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Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of Self-Improvement

Sam Webster Harris | Growth Mindset Psychology

Most self-help advice is guesswork dressed up as wisdom. We dig into psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral science to find what actually changes lives. WHY LISTEN? Over 8 million downloads because we answer the questions that matter: How do I build mental strength? What creates lasting motivation? How can I understand my own mind well enough to work with it, not against it? This podcast is for curious skeptics who want frameworks backed by psychology studies, not Instagram quotes. Whether

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34:17

Are You Thinking Your Thoughts, Or Are They Thinking...

Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of... ·

2026/03/24

You like to think of yourself as someone who thinks for themselves. But what if the ideas running through your head aren't really yours — what if they found you, infected you, and quietly rewrote your behaviour to help themselves spread?In this episode, we take an unusual detour into evolutionary biology — because it turns out the science of genes, parasites, and natural selection explains more about your psychology than most self-help books ever will. We cover why you are, in a very real sense,

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23:50

The Psychology of Never Feeling Good Enough (Even...

Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of... ·

2026/03/20

Hedonic adaption busily sweeps our wins under the rug like they are a nuisance. We look at how to fight back against your own psychology.I once ran further than 99.9% of humans ever will. Then went to bed and forgot about it and spent half the week a little dissappointed with other failures. That's not modesty. That's my brain working exactly as designed. We're wired to stop feeling satisfied — it kept our ancestors alive. But in modern life, it quietly robs us of every win we earn. This

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59:59

7 Weird Life-Changing Skills that are Strange to Work On

Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of... ·

2026/03/17

Nobody tells you that curiosity is a skill. Or that humor can be built. Or that the way you think is quietly deciding everything.Most of us are running on borrowed opinions — System One thinking dressed up as personality. We consume the same content, absorb the same views, and wonder why we feel forgettable. This episode breaks down five traits that genuinely change your trajectory: deep thinking, curiosity, uniqueness, humor, and enthusiasm. Not as abstract ideals — as practical, buildable skills

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44:53

Why Having a Backup Plan Is Making You Fail - Burn...

Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of... ·

2026/03/13

In 1519, Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico and promptly set fire to his own fleet. By any conventional measure of military logistics, this seems profoundly counterproductive. It wasn't.Matt Higgins — Shark Tank investor, Harvard Business School lecturer, and accidental dropout — has spent his career studying what happens when humans remove their own escape routes. Spoiler: it tends to go rather well, and there's solid science to explain why. A landmark Wharton study found that merely having a backup

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22:39

Why You Have Great Ideas but Never Actually Do...

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2026/03/10

We are spectacularly good at having ideas and remarkably reluctant to do anything with them. It turns out that the distance between "I've got it!" and "here it is" is not a step but a rather long, occasionally bewildering journey. Not unlike flying a plane. It involves a terrifying amount of fuel, significant faith in invisible forces, and a desperate hope that everything holds together on landing. History's great innovators weren't just bold thinkers; they were stubborn completers. Edison filed

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53:26

You Didn't Choose Your Attachment Style, but Here's...

Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of... ·

2026/03/06

Most people think their relationship problems are about the other person. They're not — they're about an 18-month-old version of you who learned the only way to survive. In this episode, psychotherapist Jessica Baum breaks down why your nervous system is still running a programme it wrote in infancy. Attachment styles — secure, anxious, avoidant, disorganised — aren't personality quirks. They're adaptive strategies your brain built when connection was a matter of survival. The anxious person who

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24:46

From Reactance to Resilience: How to manage...

Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of... ·

2026/03/03

Most anger isn’t about the thing. It’s about what the thing means: “Someone just messed with my control.” When your expectations get violated... plans change,d a process breaks, a person does something “unreasonable”. Your nervous system reads it like a little mugging. And then you get reactance: that hot impulse to push back, prove a point, slam the door, unsubscribe from the whole situation. What we look at today is simple, but not easy: trade courtroom mode (“who’s wrong?”) for lab mode

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23:24

How To Train Your Mind: The surprising benefits of play

Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of... ·

2026/02/24

Turns out you don't learn faster when you're stressed, you learn faster when you're happy! So let's talk about treating your brain like a friend, not a factory worker.Muscles respond to stress with pretty linear upgrades; brains don’t. Brains upgrade through meaning, novelty, and attention—especially when something feels like play. That’s why memory champions don’t “grind” digits: they build absurd stories and mental rooms and suddenly their recall looks like magic. Same with skills. Stress is

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39:38

The Weird Psychology of Communication, Self-control,...

Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of... ·

2026/02/17

In the noble quest to understand our minds, today we take a new angle. We track how grunts turned into gossip, myths, and the weird human habit of blushing when we screw up.You’ll see why your brain is basically a compression algorithm: squeezing an entire inner universe through a tiny mouth-shaped funnel. We go from jellyfish nerve nets to gossip networks, and beyond. How shared stories make money, nations and even your job “real”. Along the way, we poke at shame, status, and why your

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53:14

Hidden Potential: The Psychology of self-sabotage and...

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2026/02/13

We all love the idea of “potential” until it quietly turns into pressure, guilt, and a weird fear of actually trying.Heather Moyse didn’t start professional sport until 27 and still became a double Olympic gold medallist. Breaking out of her social safety and truly exploring her potential wasn't easy. We dig into behavioral inertia, self‑sabotage, and the invisible “settings” your environment installs in your brain. Think of this as a mindset update: less motivational quotes, more useful

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20:16

The Feynman Technique: The 4 Steps to Learn and...

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2026/02/10

Most people “learn” by hoarding facts, which doesn't mean you understand them. Then you forget them all anyway... In this episode, learning stops being about cramming and starts being about curiousity. Using Richard Feynman’s four-step technique, you’ll find a mindset that will add joy into your learning whilst also making it effective. We unpack the learning pyramid, why lectures and highlights barely stick, and why embarrassment, curiosity and mild panic are actually your brain’s upgrade

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36:39

How to Stop Wasting Time with the Wrong People -...

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2026/02/03

Most people treat dating like a lottery; swipe, hope, repeat.Jonathan Aslay lost $2 million, his marriage, and his son. What saved him wasn't positive thinking. It was asking one brutal question: "What happened in your marriage?" Not to judge. To observe. Because how someone talks about their ex reveals everything about their emotional maturity. Self-love isn't bubble baths and affirmations. It's having the spine to walk away from someone hot but emotionally stunted. It's recognizing that your

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42:31

Surrounded by Conformists: How to spot the 5 types of...

Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of... ·

2026/01/27

The algorithm doesn't want you to think; it wants you to react. It wants you to be a character in its story, following a predictable path of outrage and agreement.We are living through a shift where the line between human and bot is blurring. Not because computers are getting more human-like, but because we are becoming more bot-like. We outsource our worldview to gurus, tribes, and mainstream consensus because the "heavy lifting" of System Two thinking is expensive. Being an NPC is a choice of

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53:48

How To Build Free Will

Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of... ·

2026/01/20

Free will sounds easy until you look closely. Then it turns out to be smaller, stranger, and far more difficult than advertised.We take a cheerful scalpel to the idea that we’re the conscious captains of our lives. With help from psychology experiments, philosophical detours we find out what's really going on. Examining stories involving casinos, concentration camps, meditation cushions, and more, we discover that most behaviour is automatic. Pain, habit, desire, and social pressure do most of the

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20:25

5 Surprising Truths About Independence and Being...

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2026/01/16

The idea that you are a blend of the 5 people you spend time with has a dangerous side. In fact, it's not exactly true.In this episode, I break down why the Growth Mindset is actually about autonomy, not assimilation. I share the story of my best friend Laurie—a guy with zero ambition who taught me how to relax and actually saved my career during burnout. I also look at Sahil Lavingia, who blended his Silicon Valley builder mindset with a country level ambitions to enjoy his success without

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23:10

Life's Infinite Games: How to play by your own rules

Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of... ·

2026/01/13

What if the game you're playing isn't yours? Every moment of your life, something is at stake. Ignore your partner, they feel less loved. Choose status over meaning, you'll need a therapist. We inherit these games—LinkedIn profiles that read like eager cover letters, news consumption that convinces us everything's collapsing, social media that demands we perform. But there's another way. Instead of seeking approval, seek independence. Instead of doing what looks good, do what is good for

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38:06

4 Steps to Become Remarkable: A guide to overhaul...

Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of... ·

2026/01/06

Get in control of your life and use your time to build a life of purpose.We have been sold a myth of heroic solutions. Where a single dazzling act will change who we are. But real change is quiet, methodical, and often boring. As a result many people lack agency waiting for some heroic reinvention. This episode explores the architecture of a "Deep Life," a four-month process of reclaiming your sovereignty from the noise of the industrial complex. We stop asking "what do I feel like doing?" and

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15:57

Working with Time Instead of Against It - How to...

Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of... ·

2025/12/30

You have roughly 4,000 weeks. Somehow, nobody mentioned this at school.This episode takes a cheerful scalpel to modern time-panic—the kind that convinces smart adults that the next app, habit, or color-coded calendar will finally subdue existence. (It won’t.) Time, inconveniently, keeps doing what it has always done: passing. The good news is that this makes it remarkably reliable, like a train that never apologizes. You’ll explore why becoming “more efficient” can make you feel more chased, how

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11:20

5 Rules for Mental Health and Clarity - Andrew...

Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of... ·

2025/12/23

Every advanced master nails the fundamentals first. To perform at your best these are the 5 most basic and essential practices you need to return to time and again.A short episode covering the core requirements for good mental health and clarity in life. Whether you love Andrew Huberman, are a skeptic or don't even know who he is. These 5 lessons are science backed legit good advice worth repeating and remembering. SPONSORS 👨‍💻 NordLayer Security across your business 28% off:

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42:36

Leaving a Legacy: What do we actually get remembered...

Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of... ·

2025/12/19

How to nurture the best in people with consistency and be remembered for what matters.This is going to be a different episode about a cake my nan used to make. But isn't just a story about cake. It's about the difference between control and nurture. My school thought resilience came from forcing kids to clear their plates (even if they ended up vomitting). They were wrong. My Nan knew that real strength comes from consistency. She made me the same pineapple upside-down cake every time I visited

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