How to Regulate Your Emotions and Mental Chatter When Bad Things Happen | Maya Shankar

Practical techniques for dealing with all of life's curveballs.

Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and creator of the podcast A Slight Change of Plans, previously named "Best Show of the Year" by Apple. She served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Obama White House and was also appointed as the first Behavioral Science Advisor to the United Nations. She is the author of The Other Side of Change: Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans.

In this episode we talk about:

• The two major life events that caused her to study the topic of change
• How to build a more expansive sense of self
• Practical tools for navigating change
• Cognitive biases such as  "the end of history illusion"
• The utility of distraction and denial
• Tools for getting unstuck from rumination
• And much more

Related Episodes:

• The Science of Handling Uncertainty | Maya Shankar

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