We are increasingly told that there is more to life than chasing accolades. Yet our society's focus on achievement and merit remains, and there is an ongoing pressure to perform at increasingly higher levels, impress as many people as possible, and rise further and further up the status ladder. Our society's relationship with merit, and meritocracy, is complex, and clinical psychologist Dr. Maria-Christina Stewart is on a mission to unpack it, understand it, and change it. Join Dr. Maria-Chr ...
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Finance and Meaning with Wallis Wilkinson Tsai
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Can meaning successfully drive merit in the financial world? Ask Wallis Wilkinson Tsai. Wallis spent over 10 years at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker and hedge fund investor and then founded her own values-based independent insurance brokerage agency: AboveBoard Financial. She also teaches at Harvard Business School. We were so excited to int…
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Live Your Legacy with Stanford's Dan Klein
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To launch our podcast Meaning Vs Merit, Dr. Maria-Christina interviews Dan Klein, faculty member in the Drama Department, Business School, and Design School at Stanford University, about living your legacy. Dan shares his journey into the world of improv and illuminates the transformative power of embracing uncertainty, following meaning, and celeb…
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Welcome to Meaning Vs Merit, a podcast where we ask important questions about our pursuit of merit and find practical answers about how to balance it with our search for meaning.By Dr. Maria-Christina Stewart
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