Maya Shankar
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 5 Jul
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And so that was a really fascinating inquiry because, yeah, you might think like just believing in fundamental fairness is overall a good way to live, right?
In some ways it is, but it can backfire.
It's hard to capture all of that in one answer because obviously that's the premise of the entire book.
So there's so many strategies.
I mean, there's dozens of strategies that I outline in The Other Side of Change.
But what I will do is share a couple of strategies that people can use in the immediate aftermath of change to...
help reduce certain things that can hold us back.
Like for example, feelings of denial or those ruminative spirals we get into when we are feeling a lot of anxiety.
So one thing that was really interesting that I discovered in my research is that
Denial actually has benefits in the short term.
And I hadn't known that before writing this book.
But there's research showing that, you know, what is denial?
Well, as grief researchers have said, it is nature's way of...
giving us only as much as we can handle in any given moment, right?
It is a psychological immune response.
And so they have done some studies showing that people had better short-term outcomes when they had some degree of denial.
So one, have a little bit of compassion if you or someone else is dealing with a seismic change and you don't feel like
you're able to confront the full enormity of what you're going through, that's okay.
And actually in the short term, it can give you some necessary resilience and a feeling of hope.
In the longer term though, denial is not super healthy and can backfire.
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