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My goal is to turn their wisdom into actionable advice that you can use in your everyday life. And on Young And Profiting Podcast, we investigate a new topic each week and interview some of the brightest minds in the world. Hala Taha: You're listening to YAP, Young And Profiting Podcast, a place where you can listen, learn, and profit. #126: The Science of Decision Making with Dr. Maya’s Podcast, A Slight Change of Plans:

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Get three months free when you run your first payroll at /YAP We’ll also talk about Maya’s job at the White House, some common behavioural scientist concepts like the Sunk Cost Fallacy and Nudging, and how we, as humans, can make more realistic decisions.

Today’s episode discusses Maya’s childhood as a violin prodigy, how she became a student at Juilliard’s pre-college program, and her career journey. She has been profiled by the New Yorker and has been featured in the New York Times, Scientific American, Forbes, and on NPR’s All Things Considered, Freakonomics, and Hidden Brain. Maya completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at Stanford, after receiving a PhD from Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and a B.A. In 2016, Maya served as the first Behavioral Science Advisor to the United Nations. Maya previously served as a Senior Advisor in the Obama White House, where she founded and served as Chair of the White House’s Behavioral Science Team - a team of scientists charged with improving public policy using research insights about human behaviour.

Maya is currently the Senior Director of Behavioral Economics at Google and is the Creator, Host, and Executive Producer of “A Slight Change of Plans”, a podcast with Pushkin Industries. “Sometimes the labels or the roles that we want to occupy, or the traits that we want to embody like independence, we might want to revisit from time to time to make sure that our working mode of what that thing ought to mean really aligns with our values and our long term goals.In this episode, we are talking with Dr Maya Shankar, behavioural scientist and podcast host. “If you can identify the things that make you happy about the things you do, and more strongly attach yourself to those things rather than the things itself, it’s going to give you a more stable self-identity as you move through a world that will inevitably change.” “In that moment, I was grieving the loss of the instrument, but actually in many ways I was grieving the loss of a huge part of myself…” As Maya points out, some of the changes you experience are willing and others are unwilling changes, but in both cases the value is placed on detaching your identity from the pursuit of a specific thing, and deciding on purpose who you are in the face of change.Ġ:25 | How Change Threatens Your IdentityĢ7:02 | Recreate Habits for a New Identity Let’s talk about the tactics you need to let go of the identity you’re holding onto in the face of life’s major changes. Maya later found herself leading as the founder and lead of the White House Behavioral Science Team under President Barack Obama. Maya Shankar is the host and executive producer of, Slight Change of Plans, a podcast about, “who we are and who we become in the face of a big change.” She is a former violinist that was accepted into Julliard who underwent a massive change of identity. Whether you’re moving, taking a new job, ending a relationship, dealing with the loss of a loved one, or trying to adapt with polarized political wins and losses, your identity is being challenged at the core of everything. The thing we’re diving into in this episode is not just the external side of dealing with change, but the internal state of change. Some people do extremely well with change while others have meltdowns and can barely handle the stress of change. Change is “wildly complex!” It’s exciting, it’s inspiring, it’s also nerve wrecking, anxiety inducing and scary as hell.