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The Hidden Beliefs That Shape Your Happiness with Shawn Achor

May 18, 2026 · 43 min · YouTube

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0:06Pushkin.

0:12Welcome back to our series on how to spring clean our well-being.

0:16So far, we've explored the happiness benefits of things like releasing grudges, redesigning our spaces, and rethinking how our screens affect our physical health.

0:25But this episode of the Happiness Lab is about spring cleaning the beliefs that lie underneath all that.

0:30So if I ask people about beliefs, like what do you believe?

0:33They'll start with a political belief and then a religious belief.

0:36This is author and happiness expert Sean Aker.

0:39They'll immediately go to one of those two things, but actually we have beliefs about everything.

0:44We have beliefs about who drives a cybertruck.

0:46Are they liberal or conservative?

0:48We have beliefs about how tall I should be or whether or not it's good to be a stay-at-home parent.

0:53We have undercurrents of belief that shape everything.

0:56It's true that this idea of beliefs feels almost too broad to tackle.

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