Shawn Achor

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ReThinking · How to challenge your self-limiting beliefs with Shawn Achor · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

I've been perfect because then I won't pivot.

And that course correction doesn't happen when we only see the positive.

But to be honest, I don't think we're on that side of the spectrum.

I mean, I think given the burnout, anxiety, loneliness, and depression we see in the world, we're not on the side of...

being irrationally optimistic or positive about our present, I feel like people are terrified of AI and they're feeling alone and that people are believing that their behavior doesn't matter at work as much and that they feel like that there's nothing greater than them.

So there's not something to pursue or awe or wonder.

And I think that those things are limiting us.

So what I'm intentionally trying to do is to fill in the gaps that

to create beliefs that actually serve us.

And I think that that goes back to the critique that has to be happening at the same time, which is, one, are these rational?

And two, are these leading to greater levels of happiness and performance in my life so that my life is actually improving instead of I'm living divorced from reality?

Yes.

Right.

I mean, I think that those same capitalist articles and books are being written and sold, and then they have advertising at the same time, which is all part of the same system.

But I think you're pointing out something so important is that it's easy to create a straw man out of, especially about

positive psychology, right?

That you're gaslighting people or that, you know, I've seen lots of books that have been like about how I don't believe in this idea that people like me that would be like, you have to be happy all the time, right?

And I've never heard a positive psychologist say that you should be happy all the time.

right?

I think that that actually leads to some detrimental effects within your life.

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