The hidden beliefs holding you back, with bestselling author and behavioral design expert, Nir Eyal
Modern Mentor
Macmillan Holdings, LLC
4.3 • 726 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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898. We're drowning in information, advice, and self-help — so why do we still feel stuck? Returning guest Nir Eyal, author of the new bestseller "Beyond Belief," explains the motivation triangle most people are missing and why your brain is actively working against change. In a rare unscripted moment, Nir walks Rachel through an inquiry-based coaching exercise that surfaces a limiting belief she's been carrying for decades — and the conversation takes a turn neither of them expected.
Nir Eyal's book, "Beyond Belief"
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| 0:00.0 | Most of us are carrying beliefs about ourselves that we've never really stopped to question. |
| 0:23.8 | Beliefs that quietly shape what we attempt, what we achieve, and what we assume isn't possible for us. |
| 0:31.0 | Today, a conversation that may just change that. |
| 0:35.0 | Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. |
| 0:39.2 | I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, where we help leaders to work better by design. You can reach out to me to speak at |
| 0:44.3 | your next event and subscribe to my brand new Work Better by Design email series at |
| 0:48.9 | lead abovenoisse.com slash email. You can find links in the show notes. When it comes to understanding what is really getting |
| 0:56.4 | in our own way, near Ayal is one of those voices worth stopping for. He's a New York Times best-selling |
| 1:03.0 | author, a former Stanford Graduate School of Business Lecturer, and one of the world's |
| 1:07.9 | leading thinkers on behavioral design. His previous books, |
| 1:11.9 | hooked and indistractable, have sold over a million copies in more than 30 languages. |
| 1:17.6 | Today, he's here talking about his latest book, Beyond Belief, the science-backed way to stop |
| 1:23.8 | limiting yourself and achieve breakthrough results. And what makes this conversation a little bit different is that Neer doesn't just share information. |
| 1:33.0 | He actually, and I was not expecting this, ended up live coaching me, |
| 1:37.9 | helping me confront some of my own head trash and the potentially unhelpful beliefs sitting underneath it. |
| 1:46.1 | It got real, hopefully in a good way. Dive in and enjoy. Near Ayal, welcome. This is actually my first time ever saying |
| 1:52.8 | welcome back to the Modern Mentor podcast. I believe in all the years I've been hosting this show. |
| 1:58.1 | You are my first repeat guest. So what an honor for me. |
| 2:01.9 | No, this is the honor is all mine. Can I tell you how honored I am that you brought me back? |
| 2:07.4 | That says so much. Thank you. So your first two books, hooked and indestructible, they were at |
| 2:13.2 | least to my ear and my mind, they were largely about our attention, right? How our attention was being |
| 2:20.5 | hijacked by companies and algorithms. I felt that they were very much kind of a rallying cry around |
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