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The School of Greatness

Stop Limiting Yourself: How Your Beliefs Become Your Biology | Nir Eyal

The School of Greatness

Lewis Howes

Mindset, Relationships, Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Greatness, Fitness, Celebrity, Health, Inspiration, Success, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Business, Money, Self Care, Celebrity Interview

4.822K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

What if the only thing standing between you and the life you want is a belief you never chose to hold? In this conversation with bestselling author and behavioral designer Nir Eyal, you'll discover the science-backed method for identifying your hidden limiting beliefs and replacing them with ones that actually set you free.

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0:00.0

It turns out that people who can persist the longest are the ones who are more likely to succeed. When I did interviews for this research, I talked to billionaires and I talked to people who were broke. And you would expect that people who don't succeed in life, that they would have more failures. That's actually the opposite. People who are more successful are the ones who failed more because they were more persistent. And when they persevered, even though they failed more times, eventually if they hit it,

0:22.3

sometimes they hit it big.

0:23.4

Wow.

0:24.2

He is an author, a behavioral design expert, and teacher who focuses on the intersection of

0:28.7

psychology, technology, and human behavior, the inspiring near aisle.

0:33.2

So what happens if day after day, week after week, year after year, we constantly recite a script

0:38.5

about our limitations, about our labels, about what we can't do?

0:41.8

It becomes physiologically as well as psychologically true.

0:44.3

Really?

0:45.3

If you have positive views about aging at 30, studies have fun.

0:48.3

There's a study at Yale that found that people who had those positive leads at 30 lived

0:52.8

on average seven and a half years longer. That is more

0:56.9

of an effect size than quitting smoking, than diet. It's more of an effect than exercise. How important

1:03.2

or terrifying is the words we think or say about ourselves and our limits to our life?

1:10.5

Incredibly important.

1:11.4

The best things you can do is...

1:13.6

Welcome back, everyone of the School of Greatness,

1:15.9

very excited about our guests.

1:17.4

We have the inspiring NIR AIL in the house.

1:20.5

And he is an author, a behavioral design expert,

1:23.1

and teacher who focuses on the intersection

1:25.0

of psychology, technology, and human behavior.

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