web02.fireside.fm Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:55:36 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) https://thoughtworks.fireside.fm/tags/positive%20bias Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:00:00 -0400 Thought Works is a podcast about random thoughts of two seasoned healthcare professionals. These thoughts center around what makes each one of us different, yet similar. From fears and our worrying/panicking of the next change in our normal life to satisfaction and our tastes in food or music. This is not some dry stuffy recording of a human parts list. It is a compared and contrasted approach between Eddie and Darren. Now they have similarities and differences themselves. But an important similarity, is the never ending curiosity and drive to understand. Darren is lead by the "dead cat gene" of curiosity and wanting all to understand. Eddie is passionate about people not missing out or suffering from a lack of openness to try something new. Listen along to be engaged, informed, or just entertained. en-us episodic Thought Works is conversation with Eddie and Darren discussing a person's tastes in food or music, how someone finds satisfaction, processes that lead us through life, fears that some of us have, and many more. In a curious pursuit of pondering what makes us different and the same, they are all over the map. Will that dove find a bird house big enough? Subscribe and find out. Darren & Eddie Thought Works is a podcast about random thoughts of two seasoned healthcare professionals. These thoughts center around what makes each one of us different, yet similar. From fears and our worrying/panicking of the next change in our normal life to satisfaction and our tastes in food or music. This is not some dry stuffy recording of a human parts list. It is a compared and contrasted approach between Eddie and Darren. Now they have similarities and differences themselves. But an important similarity, is the never ending curiosity and drive to understand. Darren is lead by the "dead cat gene" of curiosity and wanting all to understand. Eddie is passionate about people not missing out or suffering from a lack of openness to try something new. Listen along to be engaged, informed, or just entertained. no Thought Works, what makes us different, what makes us similar, culture, taste, sound, thinking, self evaluation, society Darren & Eddie fishnpharm@gmail.com https://thoughtworks.fireside.fm/13 1467e126-75d6-4cc4-b3d7-3dae56ff3959 Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:00:00 -0400 Darren & Eddie 13 Pollyanna full Darren & Eddie What is it to be Pollyanna? Listen to Eddie and Darren discuss what it is to be Pollyanna and the positive and negative effects. 1:02:06 no Pollyanna is the tendency for people to remember or look at pleasant things more accurately than unpleasant things. Another way to put this is to say looking at things with a positivity bias. At first glance, this may seem to be a good thing, to a degree it is. The downside to this outlook is not accouting for negative things in life accurately. That can lead to a living on a cloud that does not exist. From ignoring something that needs your attention, to just letting bad stuff happen that could have been affected by oneself. Take a listen and see how Eddie and Darren view life and what you may learn from their conversation. As usual, their are tangents that fall off topic. See what Eddie means by "off pudding". Please send comments and questions to thoughtworkspodcast@gmail.com. Psychology, human behavior, human interaction, curiosity, conversation, healthcare, mental health, pharmacist, social science, society, human relation, personal relationships, mental diet, being late, tardy, why are we late, punctual, satisfaction, expectations, optimistic, are you satisfied, tribes, tribalism, teams, groups, clubs, Homophily, brand loyalty, choosing sides, processes, systems, build a system for life, efficiency in life, inner voice, inner dialog, voice in head, pollyanna, positive bias Pollyanna is the tendency for people to remember or look at pleasant things more accurately than unpleasant things. Another way to put this is to say looking at things with a positivity bias. At first glance, this may seem to be a good thing, to a degree it is. The downside to this outlook is not accouting for negative things in life accurately. That can lead to a living on a cloud that does not exist. From ignoring something that needs your attention, to just letting bad stuff happen that could have been affected by oneself. Take a listen and see how Eddie and Darren view life and what you may learn from their conversation. As usual, their are tangents that fall off topic. See what Eddie means by "off pudding". Please send comments and questions to thoughtworkspodcast@gmail.com.

]]> Pollyanna is the tendency for people to remember or look at pleasant things more accurately than unpleasant things. Another way to put this is to say looking at things with a positivity bias. At first glance, this may seem to be a good thing, to a degree it is. The downside to this outlook is not accouting for negative things in life accurately. That can lead to a living on a cloud that does not exist. From ignoring something that needs your attention, to just letting bad stuff happen that could have been affected by oneself. Take a listen and see how Eddie and Darren view life and what you may learn from their conversation. As usual, their are tangents that fall off topic. See what Eddie means by "off pudding". Please send comments and questions to thoughtworkspodcast@gmail.com.

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