Maya Shankar
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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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I feel very empowered by the fact that we can have control over the way that our minds process information.
There are these mantras, right?
You can't control what happens to you, but you can control your reaction.
And it can sound like a platitude.
And actually, I write in my book that when I heard that after the second miscarriage, I was like, this is not helpful to me.
Someone give me a roadmap.
How do I actually think and feel differently about my situation?
And that's why I took this more empirical approach.
But
You'll notice, Jason, in my book, I don't just call upon research from psychology or neuroscience.
I also call upon wisdom from the ancients and from philosophers and from more spiritual spaces, because I do think having a well-rounded approach to confronting change is often helpful.
At the same time, there is...
There's a story actually towards the end of the book where a woman gets fixated on the idea of this negative unexpected event in her life happening for a reason.
She's just convinced that it happened.
She inadvertently caused harm to someone else.
And because she believes the world is fair, because she believes things happen for a reason, she goes down this really terrible self-sabotaging path where she believes that she must be evil inside if she were to will this bad outcome into the world.
And that shows kind of the flip side of trying to find too much meaning in things because actually her way out of her closing herself off to the world and thinking she was a danger to everyone around her came from loosening her belief in a just world and recognizing that actually sometimes things happen just because.
There's no deeper meaning in those things.
And there's no why it happened.
And it's just about how you carve your path moving forward.
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