Hosted by Ben Lamorte · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 17 episodes
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The Identity Blueprint for College is a podcast about clear thinking for better decisions during the defining decade of life.Originally started as ”The 20-Something Toolkit”, this podcast focuses on the choices that shape your 20s: careers, grad school, relationships, and major life transitions.Hosted by Ben Lamorte, a coach and longtime strategy advisor who has taught decision analysis to 20-Somethings at Stanford University, each episode offers practical tools from decision science, psychology, and value-focused thinking. Ben’s son, Toby, also joins from time to time and more college-students and recent grads will be joining as guests soon!This isn’t vague self-help. It’s a practical toolkit for making better decisions—one choice at a time.
Ben Lamorte hosts The Identity Blueprint: Direction With Intention, a education show with 17 episodes published.
Ben shares a pivotal personal story about losing his job right after buying a house and starting a family, and how a surprising assignment from his friend Sid led him to discover the life-changing power of journaling. Wh
Show notesWhat makes great leaders, CEOs, and top performers stand out? It’s not that they give everyone advice or do all the talking. It’s that they ask the best questions. In this episode, we explore Precision Questioning, a pow
Show notesWhere do real opportunities actually come from? In this episode, Ben builds on Lewin’s Force Field (removing restraining forces) and Flow (momentum once you begin) to explore one of the most powerful ideas from The Defin
Show notesTake your 20s to the next level. Learn how to shift your life into a flow state that can enable exponential growth in a positive direction and connect you to other people. In Episode 1, we introduced critical reflection
Show notesIn this short preview, Ben introduces an upcoming episode on Flow -- the state of focused, energized engagement where work and life feel more natural and fulfilling. Using a simple story from everyday life, he explores h
Show notesEver swear this is the week you’ll finally change - start working out, apply for jobs, quit a bad habit - only to find yourself right back where you started? Most people blame laziness or lack of motivation. Kurt Lewin w
Show notesClear thinking starts with knowing how you learn. If you’ve been listening from the beginning, you know The 20-Something Toolkit is about making better choices through clearer thinking. Up to now, we’ve focused on decisi
Show notesBased on feedback from my 20-something friends, indecision is a HUGE ISSUE! Why do so many smart people so often feel stuck when facing important decisions in their 20s? This bonus episode explores three main forces that
Show notesWhat does it really mean to feel “lost” in your twenties? In this episode, Ben shares a real coaching conversation (published with permission) with a young adult navigating uncertainty about direction, identity, and next
Show notesBack when Ben was in his late 20s, he met up with his friend, Brian, at a bar. Brian was a graduate student exploring if and how to become a philosophy professor. So, Ben created a decision tree at the bar on-the-fly. Br
Show notesIn his book Measure What Matters, John Doerr famously called OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) a “superpower.” He was talking about companies. But what if this superpower could make an even bigger impact when applied to
Show notesHow do you know if a decision was actually good BEFORE the outcome happens? In this episode, Ben introduces a powerful framework from decision analysis, The Decision Stool. Most of us judge decisions by how things turn o
Show notesThis special bonus episode introduces one of the most important ideas for anyone in their 20s: Identity Capital, a concept from The Defining Decade by Meg Jay. When you’re choosing jobs, majors, or career paths, it’s eas
Show notesThis episode tackles one of the most important thinking traps to avoid in your 20s when evaluating your decisions. Decisions and outcomes are not the same. Yet many of us confuse the two, judging the quality of a decisio
Show notesThis episode puts value-focused decision making into action and shows you how to apply this powerful tool immediately to your own life. I reflect on my own experience in my 20s to show how taking a value-focused approach
Show notesThis episode builds directly on the foundation of critical reflection and introduces a better way to approach decisions. Ben shows how value-focused decision making helps you go beyond the list of options on the menu of
Show notesThis first episode introduces why Ben created The 20-Something Toolkit to support 20-somethings beyond standard college advising, career centers, and generic life advice. It sets the foundation for the entire series. If
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The Identity Blueprint: Direction With Intention is hosted by Ben Lamorte. The show is categorised under education (business) and has published 17 episodes.
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