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The Mastery Project Podcast
The Mastery Project Podcast explores how people and organizations improve, adapt, and continue growing over time. Hosted by Dr. T-Michael Dougherty, Ed.D., MPA, an educational leader, researcher, and learning and innovation strategist, the show connects research with practice across leadership, learning, innovation, AI, focus, resilience, and lifelong development.
Each episode examines the ideas, habits, systems, and decisions that shape meaningful progress—without treating mastery as a finish…
Episodes
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Why Can’t I Focus When Studying? Fix Your Study Setup in 3 Steps
TITLE Why Can't I Focus When Studying? Fix Your Study Setup in 3 Steps DESCRIPTION If you sit down to study or write and your brain hits a wall right away, the…
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Why You Can’t Focus at Work by 2 P.M. (and How to Get It Back)
DESCRIPTION If you sit down to work with your email open on a second monitor, Slack open and twelve browser tabs staring back at you, your brain is trying to…
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How to Study When You're Tired After Work (Without More Willpower)
If you make a plan in the morning to study for two hours tonight, finish a project, or stay calm with a difficult coworker, and the plan falls apart by eight…
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Why Your Willpower Fails at Night, and What to Do Instead
At eight in the morning, it's easy to promise yourself that tonight you'll sit down and study for two hours, finish the project you've been putting off, or…
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Studied Hard but Still Failed the Exam? Here’s What to Change
In this episode of the Mastery Project Podcast, Dr. T-Michael Dougherty discusses the importance of active studying over passive studying for effective…
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The Surprising Truth About Academic Resilience: It Can Be Learned
The conversation explores the concept of academic resilience, emphasizing that it is a learnable skill rather than a fixed trait. Dr. Dougherty discusses…
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Stoicism for Healthcare Students: 6 Practices for Handling Setbacks Without Burning Out
Dr. T-Michael Dougherty explains how Stoicism can help students in medical, nursing, PT, and other demanding healthcare programs respond to setbacks with more…
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Why You Procrastinate (It's Not Laziness) | The Neuroscience of Discipline
Episode Summary Dr. T-Michael Dougherty dismantles the myth of willpower and explores the neuroscience and psychology of how we actually get things done…
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What Real Resilience Actually Looks Like
The conversation explores the toxic definition of toughness in our culture, the relationship between resilience and emotional suppression, the concept of real…
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Perception, Chunking & Expertise
Expertise is not a faster version of what you do now; it's a different perception of the same information. The novice and the expert receive identical input…
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Stop Rereading and Start Retrieving to Improve Retention
The Mastery Project Podcast explores the science of learning and the effectiveness of different study methods. Dr. T-Michael Dougherty discusses the benefits…
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The 10,000 Hour Myth
Almost everyone has started something with real enthusiasm and stopped around week three. The equipment gets bought, the tutorials get watched, and then the…
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Who Decides Where Your Attention Goes?
We usually treat phone distraction as a failure of self-control. This episode examines a broader explanation. Choices about attention happen inside…
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The Screen Time Myth: Why Total Hours Don't Matter
Your phone can tell you exactly how many hours you spent looking at a screen. What it cannot tell you is whether that time represented something you…
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What Ignoring a Notification Actually Costs: Phone Alerts, Focus, and Attention
A notification does not have to make you pick up your phone to affect your attention. In this Mastery Brief, Dr. T-Michael Dougherty looks at research showing…