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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The mindbodygreen Podcast · 633: The psychology of uncertainty, growth & hope | Maya Shankar, Ph.D. · 18 Jan 2026 podcast

Why would we prefer to have a negative bad thing happen with certainty rather than grapple with any ambiguity?

But

I so resonate with this finding and it makes so much sense to me that this would be the case.

And I think in many ways, my goal with the other side of change was to help people reclaim whatever control still remained in their circumstances, because.

Like, I'm a normal person, right?

I'm not like a Buddhist.

I wish I had more of a Buddhist philosophy, but I have not been able to detach myself from my world and have that kind of enlightenment that I would so aspire to have.

And so I do want control still.

And my goal with...

with this book was to give people a guide.

In fact, I call it a change survival kit where they know what questions to ask, what thought experiments run, what science-based techniques to use so that they can engage in the relevant mental reframes to see and think differently about their changes.

Because when everything is swirling around us, it is actually quite comforting to feel like there are still some things that lie within our control.

OK, well, the first thing I want to remind people of is that many of us fall prey to what's called the end of history illusion, which says that we fully agree we've changed considerably in the past.

But if we were to ask ourselves, well, how much do we expect to change in the future?

Most of us will say, oh, no, not at all.

What you see is what you get.

This is the finished product.

So we have this false belief that the version of ourselves that we are right now in this moment is a version of us that's here to stay.

No more self-growth, right?

And so that is obviously an illusion.

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