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in order to be supportive.

I'm Art Markman.

I'm Bob Duke.

I'm Rebecca McInroy.

Lead them down the path that you need them to see in order to be supportive.

Next week, we'll talk about the psychology of pitching ideas with Dr.

Art Markman and Dr.

Bob Duke.

Welcome to Messy, where I have conversations with leaders about how they navigate and make sense of the mess they find themselves in.

So what happens when the need for fundamental change meets the real world complexity of real institutions? Last week on Messy, I spoke with Art Markman about what he had learned from moving from leadership inside a large public university to looking at higher education from a very different vantage point at Minerva.

And today I want to turn that perspective around.

Ben Nelson founded Minerva with the ambition not simply to improve the university, but to rethink it from first principles.

You have to be able to practice your core thinking skills across lots of different situations.

I'm Art Markman.

I'm Bob Duke.

I'm Rebecca McInroy.

And that's a wasted opportunity.

Next week, we'll talk about the psychology of asking your boss for what you need with Dr.

Art Markman and Dr.

Bob Duke.

This week and next, we're exploring how higher education might change.

First with Art Markman, who brings decades of experience inside universities to his work at Minerva.

And then with Minerva's founder, Ben Nelson.

Art Markman has spent most of his professional life inside universities.

He's a cognitive scientist, a longtime professor, and former senior academic leader at the University of Texas at Austin.

He's also a prolific writer, podcaster, and communicator who has spent decades trying to understand how people think, learn, and make decisions and change.

It can feel intimidating, but approaching it the right way can benefit all involved.

By Art Markman.

In the past few weeks, I have written about how colleagues can make significant requests of each other and how a boss can approach big requests of one of their direct reports.

This week, I'll complete the cycle by thinking about how you can make a big ask of your boss.

The key question is actually what happens when you get sick.

I'm Art Markman.

I'm Bob Duke.

I'm Rebecca McInroy, and this is Two Guys on Your Head.

The other is stress tends to cause rumination, right? You know, a ruminant is a cud chewing animal and so you ruminate on this stuff you have this these thoughts over and over again so if you spend your time thinking i'm no good at writing i can't write i'm a terrible writer now that becomes associated with the context of sitting down in your workspace to get work done right and now you sit down in front of the computer and the first thing you're doing is going i can't write i'm a terrible writer and you that becomes a paralyzing agent as well so On top of everything else, you have to find ways to cut through that stress by remembering that writing is a process and it starts with getting something, anything out there on the page.

Next week, we'll talk about the psychology of test taking with Dr.

Art Markman and Dr.

Bob Duke.

I'm Bob Duke.

I'm Art Markman.

I'm Rebecca McInroy.

And this is Two Guys on Your Head.

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Next week, we'll talk about sugar and the brain with Dr.

Art Markman and Dr.

Bob Duke.

I'm Bob Duke.

I'm Art Markman.

I'm Rebecca McInroy.

And this is Two Guys on Your Head.

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building with Dr.

Art Markman and Dr.

Bob Duke.