On Purpose with Jay Shetty
7 Mindset Shifts That ACTUALLY Work (Finally Change How You Think, React & Show Up)
22 May 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is an iHeart Podcast.
Chapter 2: What mindset shift helps you understand that pain is temporary?
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When you feel uncomfortable, what do you put on? Biggie.
Chapter 3: How can you separate your thoughts from your actions?
You put on Biggie when you feel uncomfortable? Because I want to get confident. This is DJ Hester Prynne's Music is Therapy, a new podcast from me, a DJ and licensed therapist.
Chapter 4: Why are the people who trigger you considered your greatest teachers?
12 months, 12 areas of your life. Money, love, career, confidence. This isn't just a podcast. It's unconventional therapy for your entire year.
Chapter 5: How does taking action lead to clarity in decision-making?
Listen to DJ Hester Prynne's Music is Therapy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. What if mind control is real? If you could control the behavior of anybody around you, what kind of life would you have?
Chapter 6: What role does your environment play in shaping your habits?
Can you hypnotically persuade someone to buy a car? When you look at your car, you're going to become overwhelmed with such good feelings. Can you hypnotize someone into sleeping with you? I gave her some suggestions to be sexually aroused.
Chapter 7: How can the story you tell about yourself impact your life?
Can you get someone to join your cult? NLP was used on me to access my subconscious. Mind Games, a new podcast exploring NLP, a.k.a. Neurolinguistic Programming.
Chapter 8: Why is love considered a daily choice rather than just a feeling?
Is it a self-help miracle, a shady hypnosis scam, or both? Listen to Mind Games on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 2%. That's the number of people who take the stairs when there is also an escalator available.
I'm Michael Easter, and on my podcast, 2%, I break down the science of mental toughness, fitness, and building resilience in our strange modern world. put yourself through some hardships, and you will come out on the other side a happier, more fulfilled, healthier person. Listen to 2%. That's T-W-O percent on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
I want to be honest with you about something before we start. Most mindset content is forgettable. Not because the ideas are wrong, some of them are genuinely good, but because they're delivered like fortune cookies. They're punchy, quotable, and gone by Tuesday. You've read the book, you highlight the line, you feel something shift, and then life comes back.
The argument, the deadline, the 3am spiral, and the highlight in the book means nothing because the idea never got deep enough to actually change anything. You might see yourself feel this way. You're still reacting the same way. You're still choosing the same kind of people. You're still telling yourself the same stories about why things aren't working.
The mindsets I'm going to share with you today are actually going to shift something and change something for you for real. They are the ones that when they finally landed, really landed in the body, not just in the head, changed something that stayed changed. Changed how I see a difficult conversation, changed how I move through failure, changed how I love people.
There are seven of them, and I'm going to give you them straight. With the science, with the wisdom traditions behind them, and with the stories from my own life, and with the specific way you can use each one immediately. Not next month, not when things calm down, immediately. Let's get started. Mindset one, pain is a postcard, not a permanent address.
The first mindset that changed my life sounds almost insultingly simple when I say it out loud, but I need you to hear what's underneath. Pain is a postcard, not a permanent address. Here's what I mean.
When I was at my lowest, when the career I thought I wanted had fallen apart, when I had moved back home after failing at the monastery in a way that felt permanent, when I was surrounded by people who had expected more from me and I had expected more from myself, I made a mistake that I think almost everyone makes when things go badly. I moved in. Not literally, mentally.
I took the painful chapter and turned it into my identity. I stopped treating it like something that was happening and started treating it like something that was true. Like the failure wasn't something I'd been through. Like it was something I was. And here's what the neuroscience says about that distinction. Because it's not just poetic, it's biological.
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