{"podcast":{"title":"Modern Wisdom","slug":"modern-wisdom-229239","podcast_index_feed_id":229239,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/SIXMSB5088139739","website_url":"https://chriswillx.com/books/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/a62f84c0-f8b6-11ed-a4fc-fb9e7841d45b/image/76ed638554a4be965517200d1cd5f30d.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Chris Williamson","episode_count":1124,"summary":"Life is hard. This podcast will help. Lessons from the greatest thinkers on the planet with Chris Williamson. Including guests like David Goggins, Dr Jordan Peterson, Naval Ravikant, Sam Harris, Jocko Willink, Dr Andrew Huberman, Dr Julie Smith, Steven Bartlett, Ryan Holiday, Robert Greene, Matthew McConaughey, Alain de Botton, Alex Hormozi, Tony Robbins, Chris Bumstead, Mark Manson and more.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-26T04:19:03.029132+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/modern-wisdom-229239"},"episode":{"title":"A Masterclass in Changing Your Limiting Beliefs - Nir Eyal - #1074","slug":"a-masterclass-in-changing-your-limiting-beliefs-nir-eyal-1074","published_at":"2026-03-21T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/modern-wisdom-229239/a-masterclass-in-changing-your-limiting-beliefs-nir-eyal-1074","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/modern-wisdom-229239","url":"https://prfx.byspotify.com/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/SIXMSB9496624411.mp3?updated=1773336651","audio_url":"https://prfx.byspotify.com/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/SIXMSB9496624411.mp3?updated=1773336651","summary":"Nir Eyal is an author, behavioural design expert, and investor. What does it mean to truly hold a belief you endorse? Maybe some of what we believe isn’t true. But more interesting is how beliefs are formed, and how they can be reshaped. So how do you update your beliefs in a way that actually serves you, rather than holds you back? Expect to learn why beliefs are so important and why they are just tools not truths, what’s wrong with the traditional view of behaviour change and motivation, why smart, disciplined people still quit when their beliefs weaken, how big of a problem limiting beliefs are, how to reframe rejection and failure, why rumination feels productive when it’s actually destructive, how to audit your beliefs and much more… Timestamps: (0:00) Why Belief Shapes Everything You Do (7:43) Are Spirituals Beliefs Weaker Than Religious Beliefs? (11:32) The Power of Choosing What You Believe (16:34) Why You Shouldn’t Treat Beliefs as Fact (20:17) Can Belief Be Engineered? (28:58) Rumination: Helpful or Harmful? (30:57) How to Rebuild Belief After Failure (38:28) Can You Really Create Your Own Luck? (41:19) You’ll Always Find Negativity If You Look For It (46:24) How Beliefs Can Physically Affect Your Body (52:29) How to Break Free From Limiting Beliefs (01:03:38) The Challenge Behind Changing Health Beliefs (01:08:18) You Have More Agency Than You Think (01:13:05) Why the Brain Defaults to Helplessness (01:15:37) You Need to Believe in Your Potential (01:21:46) The Placebo Prayer Protocol (01:26:34) Where to Find Nir Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: ⁠https://chriswillx.com/deals⁠ Get the brand new Whoop 5.0 and your first month for free at https://join.whoop.com/modernwisdom Get 15% off your first order of my favourite Non-Alcoho…","meta_description":"Nir Eyal is an author, behavioural design expert, and investor. What does it mean to truly hold a belief you endorse? Maybe some of what we believe isn’t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5279,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/modern-wisdom-229239/episodes/a-masterclass-in-changing-your-limiting-beliefs-nir-eyal-1074/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/modern-wisdom-229239/a-masterclass-in-changing-your-limiting-beliefs-nir-eyal-1074.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}