Shawn Achor

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398 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 14 Jul

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The Oprah Podcast · Your Life Changes When Your Beliefs Do with Shawn Achor and Oprah · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

But this time, without doing anything, those entrenched helicopter parent beliefs changed.

And in an instant, my brain shifted to, he's got this.

And so for the first time, as he walked across that bridge, I didn't say anything.

And he fell right into the creek.

No, he's fine.

But what happened that moment is...

So special.

Just a great dad.

Is this something I didn't think could change or that I wanted to change, because it might harm him, actually change in a moment?

And his beliefs changed overnight as well.

Because when we went back to school, we had gone on dozens of hikes.

But for the first time ever, he went back to school and he told his teacher and his friend, I'm a hiker.

I'm a hiker.

Now, if you believe you're a hiker, what do you do next?

You climb more mountains.

It's exactly it.

We do the same thing.

Once you change that identity, the whole point of this book is that if you change your beliefs, beliefs don't just shape our reality, they predict what happens next.

It happens next for you as you look for hikes, but also we have these moments, that was a change that occurred on a mountain, but we have these, we worked really hard to change our beliefs sometimes, and we have to sometimes with addiction recovery, or we think beliefs can't change.

Like we have a family member or maybe an in-law that,

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