Nir Eyal
speaker
846 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 21 Jun
Nir Eyal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You see how our limiting beliefs blind us?
You loved exercise, you told me earlier, when you used to cycle just for fun.
And now you are so convinced that it's a fact that exercise is vain and meaningless that you keep bringing it back to, well, it's because I'm setting a good example for my children.
Well, it's because so I can live longer for my children.
Well, it's because constantly for somebody else.
It doesn't even cross your mind.
Won't let you even see the possibility that exercise can be done for its own sake, just because it feels good.
Right?
It's okay to have things in life that are just because they feel good, right?
Like you can eat porridge every day, or you can eat things that taste good.
You can have sex for fun.
You can go look at beautiful artwork because it's beautiful.
You can move your body in such a way just because you like it.
But that doesn't
Even cross your mind because your beliefs have been so narrowly focused to constrain over, well, if it's not serving others, it's not worth doing.
Which ironically, when you believe that, makes you less motivated to do it and suffer more when you are doing it.
Because now it feels like a stupid obligation.
Versus, oh my God, I have a body that can do awesome things, really fun.
So for example, when I got into fitness, I remember focusing.
on, not I gotta run a marathon and I gotta do this, uh
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