Maya Shankar

Episode overview

Maya Shankar is a Behavioral Scientist and former Senior Advisor in the Obama White House.Maya joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the concept of identity foreclosure, how people craft a narrative about themselves in order to connect to other people, and that there is a danger in tying our identities to our opinions and values. Maya and Dax discuss how they each define manifestation, the difference between bragging and self-promoting, and that admitting you are wrong about something actually gives you more credibility. Maya explains that changing minds is the most coveted form of change, that we are terrible cognitive forecasters, and how people can shift their reality based on their belief systems.

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1. 0:00welcome welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on Expert I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by Mr Mouse hi hello
2. 1:01:41any of this I wanted to loop back on one point regarding Scott's story because um you were asking about identity one thing
3. 2:02:37exciting and she's playing it like there's nothing metaphysical oh and she's a [ __ ]