How to challenge your self-limiting beliefs with Shawn Achor

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 of willpower. It changes whether or not we try to make friends or to date or to get jobs. Beliefs change not only the math about what's possible and probable, but changes our path too. 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. John Acor is a positive psychology evangelist, best known for his case that happiness drives success, not the other way around. Gave one of the first viral TED talks about it. When I was seven years old and my sister was just five years old.

We were playing. On top of a bunk bed. Somehow, without any help or push from her older brother at all, suddenly Amy disappeared off of the top of the bunk bed and landed with this crash on the floor. She landed painfully on her hands and knees on all fours on the ground. I said Amy, Amy, wait, don't cry, don't cry. Did you see how you landed?

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