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Sunday Pick: How to challenge your self-limiting beliefs with Shawn Achor | from ReThinking with Adam Grant

November 15, 2026

Elise Hue (0:03)

Happy Sunday, y'all. Elise Hue here. And today, we're bringing you a Sunday pick where we share an episode of another podcast from TED, handpicked by us for you. Your beliefs about yourself and the world have a big impact on your mental health, relationships and success.

As a proponent of positive psychology, Shawn Achor has spent his career studying how to challenge and change the core beliefs that might be holding us back. In this episode of ReThinking with Adam Grant, Shawn and Adam dive into the surprising connections between happiness and success, and discuss the science of…

Shawn Achor (3:30)

I think AI is amazing at helping us with tasks. It can predict the odds of whether or not you'll survive cancer or whether or not you'll successfully land a job. But it can never believe that you can overcome those odds. Belief requires an essence of willpower. It changes whether or not we try to make friends or to…

Adam Grant (3:57)

Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to ReThinking, my podcast with Ted on the science of what makes us tick. I'm an organizational psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking.

Shawn Achor is a positive psychology evangelist, best known for his case that happiness drives success, not the other way around. He gave one of the first viral TED Talks about it.

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