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, I certainly was grieving the life that I could no longer live as a result of this prison sentence, like going to prom and graduating with my friends and studying at college, studying engineering.
But I was actually, as afraid, I was so concerned about who I might become now that I was behind bars.
That cut through me like a knife.
I was like, wow, it actually speaks to a concept in psychology called possible selves.
So we have all these possible selves that we construct each and every day just by virtue of living.
So we have expected selves, which are the versions of us that we just think are most likely to happen, good or bad.
We have hoped for selves, which reflect our dreams and aspirations.
And then we have feared selves, which reflect our anxieties.
and worries about who we might become.
And Dwayne felt possessed by that latter bucket, right?
He was now feeling like all these positive selves, those doors were slammed shut.
And now all these doors were ajar open that he didn't want to see open, right?
Like, will I develop a gambling habit while I'm in prison?
Will I have to become violent in order to protect myself?
Will I get addicted to cigarettes?
Like he had all these concerns about who he might become.
The mechanism that helped unlock this brighter future for him is called moral elevation.
And moral elevation is this warm, fuzzy feeling that we get in our chest when we witness someone else's extraordinary behavior.
So that could be their kindness or courage or self-sacrifice, whatever the extraordinary trait is.
Interestingly, moral elevation doesn't simply feel good.
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