Your Life Changes When Your Beliefs Do with Shawn Achor and Oprah
7/14/20261 hr 9 min
Buy the Book: The Power of Beliefs by Shawn Achor https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBVK3HYN?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback Oprah sits down with renowned positive psychology researcher and bestselling author Shawn Achor to discuss his new book, The Power of Beliefs: How Strengthening Seven Core Beliefs Predicts Greater Success and a Better Life. While teaching at Harvard University and working with organizations around the world Shawn has spent more than two decades studying the connection between happiness, success and human potential. In this conversation he reveals why our beliefs don't just influence how we see the world they can actually predict what happens next. Drawing on groundbreaking research and deeply personal stories Shawn shares the seven core beliefs he says have the greatest impact on our life. Oprah and Shawn also explore the power of gratitude and how that practice alone can change what you believe to be true. Through audience questions and personal stories this episode offers a hopeful roadmap for anyone feeling stuck or disconnected. Thank you to our fantastic partners at The Farmer's Dog for presenting this episode. Their real, human-grade food has been clinically shown to support healthy aging, so you can have more good years together. URL: www.thefarmersdog.com/oprahpodcast 00:00:00 - Oprah on success 00:05:20 - What are your core beliefs? 00:07:17 - Welcome Shawn Achor, author of “The Power of Beliefs” 00:12:50 - Belief: Your behavior matters 00:16:09 - Belief: The power of gratitude 00:21:00 - When Shawn’s beliefs were tested 00:28:53 - Belief: I have something to give 00:34:06 - Woman’s vulnerable TikTok 00:37:30 - The value of knowing we are not alone 00:42:52 - How Shawn helped Flint, MI 00:46:30 - The placebo effect and beliefs 00:52:00 - Can belief change? 00:58:00 - Times when beliefs can change quickly 00:59:36 - Belief: Believing in something that’s greater than you 01:02:02 - What Oprah believes Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@oprah Follow Oprah Winfrey on Social: https://www.instagram.com/oprahpodcast/ https://www.facebook.com/oprahwinfrey/ Listen to the full podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0tEVrfNp92a7lbjDe6GMLI https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-oprah-podcast/id1782960381
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First 90 secondsOprah Winfrey· Host0:00
This episode of The Oprah Podcast is presented by our fantastic partners at The Farmer's Dog. We saw a TikTok with 17 million views [laughs] of a young woman who was crashing out.
Daly· Guest0:15
Want me to be honest? I'm angry. I'm mad. I'm mad because I care more about you than you care about me, and no matter how much I try to let go of it and give it to God, it's still so heavy.
Oprah Winfrey· Host0:32
Wow, you were having a day.
Daly· Guest0:34
I was.
Oprah Winfrey· Host0:35
You were having a day.
Daly· Guest0:35
I was.
Shawn Achor· Guest0:36
Beliefs are more powerful than I think we give them credit for.
Oprah Winfrey· Host0:39
Yeah. You wrote a whole book- Yes ... so you give them a lot of credit.
Shawn Achor· Guest0:42
[laughs] I, I'm a big fan of beliefs, so- You're actually giving, uh, them a lot of credit. There's lots of definitions- Yes ... of belief. Mine is just a simple one.
Oprah Winfrey· Host0:48
Yeah.
Shawn Achor· Guest0:48
It's the lens through which you view the world.
Daly· Guest0:50
What advice do you have to this generation of people who are dating, who have no belief that finding true love is real?
Oprah Winfrey· Host0:57
That question is going to him- [laughs] ... not to me. I know this for sure. You do not become what you wish for. You do not become what you want. You do not become even what you aspire to. You become exactly what you believe is possible. Okay, so Forbes was doing a list on 250 of the greatest self-made, uh, people in the country, and guess who's number one?
Unknown speaker1:26
[cheering]