Erik Michielsen: What is your approach to lifelong learning?

Hammans Stallings: Well, work in an area where there are constantly problems that are new and you'll have to learn. So, it's not so much that learning's ever been effortful for me. Learning is the resolution of a problem and so, put yourself in a situation where there's lots of problems that require learning and you'll spend a life -- lifetime trying to figure it out.

Erik Michielsen: Could you give an example of one of those?

Hammans Stallings: So I've done work recently where I've tried to connect the psychology of, say emotion, to the experience of users at the interface of say a product or with a company like in a retail situation and trying to tie that to business model design. So, why’s it that certain industries inherently are better at creating emotional experiences that resonate with their customers, and you can really look around and find there are certain industries that create great experiences. Hospitality is one, in which we point to. And there are some that have just -- that are not very -- not very good at creating emotional experiences that are positive. Say, you look at cable companies; you look at credit card companies. Trying to understand both from a psychological standpoint is well from, say a business strategy standpoint, why that is the case, required kind of being an integrator across these fields and so, I would say that is an example of the kind of work that requires you to continue learning and also to kind of create scaffolds between fields that has not really had them before.