did the O levels and A levels that still wasn't particularly science oriented. That was thinking about were you already thinking about psychology? Speaker 1 Yeah, it was just psychology. It was. Psychology was thinking about Cos it was. Yeah, it was psychiatric nursing that I was. I was doing. So that was the kind of. Speaker 2 That's where you wanted to go. Speaker Yeah. Speaker 1 Not logical next step, but it ...…
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Sophie Scott talks to her colleague and collaborator about her life in science, and how she moved from Italy to the US, to the Nehrerlands and then to UCL. They discuss the relationship between language and cognition and the ways that Gabriella's work has addressed this.
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Sophie Scott talks to Dr Lasana Harris about his scientific career, changing countries, interdisciplinarity and life at UCL. Lasana has done pioneering work in the fields of social neuroscience and in applying scientific research to policy.
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