Failure Makes You Stronger, First 6 Weeks of Dating, Fear Frequency, Ignoring the Bad Stuff, Dork Diaries, Weekend Update

Failure Makes You Stronger (0:00:00) How many times have you heard the quote “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”? What about “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again”? These quotes have been pounded into us in the form of inspirational quotes on our elementary school teachers’ walls and the Instagram Bios of many a motivational speaker. So what is the value of failure? Well, some researchers at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management found that “failure early in one’s career leads to greater success” in the long run. Here today to help us understand this study is the lead author of the research, Dr. Yang Wang. First 6 Weeks of Dating (0:14:19) So you’ve managed to convince someone to date you and just you. It can either be exciting and thrilling, or completely foreign and scary. Either way, there is so much to relationships that the first few weeks can be so fragile. So how do we navigate through the emotions and unfamiliarity of the newborn stage of a budding relationship? Alisa Goodwin Snell, coach of Lasting Love Academy, joins us to bridge the gap between casual dating to exclusivity. Fear Frequency (0:32:16) Now I believe that you can group everyone into two groups: Scullys and Mulders or--in other words--skeptics or believers. When it comes to ghosts where do you fall? Now—before you answer let’s hear out our next guest, who’s got some insight to the age old question “are ghosts real?” Carrie Mead is a professional life coach and counselor with personal and professional experience in the phenomena of ghosts. Ignoring the Bad Stuff (0:50:36) Another negative story about abuse is making headlines. . . You avoid it. People stop keeping up with the news because it’s so depressing, but Former Detective, Carol Jean Wilson, says, “The world is not perfect and people would rather ignore the deplorable side of society than talk about it...When we ignore it, the bad stuff doesn’t go away and the ‘I don’t want to know’ mindset creates feelings of shame for victims that had to experie