Rebroadcast: Your brain is hardwired to resist change. Here’s how to retrain it.
Apple News In Conversation
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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This is an episode from our archives.
Transitions can feel intimidating and destabilizing. But these moments can also be opportunities for growth, reflection, and self-discovery — especially when you have the right tools. In this episode of Apple News In Conversation, host Shumita Basu talks to Hidden Brain’s Shankar Vedantam about why pivot points can feel so challenging and how to embrace them as opportunities, rather than obstacles.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, this week we're bringing you a special episode from our archives. |
| 0:05.0 | It's from our annual Think Again series, where we talked about big life transitions, what |
| 0:10.0 | makes them so challenging and how to get better at taking them on. If you have some big |
| 0:14.8 | transitions coming up in the new year, this episode is for you. Enjoy. |
| 0:25.0 | This is in conversation from Apple News. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm Shemeita Basso. Today we kick off our Think Again series, |
| 0:31.2 | all about life's big transitions. Over the past few years, I've gone through a lot of transitions, some of the major ones. |
| 0:48.0 | I got married, I had really close loved ones die. |
| 0:52.0 | I started a new job, this one, remotely and in a pandemic. |
| 0:56.8 | I moved a few times and I've got some big transitions coming up to. I'm pregnant and excited and suddenly feeling this |
| 1:06.6 | rush of momentum into the next chapter of my life. The thing about moments of |
| 1:12.0 | transition is they can feel challenging, destabilizing, |
| 1:17.5 | even scary, but they can also be really clarifying. |
| 1:21.6 | They're a chance to take stock of where you are, what matters to you, and |
| 1:25.8 | who you want to be moving forward. That's why this year, for our Think Again series, which is all |
| 1:32.2 | about how to rethink your deeply held |
| 1:34.3 | notions and rewire your brain, we're focusing on the big pivot points in life. |
| 1:39.5 | Starting with figuring out your purpose as a young adult, with psychotherapist Satya Doyle Baiop. |
| 1:46.5 | The tricky thing about being in quarter life |
| 1:48.5 | is we are doing this dance all the time |
| 1:51.1 | to both find ourselves and to survive day by day. |
| 1:55.0 | All the changes that come with parenthood, with journalist Jessica Gross. |
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