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Warren Tews is a Registered Provisional Psychologist and a member in good standing with the College of Alberta Psychologists, Psychologists' Association of Alberta, and the Canadian Psychological Association. He holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from King’s University and a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology from City University of Seattle.
Warren’s talk is titled “Know Thyself: Personality and Happiness,” and explores current and past psychological research around happiness, personality factors, and strategies for maximizing lifesatisfaction. His primary goal when working with people is to provide them with a wealth of selfknowledge and in turn help them position themselves in the best possible circumstances to increase their overall lifesatisfaction and moods of happiness.
He is affectionately known as 'Jimmy the Guitar Player' and has made several appearances on the Beat your Genes Podcast with Dr. Doug Lisle, including arranging and performing an acoustic version of the show's theme song to commemorate Episode 200, and playing a Michael Jackson parody cover about the repeat exposure effect in episode 230.
Warren’s primary clinical interests include anxiety and panic disorders, family conflict resolution, dating, depression and mood disorders, procrastination, process addictions, productivity, relationships, selfesteem, socialskills coaching, navigating friendship difficulties, loneliness in the modern age, men's issues, workrelated challenges, and helping to improve one's standing in life's competitive processes.
Outside of his psychology practice, Warren offers educational and personalitybased life decision coaching through his Inner (R)evolution brand at https://www.innerrevolution.net/
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1. Intro
1:26 Warren Tews: Registered Provisional Psychologist
5:30 Individual variation in happiness
8:01 Selfawareness
8:47 Setting Realistic expectations
10:06 Mismatches between the modern environment & psychological mechanisms
10:40 What is Personality
11:22 What is happiness
12:05 Pleasure vs happiness
13:09 Age, health, romance & happiness
14:58 Happiness: An aggregate of overall contentment
2. Part 2
16:02 Health & happiness
17:04 Sleep
21:05 Exercise
26:03 Diet
3. Part 3
30:21 The Big Five personality traits
37:17 Personality traits & evolution
43:49 Identical twin studies
47:23 Happiness levels in identical twins
49:41 Should I give up on trying to improve myself?
50:34 Vocal cords & genetic limits
4. Part 4
52:45 Openness to experience: advantages
54:56 Openness to experience: disadvantages
58:56 Conscientiousness: advantages
1:00:27 Lower conscientiousness: disadvantages
1:05:30 Extroversion: advantages & disadvantages
1:07:36 Introversion: advantages & disadvantages
1:12:16 High introversion & neuroticism
1:14:35 Agreeableness: advantages & disadvantages
1:20:19 Disagreeableness: advantages & disadvantages
⚠ 1:25:29 Negative emotions explained
1:29:24 Social rejection
1:32:12 Neuroticism, the smoke detector analogy & worrying
1:35:11 Emotional stability
5. Part 5
1:35:59 MRI scans: brain structure & personality
1:39:51 Gratitude journaling
1:41:04 Targeted journaling
1:43:29 High extroversion & emotional stability
1:43:47 Neuroticism: advantages
1:44:26 Being too optimistic about future outcomes
1:46:11 Social media, money, & happiness
1:51:12 The function of happiness
1:53:27 Brave new world
1:55:20 The importance of accepting all human emotions
1:55:56 Focusing less on happiness & more on helping others/pursuing meaningful goals
1:56:09 Focusing intently on one's own happiness can ironically lead to less happiness