Want to break free from the thoughts holding you back? Grab our free guide to challenge stressful beliefs and start moving forward 👉 affordanything.com/turn-it-around Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Hooked, Indistractable, and Beyond Belief, is one of the world’s leading voices on behavior design, attention, and the psychology of habit formation. A former lecturer at Stanford University, Nir joins Paula to unpack the hidden beliefs that shape your focus, habits, and financial decisions more than you realize. In this conversation, they explore why helplessness is often our default state, why persistence matters more than talent, how beliefs influence what you notice and how you act, and what it takes to change the mental patterns that keep you broke, distracted, and stuck. Chapters : (0:00) Why Your Beliefs Secretly Run Your Life (2:20) How beliefs shape the reality you experience (4:00) Why visualizing success can backfire (5:58) The right way to visualize your goals (8:34) Why your brain doesn’t see reality clearly (16:00) How attention changes what you notice (24:05) 4 questions to break limiting beliefs (30:30) When beliefs literally change your biology (42:00) Why you quit long before your real limit (54:00) Be generous with money, stingy with time Helpful Resources Grab Nir Eyal’s new book, Beyond Belief 👉 https://amzn.to/4bxavVf Nir's website 👉 https://www.nirandfar.com/ Join our newsletter 👉 affordanything.com/newsletter #personalfinance #moneypsychology #selfimprovement #mindset _______________ Subscribe via Apple Podcasts: https://affordanything.com/applepodcasts Full show notes for the episode: https://affordanything.com/episode699 Get our show notes in your inbox: https://affordanything.com/shownotes Follow us! IG: https://instagram.com/paulapant Twitter: https://twitter.com/affordanything FB: https://facebook.com/affordanything Community: https://affordanything.com/community