Shawn Achor

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

And in the midst of that world, we keep reading news stories that we keep feeling like my behavior doesn't matter or we get a negative feedback at work or we don't get a job or we go through a breakup or something bad happens in our life.

And what happens in those moments is if you take the same broken world

but you give a different belief to that same individual, their outcomes change dramatically.

If you take the same student with ADHD, the same young mother who's trying to overcome the debts that she's in, or caring for aging parents, or the same person that's growing older, if you take that same person at work or just getting a cancer diagnosis, and you have changed one belief, and that belief is, my behavior matters or my behavior doesn't matter.

What happens next changes dramatically in the science that we do.

So what we find is if you believe your behavior matters and you have stage three cancer, you eat healthier, you go to the doctor, you take the medication you need, you deepen your relationships with your friends, because you know that that's gonna help you.

And what we find is their outcomes change.

Same world, different beliefs, different outcomes.

Right.

But the important part that I would add to that is that positive beliefs don't guarantee positive outcomes.

But they do propel us towards them.

that if I believe and hope that a good outcome would happen from a cancer, it doesn't guarantee that outcome will happen, but it propels us towards- It changes the way you approach it.

It changes the attitude.

I know that my wife and I, Michelle, every time she was pregnant, I prayed,

and hoped and believed that our children would be okay and be healthy.

And we went through two miscarriages.

And, you know, in the midst of when our hopes are dashed, when we feel like the world doesn't look like it should, in those moments, if we've given up the belief that my behavior matters, or is that I matter, or that we still have something to be grateful for, or that there's something greater than me,

we wouldn't have our children right now.

And we would have a very different view on the world.

Well, my first book was called The Happiness Advantage.

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