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

that's what happened in that moment suddenly the scales fell from my eyes i felt like i could see that this talk was an opportunity to maybe help somebody else and then maybe i'd done something meaningful in the past and the talk went so much better because it was not about me it was about the people that were there and when i got back into the car i got in back in with the same driver and sat in the same seat and i looked out the same window i still felt replaced at work in the world but i could again see that i mattered in the midst of it

Back at the divinity school, I learned that the word for angel is just simply messenger.

And that guy was an angel because he delivered a message to my brain right when I needed to hear it.

But we need those people within our life, those messengers.

And that messenger could be a teacher or a parent or a good friend or a therapist.

I love this because I think there's oftentimes in our life, we feel like we don't have something to give.

we don't have a ton of money we might think i have nothing to give and then we don't even give five dollars to a charity or if we think i'm too busy i have no time right now um then we think i don't have time to send that text to a friend to just check in to hear how they're doing what happens is that we go back and forth between these beliefs we either feel like we have enough or we feel like um i don't have enough but then we go too far in this in the book i pair

I don't have enough, not with I have enough, because I don't think that that's true.

I don't think that we always have enough.

We might be in debt or we might be sick or we might want things that other people have.

That's not where I'm going.

The opposite to me of that I don't have enough is I have something to give.

And there's amazing research about how this changes us.

There's a study that I've read about in every one of my books, because I love it.

It's called the Good Samaritan Study.

And the Good Samaritan Study is a famous psychology experiment.

And they had these pastors read about the story from the Bible called the Good Samaritan, which simply was about how there was a person that was injured on the side of a path.

or a road, and all these people that should have helped didn't, and then the person who you never thought would have helped was the one who actually helped the Good Samaritan.

So the pastors are reading about the story, they're writing up a sermon, and then they have to walk across campus to deliver the sermon, and there's two conditions.

Half of them, they told, you have plenty of time to get over there.

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