Organizational Psychologist Amantha Imber Linked Her Self Worth to Achievements

<p>Founder of the firm Inventium.</p> <p>Show page: <a href="https:://www.markgraban.com/mistake126">https:://www.markgraban.com/mistake126</a></p> <p>My guest for Episode #126 of the <a href="http://myfavoritemistakepodcast.com/">My Favorite Mistake podcast</a> is <a href="http://amantha.com/">Dr Amantha Imber</a>, she is an organisational psychologist and founder of behavioural science consultancy <a href="https://www.inventium.com.au/">Inventium</a>.</p> <p>She and I share a belief… “Work doesn’t have to suck!” As it says on the front page of <a href="http://amantha.com/">her website</a>.</p> <p>Amantha is the author of two best-selling books: <a href="https://www.amantha.com/product/the-creativity-formula/"><em>The Creativity Formula</em></a> and <a href="https://amzn.to/3EXFrN0"><em>The Innovation Formula</em></a>.</p> <p>She’s the host of a podcast: “<a href="https://www.inventium.com.au/resources/how-i-work-podcast/#:~:text=Amantha%20is%20the%20host%20of,successful%20people%20manage%20their%20day.">How I Work</a>.”</p> <p>In today's episode, Amantha tells her “favorite mistake” story about tying her achievements to self worth. How did she discover that pattern? What did she learn and what did she do about it?</p> <p>We talk about that story and other topics including:</p> <ul> <li>Positive framing (start doing) of habit change vs. negative (stop doing)?</li> <li>I first learned of you because of a piece you wrote on LinkedIn that I really enjoyed… it was titled: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amanthaimber_conversationsforchange-changemakers-ugcPost-6858539175583608832-ddku/">Your “Failure Resume”</a></li> <li>Why did you frame that as an experiment?</li> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-failure-resume-amantha-imber/?trackingId=cYWzNQFxQiW43ehSTcacmw%3D%3D">Amantha's failure resume</a></li> <li>Experiments — others coming along with you — how many?</li> <li><a href="https://amantha.substack.com/p/2020-is-my-year-of-better-and-id">“My Year of Better”&nbsp;</a></li> <li>“My na