Shawn Achor

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

And then they might just make a joke like, I believe my Jets are going to win the Super Bowl, which we both know is not going to happen.

But we actually have beliefs about everything.

We have beliefs about whether or not crypto is a valid currency.

We have beliefs about whether or not it's safe to get into a Waymo.

We have political beliefs.

We have religious beliefs.

We have beliefs about what pants we are supposed to wear, whether I should have worn a collar for this.

All these different types of beliefs.

And

Some of those beliefs don't move us very much, but some of those beliefs have an incredibly predictive value in terms of what happens next in your life.

That those certain beliefs change the math about what's possible and probable in someone's life.

Like the belief that people like me are bad at math or that people like me will never be successful.

And I think the problem is that when we separate out beliefs and opinions, we've put...

belief the word into a category that only can possibly include religion and philosophy and politics, which is such a limited version of it.

And what I would argue is that most of psychology argues against that.

I mean, I think that mice were changing their beliefs about where they were going to find cheese in a maze, and they get faster and faster at being able to do that.

And I think the same thing happens to us, is that if I...

believe that my behavior matters but then I keep getting cut from every team that I try and get on basketball eventually I'm going to start learning that I'm not as good at basketball as I thought I was or that I need to have just an incredible amount of grit and that might change in the future but I think in each of those moments as we're pursuing dating or as we're pursuing getting onto a basketball team or to be successful um

Each one of those requires a testing of the theories that your brain has about the world.

So in the book, I define beliefs as the lens to which you view the world, which is, I went the opposite direction.

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