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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You know, we talked about belief systems and, um,
Part of my journey in this space has actually been revisiting beliefs that I've carried from childhood that were worthy of revision, that I never thought to examine or evaluate.
So in everyday life, we're not waking up every morning thinking,
What belief or idea should I reconsider today?
We're busy.
We have wives.
We have responsibilities.
And it's easy to think that the things that we believe to be true about the world are based on deliberate conscious reasoning.
But of course, the large majority aren't.
They're based on
childhood influences, pop culture, what society told us, what a teacher told us, what a friend told us.
Our belief systems are shaped by so many forces and influences that don't actually always reflect the truth or how we would have arrived at our beliefs had we, again, sat down with a piece of paper and written down arguments for believing X or Y. And
One of the stories in my book, actually, it's about a woman named Ingrid, who feels a lot of shame around her family's heritage, around the indigenous practices that they engaged in.
And she actually has a biking accident that leaves her with amnesia.
And the slate is wiped clear.
And she is now, as her memories are returning, revisiting those stories with a new lens, because...
the memory of the stories returns before the memory that she was ashamed of the stories returned.
So it's this fascinating tale of her seeing her stories anew before she has the shame lens imposed on it.
And by the time the memory of the shame comes back, it's too late.
She's already developed this beautiful, rich relationship with those stories.
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