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The Hidden Beliefs That Shape Your Happiness with Shawn Achor

The Hidden Beliefs That Shape Your Happiness with Shawn Achor

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos vor 3 Monaten

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Our beliefs shape more than we realize. They influence what we
notice, how we respond to setbacks, how connected we feel to
others, and whether we take action to improve our lives.

As part of our series on how to spring clean your wellbeing, Dr.
Laurie sits down with happiness expert Shawn Achor, author of The
Power of Beliefs, to explore how our beliefs about time, work,
relationships, and self-worth shape happiness, success, and
long-term wellbeing.

And if some of your beliefs are holding you back, Shawn shares
practical ways to start shifting them. Plus, we learn one
delightful fact about fireflies.

Experts Mentioned:

Shawn Achor, positive psychology researcher and author

Richard Wiseman, professor of the public understanding of
psychology at the University of Hertfordshire

Henry Beecher, anesthesiologist at Harvard Medical School who
pioneered research on the placebo effect

Resources Mentioned:

The Power of Beliefs: How Strengthening Seven Core Beliefs
Predicts Greater Success and a Better Life, by Shawn Achor (2026)

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive
Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work, by Shawn
Achor (2010)

The Luck Factor: The Scientific Study of the Lucky Mind, by
Richard Wiseman (2004)

"From Jerusalem to Jericho: A Study of Situational and
Dispositional Variables in Helping Behavior," by John M. Darley
and C. Daniel Batson (Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 1973)

Related Episodes:

"Grateful Expectations"

“How to Adopt a Growth Mindset”

“Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: The Buddha”

"Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Socrates and
Self-Knowledge"

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