Dr. Alia Crum

It's so exciting to be here.

So, Mel, my life's work as an academic, but also as a human, is to understand the power of the human mind, right?

So I think we all know this, right?

There is this power of belief, of mindset, and the people who are listening to your show are especially clued into this fact.

But I'd like to go a little deeper and be a little bit more specific, right?

So when we say things like, oh, just believe, or think positive, or change your mindset, what do we really mean?

Yeah, I think we need to be more specific.

So say you have something stressful on the horizon, like a job interview, or say you're trying to lose weight or get healthier, or say you were just diagnosed with cancer or some other health diagnosis.

it really matters to know what should you believe?

What is the best mindset to have?

Like, how much does that matter?

And most importantly, what can we do to adopt more useful mindsets?

So the goal, as I see it for our conversation today, is to help people to become more sophisticated and more skillful and understanding and applying.

the power of the human mind.

Yes.

So mindsets are quite literally settings of the mind.

Hold on a second.

Exactly.

Now, there are settings, there are lenses or frames of mind which orient us to a particular set of experiences.

Okay.