The Other Side of Change

Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans

A revelatory exploration of the ways we can find meaning in the tumult of change, from a renowned cognitive scientist and host of the podcast A Slight Change of Plans.

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Maya Shankar brings together behavioral science and storytelling to help us understand how we respond to big life changes.

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We spend about 50% of our lives in transition; just when we think we know who we are, life throws another curveball our way. The trick to staying resilient in the face of all this change? "We can learn to anchor our identities not to what we do
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