“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. She's a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music's pre-college program, where she was a private violin student of Itzhak Perlman and performed alongside him at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.Change is “wildly complex!” It’s exciting, it’s inspiring, it’s also nerve wrecking, anxiety inducing and scary as hell. She has been profiled by The New Yorker and been the featured guest on NPR's All Things Considered, Freakonomics, and Hidden Brain. from Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, and a B.A. Maya has a postdoctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience from Stanford, a Ph.D. She also served as the first Behavioral Science Advisor to the United Nations under Ban Ki-moon, and as a core member of Pete Buttigieg’s debate preparation team during his 2020 presidential run. Maya was previously a Senior Advisor in the Obama White House, where she founded and served as Chair of the White House Behavioral Science Team - a team of scientists charged with improving public policy using research insights about human behavior. She has uncovered little-known personal stories and reflections from familiar names like Hillary Clinton, Tiffany Haddish, and Kacey Musgraves. In the show, Maya leads intimate conversations that give an unvarnished look into how people navigate changes and ultimately grow. She is also the Creator, Executive Producer, and host of the Pushkin Show, A Slight Change of Plans, which was named Apple Podcasts' Best Show of the Year. Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist who currently serves as Google’s Global Director of Behavioral Economics. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music's pre-college division and is a former private violin student of Itzhak Perlman.from Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and a B.A. Maya completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive neuroscience at Stanford, after receiving a Ph.D.She has also 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.She formerly 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 behavior.
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