How to challenge your self-limiting beliefs with Shawn Achor | ReThinking

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

August 6, 2026

Duration

35m

Channel

Re:Thinking with Adam Grant

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Your beliefs about yourself and the world have a big impact on your mental health, relationships, and success. As a positive psychology evangelist, Shawn Achor has spent his career studying how to challenge and change the core beliefs that might be holding you back, and shares his insights in his new book, The Power of Beliefs. In this episode, Shawn and Adam dive into the surprising connections between happiness and success, and discuss the science of optimism and pessimism. Shawn also describes seven key important beliefs that underlie happiness, breaks down strategies for shifting beliefs, and asks Adam to weigh in on how to convince leaders to care about the well-being of their people. Follow our podcasts! ReThinking with Adam Grant: https://link.mgln.ai/kdYcyx The TED Podcasts is a collection of podcasts for the curious. The TED Podcasts videos may be used for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons License, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) and in accordance with our TED Talks Usage Policy (https://www.ted.com/about/our-organiz...). For more information on using TED for commercial purposes (e.g. employee learning, in a film or online course), please submit a Media Request at https://media-requests.ted.com.

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Shawn Achor

  guest

  Positive psychology researcher and author focused on happiness, optimism, and the power of beliefs.

• Adam Grant

  host

  Organizational psychologist, author, and host of the ReThinking podcast.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Re:Thinking with Adam Grant, featuring Shawn Achor and Adam Grant, How to challenge your self-limiting beliefs with Shawn Achor | ReThinking explores shawn Achor on changing beliefs to boost performance and wellbeing Achor argues AI can optimize tasks and probabilities, but it cannot supply the human will-based belief that makes people attempt change and persist through odds.

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