Lael Stone

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5,246 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3d ago

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Humans, being. with Lael Stone · Dara Simkin, being. with Lael Stone | Play Is Not a Reward ♥︎ · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

And my humanness for this week is all around

Permission to change your mind.

So what I've really been musing about this week is how rigid actually I used to be in my thinking many years ago.

I mean, there's a lot that's coming out as I'm getting older and I'm doing this podcast because I'm realizing as I look back on the younger versions of me

how much actually I am shifting and changing as I get older in life.

And I realise how fixed and rigid I used to be around what I believed.

And there was a clear right and wrong around things.

And I was pretty good at telling people exactly what I thought about how things should be.

I could have a very passionate argument about anything.

And I realized too, actually, how judgmental I was when I was really fixed in this way of thinking that this was the right way.

And yet, having worked with, I don't know, thousands of humans over the last 20 plus years, what I've become to sit in is a place of really no right or

Wrong.

And I know that can feel controversial when we say that because there are a lot of painful and bad things that happen in the world.

But I am also really seeing that we stand in certain places in our lives because of the way we've been raised, our upbringings, what we're exposed to.

And sometimes we can have a very, very, let's just say, small lens on what we think the world should be.

Yeah.

That's what I've begun to realize in listening to people's stories is there is space for many different places and opinions.

And one of the most powerful things we can do is be curious about other people, is not sit in that really fixed, this is the way it is.

So things that I used to be so like, this is the right way to do this, or this is the right way to raise your kids, all those kind of things.

I have softened a lot of over the years.

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