Maya Shankar
speaker
1,518 appearances
8 recordings
7 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 5 Jul
Maya Shankar’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Or you're witnessing, say, your kids on the playground.
Oh, my God, look at the way that little kid stood up to the bully.
Like, that's another form of moral elevation.
It's everywhere.
It's everywhere we look.
is so beautiful and empowering because we know of its ability to rewire the brain.
But I was thinking, based on the comment you made and the MLK quote, that it's actually just as important that we be a moment of moral elevation for someone else, that we be the moral beauty that can inspire other people.
And I think that can be, you know, so many of us are feeling helpless in this moment in time, like
Can I change the world at all?
Do I matter at all?
Is there anything I can do in this moment of total disconnection and seeming chaos?
And by being our best selves, actually, we can have these beautiful effects on other human beings in ways that we might never even perceive, but they're happening.
Yes, I'll ask this one for you.
From Michelle M., in a world that demands answers, what's the one question we can ask ourselves in the exact moment we don't know when uncertainty feels physically uncomfortable that reliably turns that discomfort into curiosity and a clear next step?
Oh, I love this so much.
Yeah, I was obsessed with this question in part because my husband is Chinese American, and so I spent years trying to learn Mandarin.
And so, yeah, let's just say my speaking abilities are much greater than the writing of characters abilities.
One thing that was so interesting, because I actually think this speaks to what Kim has asked about, that I learned in researching the book is that the word apocalypse, which is often what we feel is happening to us in the throes of a massive change, right?
It's like I'm in a personal apocalypse where I no longer have access to this prior world.
The world that I am currently living in is a foreign one, right?
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