Maya Shankar

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1,518 appearances 8 recordings 7 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 5 Jul

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Something You Should Know · How to Adapt When Life Throws a Curveball & Understanding the Flow of Time · 19 Jan 2026 podcast

you know, it's interesting, there's a psychological illusion called the end of history illusion, which says that while we greatly appreciate that we've changed considerably in the past, so, you know, I look back at 10 years ago, 20 years ago, I can hardly even relate to that person.

We do tend to think that the person we are right now is done changing, that we're the finished product.

Of course, that's not true.

And of course, a big change in our lives can accelerate internal shifts.

And so

One thing I'm holding onto for myself in this moment is, yes, it feels so daunting.

I don't know if I, Maya, am capable of navigating this moment, but I'm actually going to be a different person as I navigate this experience.

I will be a new person on the other side with different values and perspectives and abilities and ways of seeing the world.

And if I can shape that trajectory for the better, I can actually end up better in all of this.

So one thing that's really interesting is when we think about a negative change happening in our lives, it can often feel like an apocalypse of sorts, like a personal apocalypse, like the world we knew is no longer available.

And what's so interesting about the genesis of the word apocalypse is that it comes from the Greek word apocalypsis.

Apocalypsis actually does mean revelation.

And this etymology is instructive because it teaches us that while change can absolutely upend us, it can also reveal things to us, things about ourselves that were hidden from view until this moment, until the demands and stresses and novelty of our new environment

cast a light on a part of ourselves that either we weren't fully aware of, or we weren't attending to, or we just didn't have the wherewithal to try to improve.

And I have found this in so many moments in my life where a really bad thing happened and it did reveal something to me about

maybe habits of mind that weren't optimal or perspectives on the world that needed to be updated or beliefs I've been carrying my whole life that had to be challenged.

And that's a wonderful experience, you know, to have this force enter your life and encourage you to actually change the way that you see the world around you and the way you see yourself.

It is very common in the aftermath of a negative change to self-berate and to assume that we were the ones that caused this, even when in many situations, the situation was completely out of our control.

And whether or not we do this depends on

where our locus of control lies.

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