Don’t Become Your Outcome: How Self-Talk Shapes Success | Dr. Alexandra Ilieva скачать в хорошем качестве

Don’t Become Your Outcome: How Self-Talk Shapes Success | Dr. Alexandra Ilieva

In entrepreneurship, academia, biotech — and life — technical brilliance isn’t enough. What often determines who adapts and who collapses is something less visible: the voice in your head. In this episode, Dr. Alexandra Ilieva (University of Cambridge) joins The -Vitality Lab to explore how ideas from Madhyamaka Buddhism and contemporary pragmatism can become practical tools for thinking clearly under pressure. We discuss: Why attaching identity to outcomes distorts judgment How self-talk shapes perception and decision-making Why disagreement feels existential when identity is involved The difference between discovering yourself and constructing yourself How loosening attachment to labels restores agency This isn’t therapy. It’s about internal architecture. Because before ideas move from lab to world, they move through a mind. If you operate in uncertainty — as a founder, scientist, investor, or builder — this conversation is for you.