🎧 This Week: What Your Kids Learn by Watching You & Reading for Recall (Not Entertainment)
Two new episodes for you
Hey friends 👋,
Two new episodes and the start of two new series for you this week. This is something I’m really excited about — continuing to find ways to bring these conversations to you in a way that’s fresh and, hopefully, useful.
This week, we have the start of the Raise series, where I’m having parenting-focused conversations, and the 5x5, where Ben is answering your 5 Factors questions directly.
Here’s a quick look at what we got into, plus links to the full 5-3-1 Listener Guides if you want to go deeper.
🎧 Raise | Of the 272 Emotions, Most Parents Only Know 12 (w/ D. Earl Johnston)
Doug Earl Johnston — former corporate executive, world champion sailor, and author of Choosing Emotions — joins me to talk about what he calls the emotionary: a framework that treats emotions not as things that happen to us, but as choices we can consciously make. The conversation quickly becomes about what we’re modeling for our kids — and how the emotional vocabulary we give them now is the one they’ll reach for when life gets hard.
This episode’s for you if:
You want to build a richer emotional vocabulary — for yourself and for the people you love — so that when the hard moments arrive, you have more than 12 emotions to work with.
You’ve been so focused on what you tell your kids about emotions that you haven’t fully reckoned with what they’re learning by watching you — and you’re ready to look at that honestly.
→ Read the full 5-3-1 Listener Guide
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🎧 5x5 | Reading for Recall Over Ego & Letting Flow Happen at Home
Ben goes solo for our new 5x5 format — five listener questions on the THINK factor, answered in five minutes each. This week’s questions cover growth mindset, the Fragmented → Focused → Flow framework, how Ben builds his frameworks, and what to do when your brain feels like a carnival cash machine (money flying everywhere, walking away with maybe $15).
This episode’s for you if:
You’re ready to bring the same loose, present energy to the areas that matter most — parenting, relationships, the things where the stakes feel highest — that you bring to the areas where you feel in flow.
You keep finishing podcasts and books feeling like you learned something, but can’t articulate the main idea an hour later — because the dopamine hit of finishing has been quietly passing itself off as learning.
→ Read the full 5-3-1 Listener Guide
Thanks as always for being here.
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🤙🏼 Patrick